laineDdednaHdeR t1_j29b994 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 4:12 PM

It'll never get old to say: Fuck Russia.

Intothenegev93 t1_j29ox24 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:39 PM

I hope it does get old. I hope Russia seas a change of leadership and ideology and good things come to its citizens.

[deleted] t1_j2a2i69 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 7:05 PM

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Castle_in_the_Air t1_j2at28w wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:57 PM

Any country can change for the better. In the not-so-distant past settlers killed, raped, and pillaged native Americans. More recently, Americans have been responsible for toppling democratically elected leaders. We have seen and ignored genocide many times. But still, we have progressed to be better than most countries. With the right leadership, Russia could do the same. It's a difficult and slow process we won't see the end of in our lifetimes but don't act like the Russian people themselves are as sick and twisted as Putin is.

Saithir t1_j2b6api wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:28 PM

And in the less-so-distant past those same poor, opressed, regular Russians you so much love have killed, raped and pillaged their neighbours.

Not Putin, not the generals, the regular guys themselves.

> don't act like the Russian people themselves are as sick and twisted as Putin is.

We don't have to "act" like it. There's nothing acting about it.

Castle_in_the_Air t1_j2c1n61 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 3:20 AM

In America, it was the 'regular guys' too. There are horrible people in every country and there are great people in every country. I'd go so far as to say that the truly horrible people are in the minority pretty much everywhere. If you really think that every Russian deserves to die, then you're no better than the worst of them.