[Ray20]

> They are advancing, sure, put look what they paid for to achieve this: 300k dead, 700k wounded, depletion of their souvereign wealth fund, 20%+ inflation, lower oil production and so on.

Russia is a totalitarian dictatorship led by the communist Putin. As if communist dictators care. Look at North Korea, it's just the results of an unremarkable year.

[jacquesm]

Putin is a lot but he is not a communist.

[Ray20]

He is literally a communist, and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until the very end of that party's existence.

[jacquesm]

I have a bridge to sell...

Putin is a kleptocrat and a murderer.