Valid meme but hopefully it doesn’t minimize the plight of Uyghurs in peoples minds.

How were they supposed to quell widespread anti-corruption protests and restore Putin’s slumping popularly without a successful 3 day military operation? Do you realize how much the successful war against Georgia boosted Putin’s popularity right when he needed it? /s

If Putin shows weakness, Russian’s might start thinking he’ll give in to their demands.

The slow walking of Military Aid under Biden and the disruption of aid under Trump are the main reasons the Ukrainians haven’t done better. Most people are amazed they did as well against the Russian’s as they have.

Yeah, historically Ukrainian corruption while not as bad as in Russia was just as pervasive and Putin didn’t really think Zelensky or any Ukrainian leadership would act on principles. Of course, it’s an easy mistake to make when you have no principles and surround yourself with people who have no principles.

You’re statement would have had more truth to it in 2023 then it does today. Europe is still behind Russia in that regard but Russia committed to fully switching to a wartime economy.

That’s just delusional.

I’d say coerced wage slavery.

Settle down, Beavis

Somehow I doubt Russian fascists intend to denazify anything. More likely they will add Ukrainian people and economic output to their war machine and pick a new former Russian Imperial possession to invade.

Because everyone close enough to assassinate Putin benefits from the regime. None of them are in their positions for altruistic reasons and all them them would face the gallows if Russia had real accountability. It’s why Coup attempts are frequently not launched by Generals.

Most of the soldiers getting sent into the meat grinder are ethnic minorities from poor regions of Russia. They’re people that European Russians don’t care about.

Well good for them. Bending knee to Putin won’t secure peace, it’ll only secure them an intermission until Putin can finish the job.

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Well, the price of a four year degree skyrocketed, while the financial return for most degrees is essentially zero. Not that there isn’t value beyond monetary compensation to be had in getting alot of degrees but they now come packaged with a lifetime of student loan debt if you’re not wealthy or lucky enough to get scholarship money.

Saying the public has ownership implies that they have some control of it which certainly isn’t true. It’s more like a Palace economy than anything.

Fun fact, Britain had to create taxes in it’s East African colonies not to raise income but because British economic interests struggled to recruit workers from people who had everything they needed without the British. Forcing them to pay taxes in currency forced them to accept employment to acquire that currency.

Once down the dark path you begin, forever with it dominate your destiny.

Calling a country where the means of production are controlled by the upper classes “socialist” is a stretch even before we consider their mixed economy and rampant capitalism.

Someone’s got their head buried in the sand. The number of critical problems that are gonna come to a head in the next 20 years that could collectively degrade the biosphere beyond supporting a substantial human population is nuts. It’s not fatalist to say that billions could die and it’s no consolation to the dead and their loved ones that “humans are exceptionally durable”.