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I have not heard of another batch of NK soldiers after the initial 12000. There are talks about them possibly sending another 12000.

With the Russia losing 1300 soldiers per day as dead and wounded, the NK troops cover 10(+ maybe another 10?) days worth soldiers.

The Russian army is shrinking by about 15 000 soldiers per month. That was canceled out by NK troops for one month once, and possibly another one soon.

It is collapsing. Some people have interpreted the news as the economy being at the brink of an immediate collapse, but articles I have read have talked consistently of end of 2025/early 2026.

The difference is, in 2022 and 2023 it was assumed that once it becomes clear that the Russia's economy collapsing will be inevitable unless they immediately end the war, they would indeed end it. Now it's clear that they will indeed go to the very end, allowing their economy to collapse and then the war ending as a consequence of that.

So, yes, it was predicted that the economy will collapse by 2026, and the war would end in 2022 or 2023 to avoid that. But, the timetable of the actual collapse has not changed. Or, at least not the timetables I've been seeing.

This isn't a war of lines on the map, really. The Russia's goal is the end of Ukrainians as a nation. And breaking NATO's article 5.

They're using money in lieu of skill. Eventually they'll run out if it.

Then no more high salary for the Russian soldier – and consequently, no more soldiers.

The Russia is already throwing everything at Kyiv...

The problem is, the person saying "these guys are nazis" could be simply lying.

A good example is Putin funding nazis everywhere in ex-USSR since around 2005, then managing to get Europeans to think the Ukrainian freedom movement was somehow a nazi movement even though the prevalence of right-wing extremism was growing until 2014 just like in the Russia and started decreasing in 2014, while it kept rising in the Russia and Russia-controlled areas such as Crimea.

If the Russia was to gain control over Ukraine, the prevalence of right wing extremist attacks would start growing again like it did until 2014. And yet, a lot of Europeans, especially in Germany, are opposing Ukraine because of the "these guys are nazis, nazis=bad mindset. Nazis are bad. It's just important to understand that someone accusing someone of being a nazi doesn't mean that the someone actually is a nazi.

The mindset has caused large parts of Ukraine to fall under circumstances that cause there to be more fascism. Anti-fascism has ended up promoting fascism in this case.

I have not read about what Proton's owners have said and will delve into that now. But my experience, having lived in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016 and in Germany between 2008 and 2010 (and still having good friends there), is that many are eager to jump on a bandwagon of lynching an accused nazi, even if the accuser himself is a nazi and the accused is not.

It is ugly seeing precisely those who would be needed for fighting fascism work as errand boys for fascists.

It's a very good thing he doesn't. Russians want to take over Ukraine and their economy sinking stops them from doing so. The less Putin cares about economy, the worse for the Russia. And therefore, the better for Ukraine.

No, it's precisely the Russian economy I'm thinking about. Putin wing be in any risk of going bankrupt as long as the Russia has a functioning economy, so actually be doesn't really care about his wallet either. He's ready to pay a lot of money for the glory he expects to have.

Getting Putin bankrupt is not very realistic in my understanding, but getting the Russia bankrupt seems very feasible. Especially with Putin in the lead.

Not voting is a vote for the guy you absolutely would never vote.

These keep happening a lot!

It's not a coincidence that the Russia recently demanded that Ukraine should end attacks against the Russian oil infrastructure (and that in exchange Russians would stop bombing heating power plants during the spring and summertime, heh)

It's seriously hurting their economy!

EDIT: Changed "energy infrastructure" to "oil infrastructure".

Herojam slava!

EDIT: matched spelling with the above correction.

Also, some are children of people who were indoctrinated to think that Soviet Union is/was a friend and only ever wanted peace and nothing more.

The bad things the Russia is doing now are a continuation of what it has been doing for a century. Accepting that they are in the wrong now would require accepting that they've done bad things before. That's a lot of work, so the mind protects itself from all that thinking.

Näin päättelin.