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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:

Last I checked my MC and VISA cards still worked and I could get cash at the ATM. All the stores are still open and I'm not worried that one of my "conscripted" relatives in another country and might be dead. I have plenty of food in the house and can protest downtown in DC anytime I want with no prison time. So I'd say the average Russian is hurting a lot more. I am an average American and COVID hurt me a lot worse than this.

Average Russian doesn't have a Master Card. He can't be hurting bcs he of something he never missed in the first place.[/quote]

Well, you could be right, but many MC and UMC Russians are now leaving the country. Maybe you saw the article in the WaPo about this. They are getting on trains to Helsinki (and they are going to add more trains because the demand is so great). This is the creative class. This is the class that creates $$ that pays for a military. I also read an article in the NYT about scientists there. Apparently 8,000 of them signed a letter calling it an "invasion". Uh oh. But guess what? They have not been arrested. The government took their letter off the internet and let them be (so far). Imagine if that sector of the economy leaves as well. Russians will really be living off that lard and butter out in the hinterlands and so how will they feel about occupying a territory that they are forced to rebuild? Maybe they'd rather have internet and an I phone and more than some lard. ?? Maybe they would rather improve their own area? [/quote]

Russia purges its creative and intellectual class every 30 years or so. That’s why it implodes every 50 years, it keeps the low intellect sycophants who can keep it going for a couple more decades before running the country to the ditch and the cycle begins anew.[/quote]

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