"Listen to a woman"
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I like the line "That was war! This is politics!" Has there ever been a war that wasn't about politics?
War for resources?
International politics, but politics just the same.
Sounds like an "everything is politics" argument.
What he meant to say is "last time, the propaganda was good and everyone believed the going narrative. This time we can see through the cracks and won't be so easily misled".
"Political interests" is a traditionally bad framing for a war in Russia, as opposed to WWII perceived as a "sacred war" (as in that song) for the very survival against a vicious invader (not wrong, considering the Generalplan Ost). For example it is said in the narration the intro to the depressing documentary Damned and Forgotten (Прокляты и забыты) about Russian soldiers in Chechnya and elsewhere in the 1990s, where scenes from WWII in the East are contrasted with slowly emerging scenes from Grozny turning black and white into color: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_m07z9_k4hA
E: it's not said actually in the into (where it's only mentioned for how there came "an era of other wars") but in the mass grave scene later on. Oh, and there are also the NazBols.
Other kind of women in the neighbouring Chechnya:
It was actually the first public protest there since the 2000s.
They conscript arrested male protesters all over Russia but not their men like that.
And listen, and listen, and listen…
I'll listen to a woman once you define what a woman is.
Otherwise, how am I to know when to listen?