Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Every Russian Soldier Lives in Fear Now" video.

I just wonder what I feels like to be elderly in Russia, right now? Anyone above the age of 80 or so will be old enough to remember the paroxysms of mourning their country lapsed into at the death of Stalin, followed by the slow leaking from subsequent administrations, of Stalin’s atrocities against his own people, then that brief flash of light, after the failure of the Communists to reinstate communism, which lead to a throwing open of all the record keeper doors in which even lay Russians could get access to information about the Holodomor, the gulags, the suppression of science, intellectual free thought and the routine murders of anyone who so much as irritated Stalin. And now they have lived long enough to see their entire history revolve 360 degrees, while Putin employs all of the same tactics as Stalin, from domestic terrorism as a mechanism of state control, to a permanent war footing with the west, and the masses making all the sacrifices so that a tiny few get to live in unhappy luxury, mired in paranoia and psychosis . . . What must THAT, “feel,” like to a thinking, educated Russian? . . .
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Sorry to hear about your troubles with the last video. I wish I could give you an extra thumbs up. And can ensure that my family each views on their devices, and each gives a thumbs up on their accounts. 👍🇺🇦
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That’s how Uncle Joe Stalin did it, and it worked out pretty well for him. If you call living in a permanent state of fear and isolation with psychotic paranoia, working out well, that is? Just imagine what it must be like for a thinking, educated Russian, over the age of 80 or so? You’ve seen your country do an entire 360 degree revolution in your lifetime, only to return back to the mass murdering of your own people and the brutal punishments of any who dare to protest at the sheer animality of your gangster leadership. I can’t imagine how the elderly Vlad or Katrina must, “feel,” right now?
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@larsrons7937 : Probably more than we know? Ukraine has shown themselves to be masterful at the art of propaganda, using the same dark arts that they learned so well from their erstwhile overlords and turning them back to their source. They must be very busy in Ukraine, not just getting all their ducks in a row for the Spring Offensive, but playing the psychological effects of anticipation for all they’re worth. Already, we’re seeing its effects on people like that bullying drunk, Prigozhin, who doesn’t want to be there when it starts. I genuinely wonder if entire battalions of Russian troops might turn back for Moscow, deciding they like their odds better against Putin’s police units than against a highly trained and equipped Ukrainian army which has already proved it can defeat them in the field, before NATO armed and trained them to the teeth? Ukrainian psyops will be playing on those fears for all they’re worth.
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That kid has ruined his own life before it had barely begun, but his punishment must be swift and terrible, lest there be others. Of greater concern to all people of the free world, not just the Americans, is what they will do about shaking up security now? We need to hear what they are doing about improving measures and ensuring security is air tight.
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I believe that next wave of conscriptions will be underway by now. Rather than the 400,000 men they discuss on Russian state TV, they’ll be going for a million or more, but by steady, continual increments. In reality they have nothing left to fight with but basic weapons and meat.
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