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		Sabinus on Nov 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted Russia has a 3x larger population and so far has had the luxury of being able to pay (relatively) extremely high wages to entice people to go.

sedan_baklazhan on Nov 19, 2024 [–]

Military wages are more or less the same. Russia has 3x more population but we're told that Russia suffers many times bigger losses vs ukrainian.

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