"Esli by tol'ko bylo dostatochno poter nogu..."

Yeah, they'd just send that soldier to the its death on crutches.

At least 300 billion, that's known. Or 600 billion, if you count the money frozen by western countries. That's how much money they had in their development fund in early 2022, and all of that is now used.

But then, there are the preferential loans: The Russia needs cheap weapons, and that requires factories to sell their weapons far under the production costs. In order to enable that, the Russia has enacted a law that requires all commercial banks to give low-interest loans without any cautions to military industry. Those loans are not used for investing into anything, but only for paying for the workers' salaries. That money will never be paid back to banks and apparently almost all the money of all commercial banks has been already used that way. So, you should add all the money any Russians have saved in their bank accounts in the number. I have no idea if that's in tens or hundreds of billions.

It is not yet visible in the budgets, but eventually all Russian banks will go bankrupt because of that, and then it becomes a cost for the state. It is, de facto, money used by the Russian Federation as well. And it's a lot.

I'd guess about one trillion dollar should be quite close to correct number if you also count the frozen assets and the preferential loans.

Well, commandeering all the money from all bank accounts of people living in the Russia is quite a radical way to fund upgrades for a country. It will cause an unavoidable banking crisis that will destroy the country's economy.

But 600 billion did indeed exist in cash and gold in early 2022. That could indeed have been used in the way you describe. But Putin had other plans.

Not terribly much, actually. At least if it kicks the bucket relatively soon.

In that case, JD Vance will automatically become the president, which is a horrible thing itself, but since he won't be able to consolidate power very efficiently, there's a good chance there will be presidential elections around when the 2025 presidential term ends, and then a president gets voted in, just as always.

Of course, that will either mean that a lot of Republicans will end up in jail. And if that does not happen, the whole political system will lose its credibility and all of USA gets massively destabilised.

But there are rules and if the new leadership bothers following them, things will roll as well or badly as they were rolling until 2024.

There is a group in Fecesbook about the war in Ukraine and the Russia. It is the most up-to-date and best-curated information source regarding the war, so I will follow that group until the war is finally over.

There's also a Finnish group for people travelling ecologically. I regularly browse questions people are posing there and if I'm the only one who knows a good answer, I write one. That group now has a sister community here on Forumverse, and any new content I want to write, I write in that comm instead of the Fecesbook group.

Otherwise I am outside all commercial social media. I do not have a google account, so I browse Youtube without login if I browse it. And typically using Tubular as my client program.

Some nonbinary people express as whatever they have always expressed. They might be okay with their colleagues referring to them according to how they express, but feel seen and respected if their nonbinarity is taken into account.

I would interpret "nonbinary leabian" as a person who has always expressed as female and at some point understood that they are actually nonbinary and who likes female traits attractive and male traits unattractive in a potential partner.

FluffyChat still doesn't support showing threads as threads. I'd recommend using something that does. Basically Element.

Although, I will absolutely switch to FluffyChat once it properly supports threads!

Nokia's leadership style grew increasingly more and more authoritarian. And disconnected from the user experience, or even dev experience. I don't think there's really something like that happening in EU nor Fediverse.

Stopping that deal would have made the world a lot better place, actually! N9 was awesome, and during the first half a year of Windows Phone based Nokia phones, N9 sold more than all of those combined. Even though N9 was never advertised anywhere at all!

It was simply a killer product that people wanted to use so much that no advertising was necessary.

They just always begin with the apple, not with flour or baking table or somesuch. You're adding the flour into a bowl that is... Next to the apple.