• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    he lost under 1% of his population to the war

    This is not entirely accurate figure. The 1% is only the number of people confirmed dead by the independent sources like Mediazona. The number of people who are “missing in action” but just can’t be confirmed dead is staggeringly more than that. Also don’t forget that that’s mostly people of productive age and demographic, which skews the metrics a little. Also add to it all the people who left the country, which are also of the most productive demographics.

    That being said, Russia is big, and meat attacks could indeed go on for years. It will be devastating for Russia, but not for Putin.

    there’s probably worse than him coming next

    That’s the scary scenario, but there is also a bunch of boring technocrats that might be put in place by the oligarchy, which sounds great in comparison.