Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "Torture and murder: Russia legalizes the crimes of its soldiers on the territory of Ukraine" video.
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@malaficus Yeah, we noticed. Except that russians are human too - if we keep calling them 'orcs', something I do myself sometimes, it's easy to forget that - and for the vast majority of them, motivation is zero. Even the ones who don't care about killing, don't want to die before their time. So this ever-replenishing killing machine that you're describing isn't working all that well. As for China, the possibility of them starting a war by invading Taiwan is real but has been made much less likely by Ukraine's fierce resistance to the russian invasion - while if Ukraine had caved in, that would have come in a matter of a few years.
But the bit of that comment that is most definitely pro-putin propaganda isn't about this, it's "which is why they are desperate for foreign intervention and escalation". It's straight out of the rashist playbook, when nobody buys the "evil Ukrainian nazi" stereotype just recast them as pathetic and useless and not worth investing in. Ukraine is fighting the war that NATO has been bulking up to fight for decades, with a tiny fraction of the resources: there is strength is knowing what you need and asking for it in no uncertain terms. Not to mention making do with what you get even though it's decisively less than what you need.
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