[unicornporn]

> For christ's sake, I use Yandex translate because it's better for Russian. I now can't link that on a language learning subreddit.

I'm sorry that you can't post translation links and it may seem blunt, but currently people are dying and fleeing.

If every Russian can see what an inconvenience it is to have Putin as a leader the hope is that they will be more inclined to do everything in their power to have him replaced. Some will of course just blame "west", but there will a also be those who will come to question power.

[odessacubbage]

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_2003–present

this may sound blunt. but people are always and will always be dying. most of them will be poor people in some bush conflict you do not hear or care about but there has always been a war 'somewhere'. if conflict demands we suspend all of our principles and all modes of sensibility 'for the sake of the dying people' then we will do so indefinitely.

[throwaway22032]

No shit, I have friends in Ukraine and have been over there multiple times this year.

The citizens of a country don't see their existence as being a bargaining chip. There is no situation in which the Russian people simply think "oh, ok, let's just do what those people who disabled my bank account say". None.

This whole thing is an exercise in seeing just how little people know or are even interested in the world outside of their tiny bubble.