‘Nobody in Russia believes that he or she can influence any events’
‘Nobody in Russia believes that he or she can influence any events’
Greg Yudin on how Russian society perceives the war and why, only when Putin’s government is gone, there will be negotiations
Rather, there are too many indifferent and/or supporters so no doubts that protests will be suppressed.
On the other hand, Russians show off a lot but when time comes to action they behave like pussies. Protests like „Let’s all be friends. War is bad”. What a joke. Look how brutal are French protests.
9That's due to decades of totalitarian terror which conditioned the populace to obey blindly. TBH, having grown up under Communist regime, I still sometimes notice in myself the remnants of deep fear of the state. This is a multi-generational trauma. Fortunately here in Ukraine we also have ancient democratic traditions.
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4Yes, its the fascist and other Totalitarian actors want the masses to believe so.
6As long as Russia continues to be an empire, there's "Foucault's boomerang" in action. The metropoly can't be more free than the colonies it oppresses. Metropolitan libertarians will continue to be crushed by the loyal policing forces, recruited in deprived colonies.
4I had to google that phrase. Interesting idea,
The imperial boomerang or Foucault's boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.
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Including the "event" of joining the russian army, invading a neighbouring country and pillaging like a medieval force.
Poor russians. They have no saying in any of this.
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