There is no best case scenario for #Russia. #Ukraine has no intention of being anything other than victorious. No amount of Russian dead bodies will change this simple fact. There is no way for any #Ruscist to climb out of the hole they dug. Only laying down can they hope for the silence of war.
#Putin send your slaves home!

re: nations being unsalvagable

@toomas_ilves @glynmoody
@whvholst

Walter, but you can't impose #Vergangenheitsbewältigung (the "struggle of overcoming the past" in post-Nazi Germany; kind of #lustration) upon mentally infertile population from outside by simply asking "pretty please?".

And despite #ruscist paranoia / propaganda, *no-one* is willing to "go in and make them".

For centuries the crime (of colonialist #expansionism) paid off royally; the thug, military brass and ruler classes profited, but even the serf masses felt they weren't the *worst-off" people in the empire — the colonized "minorities" were.

The will to embrace civilization must come from inside, but for that to even be possible, #muscovia must return its loot: the colonies to the native colonial subjects and other violently stolen territories. Otherwise it'll be once again "fuck this eternal cesspool, let's go and steal from neighbours who have plumbing and indoor toilets and everything...!"

OTOH #German #ThirdReich was shocking exactly because it arose and took hold within a population with deep roots to #Hochkultur. And even there the lustration wasn't a complete success: there is a 'thriving' neonazi 'community' and German industrialists couldn't be more eager to collaborate with (genocidal and expansionist) despots... foreign ones will do if none are available domestically...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergangenheitsbew%C3%A4ltigung

#russia #ruscism #nazism #imperialism #colonialism