Like most conservatives, putin loves wars that don’t endanger him in any way. He loves the bloodshed and the misery of the innocent.
Conservatism is a plague of death. Pure death.
I don’t even know his politics but I’m reluctant to call Putin a conservative (and that means something else outside of the US anyway). Putin is a murderous, crusading mobster who happens to run a country.
Conservatism is about maintaining the current status quo. The preexisting status quo across the world was dictator to some degree. The USSR, despite calling itself socialist, was still an oligopoly-ran system where the rulers simply used the language of socialism to take the means of production from the workers.
Conservatives also tend to love to use national identity to corral disparate ideologies that are willing to put country over principles, too.
Putin actively maintains the oligopoly and rule-by-fear of Russia and the USSR. He actively maintains the national identity of Russia. He actively protects the status quo corruption that keeps him in office.
Putin is a conservative in nearly every way a leader can be conservative for Russia.
According to an assessment collated by the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency, Russia has suffered 189,500-223,000 total casualties, including 35,500-43,000 killed in action and 154,000-180,000 wounded.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the kremlin doesn’t even know how many they’ve actually lost, considering how many “yes” men they have and the repercussions of telling putin what he doesn’t like to hear.
All I know is I’d hate to be the guy to put that report on his desk.
Yeah sure, and Santa Claus is real
Putin still has more toys in the toy box, so he’s not worried how many get broken
