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Comment by amarant

7 hours ago

Russia seems poised to invade Europe in the near future. If they do, and succeed, Rome could become part of the new Soviet Union(which Putin has explicitly said he wants to bring back)

Once that happens, it's likely to lead to poverty. At least that's what happened in the last USSR

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Copenjin  5 hours ago

Invade with what? Refugees running away from a poor and failing country? Man...

  • bojan  1 hour ago

    Russia is neither poor nor failing, and saying that is underestimating the real actual danger they present.

    Russia has vast natural resources and enough buyers for those resources even if the EU manages to completely stop (at significant cost). Their industry turned to wartime mode, resulting in the fact that they now have more armored vehicles than in February 2022.

    Will they actually physically reach Italy? Probably not. Will they try to buy it out and bring a (even more) fascist autocratic regime there? Probably yes.

Barrin92  6 hours ago

>Russia seems poised to invade Europe in the near future

only if the near future includes the year 2150 because as of right now the Russian defense ministry is celebrating the liberation of individual bakery plants on their state media

https://tass.com/politics/2041223

almostgotcaught  7 hours ago

> Russia seems poised to invade Europe in the near future. If they do, and succeed

Is this a joke? There is literally no chance this ever happens.

  • frankest  6 hours ago

    Russia’s kleptocracy has impoverished the country so much that it now needs attrition in its male population to keep people from rising up against the current leadership. War is how you keep poor citizens from rebelling against you. When the war is over, historically the returning soldiers (especially in Russia) overturn the leadership. So there is never an incentive to stop a war. Especially a losing one.

    • Copenjin  4 hours ago

      The fact that it's a fragile kleptocracy basically reduce to 0 any possibility of a normal future. Puppet state at best, if someone is willing to take them. I expect they already planned what to do with the returning soldiers, not that they will like it or accept gracefully what's in store for them.

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