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“It was on television. Life inside Russia adjusted. People learned which words
not to say, which news not to notice, and how to keep scrolling.
And then reality began to crumble into everyday life.
The Russian side of Instagram-which, by the way, is officially banned in
Russia, though everyone still seems to use it-filled with videos from gas
stations. People standing in long lines, drivers complaining they cannot fill
their tanks, queues stretching for miles in some regions. Almost every day, new
footage appears: explosions at refineries, drone strikes on military plants,
smoke rising over places that were supposed to be safely behind the front.
Official news barely mentions it. That habit is already well established. But
when the war was somewhere far away, silence was easy. Now the war has knocked
on the door.
And the most striking part is not even the damage itself. It is the reaction.
One might expect the obvious demand: end the war. Stop creating reasons for
Ukrainian drones to fly deeper into Russia. Stop pretending that a country can
bomb its neighbor for years and remain untouched in return.
But that is not what many people are saying. Instead, they demand strikes on
"decision-making centers" in Kyiv. Some openly call for nuclear attacks. And
beneath all this is a strange, stubborn faith: Russia, they believe, has not
really started fighting yet. Somewhere, in some secret warehouse, there must be
a miracle weapon, a final blow, a hidden force that will suddenly tip the war
back in Putin's favor.
Never mind the hundreds of thousands killed and maimed. Never mind the ruined
border towns, the burned refineries, the economic losses, the exhausted army,
and the shrinking room for ordinary life. In this imagination, all of that was
apparently still the warm-up.
Today, we'll look at how people in Russia are trying to psychologically adapt
to the new phase of the war-what is happening in their heads, what logic they
use, and what exactly they are still hoping for.”
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
