The war is hauling US attention away from Biden's domestic economic agenda, and tanking his poll numbers. The spike in gas prices alone has brutally slashed his approval rating. He's not pleased. No one in the whole Democratic party is pleased.
Congressed passed 40 billion in aid, going directly to the military industrial complex. It barely passed, because Republicans hate the idea of cooperating with the Biden administration. They're not pleased.
The US citizenry is interested in the drama, up to a point. Drag it out three more months and see what happens then. But it isn't translating into love for politicians, and it's reawakening ugly fears about nuclear destruction. They are not pleased.
Trump is soft-pedaling criticism of Putin, mostly to be contrarian and score media coverage, but it's negatively affecting his midterm election picks, weakening his hold on the Republican party. He's not pleased.
Arms manufacturers -- they are pleased, yes. Journalists -- I don't think they're happy, but the're certainly busy.
Ukranians are definitely not pleased.
The Russian military is now an international laughingstock. They are not pleased.
The Russian citizens are never pleased. Life in Russia sucks. Most people outside of Moscow are disinformed, isolated, ignored, trapped, brain-drained, and deeply cynical. They lost twenty million people in World War II and almost immediately became pariahs to Europe and the US for their trouble. No one mourns those Russian dead except the Russians. Then millions and millions more died under Stalin, to the utter indifference of the rest of the world. Then they were threatened with nuclear annihilation, then their whole god damn country collapsed and most of the best land was amputated, and gangsters and plutocrats latched onto the remains like a wad of ticks, and have burrowed into a government that claims absolute right to subjugate and control its citizens because it - and they - consider the ruling class to be the soul of Russia itself, inseparable from the land and its history. In Russia, if the government is threatened by your ideas, then your ideas are anti-Russian. In Russia, shit takes you!
Truth is lies. Up is down. Et cetera. It this going to work out for them? No. Nothing ever works out for them. Nothing ever has, so why should it now? Putin holding a fake-ass televised interview marathon with his generals on Russian state TV with this hangdog expression on his face the entire time was not an act. He knows it's going to be a mess and cause ruination and maybe even end the world, but hey, life sucks in Russia and it always will, so what's the difference? Let's do it.
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Date: 23/5/22 08:37 (UTC)Congressed passed 40 billion in aid, going directly to the military industrial complex. It barely passed, because Republicans hate the idea of cooperating with the Biden administration. They're not pleased.
The US citizenry is interested in the drama, up to a point. Drag it out three more months and see what happens then. But it isn't translating into love for politicians, and it's reawakening ugly fears about nuclear destruction. They are not pleased.
Trump is soft-pedaling criticism of Putin, mostly to be contrarian and score media coverage, but it's negatively affecting his midterm election picks, weakening his hold on the Republican party. He's not pleased.
Arms manufacturers -- they are pleased, yes. Journalists -- I don't think they're happy, but the're certainly busy.
Ukranians are definitely not pleased.
The Russian military is now an international laughingstock. They are not pleased.
The Russian citizens are never pleased. Life in Russia sucks. Most people outside of Moscow are disinformed, isolated, ignored, trapped, brain-drained, and deeply cynical. They lost twenty million people in World War II and almost immediately became pariahs to Europe and the US for their trouble. No one mourns those Russian dead except the Russians. Then millions and millions more died under Stalin, to the utter indifference of the rest of the world. Then they were threatened with nuclear annihilation, then their whole god damn country collapsed and most of the best land was amputated, and gangsters and plutocrats latched onto the remains like a wad of ticks, and have burrowed into a government that claims absolute right to subjugate and control its citizens because it - and they - consider the ruling class to be the soul of Russia itself, inseparable from the land and its history. In Russia, if the government is threatened by your ideas, then your ideas are anti-Russian. In Russia, shit takes you!
Truth is lies. Up is down. Et cetera. It this going to work out for them? No. Nothing ever works out for them. Nothing ever has, so why should it now? Putin holding a fake-ass televised interview marathon with his generals on Russian state TV with this hangdog expression on his face the entire time was not an act. He knows it's going to be a mess and cause ruination and maybe even end the world, but hey, life sucks in Russia and it always will, so what's the difference? Let's do it.