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[–] 125 points 3 months ago (10 children)

It'll mean something when they actually do something about it. Everyone grumbles about shit.

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  • [–] 72 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Honestly grumbling about Putin himself is a change in Russia. They've traditionally applied good tsar, bad boyars to him.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I’ve been hearing about how Russia is about to collapse economically, lose the war, and watch Putin die from cancer for… years now. It’s just clickbait at this point.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Most people want instant gratification and the media knows it. The fact is that most institutional collapse don't happen overnight, but a slow burn one. Russia is indeed losing economically from the war, but it will be like with USSR when the war in Afghanistan slowly drained Soviet coffers. Although in my opinion, the consequences could worse than the aftermath of USSR's collapse. China will vassalise Russia, which is contrary to the aim of Putin in making Russia an independent major power.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    While you’re right that these things happen over time, there are often sudden watershed moments where the change becomes much more obvious than before, and those can precipitate more sudden actions to follow. Not everything is a slow forever burn with slovenly people like me yawning on the sidelines crying “borrring!”

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  • [+] 2 points 3 months ago* (2 children)