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I think a better assessment would be “most Russians know what’s going on, but they don’t care” or “don’t care” because they can’t.
What we’re seeing is the continuation of a ship being sailed by different captains since the 9th century. Slavic kings to Khan rule which lead to the coalescence of what is now Russia, to Tsars and Lenin’s overthrow, then Stalin, the USSR was a reunification of Slav countries, then yadda yadda yadda we hopefully know how all of the past few decades have been, and now we have Vlad 1 desperately trying to reclaim those borders.
This is a culture that has endured centuries of threat from outside forces, ranging from Genghis Khan, to Napoleon, to Hitler, to the US, and now NATO, and whatever reigning autocrat has always manufactured a divinely unquestionable position of being the one person who can save the people from the others (see Putin, Kirill, and the Russian Orthodox Church).
It’s hard-baked into their culture, and 70-80% of their media is state-run and they’re working to kill all social media because the internet is making it hard to force a narrative this time around.
This is the best summary of it that I can find atm, and well worth a watch if you want a crash course on how intricate and repetitive this history is, and maybe an idea of what comes next.
And again, don’t engage the Bobos. That’s just arguing with a (man)child.
- I posted this video before, everybody should see it, even at 1 hour is a short history of Russia and why they think like that and probably won't ever change********
- Russia is an empire at land, its original territory looked something like this
https://upload.wikim…drgs - While all traditional empires at sea like UK, Spain, Portugal, France, which were formed some hundreds years ago, have dissolved, Russia lags behinddrgs
- But the general trend is that every ethnicity will end up with their own separate states.drgs
- ^ Which is exactly what Putin doesn't want, because even though it will take decades for most to even be considered by NATO, even the thought of it..garbage
- ..is enough to rustle Putin's jimmies. He'd rather ruin these countries than see them collaborate with the west.garbage
- In the middle of all of this he straight up told Bosnia that if they consider NATO, they will be attacked as well.garbage
- HOW in this material universe would he even attack Bosnia?!
https://strongsocial…******** - https://foreignpolic…garbage
- https://news.yahoo.c…garbage
- Not saying he can pull it off, but Jesus after this who knows what this lunatic will try.garbage
- The attempted color revolutions in Belarus and Kazakstan were the last straws. The Russian bear was goaded into this war.********
- Add to that Zelensky's nuclear ambitions, the Minsk accord issue and the bio weapon labs.********
- Pushing a nuclear power into a corner is a high stakes move.********
- You're not even trying anymore. It's SAD.garbage
- I posted this video before, everybody should see it, even at 1 hour is a short history of Russia and why they think like that and probably won't ever change