>>64080340 (OP)I think you have various people with different ideologies who started out thinking that Russia doing the SMO would help their own cause in some cynical and instrumental way, and they'd rise to power or something as Western governments fall into disrepute before the might of Russian power. They can be far left or far right. (It also didn't help that the Russian government has sought to co-opt these tendencies for its own purposes, so they do things thinking they're acting in accordance with their own ideological agenda rather than a different agenda that may even be contrary to their own objectives in some way.)
It's not that people on the fringe can't see something that others don't, or can't be right about some problem in their own societies, but they think they're so clever. They tend to underestimate how unpredictable these things actually are, especially wars. I mean Jesus, these things can really get carried away with themselves such that the actual resulting event turns out to be something very few predicted. The inner logic of the Russian war effort can also just screw it all up. For example, with this row with Azerbaijan recently, the nature of the war is that Russia has to encourage Russian chauvinism for the war so they glory in themselves and their own fabulousness. There's a lot of this going on:
https://youtu.be/RVrQUu7Vfuo
But the demographic problems combined with the human losses in the war means they're even MORE dependent on migrant labor (much more so than the U.S. is). That's a contradiction. You want to people to be more like "submit to Russia" and also import migrants. Putin has tried to put a lid on it, but it's like pressure building up due to increased temperature in closed system. Eventually some Azeri construction worker is going to get the shit kicked out of him by the cops for not being Russki, which causes latent tensions between these governments to explode. This kind of stuff happens a lot in wars.
