I mean all their problems do stem from Russia, they would have been a much much wealthier country as a part of Romania instead of a breakaway with Russians in it.

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Oh I’m sure after this is over there will be a lot of Russian metal melted down in Ukraine.

That may very wll be true, but it seems Putin isn't listening to anyone right now. He's in his own little dream world thinking of Soviet Era greatness.

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How has he not fallen out of a window yet? Those Russian made windows are dangerous as fuck

Imagine believing all of that. Keep huffing that copium so you don’t have to accept that Russia is joke.

I..... I think I love you.

Nothing gets my goat more than stupid people implying decimation means complete destruction of something.

You still have 90% of your army after it's been decimated FFS

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Baldrick, is that you?

Came to comment this. Have my upvote.

You overestimate the ruzzian standards.

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English?

It's honestly probably cheaper to ship most of the stuff to Ukraine than to decommission it properly.

BRICS, Putin has a long relationship with Lula from his previous governments

The next few months of this war will be the most decisive yet, as russian conscripts now make their military force in the region larger than Ukraine's. This peace deal lies on if Ukraine or Russia trust they will be able to fully win such a war. If neither believe in an achievable victory, they'll come to the table.

Brazil wants to gain international goodwill by positioning itself as the mediator of such a peace if it occurs. As a foubding member of BRICS, and the most pro US/Europe member of BRICS currently, Itamaraty is trying to position itself in such a way to booster future foreign policy objectives of Brazil, like renegotiating it's OECD entry application, Mercosur-EU free trade treaty, objectives in Africa and Latin America, and UNSC permanent seat objetctives.

Ukraine itself has backed Brazil's proposal at the UN, with Lula having 2 conversations with Zelensky in the past week, so this isn't a long shot. Though I should add that the situation might change quickly depending on who and what is brought to the table and which demands are made.

What a cocky take from a stranger on the internet. Also, LARP? Do you even know the definitions of the words you type?

Despite being half a world away from the conflict, there's not much love in Australia for Russia. A lot of the passengers on MH17 were Australian (it was the 3rd most represented nationality after Dutch and Malaysian) as they were going to transfer to a flight to Melbourne. There were also a lot of doctors and scientists heading to an HIV conference in Melbourne that likely took a few years off research for more treatments/cures thanks to the loss of that collective knowledge. People were so outraged that the PM of the time threatened to "shirtfront" Putin at the G20 summit we were hosting a few months later (he wimped out though).

yeehaw

How does Germany have both a labour shortage and falling real wages? Something doesn’t work there unless we’re seeing the country’s economic carrying capacity shrink faster than its workforce.

God damn the 2020s. Liberal trade makes everyone more prosperous, and countries like Germany having to source more raw materials locally decreases their carrying capacity.

The fact they’ve convinced you he’s worthless is also them doing their job.

(Not defending him, but clearly from this thread his very existence keeps some redditors up at night)