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I think I saw comments that's a fake with an overlaid audio. In the end he starts driving while continuing talking so dunno about that. If it's real, it really can fuck up your mind that your enemy that you are supposed to fight are so similar to you. One thing is to patrol a street full of "Muslim terrorists" thousand miles away from home and another is having a casual chat with a dude you could have been drinking vodka last weekend.

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There are plenty of videos that show similar interactions. The cultural or indoctrination elements don’t exist here like they might do in the Middle East, there is no hate heck there probably is no real animosity either unless they are forced to engage in combat they have no reason to be hostile.

Hostility due to hate has to pre-exist or has to be built over time.

Nationalism aside they are as close to being one people at this point as you can get, you’ll find it very hard to find a Ukrainian family without Russian relatives and vise versa due to the legacy of the USSR.

Basically if a bunch of marines would be deployed and told to take Toronto would get stuck on the way they’ll probably opt to head to the nearest tim hortons too.

And unless they come in guns blazing I don’t think the local population would try to feed them through a wood chipper…

That psychological aversion to genocidal murder cerainly doesn't spread to Russian general staff.

They are continuing bombing the Kiyv dam.

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