RE: Russia and Ukraine
November 27, 2023 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2023 at 12:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Some people live on Earth B. Russians think the ukranian smash and grab is essential to their country's survival - because that's what amounts to an investment and development plan in a kleptocracy. Think about how hard they had to wheel around from genuinely believing that they'd be greeted with flowers to thinking that no russian can be safe anywhere until every ukranian is dead.
Living on Earth B makes demands of our cognitive faculties that, even in the best of times, we're not up to. Case in point, occupying forces often spend their off time hiding from ukranian drones in holes in the mud sharing their real estate plans for when the war is over. They're going to buy apartments on the beach and shit, and rent them out. They say this, they think this, even as russian landlords properties are being set on fire - as collaborators are being executed in car bombings. Hell, even the regular old civilians are still doing summer vacations on crimean beaches like there isn't a war on. Accidentally geolocating russian air defense assets - seemingly gobsmacked every time a missile flies overhead even though the arrivals come with some regularity.
Living on Earth B makes demands of our cognitive faculties that, even in the best of times, we're not up to. Case in point, occupying forces often spend their off time hiding from ukranian drones in holes in the mud sharing their real estate plans for when the war is over. They're going to buy apartments on the beach and shit, and rent them out. They say this, they think this, even as russian landlords properties are being set on fire - as collaborators are being executed in car bombings. Hell, even the regular old civilians are still doing summer vacations on crimean beaches like there isn't a war on. Accidentally geolocating russian air defense assets - seemingly gobsmacked every time a missile flies overhead even though the arrivals come with some regularity.
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