“It could even have become attractive as a place anti-woke people, say, could have seen as a refuge. Christian communities, German homeschoolers, Rhodesian and South African farmers, etc. Maybe more of the disaffected from Euro-American culture.”
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Good grief, I almost teared up thinking of that glorious Russian Dream you are selling. If only the US or EU was running Russia now, It could have been that wonderful with no wokies and globohomos. /s
That Russian Dream you speak of is all the things that the US regime and it’s UN/WEF cartel are wiping out in the west.
We are becoming what we proclaim to hate the most. Doesn’t matter if it is Putin or Biden. The same outcome stinks for all.
Im glad I put it what seem to be such affecting terms, I dont often manage that!
Anyway, point is the utter lack of positive Public Relations efforts on the part of this Russian government, to win friends and influence people. It seems it is incapable of any gracious, generous, or noble expressions or acts. Its default is nearly always some sort of threat, veiled or open. No smiles, only growls.
It could have done a very great deal over the last 20 years, it had the capacity and opportunity to have put itself in a positive light - without going “globohomo”, such as, as I mentioned, providing resettlement for persecuted Christian communities in the Middle East or Pakistan, a decidedly non-globohomo gesture. But it didnt.