Fuck these fuckers. Also thanks for their contribution to our culture. But again: fuck them
vivalapivo
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No democracy movement has ever failed when it was able to mobilize at least 3.5 percent of the population to protest over a sustained period.
Belarus had more than a million people on the streets for months. It's a lot more than 10% of the whole population. Also your source seems to be BBC
How? We can see time after time how direct peaceful protest fails and violent protest either is policed down or fails successfully like in Syria, Libia, Egypt.
Approaching the politics from the moral ground perspective and making martyrs is childish
Because I read the title and it did sound like what Israel has been saying for days
Sigh. 300,000 dead Russian soldiers have been named by independent media. A million dead is realistic. The number of casualties is in the millions. What number of 100,000s people dead passes the threshold for you?
Independent media like Zona named 112k, while, well, CSIS estimated 250k, which is well lesser than one million.
You too please have a good day and don't forget to drink enough water
Yup, looks like it fits the definition without a stretch
11200 as-of now. Based on your estimate of real casualties= 3x identified casualties it's more likely to be 300-400 thousand which is already a devastating number way beyond the threshold you have mentioned.
It's just weird to remind that if a side, any side claims that it has 50 thousand casualties and the enemy is beyond one million, you are being fed with horseshit and you need to just stop eating it.
Win or lose, they're fucked for the next decades at least.
Who are 'they'? If you talk about people who decide to continue the war - not necessarily: the power and elite are cementing and the probability of toppling Putin is decreasing rapidly with each year of militarization.
If you talk about common people, then I agree, for regular russians that's a disaster, for a tiny minority - the last opportunity to get rich.
If you equate these categories, you are a delulu
this is the proxy war
IDK, really. True that NATO doesn't want direct involvement and wants Ukraine to kick Putin's ass. But it begs the question: is Russia a proxy for China or we just force the interpretation of the proxy war onto reality?
Unironically yes. They add potassium to soap today, just enough to keep the brick form