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After this absolutely meaningless war, longer than was WW2 for the Soviet Union, launched light-heartedly by Putin, but with unnecessary tensions and unfriendly moves leading to the war made by both sides, Russia and Ukraine will (if the war ends w/o the use of nuclear weapons) boast at the end of the war the following results. ● About 2 million killed and disabled citizens in total, mostly males which will additionally destabilize gender balance that was already bad. ● Destroyed large parts of infrastructure (heating plants, refineries, warehouses, roads, bridges), and also hospitals and schools, Most of it inherited from socialism which did build things that current regimes have a pleasure to destroy. ● Openly crazy nationalist regimes whose main educational task is to twist history in a pro-fascist direction--while, unlike socialist education, not providing any uplifting and positive message re. the future: ideologies of gloom and hopelessness, of soil and blood. ● In addition to the military losses, both countries will lose millions of citizens who will emigrate for good. ● They would lose best actors, physicists, writers, AI specialists, doctors. In many areas the damage will take two or three decades of peace just to be fixed. ● Ukraine will remain an armed camp, with half of its pre-war population only, and with most of its valuable assets owned by foreigners. It will be part of the EU with constant fights there arguing that no economic aid will ever be a sufficient compensation for Ukraine's human sacrifice. ● Its ideology & art will be extremely nationalistic, with probably being the only country in Europe officially celebrating Nazi fighters. ● Russia will remain for a long time totally cut off (economically, politically and culturally) from Europe which is its natural cultural milieu. It would produce art of ersatz nationalist quality compared to which socialist realism could be considered a top artistic creation. ● Its proponents will mouth-off nonsensical things about Christian values while murder rates, domestic violence, abortion and alcoholism will be at all-time European and Asian peaks. ● Both countries will decline demographically, economically, politically and culturally. And given low population growth rates, it does not seem that they would recover any time soon (I am speaking of half-a-century or more and assuming no new wars). So enjoy the continued war!

Il City non ha ancora ricevuto le garanzie per il riscatto di Akanji. Calciatore, che già aveva fatto una settimana di ferie prima di Bologna-Inter, sarebbe dovuto rientrare con Bonny Sucic e Chalanoglu. Ma è assente....