Pre-Ukriane war, I would have said not long at all.
But, after seeing how much absolute abuse and humiliation the Russian people have taken from their government, I don’t know man …
I don’t understand how Russia hasn’t balkanized and erupted into a civil war, or hasn’t had a sweeping political reformation movement yet, and that scares me.
If Russia is a baromater for how much a sufficiently cowed populace in a failed authoritarian democratic-in-name-only surveillance police state can take, then I guess 1.5 million U.S. soldiers dying fighting in Iran bad. All gasoline pumps closing nationally from lack of supply bad. The bottom half the U.S. population surviving off of the same humanitarian aid MREs that we used to send off to children in Sudan due to perpetually empty grocery store shelves bad. Statistically more U.S. citizens inside of a prison facility than outside of one due to Flock cameras and non-uniformed plain dressed cops with sci-fi face scanners in their pockets inventing reasons to arrest anyone with a statistically high left-leaning online footprint bad.
Pre-Ukriane war, I would have said not long at all.
But, after seeing how much absolute abuse and humiliation the Russian people have taken from their government, I don’t know man …
I don’t understand how Russia hasn’t balkanized and erupted into a civil war, or hasn’t had a sweeping political reformation movement yet, and that scares me.
If Russia is a baromater for how much a sufficiently cowed populace in a failed authoritarian democratic-in-name-only surveillance police state can take, then I guess 1.5 million U.S. soldiers dying fighting in Iran bad. All gasoline pumps closing nationally from lack of supply bad. The bottom half the U.S. population surviving off of the same humanitarian aid MREs that we used to send off to children in Sudan due to perpetually empty grocery store shelves bad. Statistically more U.S. citizens inside of a prison facility than outside of one due to Flock cameras and non-uniformed plain dressed cops with sci-fi face scanners in their pockets inventing reasons to arrest anyone with a statistically high left-leaning online footprint bad.