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It isn't changing. I may be projecting, but this grave mood has been dominant since the first day of the war. On the contrary, when Puting announced the recogn
by MrDisposable 5y ago
It isn't changing. I may be projecting, but this grave mood has been dominant since the first day of the war.
On the contrary, when Puting announced the recognition of two Donbass republics as independent countries a few days before the war, there was a round of cheer and optimism -- because that would mean that the cross-border shellings in Donbass will finally stop. But that cheer has completely evaporated the morning the invasion started.
(Take this with a grain of salt -- this is based on my personal observations of my relatively narrow social circle, plus I may be projecting).
- emptysongglass 5y agoMay I ask how you're doing? Why are you staying and are you able to live effectively with a cheaper ruble?
- MrDisposable 5y agoThank you. My overall mood is grave, but I have a business to save and a family to feed. Yes, I'd be able to live quite well with the cheaper ruble, but that requires being able to retain the foreign revenue flow into Russia and being able to convert the dollar to ruble at a decent rate. There's still a lot of uncertainty about both of these. As for why am I staying... well, that's a big, big question. I won't feel at home abroad. Yes, I've been to multiple countries in Europe, and I'd be perfectly fine on an everyday level, but I won't be at home. And I'm not exactly young either. It is sad that the Russian World is really small, compared to the Angloshere, and it's dominated by Putin's Russia. We Russians don't really have another place to run to... Yes we can smuggle ourselves to Europe, but we'll spend decades on getting the citizenship, diligently working boring CRUD jobs, wasting our potential until we're old...