"I've been talking to a number of acquaintances in Russia. These are well-educated professionals who speak English fluently, many of whom have lived/worked in the US/Europe. Some are highly critical of Putin, and many were very much opposed to the SMO."
Some observations:
(twitter.com)
💊 Russian Red Pill 💊
If you only read the intro tweet you would believe they were against what Putin is doing.
Their position in the following tweets is a 180 degrees the opposite. They believe they are in a prolonged war, and the only acceptible result is total occupation of Ukraine.
Read the rest of his message on twitter.
Most of the opposition to Putin stems from the belief that he’s not doing enough or not moving fast enough.
Most of the oppo to Putin is made-up bullshit by our own MSM lol.
but yeah. The legit criticism seems to be he's going too softly softly.
Excellent thread! Thanks, OP.
"They seem to have lost their respect, admiration—and fear—of the West. Certainly their trust. They all believe that “human rights”, “democracy”, etc. are empty platitudes the West uses to get its way.
They see the West as a paper tiger, run by fools and degenerates."
I'm in Canada and I feel the same as these Russians. It's hard not to when we have "leaders" like Biden and Turdoo.
I stand corrected. LOL!
well they're not wrong to be fair lol
As I recall, we were successfully corrupted by the Soviet Union as described by Yuri Bezmenoff.
That's what many in the West are realizing, too.
Read All 12 Tweets In This Thread Anons. Very important to gain the full thoughts/info laid out bare, of what’s really going on over in Europe from Anon Russians.
Sadly this is fair, as they see the actions of our leaders more than the common folk. The US has a lot to account for, and fix moving forward. And I say this as a 100% Patriot.
Hell, I've lost my respect for the west. It is depressing to realize you have been on Team Bad Guy.
"...Are we the baddies?"
Yes.
"If we were fighting an army under the banner of a rat's anus, I'd probably be a lot less worried"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1626167488516968448.html
I am starting to think that Putin is slow walking this on purpose. Several plausible reasons exist: (1) no reason to increase the carnage on the Russian side - most objectives are already achieved; (2) keeps the west from trying to assert the moral high ground based on Russian "barbarism" in a scorched earth battle plan; and (3) it substantially reduces the amount of weapons and ammo we can send to Taiwan when China decides its time to go.
Yes, if he slow walks this war, then Taiwan must be spared, no matter how much the DS has an agenda. Which makes this whole spy balloon so much more ridiculous, if they thought that the affair would make the population rarked towards yet another war.
Boohhoo. Some of us are reading about geopolitics everyday. You won't curry any favors by insulting us.
It appears these Russian professionals are describing the Germans as suffering from collective Anosognosia, which is defined as a lack of ability to perceive the realities of one’s own condition. Anosognosia is a result of changes to the brain..... That 'change' is well documented in brain studies of leftist liberals. It is essentially the consequences of wokeism. For the Germans, their anosognosia shows such a prevalency of schizophrenia or bipolarism, it has reached an extinction level event. As a people, the Germans have become increasingly suicidal.
Glad to see Lira's still okay. He vanished for a while and said the Ukraine power structure was NOT happy with him for posting videos exposing their lies.
Russia needs to dominate Europe if it is to survive and I personally hope they do. I despise Europe and would like to see them decimated. World War and suffering for hundreds of years appears to emanate from Europe. America was formed to escape European Tyrants.
Fuck Europe!!!!!!!!
Id not have a single American soldier or piece of equipment on that entire continent if I could have my way. Let them fight the Russians ALONE.
Honestly half of europe might side against nato at this point. The real damage to europe wasnt the invasion of ukraine, it was the demolition of the pipelines from russia they rely on. And the US did that, not russia.
So why should they piss off their aggressive, behemoth neighbor who has done them no quantifiable harm, to please another aggressive behemoth across the ocean, who is the reason they have no heat in winter?
I have no idea how much those pipelines cost, but surely in modernity they can be rebuilt to be even better and more efficient. However, that there was an attack they tried to pin on the other side should definitely set a lot of people against us.
The problem is they are miles underwater so it might require whole new pipelines to be laid rather than trying to repair a breach at that depth. Either way it's a major undertaking
Absolutely a huge setback, but something that was built once can be built again. The biggest key is ensuring that it doesn't get destroyed again, and that means some accountability.
There is only one navy that has enough vessels to control international waters, and it's the one that blew up the pipeline in the first place. So talking about rebuilding is a futile gesture until the US/russia situation is resolved... which is why European countries depending on that pipeline behoove themselves to side with russia
Are the Russians completely oblivious to the actual war being fought and who the real enemy is? Are they unaware that the West is actually captured territory and that the People of the West are fighting for their lives same as the Ukrainians? That if a referendum were held, the most likely outcome would be overwhelming comdemnation for this war? Have they any suspicion that the reason the war is going as slow as it is, is because it is only part of a worldwide war against the pedo death cult?
Is anyone here aware if the Russians have taken any notice of the type of stuff we talk about here daily?
Putin himself has referenced the shit that Trump supporters and conservatives in general have been put through, and talks about how many of us have lost faith in our government. Putin himself has said stronger words about our freedoms than most of our government.
I'd say yes, there is at least some degree of Russia that understands this. Just not on Reddit.
Yes I understand Putin and the Russian Government understand. But after reading that I got the distinct impression the people absolutely dont.
Hopefully Putin will expand on the issue of the captured Western world by NATO/WEF in his upcoming speech on Feb. 21st.
Russia does seem to be going slow, but then there may be a reason. Some coordination with actions in other areas of the world.