• radivojevic@discuss.online
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      3 months ago

      To distract people from the reality that the ruling class is ramping up their efforts to gain authoritarian control in a significantly large number of countries lately.

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      3 months ago

      It’s for conquering Crime a and parts od Ukraine. And as long as they get to keep the land, Putin will be satisfied… and the average russian will trust the propaganda they should be satisfied as well.

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      3 months ago

      Stealing one of the largest countries in Europe seems like a good trade for half a million peasants they obviously don’t give a shit about.

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        3 months ago

        If they’d actually stolen it, sure. But half a million in and they’re still nowhere near achieving that.

        At what point do they stop throwing good bodies after bad?

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          3 months ago

          And even if they achieve that they are looking at occupying a country whose people hate them and will do everything to sabotage them.

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      3 months ago

      I mean it is still technically up several million people overall. But then again, over a million people left the country…

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        3 months ago

        Are you implying that just because the population went up it’s not a tragedy that over half a million people have died for no good reason?

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          Not in the least. The person asked “for what?” About the only positive I could see from a Russian government perspective is an increased population.