Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Every attack on Russian civilians just increases Russia's will to win and makes more people support the SMO.
Here is the reality dude
Russia has become ultra-patriotic, I am afraid to use the word ultra-nationalist, but to some degree yes
What people here term, "6th column turbo patriots" have become the new standard and majority of Russian society
It doesn't matter which region you are in, Bashkortostan, Siberia, Chechnya, Moscow, Far east, everyone is outdoing each other in patriotism
Voenkors now shape the discourse and narrative of everyday life, Noone gets their information from media on TV anymore, the words of the Voenkors are the new diet of the people
If you are against it, you get doxxed and shamed, arrested, beaten , and if you are in the government, your whole identity will be destroyed
Look at Peskov and Shoigu, they had to rebrand themselves completely, and they are completely different politicians now
Medvedev is like the new Zhirinovsky , a bellweather of society, and the fact his rants are tolerated, a former president of Russia, only proves this trend/direction
The new society of Russia are led by the so called "Ura patriots" that so many like to make fun of here
This is the new face of social unity in Russia
There's no more "moderate" and being a liberal gives you at most 48 hours if your information is revealed
Everything has changed, Putins political life will also change as the society changes, remember the Kremlin is a reflection of social narratives
So 2008-2022 was the Era of moderate Russia trying to find its place in the world, although with some attempt to work around liberal democratic perspectives
2022-? Is the Era of Ultra Patriotic Russia, no attention is paid to any of the old ideas, and completely new ones take hold, it's no longer a question for bureaucracy, it's defacto imposed by the war
And the SMO is like gravitational force which pulls Russia further down that path, Noone can stop it
Hence the telegram "Don't stop war"
These are all narratives of what is taking place
The elections are just a simulacrum of that
And everyone more or less understands that if Putin goes, we will have someone more similar to Prigozhin
And that is the Kremlin big problem, so they must become like Prigozhin, or face becoming redundant and obsolete
So now Peskov, Shoigu, Putin are all tough talking nationalists whereas only last year the 3 of them were liberal caricatures of Russias "sovereign democracy"
Dude those days are over, there's no need to hide anything, people themselves want Stalin, Lenin and the whole show - look at the recent polls from this week
This in all, is a fatal error of the west, there's no way for Trump to negotiate anything with Putin unless it's conciliatory, and much more than territories will be given to Russia
I reiterate that was the purpose of the treaty on mutual security , issued to NATO in December of 2021
For Trump to present the instrument of surrender, after the comprehensive defeat of the American deep state