the most confusing thing about this street situation is that people imply russians are experiencing some advanced civilisation with dishwashers, toilets and grocery stores in ukraine and thats why theyre stealing ahit, when in reality ukraine is like 3 times poorer than russia and there is fuck all there besides maybe kiev and lwów

theyre looting because its based and to make life there even more hell which is a good strategy in war

>>181396487 (OP)

>people imply russians are experiencing some advanced civilisation with dishwashers, toilets and grocery stores in ukraine and thats why theyre stealing ahit

Literally no one believes that

Reddit does.

NTA but libs do be like this

It's no longer possible to tell if you're reading a garbage thread by indog or pakipole anon without hovering over the flag

>>181396487 (OP)

What was the point of this post? To excuse what Russians are doing, or to point out how barbaric they are?

Of course they loot shit, it as wartime tradition. Lugandia and Bombass soldiers strap the toilets and washing machines to their tanks as applique armor because T-72’s were designed around different doctrine during the Cold War so the situation they get themselves in makes them wholly under equipped.

>>181396487 (OP)

This is merely anectodal evidence of course, but here goes;

My father is a petrolium engineer, and has for the last 30 years or so worked with sales for a Norwegian company developing both off-shore, and on-shore oil and gas extraction equipment.



He has been to Russia so many times it would amount to over a year of his life. And this was particulary often during the 90's and 00's.

His take was that cities like St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, and the likes of them, are modern cities on par with western counterparts.

The countryside in parts of Siberia he visited on the other hand, looked very destitute and neglected to him, and as if it was still 1950 there, complete with gravel roads and archaic farm machinery.

Later in life, I've also met other people, particulary those whom work/worked in the petrolium-sector whom share these observations.



If I'm not mistaken, large swaths of the Russian military comes from these rural, bum-fuck nowhere places. I don't think a man from St. Petersburg would marvel at a dishwasher.

But if it's a platoon made out of farm boys from some forgotten dump in Siberia with barely any infrastructure to speak of, these stories would at the very least make a little more sense, if nothing else.



There's no doubt they're heavily exaggerated for propaganda purposes though.

Ops, didn't mean to trip-fag btw

kuwaitis say that when iraqis invaded kuwait the iraqi soldiers ate nivea because they thought it was some kind of yogurt, its obviously bullshit to make the iraqis appear barbaric

we have stories about Soviet soldiers pulling out taps from the walls here thinking it's a magic device that creates water out of nowhere and they will have running water from it back in they yurt in Siberia

>>181396487 (OP)

If you're from some backwater part of Tuva or Dagestan even a shithole like Ukraine is advanced. Russia looks better than it is because of Moscow, Petersburg, and some Siberian oil towns.

>>181396487 (OP)

thing is maybe, rich muscovites would not steal toilets and wasing mashines, but they do not participate in special military operation
