If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is happening in Ukraine

Re:If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is h... by KennyBlanken on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:04PM (#30602315)

Is this a joke? Putin is wildly popular because he 'stands up to the west' and had presided over economic prosperity.

He got away with blowing up four apartment buildings, with plain-as-day evidence showing the bombings were conducted by the FSB. The population didn't care. They didn't care when he went around assassinating people outside the country. Didn't care when he invaded Crimea. Chicken in the pot, car in the driveway.

There wasn't any "anti-war" sentiment until the sanctions started kicking in.

Now that the ruble is worth less than toilet paper and they can't watch Netflix, they're willing to stand up to him?

Welcome to the cost of your country shitting all over the rest of the world for two decades. Hope y'all enjoy being sanctioned into the stone ages.

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Re:If you speak Russian, call Russia and tell them what is h... by utrack on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:20PM (#30602576)

> There wasn't any "anti-war" sentiment until the sanctions started kicking in.

LMAO, sorry, but you have absolutely no effing clue what you're talking about. Russia and Ukraine are very interconnected, almost everyone has friends and relatives on the other side. Anti war sentiment was there long before 24th of February.

If you're speaking about news coverage in the US, well, that's another story. Even in western EU, there was a lot of commotion since January.

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