Why? How could the Russian people have stopped this without destroying themselves? A war they cant see is one thing. Theyd have no food, water, internet if they tried to mount a revolution. Theyd be shot. Hell, they might be nuked as a "get back in line"!.
And yet we are still on a thread detailing that some Russians STILL ARE doing what they can against it. What do you expect them to do that doesn't put them in extreme danger?
Did Americans go and commit domestic terrorism when Iraq was invaded? Hell Americans as a whole said, "oh well", to a million dead in Iraq. Americans didn't do anything about it. Americans voted the fucker back in. Americans supported it. "hell yea kill those Iraqi terrorists".
At least Russians have the balls to commit sabotage knowing they WILL be tortured to death WHEN caught. They'll be made into an example. They have far less ability to do anything about it. They cant vote. They cant protest. Americans could. They didn't. Most supported it.
See the thing is, Russians DONT support this to the extent Americans supported the Iraq war. Some survey claimed most Russians do at some point. But heres the thing - surveys cannot be unbias in Russia. They ARE bias in Putin's favor, always. But I tell you what, most Russians (only younger ones) I have spoke to don't support the war. Now, most Russians dislike the west just as much, but what do you expect? There is no such thing as separation of fact and fiction in Russia. Yet many Russians can still see their government is lying.
If Russians are at fault for the Ukraine war, Americans are at fault for the Iraq war. Period. These wars can be directly compared. So far, America did way more to Iraq than the Ukraine war has (yet). One million dead. For some WMDs that didn't exist.
(as if WMDs would be a reason to invade a country anyway. If anything, id say its the opposite! Just tell them: "hey, use those, your country is getting flattened. if a terrorist gets ahold of them, you are still getting flattened." At least in my opinion. It prevents invasion the country, which as you can see in Ukraine, is the ONLY way to prevent war from escalating, is to prevent invasion.)
