• Tuukka R@mastodontti.fi
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            @nesc

            It doesn’t matter if anyone cares or not.

            When all commercial banks go bankrupt, there won’t be much anything to call an economy left in the Russia.
            Of course they can just print a _lot_ of money to bail out the banks, but then that has the consequences of printing a lot of money.

            They can non-care as much as they want, but their economy will die anyway. And then they won’t be able to pay their soldiers anymore. At which point it is bye-bye for the Russian occupation.

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              You are under impression that they are somehow liberal market economy, it’s a dying empire with extremely loyal subjects that choosing between food on the table and glorious empire chose the latter 10 times out of 10. And they won’t be allowed to collapse completely by bigger european countries, by usa, by china. Essentially everyone roots for fucking r*sia, except those that border them, because it would be inconvenient if that shithole collapses.

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                @nesc

                I know Russians would choose that way.
                They choose to live separate from reality.

                But once you have no food on the table, you die. When you have no food in the table, it’s irrelevant what you choose. The physical reality will start dictating the course of action.

                Russians can want all the want. But in the end they’ll have to bend to laws of physics.

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                  1 day ago

                  soviet union existed with ration cards for 40 years and they absolutely adore that abomination.

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                    @nesc

                    Absolutely, and Russians will be okay with them again.

                    But, they won’t enlist as professional soldiers without a very substantial compensation. Once that becomes economically impossible and they need to fall back to ration cards, they can only get soldiers through conscription. And 70 000 conscripts at the relatively safe front in Afghanistan brought down Soviet Union. The 50% smaller Russia cannot survive 700 000 conscripts at a deadly front.