Comment by orphea
13 hours ago
people don't want to support a state that has brutally occupied half of Europe
Sure. The comments above were about Russians though, not the state.
13 hours ago
people don't want to support a state that has brutally occupied half of Europe
Sure. The comments above were about Russians though, not the state.
States consist of people. Russians are shareholders of Russia.
It would be true if Russia was democracy. It is not.
It's not a democracy because they neglect their shareholder duties. In other words, they are responsible for not making it a democracy.
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It is silly to grant agency and moral responsibility exclusively to people living within democracies.
The Putin regime made an informal deal with the population "You stay out of politics and we're gonna stay out of your life". The people outsource political power to the regime.
This passive majority represents the bulk of the population, but not the whole of the population. There are two smaller groups. Ultra-patriots who criticize Putin for not doing more war, more suffering etc. And those who criticize the Putin for the war, although this group is not very vocal, but here I do agree with you that's it's difficult to publicly protest in an authoritarian regime.