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Warpy

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4. Kind of a dangerous way to get money
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 05:53 PM
20 hrs ago

since some of those guys will eventually come home and they'll all be damaged either physuically or (worse) mentally. The former will require a tremendous amount of physical care the state sure won't give them and the later will likely be dangerous to anyone near them, years of brutalization having taken a toll by themselves, never mind the stresses of losing a war.

Some of those ;"black widows" are going to find themselves paying a very heavy price. So will Russia, itself, as it slowly realizes it lacks the manpower neessary to rebuild its infrastructure, sometimes from the ground up, and that all those missing men are not going to be around to marry and have kids to provide the next generation of workers.

I would love to know what Putin will be called by future historians. I just hope the name is bestowed by women.

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