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If Russian civilians stopped sleeping and took up arms against their government, then maybe this war could end. The people responsible are all members of the Russian government, and Russian people's apathy (or in many cases support for the war) enables them.

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Let's see how you'll manage to stop your own governments from implementing total digital panopticon via Chat Control etc, from mongering wars half the equator away from your country, and everything else you won't like in what future holds for the West and the world in general.

I sincerely hope you'll be able to, thus proving that the people of the West are not as asleep at the wheel as Russians.

The more and more would demand quite the opposite from Kremlin - to escalate already.

No, that's just an impotent power fantasy. Even among the hardcore nationalist crowd (the so-called "Z-society"), support for the use of nuclear weapons remains a fringe position, because nuclear weapons are not known to spawn conscripts and gasoline, lower the price of potatoes and carrots and other essentials, or attract Chinese foreign investments.

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