Various officials have pledged to scale back traditional holiday festivities and fireworks displays in order to purchase military equipment to supply Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
For those who don't know, New Year's in Russia is like Christmas in the west.
Russia is speedrunning their way to North Korea-level global pariah and I'm all for it.
They won't recover from this for decades upon decades. By then their tech will be 60 years behind the rest of the world. As it stands, it's already 30.
I mean the Tin-Man didn't have a heart and he wasn't a total ass. The literature is inconsistent in that area. We have to work with the metaphors we have at our disposal.