I could write something like "#Russian culture" here, but really it's not it. It's not even that much cult of war these days as more of a cult of crime (although #fascist militaristic frenzy is there, yet, it's criminal "ethics" and culture that penetrates all spheres of 🇷🇺life)
🧵No, #RussianCulture is not "tanks, balalaika, bear, matryoshka" as may be made fun on in the West, neither it's "Tchaikovsky&Tolstoy™". It's endless stream of sleazy dumb criminal shows about criminal cops and mobsters, the gopnik "ethics" and culture, the cult of crime.
There is some cult of "Great Patriotic War" in #Russia, for sure - but it's really a couple of cheap, cheesy shows about that war and only for the May holidays, not even mainstream in so called #RussianCulture
..but the daily life of #Russian - criminals & cops, cops & criminals. Bribes, violence. Cult of police and cult of crime. Virtues are to oppress and to rob. Because #Russia is a mafia state - officials, business, mafia are the same. #Russian must fear the state & admire mobsters
Hope the thread on #Russian#fascist#culture above explains the morals exhibited by #Russia soldiers in #Ukraine. Cult of crime and cult of police - at home they fear police, only police & govt is allowed to rob & rape, but at war all are allowed to rob & rape as they please
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🧵9464+hrs,since fullscale war was started by #russia'n attack & 3314 days since #russiaInvadedUkraine
putin announces giving "tactical" nukes (the delivery method is "tactical, not the nuke, moron) to Belarus, obvious escalation, direct terror threat against Baltics & Poland->
not like it's some news - it's been clear before, been hinted at before, it was obvious that russians will escalate, they have no other option, they always escalate, empty-brained "experts" don't realize that it's been continuous escalation sicne 1990s and fall of soviets->
Inretersting part is that putin makes nuclear threats right after Xi's visit (they "signed a document" against spreading nukes - typical communist/narcissist style of lying & gaslighting, apparently illogical but w/ pragmatic terror intention). Axis of evil, terror against world.
13 months into war, what interests russians the most? BEHOLD: russian culture, Natasha Larina, Petr Illich Tolstoyevsky, balet: russians using russian "Telegram" messages to spam offering to watch videos of "Wagner" PMC raping Ukrainians.
This is what russian culture is about
First of all, obviously - the rape, it's a given, like I said in comments to the previous videos, rape is a pillar of russian society. Ability to commit crimes is an attribute of higher status:
Whether it's a russian oligarch, general, mafia boss, governor (all the same) the higher status demands to commit what usually would be a crime with impunity. "Little russians" who are not allowed to do so in russian due to lower status - realize their dreams against Ukrainians->
@apmassaro3 For Germany, Ukraine is a) problematic post-Soviet, fake nation that has "always" (as long as Germany was around) been russia; b) a tool through which UK pushes EU into crisis (like Johnson brings NLAWs shortly before 02.24 and Ukraine doesn't fall in 3 days as they planned)->
@apmassaro3 now UK sends tanks
:) Germany will resist strengthening an inconvenience (recall 00s gas wars) and a "UK puppet", it's not in German interest, if someone is to help Ukraine - let them focus on sending OWN tanks, rather than forcing Germans to send theirs against German interest->
@apmassaro3 If US sends Abrams MBTs Germany cannot block them🤷♀️🤷♂️ and there's plenty of other stuff Germany does help with not seeing it as a threat to them. Sure it undermines allies and whatnot but situation on the battlefield is more important at the moment->
an old example of why it's important to block all russian media exports (embedded russian imperialist propaganda). In 2005 russians, as far as I recall, lead by a producer from Kyiv (such instances ALWAYS end up harming Ukraine), shat out one cringey soap-opera after another->
and all that sh*t ended up being aired in Ukraine too, on that Kyiv-born producer's channel. Modern good russians probably remember that time as time when everything was good, high gas prices, genocide in Chechnya faded out from the news, invasion of Georgia was still ahead->
Ofc in reality already in 2004 russians attacked Ukraine by posioning pro-European presidential candidate w/ dixoing and 2005-2006 were already the "gas wars", predecessor of 2014 and 2022 when russians hoped to deal w/ Ukraine "cheap" thru blackmail (russia always escalates)->
🧵7915+hrs since #Ukrainian Liberation War was started by #russia full-scale attack & 3242 days since #russiaInvadedUkraine
some important good news regardng arms supplies aid for Ukraine, but apparently in light of russian preps for new attacks, hopefully still in time->
ofc, the tank supplies still are an issue as the decision is getting blocked by some partners, while others are reluctant to bear the burden of aiding Ukraine without EU, all despite UK already sending their tanks, will EU vs UK confrontation will cost Ukrainians lives again?->
difficult fights in the east, and russians apparently are preparing or maybe even are already lauching??? further escalation of the aggretion - need to wait for official info anyway, AA in Moscow, seems hilarious but in fact may be an issue for delivering retaliation to russia->