You must not know any actual Russians. Unlike many here, I know several from living there. Almost all the guys I know have fled to avoid dying. The ruble, despite the official exchange, is not what is advertised and inflation is far worse than the official amount.
Russian economy is far from "self sufficient". They really only produce oil and buckwheat in any quantity. Food production is limited, and manufacturing for parts is almost non existent. Anything outside the Moscow/Petersburg bubble is sorely neglected and under developed in the best of times.
I try to help my Russian friends as much as possible, especially the men. Many had to choose between dying in a foreign war or leaving everything they have built and worked for. To make matters worse, many countries will not accept them.
I appreciate folks here do not hate Russians, but they do need your help and pity. They don't want to fight foreign wars any more than folks here.
No, Putin isn't giving them a choice. He is the one drafting them, not NATO. They haven't ever met a NATO, nor does it have any impact on their daily lives.
In the minds of folks here, NATO is simultaneously incompetent feminist trannies and mustache twirling super villains able to bend the world to their will. I'm in the camp of the former.
Russia isn't doing so bad either.
You must not know any actual Russians. Unlike many here, I know several from living there. Almost all the guys I know have fled to avoid dying. The ruble, despite the official exchange, is not what is advertised and inflation is far worse than the official amount.
Russian economy is far from "self sufficient". They really only produce oil and buckwheat in any quantity. Food production is limited, and manufacturing for parts is almost non existent. Anything outside the Moscow/Petersburg bubble is sorely neglected and under developed in the best of times.
I try to help my Russian friends as much as possible, especially the men. Many had to choose between dying in a foreign war or leaving everything they have built and worked for. To make matters worse, many countries will not accept them.
I appreciate folks here do not hate Russians, but they do need your help and pity. They don't want to fight foreign wars any more than folks here.
NATO isn't giving them a choice.
No, Putin isn't giving them a choice. He is the one drafting them, not NATO. They haven't ever met a NATO, nor does it have any impact on their daily lives.
In the minds of folks here, NATO is simultaneously incompetent feminist trannies and mustache twirling super villains able to bend the world to their will. I'm in the camp of the former.