Some good points about having a chocie versus not having a choice in this page. Yes, they had a choice to take the money and fight. Is it a choice we would have made? Almost certainly not. But there is to something to the fact that Russians didn't have much of a chance. It's hard to understand the mindset they live in, becuase we don't have the same conditions, although some of us are trying to inch us that way. We can't imagine what it's like to live in a life where you've been fed nothing but propoganda you're entire life, where your conditions have entirely been fealty to the state or prison.
I don't weep for a single Russian in this war. But I can stand back and still think that many of them never had a fucking chance. Becuase they didn't. And if many did, they probably didn't even recognize their chance, becuase their culture is decayed and drunk. The ones that fled had resources and had access to western ideas and people, often through work, which pierce the veil of propoganda and have outside perspectives. The "mud bloods" from the steppes of eastern russia who grew up in villages that barely had power and were conscripted to fight for their country...man, they didn't have much of a chance. And that's becuase of many factors, inlcluding choices made by Russia generations before they were born.
But fuck them regardless. The whole society needs to be razed.