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That the government is acting completely and utterly deranged. It has gotten worse and worse since it banned opposition parties and closed opposition tv channels. There is no voice except the hard right.
Roger Waters said some anti-NATO things on CNN and now he's on their official assassination list? Utterly fucking psychotic.
The point of them doing it is to terrorise anyone who even vaguely lightly criticises them or supports the position that NATO is bad and partly responsible for this war. To reduce opposition discourse.
Obviously the Ukrainians are proficient both in asymmetric warfare and psyops. Thing to learn.
It's not just "psyops" how can you not see that? There is literally no political opposition in the country anymore. It is far right regime that has shut down all opposition and created a scenario in which anyone that isn't remotely in line with exactly what the regime wants now ends up on an assassination list.
Dismissing it as "psyops" is a defence of a very clear and inarguable act of fascism. By dismissing it you are normalising the act of putting people on assassination lists for saying extremely mild things that a government dislikes.
Having a choice between the Ukrainians and the Russian Empire (self-certified genocidal and literally fascist project) I still chose Ukrainians. Let alone the fact that my place is in the pipeline for Russian invasion, just after Moldova and Prybaltyka.
Every Russian politician, oligarch, soldier, agent, troll or useful idiot stopped or scared away by the Ukrainians is one less to deal with, when our time comes.