Ah. Good luck with that.

What’s the alphanumeric sequence at the end of your comment?

Honestly, discussing Russia’s economy as large in the same breath as the US and China is a bit disingenuous. US GDP is around 27 trillion USD, China around 18 trillion USD. Russia? 2 trillion USD.

Source for figures: https://www.forbesindia.com/article/explainers/top-10-largest-economies-in-the-world/86159/1. Even if we dispute the specific numbers, an order of magnitude is an order of magnitude.

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Russian forces tried to blitz across the country in 2022 - I remember that failure, but all recent developments in this invasion are minimal. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682 - this is a pretty decent overview I think we could both agree on.

I’m pro-Ukrainian, but “huge swathes” of regained territory is absurdly inflating UA’s achievements. They’re fighting off the imperialist invaders, but only just and only for now.

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A spectacularly unhelpful comment. Literally worse than shutting the fuck up. At least you removed all doubt, buddy.

The pop-iver video player is an infuriating choice. I watched the video, scroll down and the fucking thing follows me?! Wtf?! Why?? Am I going to forget that I just watched that video two seconds ago?! Argh!

If someone wants to return fire, go for it, but getting NATO to be the new world police force after decades of the US playing that role and fucking it up should give us pause. NATO is there to be a defensive alliance if attacked militarily, not be a mercenary force for Maersk and BP or whoever is getting their cargo attacked.

Just no.

Eastern Europe, perhaos. Not really anywhere else in europe.

Agreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.

Nothing will be accomplished without violence.

Nah

US centrism. Grow up, this is not a post about dysfunctional US politics.

Nobody in this thread has offered sources one way or another. You appeared to be having difficulty understanding OP’s point, hence my comment. As for your final question, two things:

1. Fuck your US-centric assumption, I luckily don’t have to care about Trump, I have my own country’s politics to worry about.

2. Trump clearly lives in your head rent free, that’s not good.

Hence “absurd”.

Single use bags can be sold, and are sold, for wrapping fruit and vegetables, and thin polyethylene carrier bags are atill sold, they just can’t be given away for free.

I’m also interested in that, please

Oh for sure it’s finite, but they only have to wait out Ukraine, that’s the problem. And it looks to be very clear that Russia is not the paper tiger (economically and militarily) that western media and governments have been claiming. Without substantial and prolonged foreign aid, there is only a slim chance that Ukraine will be able to resist Russian imperialist aggression in any serious way, let alone regain conquered territory.

You know that a “democracy” doesn’t mean “a good country”, right? Democracies can do war crimes just as well as dictatorships. It’s irrelevant.

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