The Search for Those Responsible for the Defeat Continues in Russia
After the “blitzkrieg” failed, it became clear that Russia is losing the war in Ukraine. And the longer this armed conflict continues, the more severe the consequences of this adventure will be for the aggressor.
A few days ago, I was shown a screenshot where Russian social media platforms are already beginning to spread information about the alleged involvement of ethnic Ukrainians living in Russia in Russia’s defeat in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Russians are trying to shift the blame for their miscalculations and mistakes onto anyone but themselves. They sincerely believe in the most absurd accusations against others and consider only themselves to be always and in everything sinless.
They are trying to prove that ethnic Ukrainians are involved in the mass death of their cows somewhere near Novosibirsk. Of course, Ukrainians are also to blame for the internet outage in Russia. And those damned Ukrainians also want to send the current Russian “tsar-father” Vladimir Putin to his grave. And how much longer can “Russian land” tolerate those Ukrainians, just as “Mother Russia” endures this insult to the suffering Russian people?
Well, as a classic saying goes – “the process has begun”, and the search for the responsible continues. Next, after the Ukrainians, the Russians will begin to blame representatives of other peoples and nations living on the territory of the Russian Federation for all their troubles and misfortunes, as has happened time and again in their history. We should expect that in the near future they will begin to blame Chechens, Buryats, Yakuts, Kalmyks, and all those who, in their deep conviction, were not too eager to die for their imperial ambitions and therefore, without a doubt, must be punished for the Russian Federation’s defeat in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Oleh Bereziuk,
Institute for Global Politics
