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[–] Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 132 points 5 days ago

If they are admiting this publicly, the situation must be much, much worse.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 56 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe stop attacking Ukraine then??

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 37 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They can't. Russia's economy is only war now. Large parts of the private sector went bankrupt some time ago. Stopping the war would also cause an economic crash

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago

Sounds good to me. Fuck Putin and his fluffer Trump.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Good. Let the crash bring down that fascist colonizer!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

plus 1million+ men fled russia early in the war too. since russia has 144m people, they lost 1/14 population from that alone, and then the "deaths and casualties"

[–] staph@sopuli.xyz 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sorry the math ain't mathing. 1M is a lot, and russia has significantly damaged its demographics, but the math just ain't mathing

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, it works out fine. If you lose 1 in 144, that clearly calculates to 1 in 14. Maybe even 1 in 1. Anybody seen Russia lately?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Besides, as much as I wish for the numbers to be big, most likely there were less than 1M leaving the country for good.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago

Also leaving Russia does not equate to disagreeing with Russia. Just disagreeing with personally dying for Russia.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

US education math grad.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 60 points 5 days ago

Don't worry guys Trump is helping as much as he can! Causing a global oil crisis and then lifting sanctions on Russia has massively increased the profits Putin is getting from oil.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 72 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There is a very simple answer.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 75 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Have more babies, right? Or failing that, kidnap children from occupied Ukraine? That'll fix everything, immediately!

Oh, and send more young men into the meat grinder. That'll help too.

[–] thebasementcakes@leminal.space 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Remember Putin was promoting young people having more babies 16 years ago, shows he was planning for war and casualties

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

he again promoting mothers should have 10 or babies like 2 years ago.

[–] esc@piefed.social 15 points 5 days ago

Sacrifice at least 10 thousand people every day until m*scovian gods satisfied. Works every time!

Banned from .ml

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 20 points 5 days ago

Conquer Ukraine? 😑

✌️

[–] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 5 points 5 days ago

Exactly. Dude's pointing Solovjov at Elvira Nabiullina. They would have been buggered years ago if she wasn't such a genius (or allowed to resign). Now they've even burned through their gold reserves.

Twisted wiener up their own ass buggered 👉👌

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Here is an answer, die faster you piece of shit.

[–] fisch@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Don't worry guys, I'm sure the oligarchs and their families will be fine.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd sleep much better knowing that they are not okay...

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

There are sometimes Russian news of courts confiscating everything from yet another awful corrupt person, that somehow infiltrated crystal clear ranks of government.

To me it always feels like Putin scrambling for spare change in the pocket: when budget is thinning just pop another corrupt official from the ones you left on the top shelf in case of a black day

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

they just have to stay away from windows, and tall story buildings, or airplanes and boats.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

If only we could figure out WHY everything there sucks... Couldn't be the leadership, could it? Naaaah. Could it though?

How about we remove the one in charge since all accountability should be at that person's feet. Hmmm. Such a conundrum. Guess we'll never know.

(Fucking snakes never know when to just fuck off. The Epstein class and the rest of parasites are ruining our world--- when are we going to stop this already??? So tired...)

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

You can literally solve the problem with a stroke of the pen you warmongering kusok derma.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 4 days ago

no wonder the russian grifting talking heads have been so quiet since last year.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Don’t worry. Trumps got your back guys.

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If they are saying that, does that mean they are actually not in trouble?

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Вова who cried wolf.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I do not trust the Russians and Vlad can carry on wrecking his country. Just remember, Russia signed the Budapest Agreement and fucked it all up. Zero sympathy.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

But their bread is so fresh!

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago
[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Paywalled crap