If the West gave putin an ultimatum to leave Ukraine in 24 hours or the allies would enter the fight with Ukraine, the war would be over. This whole Biden/Western strategy of providing limited weapons to Ukraine but not enough to win is a failure.
Deathonomics in Russia: 'Russian economist Vladislav Inozemtsev calculates that the family of a 35-year-old man who fights for a year and is then killed on the battlefield would receive around 14.5 million rubles, equivalent to $150,000, from his soldier’s salary and death compensation. That is more than he would have earned cumulatively working as a civilian until the age of 60 in some regions. Families are eligible for other bonuses and insurance payouts, too....
So many soldiers have now been killed that the payments—totaling as much as $30 billion in the past year as of June—are a telling symptom of how the war is transforming Russian society and the economy at large....
Now the mounting death payments are providing an injection of wealth into some of Russia’s poorest areas in return for a steady stream of soldiers for the war effort. Poverty levels are now at their lowest since data collection began in 1995, according to official statistics. Perceptions of what it means to join the military have been transformed.'
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From now on, US allies may need to reconsider sharing intelligence with the US. With Tulsi in charge, sharing intel is like sending it directly to the Kremlin
Both Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin view Donald Trump as their chance to tip the scales in their favour, writes Dmytro Kuleba in a guest essay. He argues that this leaves the three leaders in a cannot-lose standoff https://t.co/othtC1jIvI
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"World War II wasn't like this war. This war is a difficult one. I don't know what this evil spirit [Putin] needed that he went to war on us. We lived like an ordinary people."
Mrs Nina is 98 years old. She is from Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region and lived through World War II.
Because of the constant Russian attacks and the threat of the front drawing closer, she asked social services to help her move to a shelter in Dnipro.
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