Putin’s interpreter was recorded saying in Chinese to Xi. “Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and [you can] even achieve immortality.”
Always a reminder that intelligent people capable of running some of the largest economies on earth can still be complete idiots in fields outside their expertise.
This is not how organ transplants work, nor is it how the body declines in health. Organ transplants do not positively affect your overall health, they fix the symptoms caused by a failure of a specific organ. You still have to take anti-rejection drugs that are severely detrimental to your overall health, and leave you susceptible to severe infections.
The damage done to organs by aging is systemic. Yes, one organ may be the first domino in a systemic collapse, but even if you replace it the next will just fail soon after. Plus, older people are a lot less likely to survive a organ transplant, let alone an older person who’s already received one.
I guess it’s good to know that dubious scientists grifting leaders and rich people for funding is universal regardless of culture and nationality?
Realistically Russia has put itself into an economic situation where it cannot pull out of the war unless they gain control over economic resources that allow it to transition from a war time economy.
There’s a reason most countries do everything they can to avoid having to go into a wartime economy. The immediate benefits are great, but it quickly becomes a sunk cost fallacy due to the guns vs butter model of opportunity detriment.
Military spending just has terrible opportunity cost ratios, and can only really be recouped as an investment if you are actively conquering new territory rich in resources. Even then, the cost eventually becomes greater than the opportunity it affords, eventually no matter how much you spend you aren’t able to control what you take over.
The only way the US was able to transition from the war time economy from WW2 without imploding was because it became the new banking capital of the world, and it got to keep it’s production capacity while their allies did not. This is almost a direct inverse of Russia’s current scenario.
In short, Russia will most likely have to extend its war against Ukraine, or start a new conflict as soon as it makes peace with Ukraine just in the hopes that they can maintain their current economic situation.