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Yes, but now their propaganda machine can say that they want to stop the war.
Lithuanian 30+ year-old shitposter who works as a programmer.
Yes, but now their propaganda machine can say that they want to stop the war.
You can’t really destroy an insurgency via military means. See: Iraq, Afghanistan.
Yep, in their mind Russia is great and is the future. Meanwhile, countries west of them are decadent and temporary.
To play the devil’s advocate, Poland and the Baltic states received a lot of third country refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, etc.) from Russia and Belarus before the war in Ukraine.
It was a hybrid warfare campaign where Russians would advertise how easy it is to cross the border and how good life is on the other side. They would also help them get to the border.
Those refugees quickly overran Baltic refugee centers and caused political instability.
Most of Eastern European politics can be boiled down to “Pro-western elitists vs. pro-russian populists”
Meanwhile, Vilnius-Lublin portal is working with no incidents.
Here’s what stories I remember from USSR-Afghanistan war, told by actual veterans:
They would punish extremist acts by throwing women and children out of a helicopter, Pinochet style. The person who told me that drank ever since he got back from the war and never stopped.
There was one man who left his tent for a midnight leak and came back to his entire tent with their throats slit. Had insane PTSD.
My father-in-law got his legs messed up by machine gun fire, got airlifted to East Germany to get put back together, doesn’t talk much, but still drinks a lot.
A lot of unseen costs of this war will take decades to be seen.
Reduced education spending? Less qualified workers to create added value.
Reduced social services? More people getting sick and dying.
Reduced infrastructure spending? Increased prices of transport and goods.
A lot of oil is used to produce energy or heat homes and to produce plastics. Moving towards renewables and better home insulation will have a much stronger and faster positive effect on reduced oil consumption than a move to EV’s would.
About 26 million.
Yep, this is the real reason why France threatened Russia with boots on the ground in Ukraine.
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Goodnight, everyone.
CIA tried doing that, it didn’t go too well. Probably just a skill issue I’m sure
I would reply to this comment, but my corporate overlords decided to send my nation to Siberia and replace us with Russian settlers. /s
I am not sure but that sounds like her.
She uses photos of Audrey Tatou, a French actress.
Wasn’t that one called Empress?
Not all slavs are Russian. And most other slavs don’t like Russians either.
VPN companies actually use user created genuine traffic to hide bots and web crawlers and scrapers. That’s part of why their VPN’s are that cheap, they use your traffic to hide more expensive to buy bot traffic.
Ah yes Russia, please antagonise the country with one of the highest artillery shell stockpiles and production capacities in the world, what bad thing could result from that?