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"Russia is good, actually" is a hard sell to anyone who has been indoctrinated by a lifetime of Western Russophobia. Is I think what you meant.
by satnhak 3mo ago
"Russia is good, actually" is a hard sell to anyone who has been indoctrinated by a lifetime of Western Russophobia. Is I think what you meant.
- pjc50 3mo agoThe Russian public are victims of Putin just as much as the Ukranians. This is almost all on him and his party apparatus, just as it was under Stalin.
- andor 3mo agoWestern influence isn't necessary. Eastern Europe has experienced the Soviet Union and doesn't want to go back.
- Arodex 3mo agoOh yeah, the West is so russophobic that Russian elites all sent their kids there to study and bought million-dollar villas and penthouses there...
- tim333 3mo ago>anyone who has been indoctrinated by a lifetime of Western Russophobia or who turns on the TV and sees which atrocity they've committed this week.
- cosmicgadget 3mo agoTechnically true but it's also a hard sell to normal people who don't like wars of aggression, poisoning political opponents, and shooting down airliners.
- satnhak 3mo agoThe problem is that if you look at Russia's actions they are mostly rational and predictable. And by Russian standards Putin is a moderate. The Western wet dream is to "Yugoslavia" Russia. Balkanize it, load it with debt and take all of its assets. They had their man in Yeltsin, but he was such an egregious drunk that even the CIA couldn't get him reelected. In many ways, if you look at things objectively, there may not be a Russia without Putin. (and you show me a major country where they aren't poisoning political opponents, conducting significantly less relevant wars than the one in Ukraine, and all kinds of other things)
- cosmicgadget 3mo agoI have no words for what I just read.