Do Russians standing ankle-deep in some trench in Ukraine, developing PTSD from the sound of DJI drones, ever stand back, look at their country and even consider, "What am I fighting for? What future am I really protecting? All this so some oligarch has another dock for his yacht on the Black Sea?"Where is the spirit of 1917? Where are the men of the Petrograd breadlines today?
>>216138969>Why don't they pursue expansionism and genocide for only nominally more self-interested reasons based on slightly different propaganda?
>>216138969The upstanding Russians you're talking about are either emigrated to the US and EU or chilling in expensive apartments in Moscow.The guys that live in the buildings in your pic are the ones taking signing bonuses and going to die. In some cases the signing bonus + death bonus are more money than they expected to make during their lifetime. Additionally, gambling and payday loan debts can also be written off, as well as prison sentences.The same gangster oligarchs which immiserated these people are now effectively paying them to die and permanently fuck off: stop hanging around being problems, and go win some extra territory so they have more subjects to exploit.Once Russia runs out of this "meat" is when you might expect a little bit of discontent to start manifesting. But honestly, if you check Russian history you will see that it's basically one thousand years of this scheme being ran over and over and over, with one weird communist period. They're very practiced at it, one look at the world map should be enough to tell you that.
>>216138969They fight for money. Retard.People join military willingly from some poor shitholes, because it pays much more than they could ever get in their bumfuck villages.
>>216138969Nobody goes to war because of ideals dumbfuck retard
>>216139355>The guys that live in the buildings in your pic are the ones taking signing bonuses and going to die.Not really. The pic is from Norilsk and they have good wages there. And the city is very slowly getting better.
>>216139523Seems like the OP's pic was take from this small hill.
>>216139523>very slowly getting bettertranslation:we now only take photos the 1 sunny day of the year
>>216139614As you can see some buildings on the background are renovated.
>>216139523>it looks better if you take the photo from far enough so that it’s not visible how shitty it actually lookslolThat sums up the entire country
>>216139523looks like a shithole lol
>>216139782It's actually closer. It's just different lenses and cameras were used, obviously. That's why it looks like that on the OP's pic.
>>216139846Because it kinda is.
