160,000 families lost their sons. That’s sad. When do you think the people of Russia will turn on Putin? He can’t be that popular. He’s just a corrupt dictator whose legacy is going to be just another shitstain on history. I stand with Ukraine but I just can’t understand how Putin hasn’t been turned on by his people yet.
Early on many people simply left Russia, because it was the safer option. These were the people with passports, which also are the people with the best qualifications.
But the main reason is propaganda, Russian propaganda claims it’s Ukraine and the west that is to blame for the war, and Russia is only defending themselves against western expansion. At the same time the propaganda also claims Russia had to invade Ukraine to liberate them from Nazism.
Another reason is fear, if you stand up to the government, and talk against the war, you go to jail, and in Russia people die pretty quickly in jail.
You can’t even call it a war without risking going to jail for it. Because officially it’s just a military operation.
But still at some point if this continues much longer, conditions will deteriorate enough, so either people rebel or the Russian federation breaks up.
Once an authoritarian state reaches a certain degree of power, they’re no longer vulnerable to their own populations. They just have too much control over the information, domestic security, economy, etc. Hypothetically you can imagine: if everyone who stands up gets their head cut off, and that goes on for 500 years, this will create a very different sort of population than we are accustomed to.
At that point they can only really be toppled by a foreign power or an uprising from their own elites. The peasants are simply no longer a factor.
In addition to other comment, first he’s been their “elected” supreme leader for so long, that a lot of young people never knew anything different. It’s like domestic violence, if a child is being regularly hit and so all his friends, the child learns that this is how things should be.
Second, by completely controlling media putler created and maintains political apathy (it was already strong in ussr), so even if they don’t like something, they know very well that there’s nothing they can do.
160,000 families lost their sons. That’s sad. When do you think the people of Russia will turn on Putin? He can’t be that popular. He’s just a corrupt dictator whose legacy is going to be just another shitstain on history. I stand with Ukraine but I just can’t understand how Putin hasn’t been turned on by his people yet.
Early on many people simply left Russia, because it was the safer option. These were the people with passports, which also are the people with the best qualifications.
But the main reason is propaganda, Russian propaganda claims it’s Ukraine and the west that is to blame for the war, and Russia is only defending themselves against western expansion. At the same time the propaganda also claims Russia had to invade Ukraine to liberate them from Nazism.
Another reason is fear, if you stand up to the government, and talk against the war, you go to jail, and in Russia people die pretty quickly in jail.
You can’t even call it a war without risking going to jail for it. Because officially it’s just a military operation.
But still at some point if this continues much longer, conditions will deteriorate enough, so either people rebel or the Russian federation breaks up.
Once an authoritarian state reaches a certain degree of power, they’re no longer vulnerable to their own populations. They just have too much control over the information, domestic security, economy, etc. Hypothetically you can imagine: if everyone who stands up gets their head cut off, and that goes on for 500 years, this will create a very different sort of population than we are accustomed to.
At that point they can only really be toppled by a foreign power or an uprising from their own elites. The peasants are simply no longer a factor.
Sad news for the future of America and the world as well with the rise of facism
In addition to other comment, first he’s been their “elected” supreme leader for so long, that a lot of young people never knew anything different. It’s like domestic violence, if a child is being regularly hit and so all his friends, the child learns that this is how things should be. Second, by completely controlling media putler created and maintains political apathy (it was already strong in ussr), so even if they don’t like something, they know very well that there’s nothing they can do.