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Safety. Every russian is an occupier wherever he is - because he behaves like one and should be treated as such. They do not come to some country to assimilate and accept the native culture - they come to establish an enclave that sooner or later will have russian invaders drop in there - and met with open arms. Don't even need to go for proof far. So booting russians out is much less riskier than allowing them to exploit the civility of a country and weaken it - which will bring countless victims and horrible suffering.

British Empire still holds the world record on most planetary landmass occupied ever. And also it let go of all those after winning WW2 and ended up being even stronger for it. Wouldn't be surprised if that has anything to do with russian hatred. Russia is the last empire on Earth after all and it's time is running out without any real "achievements" to add to history books. Not even a single successful conquest.

Occam's razor. Some bureaucrat did bureaucracy. It's a book with weird language different from russian. Different from russian = extremist. Easy. Expect it to be reversed and whoever did this apologize to kadyrov.

At one point they will be bombing Kremlin and saying that "look - Ukrainian forces at Kursk were only a distraction - the real attack was done by the Nibiru-Dalek spacial forces. The score is 1000-0 in our favor"

No. The victory was made possible ALSO because USSR became weakened by its extreme corruption and constant deaths of emperors, one after the other. Gorbachov just got "lucky" to be "young" enough after non-stop deaths of his predecessors due to old age. But those deaths caused huge shifts among power blocks inside the party because those blocks were gaining and losing power at random - resulting in chaos and opportunities arising locally due to it. It just so happened that Ukrainians, among other people, managed to exploit the weakness of the empire. Gorbachov was just an absolutely random guy, completely inconsequential. Collapse was set in stone in about 1979-1980. But he tried to prevent it. Lots of people died all around USSR due to his orders as he blindly tried to save the empire.

Nope. People fighting for freedom were. Fighting against him among other things. He just so happened to be the emperor of USSR then. He's as much behind the collapse of USSR as Hitler is behind collapse of Nazi Germany. If you mean it that way - then sure.

He didn't. As a kid I witnessed the brutal beat downs of local pro-Ukrainian protests in 1990 by the "OMOH", also due to living next to the central square of my city where they tended to happen. Almost got caught in one of those with my mom. It also kinda contributed to my outlook on these things since. I mean when you are 5 and see a trolleybus driver block the street and go on a roof with a big Ukrainian flag, as the crowd is resisting the "riot police" - it lives an impression for life. Later in life I also learned that nothing really changed in regards to Ukraine during his rule - people still went to jail for supporting independence, many didn't return and never witnessed it happen just a few years later. Bonus is that Gorbachev also held a "referendum" to save USSR, where he expected local "general secretaries" of his to give him very positive results - but only 6 agreed and gave him "70%+ people want to remain in USSR" results. That included Ukraine as well (russian propagandists now use this as another "reason" to "cancel" our independence). Other "gensecs" just knew better where the wind was blowing, so to speak. And in Lithuania Gorbachev even tried to quell the resistance by actually ordering shooting of protesters (probably wanted to gauge if he can do the same in much bigger countries without consequence). That didn't go well thankfully. It's also why I wrote here about that good old russian "liberal" trick of "hey West, look, have Perestroika OK? You let us kill people now OK?" a few pages back.

He was certainly not behind the emergence of modern Ukraine. He was actively fighting it. Very brutally and violently.

So how many women did this brave man, a future "native French citizen" rape and how many men he killed during these two months, during which he was perfectly OK with doing warcrimes?

This is not true. And it's what I mean by their danger and hazard. "We accept tolerating LGBT but you let us murder and rape in Ukraine, OK?" It worked perfectly for them in the '90s. Moldova, Georgia, Ichkeriya and Azerbaijan suffered murder, rape and looting without consequence for russian "liberals" because said "liberals" simply allowed private property and started doing relatively fair trade with US and EU. It's much better for russia to be directed by insane nazis than by intelligent nazis - because it will crash and burn faster. And maybe current war against us will be the last war Russia will ever have started. At the end of this it will be better for Russia to not exist at all than to be there and run by people like Navalny, who will just pedal back a bit and will just be starting smaller wars with no less suffering for his victims really.

But I mean the guy is not wrong. russian "liberals" are even more cynical than their "RU nats" counterpart. They are just as fascist - but are a lot more dangerous because they are intelligent enough to pretend being "moderate". It's how Yelstin completely got away with all the atrocities - "yeah we just finished burning a few ichkerians alive, but we love your McDonald's, we gonna eat that McDonald's so good, let's be friends US" *proceeds to drop bombs on Grozny civilian district*. It's why I find Navalny to be a lot more hazardous than putin or girkin. Because in case of the latter two the West will keep cracking down on Russia. But Navalny and his likes knows how to pull West's strings to let all the warcrimes slide.

This IAEA delegation was allowed there on a condition that it won't have people from countries "unfriendly" to Russia. So I'm calling it now - they will say "everything is ok, russians treat ZNPP like a princess". But! This is russians we are talking about - and russians are amazingly talented at ****ing everything up at the worst possible moment (for them). So there's a very non-zero chance of something going really bad right in front of IAEA due to sheer stupidity that will be extremely hard to cover up.

"Good will gestures" come in all shapes and forms, my man.

Poison of course. And don't even need to poison the guy fast like Stalin. Poison can be administered slowly, like they did it to Yeltsin. Even looks like the guy is gradually going senile and drunk from outside, as poison kills his braincells. Problem is that putin did Yeltsin's poisoning and that trick would not work on him. Or would it? (Dun dun duuuun)

At this point we pretty much established that Russia is just really a big cosplay of Nazi Germany. They just hope what didn't work for their forefathers - will totally work from the second attempt. People in Ukraine at this point really became numb to russian terrorism - it happens daily, it's just 'telly news' for those who didn't die this night - which is both a good and a bad thing - but bad for russian Nazis either way because it gives them nothing - but they can't wage war in any other way.

It's culture POV-dependent. What seems like a funny cargo cult to you from outside - is a serious and respected thing inside. And current generations of cargo cultists weren't even born when demigods Tom Navy and John Frum walked the heaven and the earth, they got to believe via parents who weren't born then either. To some hammer and sickle sculpted out of cow crap gives hope and not fear.

2011 is not a starting point because a bunch of peace-loving tree-hugging hipsters is not who will rule Russia ever. People who are not violent by nature do not get respect or support of the population. 2014 is a real starting point (because Russia failed to occupy or subdue Ukraine) and when russians lose this war - it will be the boiling point. Losing the war is what causes either a coup or disintegration (depending on the severity). It was like so for the empire in 1917, for USSR in 1989, for Yeltsin in 1996 (this time it was just a coup because Ichkeriya is fairly small and not ideologically important) - and without a doubt will be massive and fatal because russians bet their whole mythology on this war alone.

Yep. The hierarchy in there is a result of centuries of heavy polishing. People put in charge are mentally engineered, if you will, to love and obey the tsar and be ruthless to everybody who doesn't (gets you more stars). Military has absolutely no say in what happens inside the country, hence why Russia never had a single military coup in its history (unlike literally every other empire). It's also why putin is able to meddle with everything on the frontline directly - with predictable results. Any general is expected to just sit back and relax at his dacha, but send another human wave at a whatever map location when ordered to.

I doubt they will make anything more fanatical than it already is because russians right now are already peaked. their emperor-wannabe has to work with what he has - millions of aggressive serfs, who love tsar and many are willing to commit murder for him at a price of enriching themselves (like with a washing machine abroad). Yet there's no critical mass because the absolute majority, while aggressive, are cowards when it comes to suffering consequences. Hence no mobilization, because the emprah knows there's no point. It's why the next generation will be very very problematic. The indoctrination russian kids go through now is downright barbaric. They literally teach them in schools and kindergartens that other people in other countries are untermenschen and it's OK, even glorious, to kill them to take what really belongs to Russia (e. g. everything). I dread the moment when their children will be able to enlist in just 8-10 years or so.

Russians can't survive without tsar leading them. Concept of a court having more power than the tsar is absolutely alien to them - they tried it only once in their history and it ended with them crowning Lenin to be the new tsar in just 6 months. Reading so called "RU Nats" (perfectly common russians to me) I get an impression they simply live with an illusion of bad boyars surrounding the tsar, who suck at their job and if tsar is to replace them with better ones - suddenly everything will be well. Another well known classic.

After Snake Island and Chornobaivka? Throw everything at a problem until it eventually resolves itself (or doesn't). But floating remnants of this junk in Dnipro will certainly delay watermelon deliveries after Kherson liberation.

Problem is russians are incapable of doing anything both in a "university" and "land" "biomes". It's not part of the culture or mentality. Siberia is HUGE. Siberia is also really really rich in nature. Forests, rivers, it's all there. And yet for centuries russians did nothing to civilize it, citing it as being "unwelcome" - but, of course, deported millions of slaves from occupied countries there so they would do it instead (Gulag boss music). But slavery does not bear that kind of quality fruit. And then you have cities like Las Vegas. Initially an empty desert, would've been a fitting set for post-apocalyptic wasteland movies - and yet now it's one of the biggest resorts in North America. And that example puts things into perspective, eh? Some people just want to create the best they can with what they have, some people don't, but want to have what others did for free.

No - anyone else but russians are untermenschen regardless of rejecting yoke or not. The point is that russians are ubermenschen, gods walking the Earth - hence why they should never create anything themselves (and they don't, most still live in very medieval conditions, washing clothes in rivers, building buildings out of planks, no running water or gas etc). But everybody else, being untermenschen, are destined to be only their slaves and create everything for them. Hence why most "advanced" russian lands are those that they either occupied or the ones directly bordering countries they occupied. Hence why everything 100km east of Moscow is a barren wasteland with every town being a time portal to a few centuries back. Maybe it really ties into their mongolian/nomadic ancestral roots where their ancestors were so used to simply taking better stuff from others but never cared about what they themselves possessed.

Of course you'd waste a lot of effort to get through the basics because that so called "well educated, Western acclimated russian" knows the real state of things well enough. It's his ideology to convince you and everybody else otherwise. Has been for centuries. Hence why there's no "Western acclimated" russians at all. They will always end up creating just another Brighton Beach wherever they are and will be waiting for Russia to come and occupy it. Similarly to how every russian, educated or not, knows that his government is extremely corrupt. Because that russian chose it to be like so. And is happy about it. In fact according to recent polls more than 60% of russians don't even understand why they need West with its values, about 30% think West is good to get something out of (probably just materialistic things) and only 2% russians think they need democracy. 2%. putin built nothing good, Russia was always poor and uneducated (35% russians believe Sun rotates around the Earth in 2022). But they are all very good at lying to get what they want. Or westerners are too naive to believe that everybody out there want what they consider to be a "better" life. But it's what all neighbor countries learned the hard way a long time ago and them... us talking about real Russia seemed so weird to you lot. The only thing that is different between Russia yesterday and Russia today is that they stopped lying.

I wouldn't trust FSB agent Ponomaryov even for one moment. In Russia you become MP only if FSB allows you to and stop being MP alive if FSB allows you to. Especially since he was in a communist party and then in a Nazi party of Rogozin - making him directly responsible for the current war (and others). Not to mention that these so called "partisans" delivered a strike on an average propagandist that isn't even calling the shots instead of, you know, some military base or some big guy like Solovyov.