Loaded Dice
2 min readJun 7, 2022

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I beg to differ. Not. Quite. Yet. By far. First of all, Putin's regime doesn't glorify war, they even conduct legal proceedings against folk who calls it such. Second, Putin (unlike Zelensky and his counsellors) escapes mass mobilization by any means necessary, except in Donbass Republics; he turned DPR and LPR in his de facto reservoir of cannon fodder, though this, too, gave doubtful results so far. Thirdly, there are hardly any hostile actions against Ukrainians and other ethnic minorities forming Federation, in borders of Russia proper (random example, in Russian: accreditations of IT firms caught in the act of firing Ukrainians should be revoked). Putin has shown restraint toward vessels of wrath. He went to war not as an Emperor or Nazi leader, but as a special services agent, and not a very eminent one: KGB Lt. Col., whose mental likeness he is destined to bear. It means that if one wants to explain Neosoviet edition of the Russia Eterna under Putin in Manichean terms, then (s)he has come to the wrong place.

Half-serious dialogue on the screenshot (in Russian) reads as follows:

Yolanda> Now who we need is a real leader, who will lead the country, and, fortunately, we have just that one, uncle Volodya!

Stuntman66> Are you really sure that you must follow him towards that very place where he leads? Understandably, we all sooner or later end there, but, gosh, why shorten the time?

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Loaded Dice
Loaded Dice

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We begin with the bold premise that the goal of war is a victory over the enemy. Slavic Lives Matter

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