well, numbers are one thing. how people adapt is another thing. i don't like or agree with russian politics or how they operate, but reality is that russia do adapt. this is something that most countries do unless they are these shitholes in africa or middle east that never will function at all regardless. it has a lot to do with culture, and this is something we never hear or really talk about. russians adapt and accept because most of russia is a very simple life and with very little luxury. you have moscow and st.petersburg along with some other major cities, but if you look at russia as a whole, it is not exactly monaco or beverly hills.  so when you have a population who is used to hard times and a lifestyle that is pretty shitty looked from our point of view, it is easier to accept and adapt, than for instance wealthy countries that really have not had much problems. hell most problems western countries have had for decades are luxury problems. shit like, we cant buy the car brand we want, or live in that specific neighborhood or that our home is not as modern or big as we wanted.  we have tv shows here where news interview people who lives in houses, drive brand new cars, wearing nice clothes and shit, and complain about how hard it is for them to pay the bills because of this and that, when the solution would be to sell the car and buy a cheap one (just to make an example) in the long term i dont think it will go well for russia. times will get harder and people will have less and less. this is just common sense and basic economy. but i don't think that russia is going to crumble and fall apart and turn into this apocalyptic place the way media tend to portray its future.  thing is that hard times create stronger people. good times create weaker people. this was basically rome in a nutshell. they had everything, and then things started to float. same thing that sadly has happened here in the west.
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