This is not "Putin's war", but of one nation affected by imperial bacillus

It's annoying when you read or listen to another Western author about "Putin's war".

"Putin's war" (very tentatively!) lasted from February to March, when it was still possible to tell that the Kremlin regime was secretly preparing an attack on Ukraine, and everyone (including its own citizens) did not know about it. And Putin lost this war.

After that, war began to rapidly become a war of Russians against Ukraine. Initially, authorities began to carry out covert mobilization "for money" in Russia. And they found volunteers. After all, in autumn, they just started mobilizing everyone they could.  And each time they found enough people to solve their problems. Yes, these people quickly ran out, because this is already their tactic, but they constantly found people.

"Ordinary Russians" could have stopped this war a long time ago. If only they had not joined the Russian army. You don't need to protest, you don't need to go to rallies, you don't need to overthrow Putin and his regime. Just don't join the army. For money, or because of a piece of paper that was thrown into the mailbox. And that's it, "Putin's army" would end, and his war as well.

But these imperialists are ready to sacrifice their own lives for the illusory hope of destroying Ukraine. And their "mothers" and "women" only whine that "boys" were not given bulletproof vests, but they do not reject war of aggression itself.

And don't tell me that they are "forced" to fight. Did everyone just run away to the woods, and they were caught there? Were many of them really imprisoned for refusing to mobilize?

No, my dear friends. This is not "Putin's war" at all. This is a war of one nation affected by imperial bacillus against Ukraine. And all these people must be responsible for it.

About the author: Petro Oleschuk, political scientist

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