The 1.5 million figure is the tell. Demobilizing that many men with no war to justify them means returning veterans to an economy that has been running on defense spending and to a public that was told the sacrifice had a purpose.

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Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto: They will reach 1.5 million military personnel.So if the war ended tomorrow,what would Putin do with 1.5 million soldiers? He himself would face internal problems if he stopped the war tomorrow morning.

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Putin already had a limited economy with no real width, due to his autocratic nature. He didn’t want businesses that could leave Russia. He only ever supported ones that relied on the good graces of the state to survive. That is part of why Russia’s GDP is so tiny for its size.

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was going down a castle rabbit hole last night and one video began like this so I had to throw my television into the river of Styx, as I'm sure you will understand

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Right? Thank you. I feel crazy reading these articles. Like, do you want your house to connect to roads and electricity and have emergency services and the value of being in a school district.... Do people just forget grade school civics at 70?

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