The Russians think they just have to kill enough Ukrainians, win the war, and then their trading relations will get back to normal.
Today, my generation has a very positive view of Germans, but I remember growing up in the 1980's in Denmark, where some of my dad's business relations still would not do deals with anyone from Germany.
That was forty years after World War II and Hitler's occupation of Denmark.
Forty years — this is the kind of anger the Russians have drawn upon themselves.
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@randahl Actually, it's what most sane Russians fear — that it would go back to normal as soon as they strike up some new "peace plan". I was expecting at least what we have now sanction-wise well in 2015, so this state would crash and burn with no economy to wage any international offensives, but no — European leaders were so full of shit that it went back to business as usual in just a couple of years 😩
@randahl Everyone knows what's happening now in Ukraine, but was what happened earlier not enough? Was shooting down civilian plane not enough? Was what was happening in Syria not enough? And there was an attempted Kazakhstan incursion just a month before the Ukraine invasion started, no one seems to even remember that now. But no, everyone was happy with cheap gas.
Mind you, I'm not trying to blame others, we as Russian civil society have failed at preventing what is…
@randahl happening now and have completely lost control over state, we have tried but it was hardly enough. Still I underestimated how corrupt European politicians are. Even now as the bombs are falling, Macron is talking about how the US are preventing him from carrying out "independent" European policy and how he, together with China, is going to work forward "peace talks". What is he talking about? Looks like he's still ready to give up Ukraine to return to business as usual🤨