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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