Putin Is Destroying Russia And Is Too Stupid To Understand

[DanieRains]

Ukraine will rebuild.

Putin won't be able to steal anything anymore.

Russia's poor will suffer for decades. Generations. Fools.

Just drain all the oligarchs loot and transfer it to Ukraine.

Russia won't recover.

[onecaliberal]

1. It's true. One in four doesn't have indoor plumbing now.

[elleng]

2. He's not stupid, he like others of his 'ilk' is self-absorbed,

to say the least.

[PdamnedQ]

3. Quite simply, lack of common wealth, or the notion of, is leading to their end.

Consider this;

Wealth (including getting natural resources out of the ground and making them available) is created through creative effort, innovation, industriousness. Any people, left free and with their individual rights (to life, rightly-earned property, and pursuit of their own interests) protected by objective law, administered by a just government, will steadily improve their lot. They will become wealthy.

People free to keep what they earn create more.

Take away or control by force what they earn and people create less.

The system that protects people's freedom, the system under which all property, including money, is private, and the government's ONLY role is the defense of individual rights through police force, judicial system, and defense force, is called Laissez-faire Capitalism.
It has never existed, though a few places have come close. The United States in the 19th century and Hong Kong throughout its history are two (imperfect) examples.

In short, the degree of economic wealth a nation creates is proportionate to the degree of economic and political freedom its people enjoy.

Even partial freedom works wonders. The liberation of China's markets in the last three decades, and the subsequent economic boom, is testament to that. Russia itself has seen a massive improvement in living standards since the break-up of the completely anti-freedom USSR.

Russia spent its first several centuries under Tzarist Feudalism, then suffered the disaster of Marxism, and now labours under an increasingly despotic crony-fascism. Economic and political freedom was limited under the Tzars, completely absent under the Marxists, and is metered arbitrarily at the whim of the ruling elite now.

Russians, despite their wealth of learning and a rich history of scientific and artistic achievement, have never really been free, economically or politically.

What wealth has been created is concentrated in the hands of a corrupt ruling elite. That has been the case in Russia for pretty much its entire history.

[PdamnedQ]

4. Pardon me.

I cut and pasted this from a doctoral forum that I am in.

I wish I knew who the actual candidate, that is saying this is; but a light went on, so I decided to share.

[NJCher]

10. That offers perspective

Two of my girlfriends are Russian scholars— one of history, the other the Russian language.
The former would just shake her head and say “centuries of bad government.”

They just can’t get the hang of it.

[roamer65]

5. Let the Japanese retake the Kuril Islands.

Let China retake Outer Mongolia.

Only way to deal with Russia is to break it up.

[PdamnedQ]

6. You might want to pack a lunch.

[roamer65]

7. Yeah. Gonna be a long war.

We are only in 1914 right now, by comparison.

[PdamnedQ]

8. 99% of the entire world's population just want to go home and kiss their family

But, then there is that 1% that think that families are unnecessary.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

9. IMHO, I think he's dying and doesn't care how many others die when he destroys the world

[Pluvious]

11. Not to mention that NATO will be...

Bigger, stronger, and more committed than ever