If the Russians are smart and reasonable people they will want Putin to be overthrown as soon as possible! And the sooner the better for them.

1. There will be 300,000 fewer Russian casualties in Ukraine.
2. The very rich will not be able to create 100-150 private armies (and they have already started to create them, because there is a battle for the economic and financial succession of the Putin regime and redistribution of property and power).
3. The collapse of the Russian economy is not yet irreversible, but it will become irreversible inevitably.
4. The terminally ill Putin may, leaving this world, take the world with him to hell by throwing it into a nuclear war.

02/23/2023

We are talking with a friend:

- The vast majority of people prefer to have a dictator, to decide for them, to tell them what to do, so that they don't have to think, so that they don't take risks.

And democracy, even an incomplete one, is a great thing!
It takes man out of the comfort of impersonality, grayness, indifference and mediocrity and tells him: Be free, be yourself, be brave, be responsible for your life strategy!

We see what an ugly, gray, vicious, sour mass the Russians have become. There are many wonderful people and talented artists among them, but as a people they have become reactionary, envious, hating those who live better than them; they see enemies everywhere, they feel like they are in a besieged fortress.
And because they failed to build a normal society, all they do is to prevent others from living normally. As long as they did it with brutal propaganda, it was more or less eaten. But they turned to aggression, and this is already intolerable and unacceptable!

02/23/2023

Everyone is waiting for the plan of Comrade Xi:
My (too optimistic) thoughts about what he would have to offer.

1. The West to refuse any claim to change power in Russia and to judge the so-called culprits for the war.
2. An international fund is established with the participation of Russia to eliminate the consequences of the war and to restore Ukraine.
3. Termination by the end of 2023 of all sanctions imposed on Russia.
4. Unconditional respect for the territorial integrity of all countries.
5. The foreign policy orientation of Ukraine by principle: Ukraine in NATO, but NATO not in Ukraine.
6. Up to 10 weeks - return to the boundaries of Ukraine to December 2022.
Up to 10 months - return to the boundaries of Ukraine as of February 2022.
Up to 10 years - return to the boundaries of Ukraine as of February 2014.
7. After 10 years - Ukraine within the borders until December 1991, but with joint management of Crimea by Ukraine and Russia – a condominium (i.e. a territory with established sovereign authority over it by both countries), similar to the joint management of Andorra by France and Spain.

02/22/2023

Ukrainian commentator:
We are at war with an archaic, primitive state. Rachists have only one advantage: that there are too many of them. They are grasshopper eagles, locusts. In these swarms of pests, the life of a grasshopper does not matter. They only know how to devastate. They have no feelings, no reason.

02/22/2023

The answer probably lies in the following:
Russian elites (already or long ago) do not believe what Putin says. They have no illusion that it is true. But they have a frantic fear of him. They can lose everything. Or fall from a very high floor.
The broad masses, however, believe what Putin tells them.
That is why the leading Russian propagandists use such primitive and elementary language.
The leading Russian propagandists are speaking directly to the masses, who must be systematically brainwashed into believing what Putin says. This is the drug for the masses that keeps them submissive and voiceless in the fictional reality that Putin lives in.

02/22/2023