5/31 essay by Dmitry Orlov. Food for thought.
De Odio
https://cluborlov.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/de-odio/
“Those who insist on operating with incomplete and faulty information make bad decisions and create bad outcomes for themselves. But it gets worse: while wallowing in the putrid bath of predicaments of their own making, they will discover that they have earned the Russians’ hate and that the Russians have been planning to take revenge on them.”
so the Russians are cowards like the Mafia
they kill anyone who criticizes them, that’s what you’re saying, right?
Medvedev ignores that the cause of the sanctions on the Russian people is the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian destruction of Ukrainian cities and turning 1/4 the population into refugees. He does not mention the word Ukraine once in this letter, that according to Orlov, is reflective of how much of Russia thinks. By his words and actions, Putin has made it clear he wants a second CCCP/USSR.
Every former Soviet client state in Europe who are now NATO members back Ukraine. Russia lied to its soldiers to get them to cross the line of departure to invade. The Russian government and people have no right to act innocent at the U.S. and European response to their actions.
Then it follows that the “west” has always been well advised to treat Russia as an enemy, or at least as a vastly untrustworthy entity. A lot of people and leaders in the west forgot that over the years.
As far as odium goes, now it is also flowing in vast gales in the other direction.