Well, there's also the possibility of Ukraine completely collapsing in the next 24 hours and Russia managing to establish control over all its territory, but that's pretty unlikely in a 24 hour time span.
Putin's the DSP of politicians clearly.
I mean the grippen is fine for what it is, unfortunately it's still really just an upgraded last gen fighter. Kind of like some of the later model sukhois, fine planes, but obsolete at birth in some ways. I do find it ironic that this now means both Canada and Finland will soon have more stealth aircraft than Russia.
The fact that the Russian economy has held up better than expected while the war has taken eons in Zoomer years was not the timeline I expected. The money it saved on asphalt is finally paying off. Speaking of which, the guy who claimed Russians hadn't seen running water before further clarifies:
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It's weird how this is an epic meme about how Russia's poor and shitty when there are roads in multiple US states and pretty much all of far northern Canada that are exactly like this.
I'd imagine even trying to maintain a basic 2-lane asphalt road in the rasputitsa is going to be ruinously expensive.
I doubt that, Ukraine suffers from that and we've clearly seen they have roads even with the mud. My guess is those pictures are the backest of back roads, that even in the US we would only bother to gravel over at best.
That population density sounds wonderful...the permafrost not so much.
Japanese Yen is actually cheap now because Bank of Japan decided instead of buying dollars like everyone else, they wanted to keep Yen low to increase inflation. It's a bargain sale for Japanese Yen for now. So yes, I still believe Dollars is a stable currency
Don't forget their massive strategic reserve of kamikaze geese. They can send wave after wave into the engine intakes of the enemy.
