Marijn Markus   

AI Lead | Managing Data Scientist | Public Speaker

• Capgemini
• Universiteit Utrecht

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands 

Aug 3, 2024

“Ordinary russians don’t support the war.”
Meanwhile in russia 👇

🙄 Today, freshly liberated russian oppositionists argued “this is Putin’s war” once again denying the responsibility of the country actually waging war.

Instead only blaming the symptom, Putin.

Admittingly, the opposition had been rotting in cells for 2+ years, so we should be forgiving. They may not be aware that….

📊 About 500,000 “ordinary Russians” are right now fighting to exterminate #Ukraine right now.

About 120,000 to half a million “ordinary Russians” have already been 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 in this war to exterminate Ukraine, which is unprecedented since WWII, and still there’s no end in sight.

Up to 25,000 “ordinary Russians” are joining the Russian #military every single month to get some real crazy money for helping exterminate Ukraine.

📈 Russia’s overall military force deployed to exterminate Ukraine is expected to grow to about 700,000 more “ordinary Russians” by the end of 2024, and another wave of mass mobilization is very likely.

🚀 Millions of “ordinary russians” work the industries, factories and logistics that produce the ammo, missiles, drones and glide bombs used to 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 Ukraine’s civilians, women and children on a daily basis.

And many dozens millions of “ordinary russians” more pay the taxes to fund this brutal and illegal invasion.

🤷‍♀️ Yet, no nationwide protests, no military trains derailed en masse by those protesting against exterminating Ukraine, no war of national resistance in Russia to stop this madness, the 𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐲 of which is simply very hard for a sane mind to process.

This is not just “Putin’s war”

📣 It’s a war to exterminate Ukraine supported actively by “regular Russians” poisoned by the Kremlin’s #propaganda of 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐝 and/or those participating in the extermination of Ukraine for money, which meets no resistance from those who opt towards omission.

This is much deeper than just blaming a dictator. If only things were that simple.

❗️ This is about a very large nation, in which an aggressive totalitarian regime has built its power largely on the consolidating idea of exterminating and devouring a neighboring nation

“No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.”

• Louis L’Amour

Intelligence #Sociology

StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Marijn tail-ended his comment piece with an eye-wateringly horrible video, featuring “ordinary” russians. You have been warned. :-

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marijnmarkus_ukraine-military-propaganda-activity-7225508644182761472-PSeu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios