Vladimir Zolkin is an Ukrainian journalist who has recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with Russian POWs and published them on Youtube. He started in the f

Vladimir Zolkin is an Ukrainian journalist who has recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with Russian POWs and published them on Youtube. He started in the first weeks of the war and is still going. By now he's probably interviewed over a thousand of them. These are long interviews, in depth, usually up to an hour or even more, including POWs' calls home and interviewing their relatives too if they agree. According to his own words, he has entirely given up trying to "change their mind". These are just completely brainwashed people, incapable of independent thought, apathetic like zombies, automatically repeating instilled thoughts as soon as certain keywords are hit. Change will only come when they are replaced by a new generation that is free of this programming. Until then, the best course of action for us is to build a tall wall between us and hope that they won't attempt to drive a tank through it. What you are pointing at is nothing new. Naive attempts to "build bridges" with people who see bridges only as an easy way of driving a tank over to us is how we got here in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandel_durch_Handel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandel_durch_Handel (German/EU policy towards Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset (Obama-era attempts) Misguided attempts to build relations with countries run by criminal gangs have made no positive impact on them, but have poisoned us by opening up our politics, businesses, and other areas of life to their criminal networks.