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Posted on 07/20/2025 2:29:29 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Russia has one of the world’s highest divorce rates — 60% higher than the United States’.
Its abortion rate is more than twice that of Ukraine’s.
Barely 1% of the population attended Christmas services last year.
And at the center of it all sits the Russian Orthodox Church, less a religious institution than a state-security affiliate.
When Tucker Carlson mourned the fate of Ukraine’s Moscow Patriarchate, he left out two crucial details.
First, it is Russia — not Ukraine — that has damaged or destroyed more than 600 houses of worship since 2014.
And second, Ukraine isn’t banning religion; it’s evicting spies. In the middle of a war, who can blame Kyiv for trying to ensure priests are serving God, not the FSB?
The collective West accounts for roughly half of global gross domestic product. Russia makes up less than 2%. It’s no superpower — just a declining empire throwing a tantrum.
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Russia always goes after civilians.
Russia occupies half the Ukrainian territory now than it did in 2022. Attacking civilians with drones and cruise missiles is all they have left.
Cheers!
Andrew Chakhoyan, WEF, JFK school of Government.
“GDP”
The Russians eat three meals a day generally.
They send their kids to school for about the same number of years.
Russians don’t walk around barefoot 11 months of the year.
Far more than 1/12th of Russians needing a surgical operation get an operation.
Tell Putin to stop aborting 30% of Russia’s unborn children.
Tell Putin to stop aborting 30% of Russia’s unborn children.
“Russia always goes after civilians.”
“The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com › world
May 18, 2025 — The value of weapons Ukraine’s defense industry can make has ballooned from $1 billion in 2022 to $35 billion over three years of war.”
via Google
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Ukraine is probably the fourth largest arms producer in the world, after the United States, the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China.
In WWII, the US converted auto and other factories into arms plants.
Russia almost certainly searches out:
1. CNC machine tools and takes them and the buildings housing them out of war production,
2. computers used to fight the war and blasts them and the buildings housing them into bits,
3. drone electronics and cell phones used to fight the war and blasts the buildings housing them into bits.
All Ukrainian war production & management should be moved out of Ukrainian cities and into small buildings dispersed deep in conifer forests far from Russian missile and drone bases.
The Ukrainian cellphone and Internet systems should be taken out of service so the Russians can’t use them for targeting.
“January 13, 2025
“Russia’s ‘Year Of The Family’ Has Meant A War On Abortion And Divorce”
“women visiting medical clinics to get abortions now receive advice against it or find the procedure is repeatedly delayed under fabricated pretexts.”
[divorce]
“If it becomes law, couples would also be required to undergo “reeducation” in cases where they have underage children, or where one spouse wants to preserve the marriage while the other does not.”
https://www.rferl.org/a/33273068.html
Great article. Putin’s armchair fan club would be wise to open their minds and consider the many facts presented. Putin’s Russia is corrupt, fake and Potemkin.
The average Russian diet is garbage. Cheap and fatty cuts of meat. Canned/frozen vegetables, pizza, high fat dairy, etc. The buckwheat is healthy, though.
And the alcohol.
The 30% abortion rate in Russia isn’t “nuanced”. It’s a fact.
Learn to read.
Please provide documentation for your "fact."
Also Putin made Kabaeva abort her last pregnancy because the baby was a girl instead of a boy.
Putin reportedly not happy ex-gymnast lover Alina Kabaeva is pregnant with another daughter
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