Posted on 11/20/2022 11:11:15 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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The propaganda display left Katya, a middle-aged Moscow schoolteacher, who had brought along a group of 11-year-old pupils, with more questions than answers. She said she wondered what all the casualties were for.
“No one understands anything,” she said as she left the exhibition hall. “First we came up to Kyiv, and then we left — and how many people were killed? Then we took Kherson, and then we left it again. And how many people were killed?”
“Even military men,” she said, referring to veterans of earlier Russian wars in her family, “they know how war works. But even they don’t understand this strategy.”
For many in Moscow, the retreat from Kherson has sown confusion and raised questions about the war’s costs to Russia. Most of all, the news has added to the general, simmering anxiety people have felt since late September, when Putin announced a military draft and brought the war directly into Russian homes for the first time.
“Everyone is in an unstable state, nervous, anxious,” Katya said of her friends, colleagues and family. “Everyone is depressed.”
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if Russians are increasingly concerned about the war, they appear to feel little attachment to the newly occupied territories that Moscow annexed to great fanfare after holding sham referendums there. As a result, many have reacted with indifference to the loss of a place such as Kherson.
“Of course, it’s pretty amazing how easily the Russian authorities said goodbye to Kherson,” Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of political consultancy R. Politik, wrote in social media post. “And the people don’t seem to be clinging on to the new ‘territories’ either.”
She pointed to a recent Levada poll that asked Russians to name major events they remembered from the news. Just 9 per cent recalled the referendums and annexation
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The Soros stooges are back!
Pointing and laughing at the neighbors when your house is the one burning down. Keep up the good work there Skeeter🤡🕺🏻🤡
In before all of the comments related to “The Great Patriotic War.” These guys have a war woody that’s lasted 80 years.
No. We point and laugh at dead and cold Russian conscripts. They would love a fire these nights.
Think ya got it backwards Jack wagon. It’s the “Ukcicles”that need the heat.
🔥 🤡😂
Because the Russians had 300,000 extra sets of winter boots laying around.
Or is it like rifles? You just hope the dead body in front of you has boots that fit you—and you have the right ammo for their gun.
Because, when you are running away from the river…you need boots that fit.
Hush Troll.
Lions just scored.
I’ll reply to you post after I get you an answer from my 3 year old.😂
Oh my..you are a Lions fan?
I am so sorry for you.
Appreciate that 😉
What? You’re not going to hurl another insult that proves your lack of a coherent argument?
The Putlerists are going soft. Read that any way you want.
Ahh. Another Troll pipes up.
Soft. Like your boyfriend.🤡
We Americans are watching Football. Your World Cup starts today. Enjoy.
For now. Alas. Good Night Sweet Prince.🕺🏻🐸😂
Thanks for proving my point by making yourself look like an a-hole.
“Russians struggle to make sense of Ukraine war after Kherson retreat”
Dear Russians, please allow me to help you understand this:
Вы проигрываете войну
(You are losing the war)
You’re welcome!
Propaganda alright. Ukraine is full of it.
Are you OK? Do you need a hug.🤡
My God. None of these kids are any different from your own. They are there because they loved what they thought was their country and volunteered to fight for it. And they are dying because they are not high enough on the ladder to realize the world is being taken over by a giant CIA/Stasi-like intel operation which uses guys like Soros as money-launderers.
If you are a cop, do you know about the US domestic surveillance, and how it makes a mockery of the 4th amendment?
If you know about it, do you realize 9/11 could not have slipped through its cracks, and it had to let 9/11 happen?
The Russians volunteered? I guess they were so excited to get in the army they drove to the Georgian border to sign up there.
The Ukranian kids are fighting because they don’t want to die.
Telling me that they are loved is just stupid. Of course parents love their kids.
Russian parents evidently are not willing to die for their kids, or they would put a stop to this.
Not sure what the rambling about 9/11 is. But, whatever.
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