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Russian consumers feel themselves in a tight spot as high inflation persists (apnews.com)

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 61 points 11 months ago

You know who else feel themselves in a tight spot? Russia's victims. Fuck Russia.

[-] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 41 points 11 months ago

“It is simply impossible to solve the issue of inflation in conditions ... when the military-industrial complex receives unlimited funding, when everything they ask for is given to them, when the share of this military-industrial complex in the economy grows at a very rapid pace,”

Fuck Putin and his stupid war. It's always the masses that suffer.

[-] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

The masses are pretty okay with the war, though. Not happy, but certainly not disgruntled enough to do something either.

[-] janAkali@lemmy.one 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There've been protests, riots, violent acts of protest at draft centers. This just doesn't get as much coverage as Putin's or US propaganda.

It's not that masses not disgruntled enough. It's just almost nothing people can do to stop the war. Would you do something stupid and worthless, when even a social media post can and will cost you portion of your life in prison?

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Russia has a population is around 140 million... As for now around 300000 Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed. That's like... 0.2% of the Russian population. With a father, mother, sibling, wife and friends affected with a wounded or killed Russian soldier the percentage of involuntarily negatively affected people would reach beyond 1%.

How big were the wild protests did you say? Did 20% of the population take part in protesting, maybe not because of the innocent people if Ukraina but for the extreme amount of casualties affecting Russian families in this unprovoked aggression? No? Not 20%?

10%?

5%?

Maybe we should just conclude that the majority of the Russian people are not willing to sacrifice anything of their own for the sake of justice...

Because that's where democracy and justice most often starts:

You sacrificing something that benefits you for the rights and/or justice of another person.

[-] T4UTV1S@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I think it's funny that you think any country will have even 5% of their population actually come out and protest ANYTHING.

I did some googling and in the US, the 2017 women's march was the largest march in US history with a whopping... 1.7% population participation.

And yes, there are some protests that had a big portion of their populations come out. Take 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. Roughly 2 million people came out and protested, roughly over a quarter of the population. And you know what happened? Nothing. People were beaten, died, and China still got Hong Kong. And this was while there was still some local control of HK. Keep in mind, this is a people DEFENDING THEIR COUNTRY from an effective HOSTILE TAKEOVER and they got a quarter. A war taking .2%? Even if 1% were impacted, there's no shot people are going to risk protesting when the world is doing that for them.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

I think it's funny that you failed to understand what I wrote and couldn't let go of the 5 percent.....

[-] interceder270@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Freedom isn't free.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Sadly the people in Russia won't rise as long as they can buy one loaf of bread.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Russia’s Central Bank has raised its key lending rate four times this year to try to get inflation under control and stabilize the ruble’s exchange rate as the economy weathers the effects of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine and the Western sanctions imposed as a consequence.

The last time it raised the rate — to 15%, doubled that from the beginning of the year — the bank said it was concerned about prices that were increasing at an annualized pace of about 12%.

Figures from the state statistical service Rosstat released on Nov. 1 show a huge spike in prices for some foods compared with 2022 — 74% for cabbage, 72% for oranges and 47% for cucumbers.

The Russian parliament has approved a 2024-2026 budget that earmarks a record amount for defense spending.

Maxim Blant, a Russian economy analyst based in Latvia, sees that as an indication that prices will continue to rise sharply.

“It is simply impossible to solve the issue of inflation in conditions ... when the military-industrial complex receives unlimited funding, when everything they ask for is given to them, when the share of this military-industrial complex in the economy grows at a very rapid pace,” he told The Associated Press.

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[-] Damage@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago

Who doesn't

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Fuck ‘em.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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