[varyouga]

The fact is pretty much nobody wants to live in Russia or a satellite state except for old people that grew up under Soviet propoganda. People always leave the first chance they get. I've lived there and don't know a single person with resources that stayed behind.

The west has its problems but Russia is an oppressive clownshow for the average citizen the likes of which you cannot imagine until living there. The feeling there is unshakeable and you quickly will understand why so much booze is used to numb it.

Not even children of the wealthiest oligarchs want to live there because it is unsafe and oppressive even for them.

"NATO expansion" is the obvious will of free people. A better standard of living accross the border is the biggest threat to an oppressive gangster state that is now lashing out.

[hardspunned]

Nope, you need pics of the CIA and Nuland running the coup to overthrow the legitimate unaligned government in Ukraine in 2014. That’s how the warmongering neocons forced NATO down the Ukes throats. That’s how NATO started this CF ten years ago.

[Erik Latranyi]

Nobody wants to live in Mexico either.

So what?

[dforest]

Russia is what it is. No arguing that.

What is amazing while reading your post is that you could have been describing exactly what is happening in all western countries.

Yet you fail to recognize it is happening and support the globalist cabal behind it.

NATO expansion is not the will of free people. It is a corrupt communist elitist cabal creating a world government right under your nose pretending that “the people” want it. They use and force decent people to die for their immoral expansion and wrap their deception in a flag of “freedom” to make it palatable.

[billakay]

Your assessment is so incorrect it borders on comical. 1) I’ve lived in Russia. I didn’t leave for any reason having to do with Russia or oppression. 2) I personally know people who came to the US after 2022 (via asylum request) and decided to pack it up and go home. 3) I was recently told by someone who had business at the NY Russian Consulate that there was a line of people getting documents for return to Russia due to similar circumstances as #2.

Overall, things are weird because of the ongoing conflict (reminds me of my grandparents and parents stories of the American draft years) but I’d still pick Russia to live in over many many other countries.