thunderchief
Senior Member
War with Ukraine is just an afterthought for Russians. After all, they are aware that full scale Russian attack would crush Ukrainian army fairly quickly . West would not just give Ukrainians enough weapons for free, and even if they do, dumping equipment on someone does not make them an army (recent example are Iraqis) .
What really bothers average Russian and what they see could be given in this example : recently Dutch F-16s intercepted some Russian planes over Baltic (international air space ) . Video of the event was on Youtube . There were lot of comments from Netherlands saying something like "They should have shot them down" , "Russian barbarians have no right to fly over Baltic" and even worse . All those comments got lot of "likes" .
For the average Russian , reading this (and yes, they do use Youtube ) this means : " Dutch, who got no bones to pick with us, are coming to our part of the world , threatening to kill us . " In his mind, and seeing recent examples around the world, West is striving to simply divide, conquer and plunder Russia . What is even worse, this is not a product of a Kremlin propaganda , it is their own conclusions based on the facts they have . What other recourse does he have then to ask from his government (and even to be mad on them for not doing it fast enough ) to produce as many nuclear-tipped missiles and other weapons , targeting those "murderous cannibalistic monsters" in the West ?
For those interested, here is an article by Russian author (translated from Russian) , that explains lot about Russian mindset and their lost love of Western culture :
