Around 27% of respondents blamed the Islamic State (ISIS), while another 6% pointed to the U.S., U.K., and NATO, according to a survey by OpenMinds, an Anglo-Ukrainian online pollster.
Around 27% of respondents blamed the Islamic State (ISIS), while another 6% pointed to the U.S., U.K., and NATO, according to a survey by OpenMinds, an Anglo-Ukrainian online pollster.
It’s always been like that. The meme of “and then things got worse” applies to most of Russian history. They had the Vikings, Mongolians, czars, Napoleon, Bolsheviks (and there were multiple factions that collectively pretty much wanted to kill all of Russia), Stalin, Hitler (at the same time as Stalin!), more Stalin, the cold war, China, Afghanistan, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the oligarchs, and now Putin.
I was hopeful after the USSR collapsed. I suspect now that the brutal authoritarian state they lived in for so long had effectively disabled the population’s ability to mobilize and fight for their rights after so many decades of killing dissidents.
Who knows, the Russians have bravely overthrown a dictator only a century ago.