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The russian supermegapower has been stuck at the closest region of its border for 4 years
Control of those border regions are one of Russia's main objective in this war despite what the "RuSsA wIlL rOlL tHeIr TaNkS tO bErLiN iF tHeY aReN't sToPeD" crowd would like you to believe. They have neither the will nor the manpower to occupy all of Ukraine.
What they want to accomplish in this war is control over the border regions, especially the Donbass and Luhansk, and prevent Ukraine from becoming a NATO member, both of which have been accomplished whether you like it or not.
when you definitely understand how wars of attrition work
Hopefully like the one in Afghanistan that made the soviet union collapse shortly after, so we can forget about russia for another 40 years
Hook me up with some of that high-potency copium, it sounds like some gourmet shit
Last I checked, it's Europe and not Russia that's imploding economically right now.
Yeah there is a limitless number of Europeans emigrating to russia for jobs :D
try harder 🤣 https://kyivindependent.com/bloomberg-thousands-of-russians-return-home-boosting-war-economy/
And many westerners are following them to have a share of wealth of the supermegapower there was never a more developed and innovative country as the supermegapower
I see them goal posts are moving. What is a fact however is that Russia is now world's 4th largest economy by PPP, and world bank classifies Russia as a high income country https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/leadership/directors/eds23/brief/russia-was-classified-as-high-income-country