Russia definitely doesn’t need $500 million/month leaving the country, especially when they’re canceling bond auctions because there’s not enough liquidity. Kind of surprised they haven’t done anything about it.

They won’t let guys escape this time - expect stuff like closed borders and an internet lockdown so people can’t spread information or coordinate. They signed a law recently allowing them to seize assets and cut off government services for Russians abroad convicted in absentia for a variety of offenses, so anyone who does leave will probably lose anything they can’t take with them; I’m sure any family members left behind will somehow be guilty of something.

But, yeah - worsening their existing demographic and economic problems is real fuckin’ dumb.

I’ve already seen several reports of cannibalism among Russian frontline troops, so possibly just more of the same with fresher meat.

Like, why would you do anything for these people? They are just gonna zero you later.

the alternative is they don’t wait for later

tbh, Russia’s been doing most if not all of the acts enumerated under that section in Ukraine, not just the child theft

translation: half of Kazakhstan’s economy is oil, ~70% of their exports go through the Caspian Sea Pipeline which terminates in Novorossiysk, and will you please stop fucking with the money Vlad

Oh wow the FP7 has an interceptor variant! It would be amazing if Ukraine managed to build an air defense system that doesn’t rely on the good will and good faith of other nations to be useful against ballistic missiles.

This is what happens when the media suppresses the coverage of the warehouse attacks and other negative news from the war, but the side effects still leak out and affect regular people’s lives.

It’s perfectly summed up by the girl who doesn’t believe drone strikes could burn down a whole warehouse, which seems ridiculous because we’ve seen videos of it happening 20-some times in the last few weeks, but it’s a completely logical conclusion to make if she’s gotten vague news reports and an email telling her that she’s now bankrupt. Same thing happened with the fuel crisis when people assumed the shortage was made up by someone making money off them.

Doesn’t matter because it’s propaganda that’s meant to make people angry. If anything it’s better if the story doesn’t make too much sense because it lets folks fill in the gaps with whatever works for them.

Knowing how the fire started would probably make this even funnier

never forget that Russia’s military is actually an ongoing state-sponsored crime spree

That would probably be a slow process under ideal conditions and now the folks at Wildberries are literally putting out fires all the time.

I felt a strong urge to punch him in the face so it’s possible

Do you think he knows that air defense isn’t an industry standard thing for online retail outside of Russia?

That’s already his best track suit how much more do you want from him?

oh great now we got to add a bajillion little boxes to the bingo card

Zionists (the State of Isreal to be fully clear what I am referring to.)

If you meant the state of Israel when you said zionists, why didn’t you just say what you meant in the first place?

semi-related, nadezhda means “hope” in Russian

he’s beating him with a dildo, right?

I think that’s 1.45km² so far, not counting the partially burned ones