I never said russians were more or less infantile than any other group of people. I said your inability to treat russian like adults who are responsible for their actions (“they’ve never seen democracy”, “the west has backed Yeltsin since 1993”) is an infantilization of russian society. Is this not true?

No, it’s my opinion of the humanity as a whole. My experience shows it’s infantile. There’s no moral principle obligating us to believe in something not confirmed with experience.

What do you mean by “bad things are coming”? Can you be clear and specific and not beat around the bush? Because it sounds like you haven’t actually lived in russia and you have no idea what you’re talking about.

I thought you meant “Куклы” and such.

Thank you for proving my point about broad support for imperialism among russian society.

Right of self-determination is anti-imperialist. If the conflict were between Ukraine’s constitution and that right, Ukraine would be imperialist. It’s just not.

But hypothetically, if they ever want to, they have that right. And if you want to make the world better, there’s no use denying it. Especially since no region possibly votes in favor of voluntarily splitting from Ukraine in proximity of Russia, not after this war. I mean, it’s a clearly hypothetical question since they are occupied.

And who is ultimately responsible for the said [russian political] structure right now?

I’ve already said that responsibility is proportional to input in a decision, right?

So first and foremost people on top of it, diplomats, special services workers, intelligence workers, high-ranking military people.

Then those whose input is a bit less.

Other than that, I guess one can differentiate by how someone voted in their life.