Susan W

There is one thing about Ukraine's offensive in Russian Kursk, in its 10th day, which is mind-boggling. Ukrainian army controls a large swath of the Russian land, about 80 small towns and villages. And yet... there is zero protests again the Ukrainian army on these territories. No peaceful protests, no armed resustance. Zero. Nada. When the Russian army occupied Ukrainian towns, there were always peaceful resistance and grassroots armed resistance, brutally suppressed. In Russian villages, nothing. The same is going on all across Russia. For decades, schoolchildren learned by heart the names of civilian resistance figures in times of a foreign invasion. If there is a foreign invasion, Russians resist, volunteer for the army, etc. Here is an invasion with thousands of Ukrainian troops and hundreds of tanks on the Russian soil, and no reaction whatsoever. Zero new volunteers, zero grassroots activism in support of those affected by the war. Remember the word "sleepwalkers", which aptly described leaders walking their nations in the disaster of the World War? Putin and his henchmen led Russia into the criminal and disastrous war with Ukraine. They led the sleeping nation. What is unbelievable is that now, after 2.5 years of war and hundreds of thousands dead and now the war on its own soil, the Russian nation is still asleep.