kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: After a year of silence, another old acquaintance from #Russia wrote to me, this time ...
After a year of silence, another old acquaintance from #Russia wrote to me, this time from the Caucasus 🤔
He too is absolutely convinced that soon #Ukraine will ‘give back the four oblasts and there will be peace’ (maybe that’s why there is such a mass awakening among my old Russian contacts recently).
He, unlike everyone else, doesn’t have chat deletion enabled after 24hrs, so he must have seen the previous discussions and didn’t even try the ‘denazification’ fairy tales just wrote straight ‘we have lost so much resources and people that now we can’t back down’. This is a popular argument with them, a kind of the last line of defence. People from the military or the government sometimes add ‘…because we will end up in The Hague’.
I asked if he was aware that he too was a ‘resource’ for his country and could also be ‘lost’. He didn’t answer directly, he just goes on in this line of argument - ‘I know one thing, if my state loses now it will be pizdec for my family’ (pizdec=swear word meaning a terrible disaster). So I ask him, in all honesty, to explain to me, a simpleton - how exactly is his family going to face ‘pizdec’ if the Russian military withdraws from Ukraine? What exactly will happen to his family?
Sadly, he then disappeared. He needs to think for himself, I guess.
My apologies to you T. for shattering your peace of mind despite the mattress of sophisms you have surrounded yourself with to keep your spirits up while living in a country that is heading towards a demographic and economic abyss. It will only get harder further down the line. Your grandparents and parents built themselves this mattress for 70 years and that is why it was so difficult for them in 1991.
He too is absolutely convinced that soon #Ukraine will ‘give back the four oblasts and there will be peace’ (maybe that’s why there is such a mass awakening among my old Russian contacts recently).
He, unlike everyone else, doesn’t have chat deletion enabled after 24hrs, so he must have seen the previous discussions and didn’t even try the ‘denazification’ fairy tales just wrote straight ‘we have lost so much resources and people that now we can’t back down’. This is a popular argument with them, a kind of the last line of defence. People from the military or the government sometimes add ‘…because we will end up in The Hague’.
I asked if he was aware that he too was a ‘resource’ for his country and could also be ‘lost’. He didn’t answer directly, he just goes on in this line of argument - ‘I know one thing, if my state loses now it will be pizdec for my family’ (pizdec=swear word meaning a terrible disaster). So I ask him, in all honesty, to explain to me, a simpleton - how exactly is his family going to face ‘pizdec’ if the Russian military withdraws from Ukraine? What exactly will happen to his family?
Sadly, he then disappeared. He needs to think for himself, I guess.
My apologies to you T. for shattering your peace of mind despite the mattress of sophisms you have surrounded yourself with to keep your spirits up while living in a country that is heading towards a demographic and economic abyss. It will only get harder further down the line. Your grandparents and parents built themselves this mattress for 70 years and that is why it was so difficult for them in 1991.