• noride@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    It’s always so strange to me that we don’t see the same bombastic support from the tankies over news like this, surely this is another genius move which underscores the futility of Western sanctions, right? Another 5d chess move to bring Ukraine to it’s knees, or dismantle the petrodollar, surely? 🙃

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Part of me is hopeful that this means something will eventually break, but it’s also hard to get past some of the initial predictions I was reading when the war first started, that Russia couldn’t keep up the war longer than a few months, that Russia was going to collapse at almost any moment. Now it seems like Russia is converting to a permanent wartime economy and that this thing is expected to drag on for years to come. It makes me wonder, even when Putin eventually dies, does Russia just continue on with the war out of sheer momentum, because the next person knows what a shitshow things will turn into if they try to end the war?

    • uis@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      when Putin eventually dies, does Russia just continue on with the war out of sheer momentum

      My prediction that in such event war will just stop, Shulman’s prediction is war will be immidiately forgotten as mass delirium.

      “Time will come when Putin’s mansions will be shown on federal TV”.