The shelves at Moscow supermarkets are full of fruit and vegetables, cheese and meat. But many of the shoppers look at the selection with dismay as inflation makes their wallets feel empty.
There’ve been protests, riots, violent acts of protest at draft centers. This just doesn’t get as much coverage as Putin’s or US propaganda.
It’s not that masses not disgruntled enough. It’s just almost nothing people can do to stop the war. Would you do something stupid and worthless, when even a social media post can and will cost you portion of your life in prison?
Russia has a population is around 140 million…
As for now around 300000 Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed.
That’s like… 0.2% of the Russian population.
With a father, mother, sibling, wife and friends affected with a wounded or killed Russian soldier the percentage of involuntarily negatively affected people would reach beyond 1%.
How big were the wild protests did you say? Did 20% of the population take part in protesting, maybe not because of the innocent people if Ukraina but for the extreme amount of casualties affecting Russian families in this unprovoked aggression?
No? Not 20%?
10%?
5%?
Maybe we should just conclude that the majority of the Russian people are not willing to sacrifice anything of their own for the sake of justice…
Because that’s where democracy and justice most often starts:
You sacrificing something that benefits you for the rights and/or justice of another person.
There’ve been protests, riots, violent acts of protest at draft centers. This just doesn’t get as much coverage as Putin’s or US propaganda.
It’s not that masses not disgruntled enough. It’s just almost nothing people can do to stop the war. Would you do something stupid and worthless, when even a social media post can and will cost you portion of your life in prison?
Russia has a population is around 140 million… As for now around 300000 Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed. That’s like… 0.2% of the Russian population. With a father, mother, sibling, wife and friends affected with a wounded or killed Russian soldier the percentage of involuntarily negatively affected people would reach beyond 1%.
How big were the wild protests did you say? Did 20% of the population take part in protesting, maybe not because of the innocent people if Ukraina but for the extreme amount of casualties affecting Russian families in this unprovoked aggression? No? Not 20%?
10%?
5%?
Maybe we should just conclude that the majority of the Russian people are not willing to sacrifice anything of their own for the sake of justice…
Because that’s where democracy and justice most often starts:
You sacrificing something that benefits you for the rights and/or justice of another person.