President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that Ukraine and its allies are very close to the moment when Russia can be forced to end or at least halt the war, but this would require the United States to impose tough sanctions on Russia.
I’m saying that the Russian empire was different, and even the USSR was different.
Different, yes of course, what I’m trying to get at here is that there’s still consistencies. The three systems are different coats of paint on the same dysfunction. There’s also been some progress, I already mentioned the nuclear family, but the overall problem won’t be fixed until the dysfunction is understood, organically, by society.
That’s where you are wrong.
As you might have guessed, one can’t punish FSB for entrapment, they are the ones doing the punishing.
I don’t think we actually disagree: The forces that I described breed the type of people the FSB needs to do its enforcement. Cynical, ruthless, eager to suppress their trauma by inflicting it on others. In Tsarist times there was more, religion and all that, a very old notion of what God’s plan for society is, roles for everyone, in the USSR at least a number of them were actually ideologically convinced, by now, power is the only ideology. They’re mighty so they must be right, don’t they?
Except see my previous part about special services’ work. The real problem is not in nobody willing to organize.
Russia had a revolution before, it can have one again. Bluntly put: The Kremlin guards are less well armed than Ukraine. Revolutions aren’t organised, they happen once the collective psyche reaches a breaking point. No words, just people’s subconsciousness noticing the mood of the people around them, assessing the chances: “Am I going to be alone, or are we going to march together?” and suddenly decades happen in weeks.
What would be important is having a couple of ideas on what will come after that. How to not lose the moment, again. Who would be the current-day Bolsheviks, opposed to the deposed-of system but also to the freedom of the people? How to convince Yuri Shevchuk to accept being crowned Tsar. I’m only half joking.
by now, power is the only ideology. They’re mighty so they must be right, don’t they?
It’s not about “right”. It’s that you can’t trust anyone, and if you make a mistake, your own input to any revolution doesn’t happen.
Russia had a revolution before, it can have one again. …
Collective psyche can be regulated. It will happen when people in Kremlin make a mistake.
Who would be the current-day Bolsheviks, opposed to the deposed-of system but also to the freedom of the people?
Yes, that is where I’ll add that making a transitional committee of Yashin, Navalnaya and others, augmented with the older wave like Kasparov and Portnikov, might not be a good idea. Only allowing ex-commies (ex-system in this case) to “turn democrat” and become the government like in 1991 can be worse.
I’d probably trust escapist communists like RSD and groups of edgy ancap children more.
Different, yes of course, what I’m trying to get at here is that there’s still consistencies. The three systems are different coats of paint on the same dysfunction. There’s also been some progress, I already mentioned the nuclear family, but the overall problem won’t be fixed until the dysfunction is understood, organically, by society.
I don’t think we actually disagree: The forces that I described breed the type of people the FSB needs to do its enforcement. Cynical, ruthless, eager to suppress their trauma by inflicting it on others. In Tsarist times there was more, religion and all that, a very old notion of what God’s plan for society is, roles for everyone, in the USSR at least a number of them were actually ideologically convinced, by now, power is the only ideology. They’re mighty so they must be right, don’t they?
Russia had a revolution before, it can have one again. Bluntly put: The Kremlin guards are less well armed than Ukraine. Revolutions aren’t organised, they happen once the collective psyche reaches a breaking point. No words, just people’s subconsciousness noticing the mood of the people around them, assessing the chances: “Am I going to be alone, or are we going to march together?” and suddenly decades happen in weeks.
What would be important is having a couple of ideas on what will come after that. How to not lose the moment, again. Who would be the current-day Bolsheviks, opposed to the deposed-of system but also to the freedom of the people? How to convince Yuri Shevchuk to accept being crowned Tsar. I’m only half joking.
It’s not about “right”. It’s that you can’t trust anyone, and if you make a mistake, your own input to any revolution doesn’t happen.
Collective psyche can be regulated. It will happen when people in Kremlin make a mistake.
Yes, that is where I’ll add that making a transitional committee of Yashin, Navalnaya and others, augmented with the older wave like Kasparov and Portnikov, might not be a good idea. Only allowing ex-commies (ex-system in this case) to “turn democrat” and become the government like in 1991 can be worse.
I’d probably trust escapist communists like RSD and groups of edgy ancap children more.