My opinions on Russians are based off the ones that immigrated to the US in the late 90's. After doing business with a few, I will never sell or buy anything from a Russian. They lie, steal, deceive, threaten, and overall rip you off any way they can.

Granted there are plenty of Americans I feel that same way about. Just have never met a Russian with any sense of ethics. Doesn't matter male or female everyone has been a disgusting human with how they treat others.

That's 400,000 soldiers for the war effort. Much better they stay on vacation than fight in Ukraine

For a more reality leaning person I can tell you that fleeing conscription in no way equals not being imperialist/supporting the war. I am from Georgia and they are constantly protesting the Ukranian flags everywhere and start crying every time someone says something negative about Putin or his politics. They know only Russian and have only consumed Putin’s propaganda media all their life. They have more disposable income than the locals, buy up all the property, and never hire locals. You’re leaving your house and every second cafe/bar you enter, the staff only speaks Russian. All of my friends have been driven out of their homes due to rent increase too. They’re truly parasites.

If you are left leaning you should perhaps oppose imperialism?

Well, here's the scoop: Russia is a land empire. The soldiers dying on the front are disproportionately taken from minority ethnicities, who live under the same conditions as any other colonized people.

There are liberal opposition figures, sure. They are a small minority - by most generous estimations, maybe around 15% of Russians. The far right opposition is much greater in Russia, unfortunately.

Seems like people are irrationally angry at Russian people as a whole for not yet managing to overthrow the Putin regime. It's easy to call for revolution in a far away country when it's not you or your family living under the boot.

Russia has no shortage of opposition, like the Novaya Gazeta newspaper for example which has had many of it's journalists assassinated over the years for criticising the Kremlin.

The prejudice against the entire Russian population is absurd to me, there are many Russians who are on the same page as us but who don't have a voice.

The problem is it's likely a majority of them don't even openly oppose the war/occupation of Ukraine. They just don't want to go die for the cause. If these were people fleeing political oppression maybe you'd have a point.

Every thread with the left:

"Oh, you're America, you invaded iraq!" "Oh you cant talk, your country murdered Iraqis and afganis!" "Filthy war-mongering American!!!"

He had like a 89% approval rating for the war before it went wrong.

I had Russians everywhere talking about how the west gave them no choice but to show them a lesson.