<2023-03-24T07:58:34.000Z> SRDF: Regarding recommendations, I only recommended Liv so you can better understand how Putin thinks.Essentially you'll have to divide the identity of being Russian from the ethnicity and consider the ideas of Russia as an idea or country. Like how Americans aren't an ethnicity, but an national identity with loosely similar ideas. 
<2023-03-24T08:09:48.000Z> SRDF: Another thing about the oligarchs. If your friend doubts me on that, then he's right. To clarify, I meant the ones at the time before his rise to power.He cared for the ones who bent to whims. Almost all of the others are either still in prison or were murdered. The ones that later replaced those power vacuums were the ones that go smoke up Putin's ass the most. Meanwhile, they'd spend the military budgets on yachts and mansions, or circulate in criminal organizations like the Russian Mafia.They'd get to the point of stealing most of the military budget where the Russian military is left with scarce equipment or they'd just outright steal and sell to god knows where. 
<2023-03-27T07:34:46.000Z> Eichenlaub: Sorry for my late reply, I was forced last minute to accompany my friends in a trip to the snowy mountains on Friday. Thanks for the further information, and for sharing what you did, it's very interesting, and I plan on being a bad goy and looking into this more.
<2023-03-31T01:58:06.000Z> SRDF: It's okay. I'm pretty neutral about the shit happening because I have Ukrainian and Russian friends.In my opinion, both sides have done some unbelievable shit to each other, and misinformation is exhausting when you look into this stuff more from both sides.