The loss of over one million lives in Russia’s war with Ukraine is the result of a cruel war machine that ordinary Russians are churned out by to calculate a future policy of aggression toward the rest of the world in the future.
This reality is missing on the ground in places like Moscow, where old stories are still turned around as being the stuff of the physics of life – or how it all works.
The youth mentality is dark, bitter, and brutal in many of the places further out from the centres of power and intrigue. They suffer nights of depression, as maybe they too will become a casualty of Putin’s war with a foreign field.
The impact on the economy is a helpful tool sometimes to work it out, but the sorry tales that are the latest intercession for ceasefire are the real substance for debate.
