Continue the war: eventual collapse and civil war
Stop the war: collapse of your wartime economy and guaranteed civil war
Yeah they’re fuck fucked. The best possible outcome for Russia is to become a client state of China somehow. How you manage to self-own this hard is honestly impressive. It’s also funny that Trump seems to be competing against Putin to see who can choke on a bigger dick of consequences.
Given their age, I don’t expect any of them to see any consequences.
I am interested where this is heading to in Russia and hope that Ukraine can continue to keep its ground. Personally have nothing against Russia falling apart.
The regime cannot roll back these changes without exposing the country’s vast inequality or without creating a large class of aimless, incomeless veterans.
Pffft. That’s the price of their own actions and they could have known it in advance.
On the other hand the price of not stopping the war could be even higher…
On the other hand the price of not stopping the war could be even higher…
From the perspective of Putin, what could be more costly than a few million destitute veterans marching on his palace? Best bet is to neutralize that threat by burning up your country’s resources in an endless meat grinder. Maybe you’ll get lucky and coast your perma-war long enough to die an old man.
Delay crashing the plane for as long as possible and then slam it hard into the mountain to kill all the angry passengers before you parachute out.
Sounds like a sunk-cost fallacy.
The sunk cost already includes Putin’s life, but it’ll only be due when the war ends.
He can.
