Russia DID great under Putin...that's reason you rooineks and yankees were disappointed with him,
you wanted early 1990s back, with your oligarchs plundering weak Russia
But you miscalculated, and now China fast-forwarded like 10 years and will surpass USA even faster
Btw, if Russia could do much with money spent on war, ask her what could USA do with 2000 000 millions USD
spent in Afghanistan...last I heard USA has even worse public services than Russia
https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/326529-new-york-versus-moscow
Russia did (past tense) well under Putin for some people and it should have been doing better, so guess who made a mistake? Hint: there has only been one leader in Ruzzia for decades, at least in democracies you can blame the other guy.
I cannot thank you enough for making the point for me: I have no doubt that Moscow Metro is faring fantastically, the problem is the rest of the "Ruzzian World":
Meanwhile Ruzzian toilet (outside Moscow, of course)

30,000,000 people in Russia are not connected to centralized sewage systems –despite living in the digital age and in an allegedly developed country.In a special project, our partner outlet Novaya Gazeta reveals how about a fifth of the Russian population gets by without access to indoor plumbing and the devastating impact this has on the environment.
https://hromadske.ua/en/posts/russia-is-struggling-with-a-shitty-problem-literallyI guess they should go and poo in Moscow's Metro.
See, people are very confused in America, they are ok with the New York metro, even the toilets. Why are they not going to Moscow?
People risking their lives to get INTO the US:
People risking their lives to get OUT OF Ruzzia:
Now to back to what matters:
- French instructors will be working in Ukraine.
- US likely to give the go ahead to the use of ATACAMS inside Ruzzian territory. Lost of new military target to be "welcome to be in range" at any moment.
- The number of Ruzzian soldiers put out of action has been consistently superior to 1000 a day for the last weeks, with nearly nothing to show as progress nor any particular change of the strategic situation. This is throwing 100 dollar bills to the fire for heating.[...]
The Ukrainian officer also noted that that "there are no grenades for throwing in training centers, and there are no grenade launcher rounds in the training center."
[...]
Training with grenades does not require live munition.
At least they have toilet, unlike 300 000 people in San Francisc shitting on streets each day, so much that they