Russian special military operation in Ukraine #25

caveat emptor wrote:
You are right. Eastern Europe, ex-Warsaw pact retirees have it worse, Eurozone situation is usually better the more you go to the north and in US is under a principle everyone for himself.
Due to how pension system functions, bad demographics put more strain on the system itself and retirees get shafted as you have decreasing number of workers contributing to system that has ever more retirees. Of course, cost of living inflation makes it even harder. Present working generations in countries with bad demographics are looking toward a world where they won't be able to retire till a very old age and their retirement payouts will be severely cut.

Backman wrote:Today, in the first half of the day, the Ukrainians have:

- shelled the city administration building in Kherson while a meeting was in session, also hitting the city center & random civilians

- assassinated the Prosecutor General of the LPR and his Deputy with a bomb in his office

- murdered the Deputy Mayor of Berdyansk and his wife

... while Moscow continues playing nice.

Erk wrote:

Stealthflanker wrote:

TMA1 wrote:Also stealthflanker have you asked yourself why it seems the west 8s so desperate to get Russia to mobilize?

Well i do tho.. if Russians do mobilize.. i think it's gonna be a WWIII. The pissed off Russians will finally shooting down NATO ISR's and ready nukes for some final showdown.

Then they wont need to mobilize, because ICBMs don't need an infantry.

Backman wrote:Today, in the first half of the day, the Ukrainians have:

- shelled the city administration building in Kherson while a meeting was in session, also hitting the city center & random civilians

- assassinated the Prosecutor General of the LPR and his Deputy with a bomb in his office

- murdered the Deputy Mayor of Berdyansk and his wife

... while Moscow continues playing nice.

SolidarityWithRussia wrote:An interesting Jimmy Dore video about the Kharkov offensive. He is one of the few decent political commentators on yt.

zorobabel wrote:Ukraine heavily shelled civilian targets inside Russia yesterday, killing civilians. I don't think Moscow is playing nice; I don't think the leadership knows what else to do.

SolidarityWithRussia wrote:An interesting Jimmy Dore video about the Kharkov offensive. He is one of the few decent political commentators on yt.
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Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Mass grave found in Izyum
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/mass-grave-more-than-440-bodies-found-izium-ukraine-police-2022-09-15/

thegopnik wrote:if anyone gets tired of doomer posters you can periodically check whats going on here instead. https://twitter.com/ILRUSSO1/status/1570819116789006336

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Mass grave found in Izyum
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/mass-grave-more-than-440-bodies-found-izium-ukraine-police-2022-09-15/

caveat emptor wrote:

thegopnik wrote:if anyone gets tired of doomer posters you can periodically check whats going on here instead. https://twitter.com/ILRUSSO1/status/1570819116789006336

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh

You do understand that all these postings are just filtered and recycled content from Russian tg groups? I don't think anyone here is a doomer. People are just not happy with the direction of operation. Mostly due to political decisions.

zorobabel wrote:AFU crossed the Oskol and have taken control of eastern Kupyansk and are moving south toward Borovaya: https://t.me/boris_rozhin/64143

ALAMO wrote:

caveat emptor wrote:
Situation is especially hard for retired people, as they were basically thrown under the bus. Pensions are very low, sub 20K.
While, in the West, pensions are also lower than average salary, at least they had a chance to save for rainy days, which was not the case in

Well my friend, I have no idea where you get your sugar vision of the "West" pension reality, but I will tell you a secret : it is not what you think.
First, there is a huge difference in so called "West" and you can't compare them as one.
Second, the chance for "saving for rainy days" is a sick joke only.
The savings are deliberately targeted by the inflation in front of your eyes.
All the investment funds are bringing return rates lower than the real inflation level.
It is not a coincidence.
In my country, people's savings have been "nationalized" twice already since the whole reform started in 1999 only.
I have lost tens of thousands of euros being "reassigned" for the nationwide insurance company, where those exist as empty numbers only.
Nobody will see a cent of that capital, still, the capital was real. Every employer transferred real money to the individual accounts. Our govt just ordered transferring that money - more than PLN150 BILLION, approx. 40 bln euro when that was carried out.
Stolen. As easy as that.
Inheritance is non existing in reality.
We are not an exceptional case, you know.
Even in relatively well-tailored German system, they struggle with the pensions being lower and lower.
My friend retired from a position of police officer in rank equal to captain (no idea what it is called in Germany, never asked) five years ago.
If he would keep working for a month longer, new rules would be applied to him, slashing his pension BY HALF.
The German booming pensioners are long gone, they are trying to stay alive at the moment.
What is called a replacement rate - an average percentage of your salary becoming your pension - is getting lower and lower in the whole Europe.
By 2060, it will reach the 25% (!!!) average for the EU.
It is only 38 years ahead, a perspective that every young person starting a career now will hit.
Sometimes it is really good to check the facts.
It might turn out, that the grass is more green at the neighbours lawn only from a far perspective

Podlodka77 wrote:
I am ashamed that this "mountaineer" is my countryman. Alamo, you'll sooner reach the next nearest star than explain anything to him. A complete idiot...