Whenever the topic turns to Ukraine vs Russia, I have noticed some people coming out of woodwork to assert that Russia is corrupted country. Now I will give you that Putin is a dictator as he has been a president for a long ass time and probably ordering his subordinates to kill his political dissidents but is there a lockdown and arrest of citizens? I want to know actually as the propaganda's everywhere that exaggerates a lot of things.
I want to also ask hypothetical question, if countries like Russia, China, Canada and Britain offered people temporary asylum and actually made effort to accommodate them for not understanding their own language, what country normies will choose, I wonder?
And as for me, you probably know what I will choose.
The country (along with Belarus and Ukraine) has had too much brain drain to be redeemable. Maybe if there was a break away state some part of Siberia to enact Atlas Shrugged. Despite inertia of repression, the rest of Eastern Europe has potential to a relative haven before the West collapses, but NATO/EU really has them underneath their thumb.