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Related: About this forumOnly 28% of Russians Now Support Putin's War in Ukraine
Jake Broe shows Orban getting his face (meatphorically) slapped plus giving some interesting stats.
Permanut
(6,606 posts)Steven Seagal will take care of everything.
Lovie777
(14,794 posts)If still in Russia, stay away from windows in tall buildings.
Warpy
(113,130 posts)or how it was done, except that people were certain enough of its anonymity to answer the way they wanted to.
Aussie105
(6,193 posts)Russians are suffering at the same time.
They have lived impoverished lives for a long time because Putin prefers to feed his war machine instead.
Warpy
(113,130 posts)once one man has taken over throughout their history, the people have been robbed, assets stripped, the children of the leader and his friends sent outside Russia for education and a cushier lifewstyle, and the only way they ever had any hope for anything better was under Communism, where there was the illusion of a shared purpose even though the same system persisted.
They are not like us, they don't look out for each other. In Kursk, the neighbors of people who left looted the empty houses.
This is how they are, this is what they've done for generations in order to survive.
In time, they might learn a better way but that's not who they are right now
Please note I'm not particularly anti Russian, I grew up with a bunch of Russian cousins. It's just that the culture of that country over the last 800 years is totally antithetical to our own. I don't want to live that way.
Even Putin is starting to see the level of corruption as a bit of a problem now and has jailed some of the biggest thieves. Iy won't last..
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,018 posts)Warpy
(113,130 posts)in which he reports some of the Russian news. Cemeteries are filling up and coffin makers can't keep up with the demand. I think the ratio of killed to wounded is very high. Russians don't prioritize getting the wounded away from the front quickly, so many are likely dying from shock, blood loss, and sepsis. Some take matters into their own hands and commit suicide.
Putin whines about demographics while wasting Russia's future.