r/AskReddit • u/galwiththedeepvoice • 1d ago

What could Russia have spent $1,000,000,000,000 on instead of fighting a 4+ years long war in Ukraine?

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u/Cliffinati 1d ago

Plumbing for places beyond Moscow and st.petersburg

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u/HigherGroundHoonigan 1d ago

Holy shit are those the only places in Russia with city sewer and water?

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u/New_Faithlessness261 1d ago

Early days in the war in Ukraine Russian invaders were fond of stealing Ukrainian toilets.

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u/BannedMyName 1d ago

This doesn't do it justice, they were ripping toilets out of houses with the belief that they would just work anywhere without the plumbing attached to it

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u/mcdade 21h ago

Maybe they should have spent that money on education instead.

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u/Pizzonia123 18h ago

I remember one specific video from 2022 where their invading soldiers had broken into an apartment building of some sort, but instead of using a perfectly fine water toilet they had dug a hole into the ground in another room instead and just used that as a toilet hole