Honestly I'm increasingly becoming frustrated with the overwhelming negativity and black pilling in this forum. Putin openly points out domestic issues that need to be improved and the instinctive response is to point at 'Russian propaganda'. I mean for crying out loud, what do you guys want him to do? The Russian economy is currently growing at 5.5% month over month, the annual growth is probably going to rank in at around 3.3%. That's better than ANY other Western country out there right now. Things are improving everywhere, slowly but steadily.
. He's tying up economic deals all across the global South. Do you expect him to wave a magic wand and turn Russia into a slavic version of Wakanada?
Many people here and others that I'm in touch with have repeatedly been to Russia and loved it there. I'll be there myself in the near term future and will report back with my impressions. Will I love everything? Probably not. Will I hate everything? Definitely not. One thing I'm pretty sure about though, I yet have to hear about a Christmas market being blown to bits in a terrorist attack over there, while there are already reports coming out of Germany and other places. Sure, everything is so wonderful and well handled in the West, we don't have better things to do than to keep criticizing Putin and Russia as a whole.
I don't know what kind of life you live and what experiences you've had that created this bitterness and dislike to anything Russian. Like one or two other contributors here you seem to hedge an almost seething hate against Russians, eager to point at and highlight any unfavorable characteristics. Why would you want to spend your life this way?
With all due respect here's a piece of advice: If you hate Russia and Russians so much then just ignore it all and focus on a place and a people that is more to your liking and in sync with your perspectives.
Dear Holgerdanske, your post is another proof of why believing Russian propaganda is dangerous. This is not the RVF - we are free to criticize Putin and the Russian government. (Interestingly enough, on RVF some people posted degrading comment of Churches that were not ROCOR. They also posted some of the most disgusting comments on several ethnic groups and got applauded for it. However, if you voiced any criticism on Putin and the Russians you got banned immediately. Roosh, if you read this, enjoy retiring on that KGB-money, you have really earned it).
Let's address the rest of your comment.
The Russian economy is currently growing at 5.5% month over month, the annual growth is probably going to rank in at around 3.3%. That's better than ANY other Western country out the
Your source? the Russian government's statistics? Thought so. Russia has became a pariah in the world and the embargo has really hit the country. Most Russian people are genuinely struggling now.
"The war in Ukraine is pretty much won at this point."
Really? Over 300,000 Russian troops dead or wounded. Russia is struggling to supply its own army with essentials. They can no longer hide that they ran out of Ethnic minority "cannon fodder" and have reluctantly started drafting middle-class ethnic Russian kids from Moscow and St Petersburg - consequently ethnic Russian starting to realize how the war affects them and their families. They are at the breaking point.
Also, Russia has not gain an inch of territory. The frontline is now where it was in 2014. The Russian propaganda would say: "But this is how we win wars. This is the Russian way" - rather than facing reality and admitting defeat.
Some say the Putin is biggest recruiter for the NATO. They are not wrong. Sweden and Finland (previously happy to be neutral) have gained full membershit in the NATO. Most people in Austria alos agree their country should join the NATO.
Previous pro-Russian government in both Kazakhstan and Moldova are now replaced by pro-West governments. Even Belarus' Lukashenko Putin is sitting on the fence - preparing for the post-Putin world, and getting closer to the West.
"He's tying up economic deals all across the global South"
What you meant to say is: he is begging poor countries - any country that is still willing to negotiate with him. He doesn't have much of a choice - as Russia has become a pariah in the world (and deservedly so). Remember that part when Putin's folk were begging Nort Korea's Kim Jong UN to sell them weapons and ammunition? A country that is helped out by North Korea? That's not a country to be respected, is it?
I yet have to hear about a Christmas market being blown to bits in a terrorist attack
Don't worry, in Russia you will have other reasons to feel unsafe.
Russia's murder rate is 6 times (!) higher than that of the UK and France, more than 5 times higher than Germany's.
Russia is not a country that anyone in his right mind would refer to as "safe".
But sure ...you might get beaten to death on the street of Moscow in some random, unprovoked alcohol-or drug-fueled rage...but at least it is a "White Russian" guy beating you to death just for the hell of it and not some Black guy from Detroit or a Latino from East LA...and that makes you feel better, right? Some of you guys here are really unbelievable...
I don't know what kind of life you live and what experiences you've had that created this bitterness and dislike to anything Russian. Like one or two other contributors here you seem to hedge an almost seething hate against Russians, eager to point at and highlight any unfavorable characteristics. Why would you want to spend your life this way
Again, you are passing sweeping judgment on people you don't know. You don't know whether we have been to Russia or not . (I have) You have no idea whether any of us have had families that had been affected or even destroyed by Russian expansion and Russian imperialism. And yes, that's why the amount of Russian propaganda here and elsewhere is really concerning for us to see. (The current putinist attempts of expansion are just the continuation of the tsarist Russia and the "communist" Soviet Union). And yes, the Russian imperialism has been 10 times more destructive in this world than English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch imperialism combined. And while the leaders of the former five countries often acknowledge their past mistakes and try to pay reparations, the Russians deny any wrongdoing.
With all due respect here's a piece of advice: If you hate Russia and Russians so much then just ignore it all and focus on a place and a people that is more to your liking and in sync with your perspectives
With all due respect: here is a piece of advice to you: stop telling people what they should or should not comment on. And more; if you and some other love Putin and Russia so much,seriously, why don't you save up some money and visit Russia. I really hope you will able to do that. Just acknowledge afterwards if you were wrong. This is not is not the RVF, so you guys might as well be honest : you praise Russia because you believe it is a "strong White country" (lol) and with a lot of "slim, traditional, conservative, family-orientated White women " (PMSL, you boys will be in for a shock). By all means, I wish you guys good luck.
no wonder the old man liked Putin all along
