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Then you wait?I wonder if the local currency exchange is holding any rubles....be great to pick up 100 of them for 1 USD plus 5% (or whatever) commission.
$.02Then you wait?
For things to get better?
Good thinking Komrade
Does Putin regret invading Ukrane or does he still think he's going to turn it around?
Do you think it worked?$.02
It'd be better if he had annexed the East and the West was a rump state cut off from the Black Sea with some sort of Yanukovych running it, but he invaded to shore up domestic political support in Russia, and I was under the impression he did that.
There's 140 something million people. In the absence of an actual fair election with a real opposition candidate who doesn't get poisoned, imprisoned, or thrown off a balcony, the best we have to go off of is the media's reporting of his support.Didn't a million people leave?
A combo of Propaganda working and people being scared to express dissent. Exactly what the Putin loving Trumptards want in America.There's 140 something million people. In the absence of an actual fair election with a real opposition candidate who doesn't get poisoned, imprisoned, or thrown off a balcony, the best we have to go off of is the media's reporting of his support.
Putin approval rating Russia 2024 | Statista
Vladimir Putin's popularity level saw a slight increase in February 2024. The vast majority of Russians approved of activities of their country's president.www.statista.comPoll Shows Putin Ratings Climb Among Russians Since Ukraine Invasion
A new Russian opinion poll shows that President Vladimir Putin has gotten a boost in ratings since the start of the war in Ukraine.www.rferl.org
IMHO the main component is the average Russian's nationalist tendencies.A combo of Propaganda working and people being scared to express dissent. Exactly what the Putin loving Trumptards want in America.
Good point, another one of those multivariate things.IMHO the main component is the average Russian's nationalist tendencies.
I think in the west we think that other places think like Westerners but in other places, Russia and Africa, they think differently.IMHO the main component is the average Russian's nationalist tendencies.
Then what?Then you wait?
For things to get better?
Good thinking Komrade
Does Putin regret invading Ukrane or does he still think he's going to turn it around?
Twenty of Putin's troops are killed 'when fist-fight between Russian soldiers escalates into battle with grenade launchers and machine guns' | Daily Mail OnlineI don't see how Russia comes out of this.
I wonder if the west is trying to do a slow drain on them to weaken them.
Like boiling a lobster.
This.I think in the west we think that other places think like Westerners but in other places, Russia and Africa, they think differently.
I really noticed this with my Middle East students.
We do the same thing with pyscopaths.
We can't imagine people would think they way they think because we don't think that way
The US has teams that can go in an grab the nukes.Twenty of Putin's troops are killed 'when fist-fight between Russian soldiers escalates into battle with grenade launchers and machine guns' | Daily Mail Online
Yup. We're probably just feeding the conflict just enough to keep this thing on a burn for as long as possible. The dangerous thing, IMHO, could possibly be the total breakup of the country into a bunch of independent states. All with nukes. But that's probably just me anticipating the worst. Glass half empty guy out!