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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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Regardless of Putin’s decision regarding the war in Ukraine, Russia’s economy is facing a crisis due to factors such as sanctions, a shrinking sovereign wealth fund, and a labor shortage. The war has boosted growth, but Russia cannot sustain it without significant economic consequences.

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

The plan is to split Russia, the west bit (with the people) goes to Europe to deal with, the east bit (with the land and more resources than God) goes to China.

And that gives us all 50-100 years of peace while both sides slowly digest what they have to deal with.

Yes, Europe gets the shitty half of this deal, but they also get security, and the only person to ever successfully charge from China, across the whole Russian steppe to attack Europe was Genghis Khan, doubt that's happening again.

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I think it was his heir Ogedei Kahn

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] Zron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Genghis didn’t have access to thousands of poorly assembled Humvee knockoffs and millions of poorly trained mechanics to make them somewhat functional. I’m sure some of them could survive the drive.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The only drivable thing that would survive that is a Toyota pickup because they are unkillable

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