A senior United Nations relief official said that Russia has so far declined requests to help residents of Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine impacted by the breach of the Kakhkova dam.

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      I think for them to stop being assholes they’d need to feel the tiniest bit of empathy first and if the last year of relentless cruelty has shown us anything the Russian government has no empathy whatsoever.

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        The problem isn’t the Russian government; this brutality and callousness has been going on for hundreds of years. The problem is Russian culture that keeps producing these governments

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          Maybe the Russian culture produced many such governments, but the current Russian government is still to blame for the current atrocities. I wouldn’t blame the culture for those, since the culture has also produce people who were against that war, but were powerless against the dictatorship.

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            Saying “it’s the government!” when it’s a successive string of governments stretching back into times before there was a Russian empire is a bit of a cop out. Yes, the culture has produced many Russians who are against the war and having an authoritarian government, but that doesn’t mean the wider cultural framework is in any way healthy or “good”. A culture that produces constant imperialist wars noted for their brutality should be criticized (and before someone chimes in with “but what about the USA!??!¿”, I’m against their imperialist wars and large parts of their culture as well)