Mark Montgomery
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And there's no Veterans Affairs in Russia.
You're in a spiral of alcoholism and suicide pretty quick.
I mean, they are losing a chunk, a generational chunk.
of their population in this.
And I don't know if he's willing to push another 400,000 people down every year to have 100,000 to 150,000 killed, 150,000 to 200,000 wounded, and 50,000 come out with mental problems.
Because that's what he's getting for that 400,000 every year.
So when you ask me, can it last two or three years?
The question is, how much longer will Vladimir Putin subject his population to this?
And how much longer will they accept it?
That's what we can help.
Because he gets money by selling fossil fuels.
That's 40% of his national exports and income, right?
It's selling fossil fuels, which he does illegally against sanctions.
And we allow to happen.
And recently we pulled the waivers off of that.
So he's getting even more money for it.
But if we were to, and he takes the profits from that and he pays for two things with it.
Number one is 40% for the war machine.
And number two is 60% for what I call babushka payments, payments to the base, right?
So when you want to break the societal control, his society support for him, it's have him have to choose between the war and base payments.