Things don't look good for me here.

A most excellent debate.
https://rokfin.com/post/80978/Panel-Russia--the-Great-Reset--Resistance-or-Complicity?fbclid=IwAR1YnkjbsM0IY9c8y3fwCffaX7zqSKMZBSaB3RDjNEu8bw3OS1Uw0Cn939E

Middle class Russians are economically managed like ants.

The welfare state if parasitic first and foremost.

If you don't fit into the hastily made-up categories they have for you, you can't exist.

Taxes are low, but they keep wages unlivabley low, and make up the difference with highly controlled handout goodies and entitlements.

This is the most thorough, concise, and elegant summery of the Ukraine problem I have seen yet in writing. https://www.thepostil.com/author/jacques-baud/?fbclid=IwAR1TCFc729aUh0Ahz9AAyCbBwjKmwxpufUFNV2zP4nAXqIoxj3AJgMFHanY