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Originally Posted by Itse
Russians are just incredible in their lack of pushback to Putin. Slowly boiled alive, and nothing that's notable.
Millions of people fleeing the country, yet protests were only in the tens of thousands.
It's effing pathetic.
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I know it's easy for us armchair generals to say this but ultimately it's the truth; the lack of opposition to the Russian war and support for the war prior to the mobilization announcement has led us to this point. This is what happens when people get complacent and let their government walk all over them.
Ultimately it's the Ukrainians who paid the biggest price for this lack of opposition, and now potentially the rest of us will face it. Fascinating to see all the Russians online going nuts over this, when days ago they were either pushing for more violence to "win" and had nothing to say about the atrocities performed by their army. I realize it's not all Russians like that, but they have come out of the woodwork like crazy in the past few hours.
With all this uncertainty I'm just glad my FIL got out of Russia literally last week and is safe. Don't want to imagine how terrible it would be for him to be trapped in Russia with this going on.