“Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you,” he said quoting former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia could have a right to go to war with NATO.

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    1 year ago

    Are the Russian citizens all that innocent? Those that are born into it, of course. Is it all paid shills and fear that results in 80% approval rating for Putin and this war?

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      1 year ago

      I deeply despise the nationalist gangsters that make up the Russian elite, but this blaming of “Russian citizens” is either incredibly stupid or downright fascist. What do you propose to do to 116 million people (80% of 146 million) as punishment for …approving Putin? What kind of court are you envisioning? What kind of procedure for establishing what kind of guilt? And even if we do accept the utterly moronic idea that there is guilt in a population like that, how do you separate the guilty from the remaining 30 million “innocent” people? Or is the arbitrary “punishment” of 30 million innocents an inconvenient side-effect of your spite?

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        1 year ago

        Is that 80% approval rating believable?

        If 80% truly do approve, is it because they are “bad” or brainwashed with little to no choice?

        Idk what the solution is either way though.

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          1 year ago

          I think Russians justike being controlled with an iron fist. No other explanation why they seem to always go they way.

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            I think it’s more like they don’t and can’t care. It’s probably the same situation as in Hungary, where Orbán basically micromanages 90% of the news sources the average citizen gets to access, so they of course overwhelmingly approve him and “his valiant fight against the evils surrounding the noble Hungarian nation”.