Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I heard it was a sabotage hit.

1000+ in one day? Damn...Russia really is having a rough time of it. I wish those lads would just go home. Just feck off and leave Ukraine alone. Ukriane must fight, and they must do this for their own sake...but the Russian lads could just feck off home instead of adding to such a stupid, *needless* tally of death.

The scale of Putin's crime to the world should never be minimised when we see things like this. Nor should anyone be allowed to forget.

I suppose how many people are going to start these protests you would need maybe millions out protesting but the first few will be arrested and put away its a big sacrifice for those people with no guarantee of success.

Russia is running out of (or running low) on certain munitions, but it's not like they go to their warehouse one day and it's "empty". It means their stockpiles are decreasing, which causing them to decrease the number they expend and rely on other means (e.g. Shahed drones)

Putin was showing potential signs of illness in various videos, which led to (hopeful) speculation that he was ill or had health issues.

People naturally support Ukraine, a part of that are these optimistic or speculative views. Using any opportunity to snipe at these views comes across as contrarian "concern".

@Wolf359f perfectly summarized for anyone. And I made a point earlier - especially the ones living abroad can protest, they chose not to. Instead they organize huge rallies to support Putin and his war - this seems to slip your mind, or you just choose to ignore. As one poster said earlier, they could stay silent if they are afraid to protest, but rallying in support gives a completely different picture.

Do you also think the populations of Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea are complicit in their dictatorships? Or that the Syrian population is complicit in Assad? Cos, you know, if they didn't like him they'd obviously revolt and get rid of him....

Sitting there pontificating from your cosy little pulpit in the democratic west: you really have no idea what it's like to live under these systems nor can you claim what you would do in the same situation.

Which is NOT to say the Russian population bears no responsibility. They do bear some. But the reality is far more complex and difficult than you give credit for

Some brave Russian citizens are going to have to step up and risk a potential trip to the gulag to help Putin see the error of his ways on this. Putin won't voluntarily pull back from this conflict so long as he has troops to fight it.

"Maybe not in the masses, but certainly in pockets and they weren't afraid to call out their government on it. "

As there are in Russia, the difference is that in Russia you're likely to get sent to a siberian prison for 25 years if you protest, one wonders how many of you would be vocally protesting if you knew that was a possibility.

As for Guantanamo, there are still prisoners held there after 2 decades who have never had a trial never mind found guilty, No protests about that so that means every US citizen is OK with this treatment of prisoners right?

Iranian women and men were being murdered protesting. Over 500 of them. They still decided to protest despite that. Maybe they have more balls than the Russians? Maybe they actually (as a whole) disagreed with their leadership? Or maybe, just maybe as a whole the Russians don't care what their government does in their name?

Comparing a genocidal war against Ukraine, 50,000+ war crimes. With footage of a lot of the war crimes readily available to view online is not the same as 20 terrorists locked away.

I can well understand Russians opposed to the war that are living in Russia staying quiet. With this in mind for all America's faults in their foreign policy over the years,at least as an American citizen you are free to dissent and oppose your government . The Russian equivalent of Norman Finkelstein or Noam Chomsky are eliminated or are left to rot in prison for years. So you can't blame people for staying quiet when this is the likely consequence of speaking out in Putin's Russia.

However Russians living abroad , who have no family back home , have no excuse about staying quiet. Their silence can only be interpreted as tacit support for what is going on.

Are Wagner anywhere near any of the frontlines at the moment?

But how many would not have family and friends?

Dont get me wrong, I'm sure there are many Russians living here in the west who are actively supporting and encouraging the war.

But the ones who are not? Maybe they just want to keep their heads down, they know that others in the Russian community could be watching them and ready to cause trouble for them, or their family for saying anything against the war at all.

They generally operate out of Crimea, surface rust appears on anything metal the operates over or close to sea air ,there not rusting junk and being claimed in that thread, someone needs to learn how to use Google properly,

I'm sure people said the same when they seen this

I wish they would come out everywhere and protest but it's kind of easy to say that from afar not so straight forward when it's your turn to be at the forefront considering the likely consequences.