It’s a shame that this tweet has been marked as “sensitive content”. There’s genuinely nothing sensitive in pictures of Navalny marching with a bunch of nazis.
But Russians are afraid that their only chance to still sell themselves to the west as “good” is sullied as well.
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I won’t go into detail about which level contains which defensive reaction - you can look them up on wiki.
I want to denote something: for one - you can distinguish Russian people in the comments on this poll by their defense mechanisms being anything but *mature*.
The key points to arms trade in Ukraine sum up to:
🔹 pro-Russian establishment; collaborators, who trade weapons for profit = scum
🔹 strategic trade, that allows for purchases of urgently needed equipment
1st is clear.
2nd is more difficult to accept for your average person.
To explain it in borderline simple terms:
Imagine you have apples but need some oranges very badly.
And someone has oranges but won’t exchange them for your apples.
You sell the apples elsewhere for money and buy the oranges.
First of all: “Russian origin” and Russians are different things.
Russian origins means that the person might have been born in Russia or migrated a long time ago but no longer shares any cultural or political connection with it.
These people have no business in this war.
Russians, however, very much do.
There’s whole 🧵 on Twitter, written by Ukrainians and Americans far smarter that me, who elaborate in detail how and why Russian people are the ones who fully bare responsibility for their government’s crimes, wether they supported it or not.