Sure, if you're not on the same team you get defenestrated. That is a powerful motivator. But it is a powerful motivator for a coup as well.
I don't know what those sentences mean. But I can tell you that your Great Man Theory here is incorrect.
As you well know all we have are estimates.
How can you know the real number is being hidden if you don't know it? There is a lot of specific knowledge required to support your claim. I think we both know that is because you read it in a headline.
All realistic estimates put the number over 600000 killed and wounded.
Show me your most realistic estimate source.
Of those 68011 have been confirmed killed by name.
That is a very specific number. It is a number from BBC Russia, in fact, and it is misleading to say "confirmed" as it is actually based on trusting their guesswork and crowdsourcing. It is from 3 days ago.
Remember, your claim is that Russia is hiding the real toll. So you must know it yourself and be able to explain how it is being hidden.
There is a significant difference between what the Russian media is telling the people and what they see on Telegram and directly from their husbands and relatives. [...]
You did not answer my question.
LOL. Those middle-men are not cheap.
This does not address what I said.
Russia is producing at most two to three hundred tanks a year. And most of those are refurbished tanks. Based on the financials.
What financials yell you the number of tanks Russia is currently producing?
And it is losing five to six hundred a year. Based on Ukrainian numbers.
Why would you accept their numbers at face value? Not even their NATO sponsors trust their numbers.
I call you a troll when you ignore reality and keep repeating Russian talking points.
This is how you process my disagreement with you, yes. By namecalling and making things up. Please try to do better.
I call you a troll when you demand I justify my position while providing no justification for yours.
You are repeatedly offering up absurdities. Your original comment was as simplistic as, "Russia could just leave" and you then invented a series of increasing absurdities cribbed from headlines and articles that were both know you just Googled. When you compound absurd claims you will have to spend a lot of time backing them up. At least, if the other person is paying attention.
My comments have mostly been to poke holes in the absurdities and ask you to make your implied knowledge consistent with your claims. It has not gone well.
You seem to think it is unfair that you have had to answer questions about your silly claims. This makes me think you don't know how yo ask your own. Would you like me to teach you how to do so?
Russian inflation is right now at 9.1% and rising. Inflation hasn't been below 4% since the beginning the war. At worst it has been at 17,8%. Compared to other economies of similar size it is among the worst in the world. Western countries are nowhere near these figures.
The 9% number is quarterly, for the year it will be around 7. Germany's inflation rate in 2023 was around 6. It was around 4 in the UK for the same year, hitting 9% for a quarter the year prior. The US had rates of 7-9% in 2021-2022. Italy's was 8 in 2022 and 5ish in 2023.
You are objectively incorrect about this being incomparable to other relevant states.
Most of the growth in the Russian economy has come from the war economy. This is not healthy in the long term and will cause problems when the war ends.
Ah yes, this is why 1950s America was just one big recession.
Before the invasion the ruble was around hovering around 1 USD to 70 RUB. Right now it around 1 USD to 90 RUB.
Ah, looks like I am wrong and despite early jumps it has now settled into a slightly lower exchange rate. Still not weak, however.
They are rising rapidly in the sectors that are dependent on the war economy. Others simply cannot afford to raise them and have to go without staff.
Both wages and employment are up, actually. You are telling very specific stories about behavior in contradiction of the wider facts. Presumably you are an undercover gonzo economist in Russia?
I wonder how the "Russia could just leave" person could suddenly possess such specific knowledge!
In this comment I've now gone through inflation and currency. What next?
You ignored sections of my last comment that would allow you to partially answer this question yourself. Perhaps instead of replying only to the parts you feel like, you could read the full response and internalize it?
When are you going to start justifying any of your positions?
I haven't made the error if saying a bunch of silly, very specific things that disagree with reality. But you already said something like this and I already answered it.