About Russians and moral grounds

Always hard to talk about a group of people, but some things are claiming to be said

At some point of last year, the whole world was waiting for Putin's speech after Ukraine’s recovery operation of Kharkiv, the major defeat to our enemy until that time. There were no surprises. The dictator announced a broader conscription to Russian citizens and raised the rhetoric against the Western world as if he would be the victim of a foreign invasion.

In fact, everyone was expecting some level of escalation from Russia. A tyrant of his type does not have dignity to recognize the reality of defeat because what better defines a despot is the lack of moral grounds. Russia's defeat is much more than a military defeat: it's a moral collapse.

It is often said that leaders and their political systems correspond to people's general behavior, which is not fair every single time, but sometimes along the history can be verified. This seems to be the case of Russians, speaking about the population in general.

Do Russian people have better moral grounds than Putin?

It's always delicate to answer a question involving a whole population and I let this specific answer to each one who will read this. But in order to have a better basis to proceed, we can orchestrate additional questions and improve our arguments.

The biggest question comes into my mind comes when I see scenes like this one below, testified by every major Russian city that day hours after Putin's speech:

It is a question i have specifically for the Russian people:

Why did you need to wait such a long time to protest in your streets?

Didn't you know what exactly your country, by the person of your president, and by the hands of your soldiers, were doing all these time in Ukraine?

Where was your ability to feel sorry for your Ukrainian brothers, who were dying in their apartments, and watching their hometowns being destroyed by your missiles? Why were there no Russians protesting in the streets?

Russians will probably say that the regime is very tough on contradictory ideas, which is not an inaccuracy by itself, but that day, after Putin had announced esdcalation and broader conscription, the world could see crowds of citizens protesting in every major city and all along their huge territory.

By the media, I couldn't see any damaged buildings, any evidence of destruction in your cities, not a single sidewalk affected with a sign of a small bullet. Media didn’t reported any evidence because they simply do not exist. Russian territory is untouched. Very different from Ukraine, where cruise missiles crosses thousands of kilometers every day and target our homes.

Sorry Russians, you just came too late. You had dozens of opportunities to come to your streets and remove Putin from office.

Our massacred people in Bucha, Izyum, Mariupol, Bakhmut, Kharkiv, Kherson, and so many other places gave you opportunities to protest. You, Russians, just missed, or dismissed in the name of "national unity" of whatever craziness.

I tried to avoid comments concerning Russian moral grounds as people, but I will give my open opinion about why you went to come to your streets and protest: because you, Russians, are just afraid to be sent to Ukraine to fight under compulsory conscription and come to die here.

You go to the streets only when the war comes to a reality on your shallow lives.

You're not worried about people, about human suffering, you're not worried even about Russia: you are only concerned with yourselves.

And you must know, in advance, that the better equipped and most motivated army in this world waits for you Russians, right here in Ukraine.

(adapted from article written in September of 2022)