Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:6ix, this is why your life is a steaming pile of horse manure. It's why you lost all your teeth but 10, have no job, are drunk, pay no taxes, and came down with diabetes. And voted for Trump, another steaming pile of horse manure who cheats on his taxes.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nope.
The returns showed that Trump paid only $750 in taxes each in 2016 and 2017 while claiming a $5 million refund in 2020. Here's a person who was running the United States as a president and yet he's running his businesses at a huge loss. Trump the businessman is a steaming pile of horse manure. https://www.taxnotes.com/presidential-tax-returns
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Source: the SSU, which has posted the conversation of a Russian citizen who was sent to Ukraine's east in December 2022
Quote from the Russian soldier: "We had to kill minors, women, everyone. Can you believe it? Instant elimination, like, "Just f**king shoot them". I'm ready [to do it], but to be honest, I was f**king shocked. They explained it all to us: doesn’t matter whether they’re fourteen, eighteen, or if it’s a girl – just kill them on the spot. Let's start the mop-up operation."
Details: The Russian soldier’s wife is not surprised by what her husband says. "What else could you do?" she replies. After all, she’s heard on TV that apparently, "all the civilians had already left".
The SSU stressed that the Ukrainian defenders, on their part, are making every effort to ensure that Russians "go home as quickly as possible and in body bags only," and the service itself is doing everything possible to bring all Russian war criminals to justice.
Background:
Earlier, the Russian organisation Gulagu.net posted videos in which Russian convicts from the Wagner Group confess to murdering Ukrainian children in Bakhmut and Soledar. According to one of the killers, unarmed 15-year-old Ukrainians "can hardly be called civilians".
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398240/
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Russia has repeatedly said that any settlement of the conflict must acknowledge the "realities" of its unilateral annexation of four Ukrainian provinces, which its armed forces partly control.
What do Russia and Ukraine say about the reasons behind the invasion?
Russia says it was forced to intervene in Ukraine in February last year to defend Russian speakers from persecution and to prevent the West using Ukraine to threaten Russia's security.
Kyiv and the West say these are baseless pretexts for a war of conquest in which thousands have been killed and Ukrainian cities have been devastated.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-739488
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Nope.
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Quote:I immediately thought of 6ixStringJack when I read: "It's almost as if Russia (and Trumptards) have managed to come up with a new formula for achieving premature death."
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nope.
Moscow has been grappling with a declining population for 30 years, but one demographic expert said this fact in and of itself is not actually the No. 1 problem that's crippling Russian societal advancement.
"It's possible for an aging and shrinking society to prosper," demographic and economic specialist Nicholas Eberstadt, who holds the Henry Wendt chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital. "But Russia is not doing that."
"They have a health crisis with … astonishingly high death rates for working-age men and even working-age women, and they also have a strange inability to harness their seemingly highly educated population to create knowledge and economic value," he said. "They have a crisis."
Experts are flummoxed when it comes to Russia’s high infertility rates and high death rates, particularly among men.
Eberstadt, who has monitored Russia’s declining population for decades and wrote a book in 2010 called "Russia’s Peacetime Demographic Crisis," explained that Russia has certain health factors, like alcoholism and dietary practices, that contribute to higher rates of top killers like heart disease.
But the expert said that these factors should equate to roughly twice the rate of deaths in Western Europe and not the rate currently seen in Russia, which is four times the mortality rate reported by its Western neighbors.
"So, what’s going on?" he said. "It's almost as if Russia has managed to come up with a new formula for achieving premature death."
More at https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-sees-historic-population-drop-spu
rring-demographic-crisis-amid-war-in-ukraine
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Eberstadt has one especially relevant to Trumptards: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition
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Russia's average age of death for men has risen from a low in the 50s (during the 1990s, thanks to capitalism) to the 70s, and birth rate has increased.
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Quote:Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia's average age of death for men has risen from a low in the 50s (during the 1990s, thanks to capitalism) to the 70s, and birth rate has increased.
War in Ukraine has aggravated a crisis that long predates the conflict
A DEMOGRAPHIC TRAGEDY is unfolding in Russia. Over the past three years the country has lost around 2m more people than it would ordinarily have done, as a result of war, disease and exodus. The life expectancy of Russian males aged 15 fell by almost five years, to the same level as in Haiti. The number of Russians born in April 2022 was no higher than it had been in the months of Hitler’s occupation. And because so many men of fighting age are dead or in exile, women now outnumber men by at least 10m.
War is not the sole—or even the main—cause of these troubles, but it has made them all worse. According to Western estimates, 175,000-250,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the past year (Russia’s figures are lower). Somewhere between 500,000 and 1m mostly young, educated people have evaded the meat-grinder by fleeing abroad. Even if Russia had no other demographic problems, losing so many in such a short time would be painful. As it is, the losses of war are placing more burdens on a shrinking, ailing population. Russia may be entering a doom loop of demographic decline.
The roots of Russia’s crisis go back 30 years. The country reached peak population in 1994, with 149m people. The total has since zig-zagged downwards. It was 145m in 2021 (that figure, from the UN, excludes the 2.4m people of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014 and incorporated into its national accounts). According to UN projections, the total could be just 120m in 50 years, if current patterns persist. That would make Russia the 15th-most-populous country in the world, down from sixth in 1995. According to Alexei Raksha, an independent demographer who used to work for the state statistics service, if you look just at peacetime years, the number of births registered in April 2022 was the lowest since the 18th century. April was a particularly cruel month, but it was a revealing glimpse of a chronic problem.
Population decline is not unique to Russia: most post-communist states have seen dips, though not like this. Their declines have been slow but also manageable. Russia’s population in recent decades has seen a precipitous slump, then a partial recovery (thanks to a period of high immigration from parts of the ex-Soviet Union and more generous child allowances after 2007), followed by a renewed fall.
According to the state statistics agency, in 2020 and 2021 combined the country’s population declined by 1.3m; deaths outstripped births by 1.7m. (The UN also shows a fall, but it is shallower.) The decline was largest among ethnic Russians, whose number, the census of 2021 said, fell by 5.4m in 2010-21. Their share of the population fell from 78% to 72%. So much for Mr Putin’s boast to be expanding the Russki mir (Russian world).
All this began before the war and reflects Russia’s appalling covid pandemic. The official death toll from the disease was 388,091, which would be relatively low; but The Economist estimates total excess deaths in 2020-23 at between 1.2m and 1.6m. That would be comparable to the number in China and the United States, which have much larger populations. Russia may have had the largest covid death toll in the world after India, and the highest mortality rate of all, with 850-1,100 deaths per 100,000 people.
If you add pandemic mortality to the casualties of war and the flight from mobilisation, Russia lost between 1.9m and 2.8m people in 2020-23 on top of its normal demographic deterioration. That would be even worse than during the disastrous early 2000s, when the population was falling by roughly half a million a year
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lol
It's funny when something comes along and makes you realize just how insignificant people like Second are.
Sad, sad little boy.
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Where do you get this sewage from, SECOND? Do you dredge the bottom of some septic tank?
Lifespan- up.
Birthrate - up
Immigration - up.
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Quote:Vladimir Putin’s Cronies Ordered Killing Of ‘Screaming 5-Year-Old Ukrainian Girl,’ Ex-Commanders Reveal In Stunning Video Confession
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol
It's funny when something comes along and makes you realize just how insignificant people are.
Alexei Savichev and Azamat Uldarov confessed in a video released on April 17, by the Russian human rights project Gulagu.net – stating that the orders to kill over 20 Ukrainian children and teenagers, along with 50 wounded prisoners – came from Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and unit chiefs.
Along with 50 wounded prisoners, over 20 teenagers and children were killed as a result.
One of the mercenaries claimed, “I shot a 5-year-old in the head,” and both asserted that Russian officers gave orders to “shoot without words,” and that this rule applied to anyone over the age of 15.
Savichev revealed his jaded view saying that he found it difficult to see 15-year-olds as civilians.
The two ex-convicts turned conscripts revealed that they were ordered to “mop up” and kill everyone, including senior citizens and children.
One of the places Uldarov helped “mop up” was the basement of a nine-story structure in Bakhmut, where they were responsible for the deaths of between 300 and 400 civilians, 40 of whom were children.
The orders allegedly came from Prigozhin, who demanded that all be killed without mercy in Bakhmut, and according to the killers, it was even worse in Soledar.
Uldarov, who was intoxicated throughout the video, claimed that Wagnerites do not take prisoners but instead executed Ukrainian soldiers, primarily by cutting their throats.
He added that when Prigozhin said “sledgehammer,” they would use a sledgehammer to kill them and that Prigozhin was a “horrible man.”
The mercenaries showed little regret for their criminal offenses in a 77-minute-long video, with Uldarov even stating that he wanted to continue fighting in the war, per Ukrainska Pravda.
https://knewz.com/vladimir-putins-cronies-ordered-killing-of-screaming
-5-year-old-ukrainian-girl-ex-commanders-reveal-in-stunning-video-confession/
Gulagu’s Osechkin, who is based in France, told CNN he stood by the content of his interviews with the two men, citing Uldarov’s retraction as proof of how quickly dissenting voices are silenced in Russia. Osechkin also claimed that both interviewees, Uldarov and Savichev, had been threatened with murder if they didn’t retract their statements to him.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/europe/wagner-ukraine-civilian-deaths-i
ntl/index.html
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