Russians Grow Weary of Ukraine War

[applegrove]

Russians Grow Weary of Ukraine War

December 5, 2022 at 5:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/05/russians-grow-weary-of-ukraine-war/

"SNIP........

“The number of Russians in favor of continuing the war in Ukraine has fallen dramatically, with just one in four now supporting the conflict, according to leaked Kremlin opinion polls,” the Times of London reports.

“In July, 57 percent of respondents said they wanted to see Russian troops remain in Ukraine. That figure has fallen to 25 percent. Support for negotiations to end the nine-month conflict has risen from 32 percent to 55 percent.”

......SNIP"

[Just A Box Of Rain]

1. Hard to imagine why.

[gratuitous]

2. Americans got weary of wars in Afghanistan and Iran, too

But the folks running these wars have their own ob$cure reasons for wanting them to go on and on.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

3. Iran?

[applegrove]

6. You mean Iraq.

[gratuitous]

10. No

I was thinking of the US/Iraq World Cup match last week. Wait; that was Iran too, wasn't it?

Or, yeah, I screwed up.

Choose your own ending.

[mitch96]

8. "ob$cure reasons"... you nailed it. The Military Industrial Complex love$ making money..nt

[Kennah]

15. We've had a proxy war with Iran, on and off, for decades

[bronxiteforever]

4. Drafting Russians made the war real to the population n/t

[applegrove]

5. That was predictable.

[bronxiteforever]

7. Totally. The sanctions are starting to bite too.

[DFW]

9. "In July, 57 percent of respondents said they wanted to see Russian troops remain in Ukraine."

Yeah, well, when they got what they wished for, they started having second thoughts. It's probably a safe bet that few Russians these days remember Country Joe McDonald: "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box."

Still, if the Russian version of "negotiations" means "give us your country, and we'll stop bombing it to smithereens," it's not likely to bring Zelensky to the negotiating table. I don't think the Ukrainians will consider that position worthy of a counter-offer.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. "It's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?"

[DFW]

16. That's the one!

The updated version has been modified to fit your century, of course. Now they sing, “And it’s один, два, три, …….»

[Dirty Socialist]

21. Don't ask me I don't give a dang

The next stop is Ukraine

[FakeNoose]

12. Winter is coming boys ... time to think about defecting

[applegrove]

13. There are already some Russians fighting for Ukraine. CNN interviewed

one of them this afternoon.

[DFW]

17. That good old Russian Christmas carol....

Christmas is coming, the shells burst everywhere
Won’t you please ask Vladimir why he sent us there
If you can’t find Vladimir, a general will do
But the general defected, so I will, too!

In Russian, “Vladimir” has the stress on the second syllable (vla-DI-mir), so you have to sing it that way, or it won’t scan, FYI

[FakeNoose]

20. Good one!

[lindysalsagal]

14. They've been supporting the monster for so long, it's surprising they're changing. Hope they take hi

him out.

[DFW]

18. We won't do it, the Ukrainians can't do it, but...

Some very dissatisfied, well-placed Russians certainly CAN do it, and, if things don’t soon improve for them, they might well do just that.

[UTUSN]

19. I wish they would pick up the beat.

[Sky Jewels]

22. Even slaughtering innocents gets old.

Who knew?
Well, we here in the USA did.

[dugog55]

23. So now they are "weary" of the war? They

should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for ever being for it. There was no rhyme or reason to this conflict. Russia lied to their own troops telling them is was just a training exercise, then they lied to the whole country saying the Ukraine provoked it. Hard to believe there are people other than Americans that believe war is the answer to everything. It was sickening in this country when the Iraq war was started over a lie. Then another, then another. And a large portion of Americans still believed we were doing the right thing.

[Samrob]

24. They were in Afghanistan for about 10 years. They give up too easily.

And they, like we, learn not a damn thing about invading another nation.