https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-complained-peaceful-people-dont-104124564.html
Ukraine's forces have advanced into Russia's Kursk region. One Russian official accused Ukraine of "intimidating the peaceful population of Russia."
No people deserve to be invaded. The warmongers deserve to have the war brought to their mansions.
Classic elementary school bully bullshit. Mercilessly pick on a kid until that kid punches them square in the nose. Then all of a sudden they (the bully) are the poor helpless victim. Cry me a fucking river.
As Russian military continues to purposely destroy supermarkets, homes, schools, hospitals, energy infrastructure, entire towns, etc.
I wonder how many "innocent" Russians know of any of that. Or that their soldiers kidnapped and raped women and children. Tortured and executed others. "Fake news" I'm sure they'd conveniently claim. Ignorance is bliss, until the bombs start dropping on their town.
This is massively embarrassing for Putin. Getting counter-invaded by your small, theoretically much weaker neighbour is a joke. And the Ukrainians have faced relatively little resistance. If Putin wasn't the evil bastard that he is, he'd call time on this pointless, wasteful war.
The concerning thing now is that he can use this Ukrainian incursion into Russia as justification for his claims that the west is trying to destroy Russia, even though he set off this chain of events with his actions.
That’s not concerning at all.
They’ve made up shit to justify everything up until now. They don’t need a justification to be made for them.
All out war with nukes is a terrifying thought. There is a real risk that he could trigger mutually assured destruction.
The problem is that if we do whatever it takes to avoid "pushing" Putin into using nukes, then in effect we're saying he can do whatever he wants because he has nukes.
Given that Russia literally sees accelerating climate change as advantageous to them, an unchecked Russian Federation might actually do more damage to life on earth than nuclear war would, over a long enough timeline.
The only rational play is to treat his threats as hollow, because time and time again he's proven that they are. Otherwise we're basically just handing Putin an "I do what I want" card.
Actual nuclear war or climate change really only damage the things currently living. Life will always succeed in some form, even if we don't. I understand where you're coming from tho
I'm really not sure where you think I said "End life on Earth", "Destroy the planet" or any of the other possible phrasings you seem to be trying to react to.
I feel like you had this response in the chamber ready to go, saw the words "climate change" and immediately skipped reading everything else.
"Do more damage to life on earth than actual nuclear war would"
That's a quote from your comment that I replied to. I think both would be equally disastrous for the life that currently lives here as true MAD would wipe out humanity and most animals and greatly alter living conditions, similar to how climate change will.
Nuclear war’s effect on the biosphere would be orders of magnitude worse than the effects of climate change.
Doubling down on your own misunderstanding doesn't make it any less of a misunderstanding.
Good, that will be easier for the world to recover from than runaway climate collapse.
Russia, for its many other faults, has the right to be proud of its history of refusing to launch nukes. Vasily Arkhipov is a hero. We will always need more like him.
Putin can (and does) claim anything at any time. No reason to worry about giving him ammunition to claim shit.
That fiddle is much too large. I hope he is playing 'My heart pumps piss for you pooty poot"
The Russian babushkas who chatted in a friendly manner with the Ukrainian mobile cav passing by didn’t seem to take issue with anything, and they were left alone - as civilians should be in a conflict, to the greatest degree possible.
Not to mention, life in a Ukrainian oblast is probably going to be nicer than life in a Russian oblast, long term.
Are those the same peaceful people that think that the Ukrainians should be exterminated? Yeah cry more Russia.
I mean, he's right. It's not the people's fault he's a piece of shit and should get out of Ukraine.
It's not some people's fault. Like the ones blowing up Russian infrastructure.
Everyone else aren't fundamentallly different from Germans pretending they didn't know what was going on in the town's concentration camp.
Shoulda considered that before intimidating the peaceful population of Ukraine. I have a friend who completely uprooted her life and career trajectory to manage humanitarian aid to her home country. The fact of the matter is peaceful Russians are want enables the Orkish horde. My view is that they've been kept in the dark about the truth of their reality. Their lack of concern is a result of not knowing what is and isn't real (and to many degrees us Americans live in the same situation with regard to our actions throughout west Asia). All Ukraine is doing right now is bringing truth to Kursk. I hope it doesn't turn into reprisals. From what I've seen, they're trying a winning hearts and minds strategy. But the bottom line is Russia initiated total war. They have no one to complain to about that there's a total war going on at their borders
Agh, figures that the Russian Volunteer Corps was apparently in on the action. It just never fails to boggle my mind that the majority of the anti-Russian militias that are fighting in Ukraine are so far right that they think Putin isn't fascist enough.
Like, yeah, it's great that they're fighting Russia, but holy fuck is it this hard to find people in Russia who aren't complete pieces of shit and are also willing to fight Putin?
Do Russians not have the fucking Internet anymore? If not, I know what Eve Online sov I'm invading.
I don't understand the nuances well enough to know, but the thought control is still pretty strong in Russia. I do wonder if the populous will see this as the manifestation of what Putin has been saying all along, which is that the Ukraine means to bring violence to them and all efforts so far have been to keep this at bay. If so they will double down on their support for the dictator.
I often think about how much brain washing the Trump group has been able to do in the US even with free press and open access to the rest of the world. Imagine the power of the mind control one could achieve with an entire infrastructure built to support just that.
Putin is going to use this to the extremes. He's going to spur more enlistment, perhaps a full mobilization if he can spin enough outrage.
Nothing will make a difference unless it reaches Moscow or st Petersburg. Most of the population is too poor/oppressed to make a big difference at this point. The people Putin needs to avoid upsetting are all living in the cities, at least according to an ex-pat friend of mine
