While Putin spends billions on war, the country’s population is drowning. A dam has burst in Russia, and people are barely escaping on rooftops

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1. Russian energy infrastructure malfunctioning, a dam bursting. Don’t want to gloat, but it’s a funny coincidence after everything Russia has been doing in Ukraine.

2. Another one? Guess that bad karma’s catching up to them.

3. Hmm, what a funny coincidence indeed. All these troubles started right after fascist russia attacked Ukraine.

4. Russia: let’s blow up dams in Ukraine

   Nature: hold my beer

5. this is at least number three so far this year

   only surprising thing is that I haven’t heard anything about forest fires engulfing towns yet this year

6. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

7. I opened the article, and the ads inserted by the internet magic were for the US government refugee partnership/sponsorship program

   >**Be a welcomer!** You can be a bridge for people seeking refuge.

   Nothing of substance, but the contrast is striking.

   On a more serious note, does Russia not have dam inspectors, warning systems, spillover channels, etc? Or is this the truly rare storm that overwhelms even well prepared systems?

8. Who has sympathy for a nation of cruel slaves?

9. Don’t make fun of these people or you’ll get a warning from Reddit like I did. But yeah, fuck Russia

10. Rusky mir.

11. Lol, if the suffering of the people had any effect on russian rulers the last 400 years of world history would be very different.