▲ 361 ▼ Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo (united24media.com) submitted 11 months ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz 50 comments fedilink hide all child comments Buying one way tickets to hell for Russian soldiers by selling off Russia's gold and treasure... What will be left when all the humans and gold have been carelessly traded away by Putin to power the mindless Russian war machine?
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (3 children) what if he dies before that? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] slampisko@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children) Someone exactly the same will take his place. The problem is in the system, not in the individual permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 child) This might not be exactly as bad as you think, the sycophants surrounding putin are in it for wealth, not to restore the soviet union (they do ofc play along, or get thrown off a balcony). So when he dies, after the power struggle, there is a big chance that we, the west, can leverage help vs "democracy" etc. Stopping the war ofc. And so on. The rich in Moscow gets to enjoy their super yachts and villas in Italy and their wifes shopping in Paris, in counterpart for dismantling their war machine. At least It's a possible scenario. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] figjam@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago There is always hope permalink fedilink source parent
[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children) Someone exactly the same will take his place. The problem is in the system, not in the individual permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 child) This might not be exactly as bad as you think, the sycophants surrounding putin are in it for wealth, not to restore the soviet union (they do ofc play along, or get thrown off a balcony). So when he dies, after the power struggle, there is a big chance that we, the west, can leverage help vs "democracy" etc. Stopping the war ofc. And so on. The rich in Moscow gets to enjoy their super yachts and villas in Italy and their wifes shopping in Paris, in counterpart for dismantling their war machine. At least It's a possible scenario. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] figjam@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago There is always hope permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 child) This might not be exactly as bad as you think, the sycophants surrounding putin are in it for wealth, not to restore the soviet union (they do ofc play along, or get thrown off a balcony). So when he dies, after the power struggle, there is a big chance that we, the west, can leverage help vs "democracy" etc. Stopping the war ofc. And so on. The rich in Moscow gets to enjoy their super yachts and villas in Italy and their wifes shopping in Paris, in counterpart for dismantling their war machine. At least It's a possible scenario. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] figjam@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago There is always hope permalink fedilink source parent
[–] figjam@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago There is always hope permalink fedilink source parent