It’s stunning, really. Kharkiv, Ukraine is a million and half people. 15 miles from the border. Almost entirely native speaking Russians. Yet They have no interest in being “denazified.” If they don’t then the folks Putin is currently holding hostage in his fairy tale Republics don’t either.
Putin will lose everything he’s stolen in Ukraine now. His fairy tale Donetsk republic and eventually Crimea, too. If the million ethnic Russians 15 miles from the border don’t want any part of Putin’s Russia neither do the Crimeans.
Yep, Ukraine may have very corrupt politicians and does need to be cleaned up, but it is not an autocratic dictatorship with basically no rights as Russia is now. People can speak freely and can work and try to better themselve in Ukraine, there is also a revival of Christianity there which will eventually help to clear out the corruption I believe. No one would choose Putin’s KGB style oppressive country where people get hauled off just for a quiet protest holding signs or saying the wrong thing on social media.
Indeed it is stunning. Russia is a paper tiger (barring an invasion of Russia itself). I noted on another thread that I knew Pooty was done when the Ukranian women said they were getting bombarded by Tinder requests to hook up. The Russian “soldiers” didn’t go there to fight those Ukranians. They went there to get laid.
I just hope someone in Russia can take Putin out before he loses it entirely.