Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service's 2023 Security Report

Re:Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service's 2023 Security Report by yourapostasy on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:31AM (#34707721)

> ...but lots of 60+ yr old Russians are living in a past they'll never get back to and are blithely ruining Russia's future to get there.

That sounds like a Russian Federatiom Boomer generation dragging the rest of the nation down with it to rack and ruin for a nostalgic kick. For those on the ground in the Russian Federation or corresponding closely with those on the ground, is support for the war really mostly stemming from that generation and do they possess the kind of sociopolitical leverage as Boomers in the US?

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Re:Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service's 2023 Security Report by throw-ru-938 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:22AM (#34710313)

Independent polling agrees with you: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/05/2022/62825a8f9a794718a6e85...

And the Russian leadership certainly is gerontocratic: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/31/the-old-guard

As for the social leverage, I don't think they have much on the national level. However, I feel the lower-rung govt staff is mostly composed of 50-something women, and these also dominate meetings of homeowner associations. The men are either hard at work or already dead, and the younger people are not numerous and don't have much rights.

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