It’s not nonsense at all it’s logic. Your examples are different contexts different countries different leadership different histories different peoples and cultures different rationales different on and on and on.
Okay so you’re in Russia today. You’re going to go start the protest then are you? And you’re going to hope everyone follows and wager your life on it? Really? I mean I’m not saying you wouldn’t do it but hey- you got more guts than me that’s for sure.
I think in general - as long as you aren't messing up the average citizen's life - they don't particularly care about the government. All things being equal - they may prefer something different - but as long as you don't mess with the average person and their life is going on not impacted - they will just go with the flow.
When enough average people don't feel safe or feel screwed over - they will act. Police shooting unarmed black people in the US, attacks on women in Iran and India or even inflation causing giant impacts on people (and no - we aren't even near that level of inflation in Canada) - they will lash out.
Russia is facing it from two sides now - the sanctions potentially impacting their economy and now drafting people into the army. There's a reason why they are trying to mobilize rural, poor or minority populations or the average guy in Moscow doesn't feel threatened because then they will have problems. The people who are leaving Russia now probably have more means than the people who can't just pick up and leave their family for a spell.
Russia cutting off energy to Europe is trying to get those countries to the same point - where the people in Germany or wherever in Europe say enough is enough and protest the high costs to pressure the governments to capitulate to Russia.
Some personal POV from a Russian who already moved to Russia in March. I find this "what's going through my mind" stuff quite useful in getting a hold of the reality from another side.
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A chief enlistment officer has been shot in a small town in Siberia, and burning recruitment offices is back in fashion.
Protests are small in size, but they're happening all over the country, and have been proven a problem for some of the minor provinces which have a shortage of secrurity forces, in part due to those security forces being in Ukraine.
A chief enlistment officer has been shot in a small town in Siberia, and burning recruitment offices is back in fashion.
Protests are small in size, but they're happening all over the country, and have been proven a problem for some of the minor provinces which have a shortage of secrurity forces, in part due to those security forces being in Ukraine.
Nova_ja Gazeta reports that a quarter of a million Russian men have left the country since the start of the mobilization.
I wonder how many have been actually mobilized and sent to training centers and/or the front.
Quarter million men fleeing is a huge number, even for a country as big as Russia. Tag that onto the number of casualties from the actual conflict, plus the pandemic, and you'll get a demographic shift like from WWII. Obviously not to that extent, but certainly it'll be perceptible IMO.
Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told RIA news agency that his client could not be called up because he had not previously served in the Russian army.
Might want to break an arm just in case.
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I read that Russia is considering closure of their border crossings, but that might be the match that lights everything up. I also wonder if they have the manpower to do it.
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I read that Russia is considering closure of their border crossings, but that might be the match that lights everything up. I also wonder if they have the manpower to do it.
They've been publicly "considering" it for at least a couple of days now.
