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If you are a Russian "president" and have domestic troubles like a crappy economy and lots of Covid, always remember the 34th rule of acquisition "War is good f

If you are a Russian "president" and have domestic troubles like a crappy economy and lots of Covid, always remember the 34th rule of acquisition "War is good for business".

bserge 5y ago
Until inevitably people start asking why they spent all that money, time and lives on it and where's their cut of the spoils.
drran 5y ago
If you are president of RF and caused Covid-19 epidemic (search for "blast at Vector lab"), the most rational move is to increase tension and then try to trade peace for amnesty.
shashurup 5y ago
What lots of covid??? Is there some new source of information I'm not aware of?
- sergeykish 5y ago
  > The country’s official coronavirus death toll is 102,649. But at least 300,000 more people died last year during the pandemic than were reported in Russia’s most widely cited official statistics. 362,302 Total Excess Deaths https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/world/europe/covid-russia-death.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/world/europe/covid-russia...
  - shashurup 5y ago
    That is interesting. Very reasonable approach. The only problem is that they failed to provide the link to the materials they used in the study. And I don't see death rate statistics for 2020, only for 2019 and before. Publication calendar states that the nearset publication is expected on May, 15.
    - sergeykish 5y ago
      I have not checked source but it's claimed around the world. There is a link [1] in another article [2]. RF propaganda would react on false claims, silence means it is correct. So far its response is "I can't compare numbers" [3]. [1] https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/TwbjciZH/edn12-2020.html https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/TwbjciZH/edn12-2020... [2] https://www.rbc.ru/economics/08/02/2021/602132e19a7947073f7ddeb5 https://www.rbc.ru/economics/08/02/2021/602132e19a7947073f7d... [3] https://lenta.ru/news/2021/04/12/nyt_kreml/ https://lenta.ru/news/2021/04/12/nyt_kreml/
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If you are a Russian "president" and have domestic troubles like a crappy economy and lots of Covid, always remember the 34th rule of acquisition "War is good for business".

bserge 5y ago

Until inevitably people start asking why they spent all that money, time and lives on it and where's their cut of the spoils.

drran 5y ago

If you are president of RF and caused Covid-19 epidemic (search for "blast at Vector lab"), the most rational move is to increase tension and then try to trade peace for amnesty.

shashurup 5y ago

What lots of covid??? Is there some new source of information I'm not aware of?

sergeykish 5y ago
> The country’s official coronavirus death toll is 102,649. But at least 300,000 more people died last year during the pandemic than were reported in Russia’s most widely cited official statistics. 362,302 Total Excess Deaths https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/world/europe/covid-russia-death.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/world/europe/covid-russia...
- shashurup 5y ago
  That is interesting. Very reasonable approach. The only problem is that they failed to provide the link to the materials they used in the study. And I don't see death rate statistics for 2020, only for 2019 and before. Publication calendar states that the nearset publication is expected on May, 15.
  - sergeykish 5y ago
    I have not checked source but it's claimed around the world. There is a link [1] in another article [2]. RF propaganda would react on false claims, silence means it is correct. So far its response is "I can't compare numbers" [3]. [1] https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/TwbjciZH/edn12-2020.html https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/TwbjciZH/edn12-2020... [2] https://www.rbc.ru/economics/08/02/2021/602132e19a7947073f7ddeb5 https://www.rbc.ru/economics/08/02/2021/602132e19a7947073f7d... [3] https://lenta.ru/news/2021/04/12/nyt_kreml/ https://lenta.ru/news/2021/04/12/nyt_kreml/
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