Putin is afraid to force people into service too often. When he mobilized a lot of Russian men left the country, to avoid the draft. So he instead pays a massive sign up bonus to get men into combat. However the economy has worker shortages already, unemployment is nearly gone, massive emigration due to migrants and young Russians trying to avoid the draft, lack of new migrants coming to Russia and low birth rates for decades mean that wages go up everywhere. So sign up bonuses are high. That is two years of the average Russian salary already.

So in a way he is forced to pay. The alternative might hurt the economy even worse.

Slovakia has a far right president too. So not too much of a surprise. Melania Trump is Slovenian, so that might be it. Bulgarian politics is just nuts.

The problem with Trump is that he is loud and slightly crazy. That just does not work well with German post WW2 culture. If somebody calmer would run, that would be a different story though.

Considering the number of high ranking older Republicans, who support Harris, that really does not mean that much. Seriously Dick Cheney supports Harris these days.

Zusätrlich spart man auch noch eine Menge Geld und braucht dadurch weniger zu Arbeiten. Eine Wohnung für zwei Personen ist halt nicht viel teurer als für eine, auch im Unterhalt und für die Einrichtung. Man kann sich auch sonst oft viel teilen.

First of all 40 times longer

There is always a bit of unemployment, due to people switching jobs.

Sign up bonuses are hitting above $30k right now, with pretty good pay and death bonus. Everybody willing to join the war, even for money probably sign up. So they have to force people, which leads to men fleeing the country.

Russia has been a country growing due to migrants. However due to the war propaganda being more and more far right, that means the government has to act on it. So they crack down on migrants, while lacking workers.

Russia has massive financial problems right now, while secondary sanctions hit foreign trade. That means more workers are needed, as Russia can no longer buy as many foreign goods.

However looking at casualties is a good metric to see, how much danger Russia will be in the future. Together with migration problems, this is very likely shrinking their future population by 10% or more, compared to never having launched the full scale invasion.

No worries the Russian government is already solving the butter situation. They just started importing butter from the UAE.

https://www.interfax.ru/russia/989968

Prune602 unfortunatly on Twitter writes up on the Russian economy on a regular bases. Here is a pretty decent thread on inflation: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1841884096655720630.html

Russia has 29.57million men between 20-50. So 700k are 2.37% casulties of that group. That is using Russian demographic statistics, which are probably wrong, due to people leaving Russia on mass.

And everybody knows that total market includes fossil fuel and arms companies. That is why there are ESG funds, which do exclude the really nasty companies. Those are pretty easy to buy and can also cover a large field of investments. She has lobbied for divestement from fossil fuels, so she should very much be aware that those options are around, while this has been pointed out for nearly a decade. So really no excuse for that.

How the hell can the presidential candidate of the Green Party own a MILLION DOLLARS OF OIL AND GAS SHARES? How can you complain about Israel murdering children in Gaza, when you own shares in Raytheon, which sells and produces weapons for and in Israel?

That they will be used as standard infantry. If they would be guards or non combat they would get worse gear. As specialized soldiers, they would get tanks, artillery or whatever. Also it is Russian gear and not North Korean.

In other words they will be used for human wave attacks.

The laws have been passed, it is just that they will start 2026.

Exports also profit benefits to the country exporting. It is very much part of how a country operates. That is why China is calling the EU to stop the carbon tariff CBAM, as it would hurt Chinese exports.

Just look index@sh.itjust.works post history. It is not worth it.

Who do you think is a viable politician, who can win the presidential election next Tuesday and bans private jets and yachts?

The difference is that the Biden line keeps all of Biden’s climate laws and the Trump line kills them. So this is not including any climate laws Harris might introduce, however the difference until 2030 between both scenarios is about the annual emissions of the EU and Japan combined! Biden has a lot of flaws, but he has done some actually large scale positive climate action.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030/

Because production based emissions also have value. Countries can exports products, which have been made with cleaner or less energy and that in total reduces emissions. If they import products from other dirtier countries though, it can look like they are much worse.

Also it is much easier to calculate. You only need data from a single country and do not have to look at supply chains. For energy it is pretty much (fossil fuel production + fossil fuel imports - fossil fuel exports) * emissions factor. It also is a pretty decent proxy, as a lot of emissions are local. Electricity production, transport and most products are made within the country in most cases.

When the war started pretty much every European military placed some massive orders. So new production mostly did not go to Ukraine. But a lot of weapons are domestic and built in a large quantity. Also not everything from the stockpiles was send to Ukraine. That is just too risky.

So long enough to scale up production and use the EUs large economy.

Europe has quite a bit in place to defend itself without the US. Something like a million soldiers with some pretty good equipment and training. There are issues, but the EU could defend itself fairly well without the US. It is just that having the most powerfull military behind you makes things a lot easier. The problem is that this makes things easier and the US has a massive intresst in looking strong(Taiwan for example).