Russian War Crimes (Part 2)

Putin playing the N card. This is going to be a huge clusterfuck. Not that it isn’t already , someone sane within the Russian ecosystem needs to depose him.

I hope it’s a bluff but when he’s being pushed to the corner , who the fuck knows

Cheers for an explanation.

Its difficult. On one hand its taken the threat of their sons to be called into the war for Russian citizens to rail against Putin, and any protests against the illegal war have been pretty quiet. But on the other hand, the threat of being arrested or to be pushed out of a window is a very real prospect if you talk out of line in Russia.

Its easy to have opinions from the comfort of Europe when we are thousands of kms from the turmoil in Ukraine and Russia.

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They stood by and allowed their politicians get to a point where they knew they could attack another country with very little repercussion internally.
They allowed themselves become a state in which their government are not accountable to the people they are there to serve.

It is easy to speak of this from a country thousands of miles away but only because most citizens in most countries have not sat idly by and allowed their country to be run for 2 decades by megalomaniacs like putin and the regime he has built up around himself.
Like many other countries,they had the opportunity to go down a different path,they could have had a different russia but they allowed that choice be taken from them.

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Haven’t they been in that state for virtually time immemorial?

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They had an opportunity for change but failed to take it.Other countries citizens took their chance and created a better future for themselves ,where they are to some extent at least ,in control of their own lives but with the power to change leadership through elections.

Yeah, so coming from a conscripted army, it rolls like this for us. From what I see, the current russian set up is not meant for any offensive capability at all.

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You go a bit quicly over the difference in cultural and political contexts. Russia is unique, and doesn’t share the same history as most european countries.

That doesn’t absolve Russians over their inability of protesting about the situation, but it can definitely explain it. In the same way someone born in a poor country can not be blamed for being poor, it’s structural, they just weren’t born in the right place at the right time.

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In theory you’re right, but we must never forget that they don’t know what democracy is. They’ve never experienced it. After the fall of the USSR, Gorbachev wasn’t in charge long enough. Then, Yeltsin’s time was at best a farcical parody of democracy. Then Putin came in, and we know how that turned out. Before that? Almost a century of a ‘dictatorship of proletariat’, made even worse by probably the worst of all dictators, Stalin. Before that, an endless procession of czars.

Nevertheless, I think that most people initially trusted Putin to better their lives and to modernize Russia. They must be more and more disappointed by what they see unfolding now.

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There are reports now that people who have been arrested in Moscow and elsewhere and taken into custody have been summararily served with their mobilisation papers.

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They should be great in combat…

Bye bye birdie…

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