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  buried a million times worse than the Germans at Versailles. We don't need a Georgian failed art student moving to russia and pulling a hitler.
  
  Economically crippled countries are much more vulnerable to despots and corruption.
context: Considering this is staged (because of course it is), that's some really interesting data. When you need to stage a message saying you illegally sent 9k people, then how many did you *really* send? Because it feels like there is no point staging this unless it is to get ahead of the message. And I imagine if the true number was just 20k, he would't have bothered. >
  
  9K is a good number. It's big enough so that they cannot all be individually named and become an anonymous blob, small enough to not cause major outrage (in context to the war) and therefor good enough to cover everyone who was send there illegally. Oh, your son got sent there too without proper legal procedures? Well our village sure is unlucky, we got about 120 out of the 9 thousands. Our local government seems to have fucked up. >
  
  I like how it’s a number JUST under 5 digits. Like it couldn’t be 10,000 people? Kinda like going into the 99 cent store thinking you’re getting a deal because it’s under a buck. This is obviously bullshit. >
  
  Psychologically, the 99 cent store thing actually works.  Same reason gas prices always have the 9/10s added on, at least around here. >
  
  But what if malpracticing employees just started carrying a lot of 1ct coins around and pocket the 5 dollar bill anyway?? >
  
  Lots of pennies will be heavy and awkward to carry around, and the customer will more likely notice something funny is going on and expect their receipt. >
  
  You just have to keep a dozen pennies in your pocket, could potentially be a lot of money for one day. >
  
  60$ is not a lot of money for one day >
  
  As a one-time thing, no, but to someone working at a gas station for minimum wage? $7.25 an hour for 8 hours a day is only $58, so if you manage an average of $60 a day on top of that (tax-free since it's cash and off the books), you've more than doubled your income. Not sure how realistic that figure really is using this strategy though, and it looks even worse when you factor in the chances of getting caught. >
  
  Everyone saying he is a brave man fail to realize this is just internal propaganda so general populace think they have someone looking out for them and they'll be safe from these injustices coming next mobilization, only things this really tell us is the february 24th renewed push is likely true >
  
  I hate how much people underestimate how low Russia can go to win a war.  
  They threw millions of lives at the Germans and Austro-Hungarians in WWI with an actual factual Tsar in charge.  They have a deep well to pull from, it took WWI level losses to erode the Tsar’s power base enough to create the conditions for revolution. >
  
  I thought that this is secretly what we are rooting for? Namely, that Russian demographics - from deaths and emigrants - get so bad that Russia will never, ever be able to rebuild its military. >
  
  I think people have a narrative in their minds that Putin is on extremely shaky ground and that the losses in Ukraine will topple the whole house of cards.  
  Anyone who knows Russian history knows how many enemies of Russia have thought this and lost to the Russians.  That being said, those were largely defensive wars against people like Napoleon and Hitler.  
  The Mongols gave the blueprint on how to conquer Russia, no modern western military would or even could ever take things that far, so it’s just a war of attrition mostly on Russia’s terms, which worries me, personally.  
  Russia also has a history of eventually finding great leadership, which is another concern.  Is there going to be a Zhukov or Suvorov to bail them out? >
  
  A few key differences this time around are:
  
  Russia's birth rate has been low for a long time, so the generation that is overwhelmingly being killed in Ukraine is already the smallest generation Russia has had in a long time. Presumably, the majority of these young men have yet to have fathered children.
  Modern technology makes it much easier for Russians to relocate to another country.
  
  With 1 million dead Russian men in their 20s, it's hard to see how Russia would be able to demographically recover from that, since it would be about 1/6th of all of its men between the ages of 20-30.
  No country, as of yet, has been able to significantly turn around the kind of continuously declining birth rate that appears to be correlated with modern society.
  Thus, we no longer live in a world where Russia can sustain millions of dead and still remain functional.
  Unfortunately, a scenario with 1 million dead Russians is overwhelmingly likely to also result in the end of Ukraine as we know it, since Ukraine's birth rate has been even worse than Russia's for a very long time.
  Whatever Ukraine's fate, the rest of the world will be much better off if Russia will never again be in a position to rebuild its military. >
  
  The world must make sure when this is over russia gets marshall planned or buried a million times worse than the Germans at Versailles. We don't need a Georgian failed art student moving to russia and pulling a hitler.