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APPLEBAUM: Putin presented a fake image of Russia to the world. He talks about himself as leader of traditional society.
In fact, divorce rates are very high in Russia, abortion is very common, very few Russians go to church, and less than 5% of Russians have ever read a Bible.
So it's not an especially religious or traditional culture, but Putin has made himself the face of that idea because it's politically advantageous.
He uses it both to build support, to court, and to win over sympathizers in the West, and maybe he uses it at home as well.
It looks a little bit like how in the 1930s Soviet communists also sold a vision of the Soviet Union to Americans and Europeans about how marvelous it was and how they had discovered a new kind of political system.
If you've never been to Russia, Russia is a large country, it's far away, so you can imagine a lot of things about it. You can create a kind of imaginary Russia, an imaginary Soviet Union.
Especially if you only visit Moscow and St. Petersburg, like most tourists do. But most of the people who admire Russia haven't even been to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
It's very similar today. You have a part of European right and American right who have this imaginary Russia that they use as a symbol, without understanding that it has no relationship to reality.
@prestonstew_#Ukraine should occasionally send a drone just to mess with them...
and there are still a few decent targets like storage tanks...
if they cant store fuel or oil, they cant refine or distribute it either...
@SundaeDivine@atrupar and he never answered the primary question, he merely regurgitated standard department boilerplate...
he never accounted for his prejudices...
@jurgen_nauditt but buying the gas is no guarantee that the orcs will get to use it, bc #Ukraine continues to hit tankers, trains, trucks, ports, and all assoc infrastructure...
Russia plans to buy gasoline from India and Kazakhstan.
According to Reuters reports, the Russians specifically plan to acquire 50,000 tons of AI-92 grade gasoline from Kazakhstan.
The irony here is that the Russians sold oil to the Indians at a rock-bottom price (at least prior to the war with Iran), and now they are buying gasoline back from them at three times that price. Putin, the "geostategist," has once again outdone himself.
Meanwhile, the price of Brent crude continues to fall—a barrel now costs less than 74 US dollars.
⚡️Belarus halts equipment used to guide Russian strikes, Zelensky says, after Ukraine's ultimatum.
The development comes days after Zelensky issued an ultimatum to Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, giving Minsk one week to remove the equipment or face unspecified action by Ukraine.
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@Maks_NAFO_FELLA NICE!
the bela orcs gotta know that #Ukraine only makes 'predictive' statements when they are confident that they can execute their prediction at any time...
ie, no BS from Ukraine, just the hard reality...