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I see the same rhetoric about Russians as Americans, "too coward to stand up" to their government. And it's always from neckbeards that never have, and certainly never will stand up to their own govt. Have some sympathy and understanding for your fellow human, it's not like there ARENT movements in these countries going against what their evil governments are doing. When is the last time you stood up to ur Canadian government for taking indigenous lands and selling it out under them to corporations for profit? How their disproportionately jailing natives in Canada? How they are disproportionately victims of violent hate crimes? How despite being water rich they can ot guarantee natives access to drinkable water? That's just one topic, we can find some shitty shit just about any country has done so maybe worry about yours before shitting on everybody else. And before u open ur mouth to put somebody else down always ask yourself if your trying to make things better or put somebody else down, as that's more a reflection of your character than anything else.
Don't tell me I have to have sympathy for a country attempting to conquer another and conducting genocide while doing it, I see all humans as humans but don't waste my time waxing lyrical about how I should empathize with the poor plight of the average russian.
By the way I do hold people in the US accountable including myself, but the US has a culture of standing up to authority unlike russia where people are taught to believe they are politically helpless.