Comments by "VisibilityFoggy" (@VisibilityFoggy) on "Why do you think millions of people left Russia?" video.

@wb6733 Honor is earned.
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In fairness, they probably don't tell that side of the story on Russian television, and she may not be internet-savvy.
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Note for American liberals: notice how one of the central problems in Russia is that everything is oriented toward Moscow and St Pete, while everyone else suffers with no consideration, funding, or respect? Replace those two cities with "New York" and "Washington" and perhaps you'll understand why your party has an 18 percent approval rating.
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@Lalleland Perhaps they left because they don't want to have a bomb dropped on their apartment building, school, hospital or shopping mall? Is that a good enough reason for you? Not EVERY person is suited, physically or mentally, for active military service, and many women evacuated with their small children. The entire country can't join the army...
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Unfortunately, most of the people dying in Ukraine for nothing are all from the rural Far East. Mostly Tuva.
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@wb6733 The teachers didn't get paid? Education is not free. You would probably not want a "free" education because it would be useless.
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@user-jj1bp3es3j This difference is that Ukraine is actively reforming its institutions, and now has a democratically-elected president whose election was overseen by international observers – and Russia has doubled down on the oligarchy with Putin becoming a true tyrannical dictator. The countries may have started in the same place, but they are moving in opposite directions. Russia, of course, saw this and their response was to bomb schools and apartment buildings. Nice neighbor, huh?
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@JamesC785 Poland is practically on the way to becoming a world military power as well. It will soon have the largest land army, largest and most advanced air force and the fastest-growing defense industry in Europe.
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@user-jj1bp3es3j I'm not sure if they're not so happy about it. Many Poles came to the US as well, and I know a few who are thinking of buying property there or even moving back full time for retirement or a second career. A good friend of mine visits her relatives in Rzeszów and always mentions how far things have come. She never thought she'd live in Poland again, but she and her American husband are actually considering moving there for a new adventure.
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