Casulties are all soldiers who can no longer fight, due to being killed, captured, injured or something else. At least in military jargon it does.
Anybody who claims to be as far left as they come, tends to be not very fed up on USA propaganda. They also do not tend to be Russian stock puppets.
Could it be that you are a Stalinist or something similar and have a deep hatred for democracy? Cause no electoral collage is more democratic and having senat elections is also more democratic then having them indirectly elected by the state legislators.
Obviously this changes the electoral landscape a lot, as presidental candidates no longer just have to care about voters in a few states, but the entire country. Again making it more democratic. It would also give the Democrats an advantage, but not an insane one. It however does give Republican voters in blue states and Democrat voters in red states a voice as well, instead of being ignored.
Russia is pretty close to turn a three day war into a three year one.
Moscow started offering 1.9million rubel in July, now Belgorod goes to 3million rubel a few months later. That is a more then 50% increase within 3 months. It is also not just a token amount, but multiple years worth of average Russian salary.
So no it is not sustainable as Russia has to raise rates and it shows very clearly how much Russian men actually support the war. It also is not as cheap, as offering high salaries in the military, means all other employers have to compete with higher salaries as well. That obviously causes a lot more problems.
Russian lifes are no longer this cheap. Average pay is 63,000 rubel per month and median pay 42,000 rubel. So 4-6 years depending on how you look at it.
They unfortunatly just give their wealth to their children.
That is why renewables replacing fossil fuels is so important. As soon as an industry looses its profit margin, it starts to loose political power as well.
Solar panels, trains, wind turbines, bicycles and so forth all have to be made and they usually turn a profit. There are also a lot of positive site benefits of a lot of climate solutions.
This is not to say fossil fuels do not employee a lot of people and fixing climate change is going to hurt people, but it is not as simple as having no benefits.
In the US it starts in 1985, which is about a decade after the Vietnam war, which obviously hit men a lot worse then women.
For Germany it was a similar thing. Conscription to fight in the potential war within Germany. So a decent chance of having to fight and die.
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