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​​1,000 days of war: outstanding resilience and ruthless dictatorship

A thousand days have passed since Russia launched a bloody war against Ukraine as part of the earlier invasion, which has been going on for almost 11 years. On different sides of the barricades, there is a completely different perception of this terribleanniversary. Ukraine is counting casualties and assessing damage, talking about the need to remain steadfast in further defending their country and placing hopes on partner countries to finally step up toward achieving a just peace. The bleeding nation under attack continues to defend itself – and the entire Western world –believing that international law will finally come into motion and shift from pursuing theoretical rhetoric to practically holding the Russian aggressor accountable. So far, nothing of this kind hasbeen observed, and the war of attrition drags on gloomily, although the Ukrainians have become a role model of human courage and self-sacrifice.

It now seems almost pointless to appeal to major geopolitical actors, calling on them to take adequate steps to curb the country that seeks to revise the world order. Nevertheless, the efforts toconvey to international audiences the horrors of the Russian invasion must go on. More than 10 million Ukrainians have fled their homes and are seeking refuge abroad or inside Ukraine farther from the combat zone, where hostilities are raging withhigh intensity.
Russia not only wages war on the frontlines, they also resort to an actual genocide of Ukrainians, destroying residential areas, hospitals, schools, kindergartens with all conventional arsenal they have at their disposal. Energy and other critical infrastructurefacilities are now Russia’s main target, coming under attack by drone swarms and missile barrages.
Against this background, it is downright shameful for the "world’s second strongest army" to wail over explosions at military facilities in Bryansk region, 115 km from the Ukrainian border. The Russian Goliath is scared of the Ukrainian David and those who regularly rejoice over missile strikes on Ukrainian cities now quite cynically call for the protection of Russians from what appears to be a just retribution.

In Russia, the general public has been greatly deformed by war. People have become thick-skinned, insensitive to self-reflection, more linear and primitive. Pretty much the same diseases they hadbefore the war now persist and intensify, even more so amid the ongoing extinction of Russia’s hinterland and malignant urbanization due to the financial inflow from those profiting off the “special military operation”.

This is now the mainstay of Putinism, because it gives some of the survivors the opportunity to cover their mortgage. Yesterday's rogue marginals are becoming mainstream middle-class,dependent on Putin's team in the Kremlin.

Their ideology – the upgraded Putinism – is reduced to caveman-type show-off patriotism, a cult of expansion in line with the opaque patterns of the Third Reich, nostalgia for Soviet egalitarianism and dirt-cheap sausage.
After all, it is easier to control the drugged plebs, and no one cares if they are thrown into a war grinder. So now, a healthy lifestyle is only for a handful of ultra-wealthy Russians.

Those who mention the 730,000 Russian war casualties are branded as traitors and public enemies. After all, no one in Putin's entourage knows how many more Russians need to die for the Kremlin to "achieve the goals of the SMO". The Kremlinmeasures successes in kilometers of captured land, remainingruthless in pursuing the utopian goals of the dictatorship. Is it really possible that the aggressor has another 1,000 days of deadly lawlessness ahead of them?

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​​1,000 days of war: outstanding resilience and ruthless dictatorship

A thousand days have passed since Russia launched a bloody war against Ukraine as part of the earlier invasion, which has been going on for almost 11 years. On different sides of the barricades, there is a completely different perception of this terribleanniversary. Ukraine is counting casualties and assessing damage, talking about the need to remain steadfast in further defending their country and placing hopes on partner countries to finally step up toward achieving a just peace. The bleeding nation under attack continues to defend itself – and the entire Western world –believing that international law will finally come into motion and shift from pursuing theoretical rhetoric to practically holding the Russian aggressor accountable. So far, nothing of this kind hasbeen observed, and the war of attrition drags on gloomily, although the Ukrainians have become a role model of human courage and self-sacrifice.

It now seems almost pointless to appeal to major geopolitical actors, calling on them to take adequate steps to curb the country that seeks to revise the world order. Nevertheless, the efforts toconvey to international audiences the horrors of the Russian invasion must go on. More than 10 million Ukrainians have fled their homes and are seeking refuge abroad or inside Ukraine farther from the combat zone, where hostilities are raging withhigh intensity.
Russia not only wages war on the frontlines, they also resort to an actual genocide of Ukrainians, destroying residential areas, hospitals, schools, kindergartens with all conventional arsenal they have at their disposal. Energy and other critical infrastructurefacilities are now Russia’s main target, coming under attack by drone swarms and missile barrages.
Against this background, it is downright shameful for the "world’s second strongest army" to wail over explosions at military facilities in Bryansk region, 115 km from the Ukrainian border. The Russian Goliath is scared of the Ukrainian David and those who regularly rejoice over missile strikes on Ukrainian cities now quite cynically call for the protection of Russians from what appears to be a just retribution.

In Russia, the general public has been greatly deformed by war. People have become thick-skinned, insensitive to self-reflection, more linear and primitive. Pretty much the same diseases they hadbefore the war now persist and intensify, even more so amid the ongoing extinction of Russia’s hinterland and malignant urbanization due to the financial inflow from those profiting off the “special military operation”.

This is now the mainstay of Putinism, because it gives some of the survivors the opportunity to cover their mortgage. Yesterday's rogue marginals are becoming mainstream middle-class,dependent on Putin's team in the Kremlin.

Their ideology – the upgraded Putinism – is reduced to caveman-type show-off patriotism, a cult of expansion in line with the opaque patterns of the Third Reich, nostalgia for Soviet egalitarianism and dirt-cheap sausage.
After all, it is easier to control the drugged plebs, and no one cares if they are thrown into a war grinder. So now, a healthy lifestyle is only for a handful of ultra-wealthy Russians.

Those who mention the 730,000 Russian war casualties are branded as traitors and public enemies. After all, no one in Putin's entourage knows how many more Russians need to die for the Kremlin to "achieve the goals of the SMO". The Kremlinmeasures successes in kilometers of captured land, remainingruthless in pursuing the utopian goals of the dictatorship. Is it really possible that the aggressor has another 1,000 days of deadly lawlessness ahead of them?

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