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Related: About this forumIt's Starting": Russia Begins to Boil Over. - The Russian Dude
Its happening  the silence is cracking. ITS STARTING: Russia Begins to BOIL OVER dives straight into the chaos unfolding inside Putins Russia. Forget Russia vs. the West  this is Russia vs. itself. Factories are shutting down, workers are walking out, and the mothers of dead soldiers are refusing to stay silent. The elites are turning on each other, regions are collapsing under poverty, and the fear that once kept the country quiet is fading fast.
This episode breaks down the signs of a regime on the brink  from unpaid munitions workers in Tula, to grieving families in Kursk, to paranoid Kremlin insiders watching the empire rot from the inside. Putins greatest weapon  silence  is finally breaking, and when it does, theres no going back.
Watch the full story of how exhaustion, anger, and grief are pushing Russia to its breaking point. The strikes, the lies, the fear, the rebellion  its all starting.
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(85 posts)Russia is basically a gas station with an Army and a mafia government. They went from whatever version of authoritarian quasi-communism mixed with cronyism to a mobster run country intent on using their spying, bribery, blackmail, and fake offers of partnerships to coopt western governments rather than defeat them militarily. All the while taking over developing countries trying to recover from the colonial manipulation of the European powers. They responded to the EU and the Obama administration trying to lure Ukraine away from Russian control and into EU integration by using social media and coopted western politicians and billionaires to put Trump in office and cause Brexit. They tried to get Marine Le Pen elected too. And of course they invaded Ukraine. If this upheaval can be used to forever put an end to their ability to wage aggressive war and to the power and control of the oligarchs the rest of the world can breathe easy and focus on dealing with the greed of the billionaire class in their own countries.


