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Unbelievable in modern times.
Times that Russia never joined.
Times are never too modern for mass death and world war, that capacity remains with us.
Really?
The US invaded Iraq under flimsy pretexts, slaughtering half a million to a million civilians. Israel is committing genocide with the support of its Allies. The climate catastrophe is largely ignored by policymakers despite a century of science warning against it and increasingly stronger heat waves, droughts, forest fires, floods and other deadly events. China is threatening to expand militarily into neighboring countries. Iran will probably have to develop a nuclear deterrent soon to avoid a large scale invasion. Companies all over the world make shady dealings with warlord mass slaughtering slaves in their mines in Africa, be it for cobalt, nickle or gold. The same warlords are supplied with weapons from countries like France, Russia or the UAE. Almost all European countries are working towards totalitarian surveillance of their citizens every moves on a level that the GDR and other regimes of the past could only dream of.
The only thing that got modernized are the tools of barbarity.
Also Propaganda - Modern Propaganda is far more subtle and effective at covering the true depths of the depravity up and manufacturing popular consent for it using Entertainment crafted to show the aggressors in a positive light.
I'm talking about a nation who sacrifice 1mln of its citizens in 2020 in order to conquer something (almost nothing in this particular case), with its population not even reacting.
Russians are a fucking joke.
I mean usa isnt far behind, creating and maintaining poverty just so people join military so they can get a decent pay and 'survive' thats psychopathic
US never became a real modern country, no welfare = third world.
But Russia...mother of god. They don't produce a fucking shit. People still believe the old bell "we are the greatest". Vodka must be really cheap.
Us still 17nth in the hdi index anyway, you take away those small rich motherfuckers like Singapore and Switzerland, then is just some Euro countries, Japan and few others.
Russia is around 70 and digging, even Bulgaria does better. Everybody does better than Russia, even without oil and gas. It's so it works in countries who have at least a quite decent government instead of a bunch of mafia guys (and US seems to be following soon).