Russians in Telegram reacting to their MoD announcing the downscaling of war goals.

[Swede]

This is some unhappy Russkis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/trnnpu/russians_in_telegram_reacting_to_their_mod/

[mia]

1. Not sorry.

Link to tweet

[Quixote1818]

2. It's the beginning of a very dark downfall for Russia

They aren't going to be much more than a country like El Salvador before too long. Only with nukes.

[keep_left]

4. Yep. Paul Krugman calls them a "Potemkin superpower" in a recent op-ed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/opinion/putin-military-sanctions-weakness.html

For Putin’s Russia isn’t a hermetic tyranny like North Korea or, for that matter, the old Soviet Union. Its standard of living is sustained by large imports of manufactured goods, mostly paid for via exports of oil and natural gas.

This leaves Russia’s economy highly vulnerable to sanctions that might disrupt this trade, a reality reflected in Monday’s sharp plunge in the value of the ruble despite a huge increase in domestic interest rates and draconian attempts to limit capital flight.

Basically, the Russian elite have been financing their lifestyles through foreign-bought goods, while their country has little economic output other than resource extraction. They really do look a lot like the comprador regimes from the '80s in Latin America.

[Nevilledog]

3. It's a lie anyway

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

Thomas C. Theiner
@noclador
russia at 4 pm: We will "fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv".

russia at 11 pm: Worst artillery shelling of Kyiv in all of the war so far.


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3:08 PM · Mar 29, 2022