Corruption at every level, that country is a cess pit. Even after the war ends, the trauma will remain for decades.
The best thing to do would be to execute all those in power, from local government up, all military command, the “legal” system of judges and state lawyers and police management. All who enabled the war to continue.
It will be the citizens last chance to end the corruption, before THEY gain power and authority again.
Purge them all. Otherwise the rot will begin again.
Many stay in the city because they are afraid of losing their homes, shops and other real estate. Also, there is simply no way to leave. But the only thing that scares the residents of Pokrovsk is not the arrival of the Russian armed forces, but the fact that after the retreat, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will start shelling the city and turn it into the same ruins as Bakhmut and Avdeyevka.
I think there are quite a few 'opposition' members sitting in Ukrainian prisons - Accountants and Prosecutors, for example.
I do not agree with de-capitation strikes - i.e., the killing of scumbags in power. But you are right, they need to at least have a magnificent Narcissitic Collapse that has them impoverished and without any friends. Perhaps pepe-power will win in the end. I suspect there are young men hiding in double walls and being fed by neighbors or Grandmothers, just like during the Spanish Civil War, and the French Underground. People tend to vote with their feet. So, it is a matter of changing the perception of Zelenski's sweaty glamor.
Agreed on all fronts, I forgot about the bribery.
Corruption at every level, that country is a cess pit. Even after the war ends, the trauma will remain for decades.
The best thing to do would be to execute all those in power, from local government up, all military command, the “legal” system of judges and state lawyers and police management. All who enabled the war to continue.
It will be the citizens last chance to end the corruption, before THEY gain power and authority again.
Purge them all. Otherwise the rot will begin again.
Here is some information about stay-behind residents, from an editor who recently left Pokrovsk to avoid the war: https://johnhelmer.net/the-war-came-to-pokrovsk/
I think there are quite a few 'opposition' members sitting in Ukrainian prisons - Accountants and Prosecutors, for example.
I do not agree with de-capitation strikes - i.e., the killing of scumbags in power. But you are right, they need to at least have a magnificent Narcissitic Collapse that has them impoverished and without any friends. Perhaps pepe-power will win in the end. I suspect there are young men hiding in double walls and being fed by neighbors or Grandmothers, just like during the Spanish Civil War, and the French Underground. People tend to vote with their feet. So, it is a matter of changing the perception of Zelenski's sweaty glamor.