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>>831111
Russians don't believe him for the most part, the ones that believed are mostly dead. The ones that are signing up now are doing it mostly for the cash. And because their personal financial situation is really bad. Also they really are a bunch of drunks and zombies, it's an exaggeration, but it's also true. He did it for I guess some ideological reasons, but also greed, there were quite a few, what seem to be good resource grab opportunities, obviously it didn't turn out quite as he expected, but right now the biggest reason is saving face and continuing to convince the public that his decisions were sound and worthwhile. Because if he loses support, he loses power, likely he even loses his life. Also it's ego. He's definitely not an egoless ruler. But there you go, it's a big and quite sad clusterfuck. But I don't consider it a huge loss as the people who chose to go there, did it to themselves. And as I said, for the vast vast majority of cases, we lost either cowards or really dumb people and for the most part it's just really dumb people.
It's not that I don't have compassion, but, the Ukrainian lost is much bigger, so I can't focus too much on them, even though I know they are suffering too. It's an interesting country by the way, a lot of interesting people. And if you know people, and I know some people that know some people, actually Russia has a very disproportionate amount of very high vibe, very advanced people, but this is not the general public. It's just an interesting trip there. Heavy. But also unique and valuable. I tasted it some, even though I did not live there ever.