Which brings to mind my idea for regime change in russia. Here me out here, first of all, we engineer an alcohol shortage, we sabotage their vodka refineries, (said to personally be owned by putin, which is traditional going back to the tsars,) and the rest. Then when the people are in a clamour in a sober fury, we hack into the state tv broadcast and submit a deepfake of Putin asking why the people just don’t drink Champagne if the vodka is out.
Not really. I don’t live in Russia at the moment, but I know the context pretty well. The percentage of people who can afford that kind of stuff is insignificant; lots of people live close to or below the bare minimum.
Now, there will be a small % that can afford delicacies, but I wonder if those people really would spend 40% on food only.
Living a life of luxury then. Wining and dining on Bordeaux, Camembert, caviar, little tongue-teasers. Mad Vlad is really taking care of his people.
Maybe if they’d quit eating all that avacado toast every morning.
Stop buying rotisserie chicken and maybe they could afford something other than food /s
Which brings to mind my idea for regime change in russia. Here me out here, first of all, we engineer an alcohol shortage, we sabotage their vodka refineries, (said to personally be owned by putin, which is traditional going back to the tsars,) and the rest. Then when the people are in a clamour in a sober fury, we hack into the state tv broadcast and submit a deepfake of Putin asking why the people just don’t drink Champagne if the vodka is out.
Alcoholism is not the source of a problem, but the symptom. (Although in my personal opinion, people of course should drink less, not just in Russia)
Not really. I don’t live in Russia at the moment, but I know the context pretty well. The percentage of people who can afford that kind of stuff is insignificant; lots of people live close to or below the bare minimum. Now, there will be a small % that can afford delicacies, but I wonder if those people really would spend 40% on food only.
That comment was probably satire.
Ah! 😅 But you never know, I sometimes encounter the most weird statements about Russia.
…or maybe I just can’t detect the sarcasm:)
Its probably a mix of both. Its always interesting to see what kind of statements get thrown around regarding russia