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A Look Inside the Russian Imperial Mind
As I said in my previous piece, appeasement does not work. So today, courtesy of some Russians, I want to give you a taste of the full imperial mindset in Russia. Yes, there are some, mostly defanged liberals, and most people are apolitical.
So here, via War Gonzo. On this, he is quoting somebody else, but just linking to his channel. For context, he is very much an imperialist. He also moved to Russia after the Donbas invasion by 52 men under the command of Igor Streilkov. More on him in a tad. First, about Wagner:
The state, of course, should not stand aside. Forgetting the heroes from PMCs and letting their future take its course is the last thing. In this sense, I completely agree with Zhenya. Particulars with particulars, hardware games with games — but ordinary “musicians” — and what? The attack aircraft did their job one way or another, Artyomovsk is ours, the task set by the country (and the state, respectively) has been solved. PMC fighters paid a high price for this Victory — measured in thousands of lives, injuries, injuries … The liberation of Artemovsk and all this “Bakhmutov meat grinder” was conceived, as I understand it, by our strategists — after all, not in the interests of Prigozhin, but in the interests of the Motherland. And the Motherland should be grateful to them not only in words, but also in terms of social obligations — the…