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That's true, however I've spent 17 years in a countryside and I'm regularly visiting it. Also, urban population rate in Russia is quite high (at 75%) and 1M+ cities are around 30% to 40% of total pop.
The media made all kinds of groundless prophecies especially at the beginning of the war when everyone, including Putin, were clueless. But now it should be obvious to everybody that it's going to be a very long war and nobody has any idea as to how it ends, and whether Putin's death will actually end it.[0]
[0] He's much older than the average life expectancy for men in Russia (which is probably around 63 years now) and ill but with expert medical care he might still live for another 10-15 years, one just might wonder how it would affect his brain.
True. I'm just observing all this wishful thinking and imagining the future me reading the headlines in say 12 to 18 months. This stuff is literal gold for contrarians like me.
Why give your money back to a company that treated you like that? It's not that Hetzner is doing this because they care about victims, war, etc., no, it's purely political, as they will not be terminating contracts with American or Israeli citizens. So if I were a Russian client of Hetzner, that would be the last place I'd put my money into.
Hetzner isn't doing this for political reasons, they are doing this because there are active sanctions against Russia which the German authorities take serious enough that if you are found to be breaking those sanctions you may be fined, go to jail or both. No such sanctions exist against American or Israeli citizens.
