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Putin questions legality of Ukrainian government
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Russians would revolt if he did this.
Whatever you think of the war, they really believe they are fighting against NATO expansion and neonazi repression of ethnic Russian in the annexed regions. This is a popular war, at least in Russia.
They'd support peace talks, of course, but they have demands too that have to be met.
I highly doubt that there would be any revolting, but if there is it's all created by current leadership in Russia. They have all the resources and at least used to have one of the most advanced scientists on multiple fronts, massive culture and every other possibility to be an absolute global superpower with very few who could've challenged that.
But instead they threw that all away, didn't push their country forward to prosperity and instead let the selected few raid and rape the country. And now with the war in Ukraine, over million russians are either dead or wounded, economy crumbles and the whole empire is starting to fall.
Nothing has changed since second world war in there and seems like nothing will.
First off, no nation on Earth can brainwash people into supporting an unpopular war. Their support isn't something Putin conjured from nothing and it's not something he could make go away. His people believe NATO will do to Russia what it did to Libya because NATO is imperialist. They also believe that Ukrainian neonazis are going to kill all Russian speakers, and the Russian speakers that live in the annexed regions are the ones telling them this.
Also... did you forget the USSR existed and was a global superpower? They were the first ones to space! They went to the Moon! Fuck off with this racist screed about how Russians are some kind of backwards idiot nation.
Obviously not. That's what I'm referring to, they had all the means to prosper. Crapload of our everyday things on medicine, power technology, engineering in general and a lot of other things are built on top of what USSR came up with. And even after USSR fell there was still all the possibilities for Russian Federation to grow and prosper but their leadership chose not to. With their natural resources alone, when managed sensibly, they could absolutely dominate the US and seriously challenge China.
But they have brainwashed people making the war popular in the first place. Creating enemies out of thin air, like claiming Ukraine with their jewish president is a nazi regime, is something Russia (and USSR) have been doing for centuries. Instead of improving their own country they just create distrust and destruction.
Russian people (at least the ones I know) are generous and hospitable. But Russia as a nation is really idiotic as they could just have it all. Practical global market domination with oil, forestry and agriculture, a crapload of minerals to refine and (once) some of the smartest humans around to advance their technology but instead of that they chose basically violence on multiple fronts.
The destruction of the USSR wasn't an accident caused by being an idiot nation. Their underdevelopment was the result of the Cold War! It was destroyed, it didn't just spontaneously collapse.
They had everything they needed to prosper and were attacked relentlessly for it.