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Part 4...Russia Invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES) - No GORY videos..or Politics


Sanctioned Ivan very happy in his latest vlog. Someone in the Russian government has spoken out against the war saying Russia should end it now.
Ivan fled Russia as he didn't want to be drafted into the army. He doesn't want to kill Ukrainians and wants to take no part in this war/ invasion. He hates Putin and his cronies for the damage they've done to Russia and the deaths they've inflicted on innocent Ukrainians. Let's hope he's right and this ends soon.

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The orc population will never rise up against the rat so they can run out of petrol, water, food, oil, whatever, but poots will remain in power, and continue to send his sheep to the slaughter.
 
PIDD said:
Getting better for the Russians, well done 💩tin, your really have condemned your nation, eating dog food now (I wouldn't even feed are boy this (Miniature Schnauzer).

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There’s a huge market in Rostov-on-don’t got out of date food, seen a video of two old babushkas going through bins out the back of a shop in the same city.
What’s insane is these dumb fuckers think we in the west are humour/envious of them snd its why we(the west) keep f***ing with then.

It’s insane. To be born Russian. is to be literally, born a slave.
 
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The Russian population has risen up twice in the last 110 years and brought complete chnage to the country, which is more than most countries under the yoke have ever done. (The US hasn't had one in 250 years and boy could they do with one now.)

Russians can take a lot, but when they do move they move en masse. They just have to put down the vodka bottle as a crutch to get through the seemingly endless despair and it'll happen.
 
bomber said:
Theyre more than self sufficient in both.
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Seriously? How is the grain to be harvested without fuel for the tractors and transport? The attrition rate for the oil wells is increasing by the day. The banks and economy are reliant on fossil fuel. Add the demographic timebomb and Russia looks like a dead man walking.
 
PatsyMackem said:
Please, please, please

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They are fucked.

Russia is in long‑term structural decline. The financial system has held together on the surface, but the underlying foundations with access to global capital, foreign investment, technology imports, and stable borrowing channels have been ripped out. That bill always comes due.

They’re also dealing with a severe demographic and human‑capital crisis. Years of brain drain, low birth rates, high mortality, and now wartime mobilisation have left them with fewer workers, fewer specialists, and rising social costs. Even them fewer workers are not being paid.

Economically, they’re showing classic symptoms of Dutch disease.

Over‑dependence on energy exports sold at a discount, a hollowed out manufacturing base, and a currency that only stabilises through capital controls and coercion.

The the cheery on the cake.... eventually, 700 hundred thousand soldiers will return to a society that cannot absorb them.

Many will come back injured, traumatised, or disillusioned. They’ll face a weak labour market, limited support, and a state that cannot offer meaningful reintegration. That combination has historically been destabilising in every country it has happened to and Russia will be no exception .

A wounded army PTSD stricken, returning to a brittle economy and a strained society is a volatile mix.

Might order lots of popcorn.
 
Wild Card said:
They are fucked.

Russia is in long‑term structural decline. The financial system has held together on the surface, but the underlying foundations with access to global capital, foreign investment, technology imports, and stable borrowing channels have been ripped out. That bill always comes due.

They’re also dealing with a severe demographic and human‑capital crisis. Years of brain drain, low birth rates, high mortality, and now wartime mobilisation have left them with fewer workers, fewer specialists, and rising social costs. Even them fewer workers are not being paid.

Economically, they’re showing classic symptoms of Dutch disease.

Over‑dependence on energy exports sold at a discount, a hollowed out manufacturing base, and a currency that only stabilises through capital controls and coercion.

The the cheery on the cake.... eventually, 700 hundred thousand soldiers will return to a society that cannot absorb them.

Many will come back injured, traumatised, or disillusioned. They’ll face a weak labour market, limited support, and a state that cannot offer meaningful reintegration. That combination has historically been destabilising in every country it has happened to and Russia will be no exception .

A wounded army PTSD stricken, returning to a brittle economy and a strained society is a volatile mix.

Might order lots of popcorn.
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Your empathy comes shining through ;)
 
Wild Card said:
They are fucked.

Russia is in long‑term structural decline. The financial system has held together on the surface, but the underlying foundations with access to global capital, foreign investment, technology imports, and stable borrowing channels have been ripped out. That bill always comes due.

They’re also dealing with a severe demographic and human‑capital crisis. Years of brain drain, low birth rates, high mortality, and now wartime mobilisation have left them with fewer workers, fewer specialists, and rising social costs. Even them fewer workers are not being paid.

Economically, they’re showing classic symptoms of Dutch disease.

Over‑dependence on energy exports sold at a discount, a hollowed out manufacturing base, and a currency that only stabilises through capital controls and coercion.

The the cheery on the cake.... eventually, 700 hundred thousand soldiers will return to a society that cannot absorb them.

Many will come back injured, traumatised, or disillusioned. They’ll face a weak labour market, limited support, and a state that cannot offer meaningful reintegration. That combination has historically been destabilising in every country it has happened to and Russia will be no exception .

A wounded army PTSD stricken, returning to a brittle economy and a strained society is a volatile mix.

Might order lots of popcorn.
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The return of veterans from Afghanistan was one of the reasons for the fall of the Soviet Union. Broken men in a broken system. Shades of 1919 in the UK which led to a massive change in the country, but there were at least outlets where the pain and frustration could go. Not so in Putin's Russia.
 
Fats said:
Your empathy comes shining through ;)
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Everytime I start to feel a bit sorry for the regular folk I see their selfish uncaring mannerisms on social media and think bollocks to them. (I appreciate it likely the extreme content that gets posted)

I do feel sorry for the soldiers who didn't want war, don't want to fight, and have been treat appallingly by the state.
jcrossan said:
The return of veterans from Afghanistan was one of the reasons for the fall of the Soviet Union. Broken men in a broken system. Shades of 1919 in the UK which led to a massive change in the country, but there were at least outlets where the pain and frustration could go. Not so in Putin's Russia.
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Sometimes I wish I hadn’t, but after reading Svetlana Alexievich's books it changes how you see everything. Her books are wonderful, horrifying and humanising in equal measure.

Boys in zinc was an eye opener and what’s coming for Russia now is the same pattern, just magnified.

She is truly brilliant and has a way of stripping away the slogans and showing the human cost underneath. Once you’ve read her work you can’t look at returning soldiers, broken families or a state that pretends nothing happened in the same way again.

So I guess I do feel a bit sorry for them when you hear the real accounts.
 
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