Sure they will. If you could read (but you’re Pole, plumbing and all the stuff) you might notice it's only1.5 to 4.5%. That's like plumbing 4 toilets instead of 1 out of 100, not a biggy.

This post was edited by Norlander on Feb 7 2026 12:05pm

@bold: Probably not.

Russia's national debt is tiny in comparison to that of the US, China and European countries. Looks like they have plenty of wiggle room.

Anyway what are you hoping for? A collapse of the Russian economy?

I don't think so, it's just that Ukraine's IQ ranking dropped from 78th to 84th place over the past year. And a rather peculiar rural contingent from there is moving to Poland. They're getting dumber before our very eyes. It's contagious.

This post was edited by Norlander on Feb 7 2026 12:35pm

I wouldn’t place much weight on online IQ ranking websites. They rely on self-selected test takers and provide no underlying data or methodology that would allow their results to be verified or treated as meaningful indicators of national intelligence. Changes in rank from year to year largely reflect who happened to take the test, not real shifts in human capital. Ukraine is currently at war, and war disproportionately affects younger cohorts of the population. While casualty figures are contested and politically sensitive, there is no credible evidence of a collapse in Ukrainian intelligence or educational capacity. What has had a measurable impact is outward migration. From a pre-war population of roughly 40–45 million, millions have left the country, either temporarily or long-term, primarily to the EU and Russia. When a large share of a country’s working-age and educated population leaves in a short period of time, that creates real social and economic strain. Some of this migration has gone to Poland, which has been selective in the migrants it accepts. Poland generally frames its immigration preferences in terms of cultural compatibility, social cohesion, and historical continuity rather than race, prioritizing migrants it believes will integrate more easily into Polish society. You know, blonde hair, blue eyed, caucasian.

Your analysis falters by constructing a speculative chain from a valid premise. While correctly dismissing unverified online IQ metrics due to self-selection bias, it then grafts on an unfounded narrative about selective migration. The claim that Poland's policy is phenotypically selective is contradicted by empirical evidence: since 2022, Poland has granted temporary protection to over 950,000 Ukrainian refugees: a non-selective, humanitarian response based on proximity and need, not physical characteristics. This direct demographic fact severs your implied link between Ukrainian emigration and any artificial boost to neighboring countries' metrics. The war's primary measurable impact is a profound humanitarian and demographic crisis, not a shift in dubious online scores, and blending these issues with unsupported insinuations about immigration policy substitutes cynical conjecture for documented reality.

Saying my post falters and then agreeing with me, suggests a lack of...IQ. Polands policy towards immigration are well documented. When using AI to respond it helps if your prompt contains a bit of...IQ. Finally this: "Poland has granted temporary protection to over 950,000 Ukrainian refugees" is a typical low knowledge point. Poland was welcomed WAY MORE then 950K Ukrainians since 2014. Also what happened to your SIG?!??!?!?!

This post was edited by ferdia on Feb 7 2026 02:56pm

Here is some extract as you clearly didnt read it:
"Alfa Investment analysts project that if the current discounted oil prices and the rouble exchange rate persist, the budget could miss about 3 trillion roubles in revenues this year, implying the use of 73% of liquid fiscal reserves."
In simpler words, if nothing changes Russians are gonna eat 73% of their reserves this year.
They have to do something this year: increase taxation or reduce spending.

Difference is that everybody wants to buy USA/Germany debt, but people dont trust warmongering banana republics like Russia.

I'm hoping for peace, but a permanent one, not a temporary cease fire.
Putin needs money to fund war, so lack of money should convince him to sign a peace treaty.

I did not "agree" with your core insinuation; I explicitly refuted your reductive claim about Polish policy being based on "blonde hair, blue eyes" as an essentialist stereotype, providing the counter-evidence of non-selective, mass temporary protection as the dominant policy reality. Acknowledging the valid part of a statement (online IQ sites are flawed) before dismantling the invalid parts (your subsequent leaps and characterizations) is the essence of critical analysis, not contradiction. Your final point about pre-2022 migration is a red herring; it does not address, let alone validate, your specific claim about Poland's current, selective preferences. Your conflation of all migration streams: historical labor migration, diaspora communities, and the unprecedented, non-selective refugee influx following a full-scale invasion: demonstrates the very imprecision my initial response cautioned against. The ad hominem focus on IQ merely underscores an inability to engage with the substantive rebuttal of your own flawed logic.

Any actual Russians or Ukrainians here to weigh in on the war? Preferably ones who are living there and maybe even seen some action. Seems like we have a panel of armchair experts from across the globe exchanging opinions.