Quote from: swogerino on April 23, 2023, 08:31:06 PM

Quote from: Etranger on April 23, 2023, 08:06:48 AM

Quote from: LTU_btc on April 22, 2023, 11:28:42 PM

I posted about it few days ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5382794.msg62123449#msg62123449
I just can't understand how they can be so dumb.

They are not only so dumb, they also desperately trying to pass off what they wish for reality. They do not have enough resources, they are trying to increase the production of equipment, as always they multiply quantity at the expense of quality, and in the end they suffer themselves. They are ready to go to the most cruel, most stupid, destructive deeds just to please their leader, who himself does not understand where reality begins and ends. An adequate person cannot understand this supreme stupidity, because in order to understand it, one would have to abandon objective perception and immerse one's life in a myth that has been created for decades and destroys the lives of millions of people, both in their own country and in other countries.

That is true.Russia has been immersing themselves in such a bad situation that even if the war ends right now they need a good 20-40 years to go back to the state they were before starting this illegal war.They have committed horrible war crimes which thanks to the technology right now are well documented different from wars that have taken place before like WW2.Their leader is the sole responsible for this failure,he started the war as he did not want NATO near his borders and yet he has added another 1300 km borders to Russia from Finland who joined NATO a couple of months ago.I am not astonished by this though,I know what kind of evil Russian government people are but what I am astonished is that ordinary Russians support their government,that is the sad part of this.

One man can not be solely blamed for such a catastrophe we have right now. The propaganda machine that legitimizes all their crimes is not created by one person, it is simply impossible. Of course, their leader is a key figure who gathered a gang around him, and to whom he gave orders. But now the situation has already gotten out of even his frantic control, because this system is so entrenched that even he cannot remain outside its influence, therefore he himself is subject to propaganda, at the origins of which he stood. He does not receive reliable information because his servants are afraid to present true data. They distort them to suit him, and he believes it, and continues to act on the basis of conclusions from this completely falsified data.

I am not astonished at all that ordinary russians support their government. The percentage of people living below the poverty line, without education, without prospects, without dreams and opportunities, is huge in russia. In such a situation, the only thing left for them to support at least some goal to live on is faith in something much bigger than their lives and themselves. That is why they so easily and desperately believe in a "great russia" myth with an imperial past and future, that is why they are ready to die for this fairy tale, because they have nothing to live for. Another question is that if these people were stronger, more rational, they could think about why those countries, which they consider enemies for centuries (USA, joined West, Ukraine etc), which are constantly "planning an attack" on their dear russia, live much better than they themselves. And after that, they could have thought about how to make it so that they themselves would have a similar standard of living. However, it is too complicated. It's easier to pick up a weapon that gives you a false sense of strength and power and go to someone's house to take and destroy what others have.