Internet posts?! This is why online discussions are ridiculously stupid. A classic argument over semantics about Internet posts, when so many people have been censored for speaking out against the government. Anybody that thinks the US is a bastion of freedom has bought into the propaganda. The idea that the US can critique anybody about this tickles me. Green my ass
If Russia resorts to a nuclear bomb it means they are ready for all types of responses from the west. Including if not the only obvious outcome a full on nuclear war. Russia might declear war and a general mobilisation before going nuclear.
Last time they tried they were very close to entering Kiev. They might try that a second time with the help of Wagner mercenaries from the north
Sorry but, what? Putin has been happy to commit war crimes including genocide, torture, mass killings, and abduction of children. Putin has no need or wish to justify anything. He can just go on Russian TV and say whatever he wants and no one in Russia is going to question it.
Russians are not westerners. Even if most Russians superficially look like westerners, They do not think and they do not act like westerners. Stop ascribing westerner logic and motivations to their actions.
That’s such an out of touch with reality thing to say. This is how authoritarianism works. You’re either subservient or a criminal with no human rights. Do you think they get a choice other than being locked or hanging themselves?
This is why I’m usually careful about addressing the Russian government rather than its people. There are loads of good people in Russia and I hope eventually they’re no longer forced by evil leadership to be the world’s antagonists.
They are forcefully mobilised conscripts. If you get a mobilisation request in Russia you have two options: serve or go to jail. But since Russia is now sending prisoners to the battlefield, your two options are: serve or serve.
If you try organise a protest, you’ll be beaten up, go to jail and then sent to a battlefield. And if you manage to organise a very very big protest, everyone who participated will be shot dead by Rosgvardia. And don’t worry, Russia has centuries of experience of killing millions of protesters at once, so while it might be unimaginable in a Western country, it’s business as usual there.
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