• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m confused. Isn’t he having trouble with just Ukraine? How the hell is Russia supposed to take on a larger fight? I’m guessing with the help of North Korea and/or China, but I’m just a stupid American.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah and could Russia afford such an escalation? There have been reports that their economy is already struggling.

      • dude@lemmings.worldOPM
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        There are reports like that from the very beginning of the war yet Russian economy outperformed all the expectations ever since. Just look at the actual numbers, their always collapsing is actually doing quite good

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          One of their economic ministers just published in a state journal saying the economy was in deep shit.

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          Expectations set by whom? If expectations are for the bottom of the barrel worst-case scenarios that are unlikely to actually happen, it’s easy to outperform them.