That's seriously damaging for the Russian Federation's ability to ever claim to these people that the Russian Federation does anything but exploit them. If and when Ukraine exits the area, Russia will need to reconquer this territory if it is ever to be held again. And these citizens are getting a taste now for self organization. They're seeing that the Russian Federation didn't keep them safe, and that to meet their basic needs they had to do it themselves. I don't know what happens for this region next, but Russia may have just permanently lost control.
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I'm sure the Ukrainian soldiers are rather busy with important things of their own, but if they've got any spare bandwidth it'd be neat if they were able to help organize the Russian civilians a bit and keep this kind of lawlessness suppressed. Heck, if they're digging in for the long term they may end up needing to provide humanitarian aid for the people who chose to stay behind. That'll be quite the look.
Well treated Russian citizens may prove to be future allies
Help them meet their needs and give them opportunities
"Gypsy mafia"
This incursion is less than a week old, chaos and fog of war are very much in effect. But no matter the emergency, theirs always time for racism.
Remember Katrina and how everybody just "knew" that the black residents were looting and murdering, but it turned out the people doing the murdering were cops?
See I’m really embarrassed, because I thought it was mafia gypsies doing the looting. Shows how out of date my racism is!
Getting invaded by a foreign country kind of sucks I guess, huh?
When was the last time I heard of Russians looting stores and households? Hmmm...
Laat week?
Escape From Kursk
Snake Plinsskiy? I heard you were dead.
"You go in, find Putin, bring him out in 24 hours, and you're a free man."
"24 hours, huh?"
"You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad. You know how to get in quiet. You're all I got."
there are no police, firefighters, medics or representatives of the Russian administration;
But the local news has a lovely rendition of Swan Lake
Nation of cynical thieves who don’t even have a word for empathy eating themselves at the first hint of trouble? I’m shocked. SHOCKED.
Well - not that shocked.
Lmao.
Slava Ukraini!
#justrussianthings
3 day operation, yes?
Also:
Toilet paper? Non-existent. Can't even loot it.
Toilyetta bumaga, LOL.