On the crack of dawn of 24 February our dearest leader Mr. Putin ordered invasion of Ukraine making it abundantly clear that he is the first national leader in the modern history of Russia (in whatever form it has existed) that will leave the country economically, politically, culturally, emotionally, and spiritually in a much worse shape that on the day he ascended to power, back when I was a baby of about 2.
(A truly impressive achievement at the time when world’s economy has grown twice in the same period).
Putin lays blame on the invasion squarely on the shoulders of the government in Ukraine, and calls it a ‘de-Nazification’ special operation (which is even more absurd given that President Zelenskyy is Jewish)
Politically this war will be writ in history textbooks as a perfidious attack on the sovereign nation of Ukraine prompted by a Russian regime’s imperial ambitions, kleptocratic tendencies, and personal animosities.
Earlier today, I walked the streets of Moscow a while to observe reactions.
No jubilations, no beaming faces, no high fives among strangers proud in the fact that our neighboring nation will soon have all its Jewish-Nazis exterminated.
The always normally worn-out faces of Moscovites have grown a darker shade of grey within the night.
I stopped to buy a cup of Americano (the drink will soon be renamed I guess) that by the ongoing exchange rate costs 50 cents, to sit and observe people in the coffee shop. Meanwhile police vans and cheap crow-black sedans of Investigative Committee are parked on street corners with engines idling.
My usually peppy Big Boss, our own oligarch (aka my father) is moody and quiet.
Alexei Navalny used as a pulpit the improvised court house in his penal colony - where he’s being tried on new bogus charges to keep him jailed indefinitely:
[quote]I’m against this war. The goal of the war it to misdirect attention from the problems in Russia…I consider the individuals who started this war crooks and bandits.[/quote]
Supermarkets have doubled prices for foreign-produced foodstuff overnight. A $100 bill I have leftover from a recent trip to Turkey, has gone from 6,500 rubles to 9,000 rubles and keeps going, gaining almost 50% in value here.
And this is all nothing compared what the peoples of Ukraine experience today.
What a boon for Ukraine and Russia alike!
We are brothers and sisters and we are neighbors 🙁
I wish peaceful skies to all ❤️ 🇺🇦 🇷🇺
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Thank you so much for this😭 I am trying to be fair and realize that NATO is threat to Russia and has been moving closer. But they still didn't throw the first punch. But I def do not blame the people of Russia as they are good common people and they are going to suffer too from disrupted trade and sanctions. Whereas the rich and powerful have enough wealth to isolate themselves from consequences. But stay safe and stay good. I'm neither Russian nor Ukrainian but I am human and I stand with humanity not the greedy and insane.
@canusernamebemyusername [quote]I am trying to be fair and realize that NATO is threat to Russia[/quote] NATO is [b]no[/b] threat to Russia. Why would NATO members threaten peaceful countries? Do you really think France or UK or Poland made plans to invade Russia??? [u]Democracy[/u] is a threat to the leading Russian criminals, that's all.
@helenS Do France, Poland, the UK and the USA, just to name a few, have plans on file to invade/attack Russia. Military minds LOVE to plan endlessly for every contingency. Do the ACTUALLY plan to do so -- nope.
@helenS NATO is threat to Russia in Putin's mind, because I think for the ex-KGB man, the idea of a military alliance only for defence makes no sense. NATO is something to the Russian leadership they cannot quite understand.
Besides, there is a truth to the idea of the NATO "threat", in the sense of spheres of influence I guess, and the Kremlin sees the idea of old Soviet members or territories like Poland or Lithuania inside a western alliance as troubling.
Not that I agree, but I think that could be their sense of it...
@ChampagneTraveller Actually I don't give a f*cking sh*t about that assassin's mind. The whole concept of "spheres of influence" is anti-democratic and authoritarian. It's exactly that concept which we have to fight against, with all means, [u]except[/u] war.
