“When I was getting ready to go to the warzone, I told my father that I wanted to see the truth. I did see this truth, and I am completely unhappy with it. Someone decided to write their name in history as a great ruler. Of course, you have an idea of who I mean. But I don’t want to mention this name.”
And anyone who says they’re “not into politics” is obviously OK enough with the status quo to be able to not care, they’re just trying to dodge responsibility and make themselves look like helpless victims. Which, fair enough, they sort of are as a nation, but I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that Russia has been known for centuries for being an incredibly brutal and imperialist country with a penchant for genocide, and who are seemingly almost completely unable to select leaders who aren’t – in a word – psychopaths.
There’s been some polls of Russians that have shown a fair bit of overlap between the “I don’t care about politics” set and “I support the SpEcIaL MiLiTaRy oPeRaTiOn” set. Not quite a circle of a Venn diagram, but the intersection wasn’t a sliver either.