Two states, two cells

The crucial difference between risks of violent protests against government (supposedly with the goal of dismantling it for the better) in two neighbouring states, whose economies are built almost exclusively on oil and gas, could be shown through comparison of two prison cells.

Here is the prison cell (or should I say sleeper cell?) of Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian extremist and mass murderer, who slaughtered 77 people. Breivik, from time to time, is appealing “inhumane” confinement conditions. Norway is the crucial provider of hydrocarbons for the EU now when Russo-European trade ties have been seriously severed due to moronic sanctions and act of industrial terrorism on the Nord Stream pipelines.

And here is “artistically recreated” maximum security prison cell in Russian Yamalo-Nenetsk autonomous region hamlet, named Kharp, where Alexei Navalny sat, in total, for 308 days during his most recent term, before succumbing to conditions that were, for all practical purposes, equal to torture. Despite (mostly self-inflicted, though clumsily implemented) sanctions, Russia managed to successfully substitute gas exports via pipelines with LNG exports, including, but not limited to, EU states.

As we may say in Russian, место сидения определяет точку зрения.

Meanwhile the main news in my newsfeed about Russia-Ukraine proxy WWIII in the day when Avdeevka high redoubt finally fell

might as well come from the headlines of Ukrainian propaganda TV marathon Єдині новини (United News), aka Єбині новини (F*king news).

(Sometimes better sense there could be applied to smoke than to fire.)

It reads as follows:

One should hardly be surprised that such curation of content about badly managed conflict in the night land of doomed country flourishes under the same US administration that had sent famous black helicopters to the meeting of Kabul skydiving club not long ago.