lotusmars

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by lotusmars 3y ago
And Germans and Americans are waiting for war fatigue to catch on to start pumping billions into Russian economy and joint companies with Putin. Traitors.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
The sheer size of Russia combined with hyper centralization in Moscow is not sustainable. Russian Federation is RSFSR left intact with its borders and regional partition. Crushing parliament with tanks in 1993 left the country without any c
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by lotusmars 4y ago
This should be the top comment. As a Russian myself I totally agree. The USSR should've been broken up until a number of sustainably small republics left. Let Islamic regions go that themselves wanted out (and Russians wanted and still
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Yet it is still valid for their strategy during the invasion of Ukraine. They don’t need sophisticated weaponry or artillery. Just a slow push until the opponent is exhausted. Losses are irrelevant: they can always be hidden or denied becau
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by lotusmars 4y ago
There is a quote attributed to Zhukov, Stalin’s army general: “No sparing soldiers, women will give birth to more of them!”
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Odessa clashes was Russian and pro-Russian gangs attacking an unarmed Ukrainian football fan march with firearms. They then retreated to the House of Unions where pro-Russian opposition was based. Basically taking them as hostages. The hous
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Yes Ukrainian people is the bastion and are fighting bravely. Feels like Europeans (namely Germany and France) will provide as little weapons as possible to exhaust Ukrainians so they get tired and surrender themselves. Once Ukrainian publi
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Yes Polish people have shown a lot of resilience and deserve great respect in this situation. Batlic states as well of course. Hope they won’t allow Germany sweep Ukraine under the rug.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Most of the country was miserable, malnourished and in poverty for years anyway. It’s not like Putin’s elites care. It’s basically a serfdom. As long as people obey, and Putin’s clique can build palaces, it can go on for decades.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Crimea is closer to a regular Russian region. Criminal groups affiliated to state and police rule. All dissent is suppressed and you’ll more likely to be harassed than murdered or disappear. DNR and LNR are more brutal, severe and chaotic.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Europeans will force it to, unfortunately.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Listen to recordings of calls to Russian soldiers’s mothers. The families fully support invasion. They are glued to TV and Telegram which explain that Ukrainians bomb themselves and Russian soldiers are brave liberators fighting against gay
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Not a critically high price anyway. Gas prices cover everything and complicit German politicians don’t consider stopping paying. Looks like Putin’s gamble played well once again, he knows his European counterparts well.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
There is no need in sophisticated weaponry or even artillery when you have endless literal cannon fodder. Hide or deny losses and drag on just enough to exhaust your opponent. A year of slow territorial gains? Two? More? Not a problem as lo
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Judging by weak arms supplies by Europeans who don’t want to anger their gas supplier - Putin is far from defeat.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Not people. Criminal neo-Stalinist enclaves that Lungansk and Donetsk were turned into by Russia. People routinely disappear, being put in the basement (na podval), tortured for smallest reasons. Drafts when people are being used a cannon f
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Why should Putin’s regime collapse? Ruble is strong, people got +20% instant raise because of sanctions. Germany pours billions into Russian economy. Save for Netflix not working anymore, life in Moscow is even better than pre-war.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
They won’t. Europeans drag their feet on arming Ukraine and pressure it to surrender (“peace”). The reason is gas and fear of refugee influx to Europe from hunger in Africa. Plus Germans paying Russia billions for gas beats any arms supplie
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Why even discuss MAD or nuclear when Putin gets what he wants without it? Germans finance his war efforts with billions of euros and drag their feet on arming Ukraine. Europeans generally pressure Ukraine to surrender. Why risk it? Just wai
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Sanctions will be lifted or eased long before tech embargo hits. Putin has too many points to cause pain for European politicians. For example grain shortage caused by his naval operations will cause hunger in North Africa. Revolts and refu
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by lotusmars 4y ago
In Russia homophobia is such an integral part of society and day to day life (due to prison culture) that those horrific, dehumanizing and derogatory words you’ve mentioned are actually considered “pejorative rather than grossly offensive”
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by lotusmars 4y ago
It’s because there’s a huge support for these views in Russia. And any politician who actually wants to succeed is bound to channel this energy or at least address it. Russia has severe ongoing problems with national tensions and conflicts.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
This is a slogan used mostly by Russian neo-Nazis, but quietly supported by sizeable parts of general population. It’s has a few connotations. The mildest is proposing to throw all colored people out of the cities. The most severe is to ext
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Soviet Union was a state where most people didn’t have access to goods, fresh food, fine education, sturdy clothes or footwear. Nomenclature was a very small class of people with privileged exclusive access. It’s either families with relati
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by lotusmars 4y ago
As I mentioned above most sources say he’s actually a huge careerist coming from a nomenclature family and doing everything to get through the ranks. It’s a really easy climb if you share Nazi and homophobic views of Russian elites and bein
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by lotusmars 4y ago
A slur word used against gay people.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Ok here we go. Americans and Russians only talking about America. Let’s discuss that it was Bush behind Holocaust.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Yeah, he was heading actual Nazi parades. There are enough videos on YouTube with him at the rallies wearing a leather jacket with saluting neo-Nazis around. He also uses N-words and F-words freely. He first gained notoriety at 2003 parlia
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by lotusmars 4y ago
No, he’s been a very vocal proponent of war, so it’s a logical career step. The guy probably sees himself as a Putin’s (or at least Medvedev’s) successor at some point.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Even Russians don’t really watch vanity garbage made by this director (Shakhnazarov). The only reason he gets huge budgets and heads state filmmaking companies is because he’s an enormous Putin and war supporter.

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