whiterock said:FLBear5630 said:Yet, Ukraine asks for help. Hmm, who do I believe?Sam Lowry said:The false sympathy and exploitation of Ukraine by the West is indeed disgusting.Bear8084 said:Sam Lowry said:I think you mean disproportionately old. The idea that Ukraine has a largely young population and is saving it for a rainy day while their aging army collapses is completely illogical.whiterock said:indeed. But Russia doesn't care about that if they subsume Ukraine into the Russia. They pick up 40m people, disproportionately young & female (given that Ukraine is fighting this war with +30 year old men).Redbrickbear said:whiterock said:2.6% unemployment rate is full employment, which means, from this point forward, every single soldier mobilized and sent to the front has a negative effect on GDP. Sure, Russia can keep transferring resources to keep war production at current levels, but they can't do it forever. Eventually people are going to need new clothes, new cars, replacement household items, etc......trey3216 said:"All resources in Russian economy are exhausted. Inflation is rising, interest rates cannot be significantly increased. Extreme lack of the workforce. Adding money from reserves to market will just increase inflation without bringing new growth. Russia is likely facing stagnation… pic.twitter.com/rXRQULbrKt
— Jaanika Merilo (@jaanikamerilo) July 29, 2024
Russia will be able to sustain current war production into at least the summer of 2025, but they stay at that level indefinitely. They'll have to increasingly rob Peter (private sector) to pay Paul (war production).
More importantly than that is the loss of any solider is a devastating thing for Russia.
They don't have the birth rate to replace any losses.
[Russia's death rate has been higher than its birth rate for years, resulting in a natural population decline. In 2022, Russia's crude birth rate was 8.9 per 100,000 people, the lowest it's been since 2000, while its death rate was about 1.7 times higher than its birth rate. Russia's fertility rate is also one of the lowest in the world, with women having an average of 1.42 children in 2022, compared to the 2.1 children needed to maintain the population]
As for the women, they'll be better off under Russian rule than fleeing west to fill the brothels of Europe. Those poor souls will be putting the "slav" in slavery for years to come, naturally without a word of complaint from the West. It's the only thing Europe really likes about them.
Good grief what a disgusting post. Not super surprising it's from the Russian.
The guy with a Baylor Law Degree living a great Capitalist life in America pleading to let the Russian's have Ukraine as the humanitarian thing to do or the Ukranian President whose Nation was invaded asking for military hardware so they can repel the invader???
Sorry, rings hollow. I will go with the guy that was invaded asking for help...
In March of 1914, 9 months before we entered WWII, the US passed the Lend-Lease Act, under which we supplied the following to the USSR (then at war with Germany):
- 400,000 jeeps & trucks
- 14,000 airplanes
- 8,000 tractors
- 13,000 tanks
- 1.5 million blankets
- 15 million pairs of army boots
- 107,000 tons of cotton
- 2.7 million tons of petrol products
- 4.5 million tons of food
Was that exploitation?
Was that false sympathy?
Nope. It was Realpolitik. It was national interest.
1. I assume you mean 1941
World War I was a very foolish internal European civil war that we should have stayed out of.
2. Its probably time we even re-evaluated the WWII mythology and nostalgia as well.
Its getting dangerous considering how you pro-War Chick-Hawks use it as an endless bloody shirt to try and get American boys killed in more foreign wars....and apparently will use it as a excuse for more wars forever and ever and ever.
The USA got into that war because it was actually physically attacked by the Empire of Japan...it was probably the last legitimate large scale war we have fought.
But lets also be honest... Peter Hitchens hits the nail on the head in terms of how that war ended.
"World War II began as a war to save Poland from a ruthless totalitarian doctorship. It ended with Poland under the control of a ruthless totalitarian dictatorship...along with half of the entire European continent. And along the way 50 million people died"