The Kremlin’s Reaction to the Ukrainian Incursion Similar to How Trump Dealt with COVID
The lost and desperate faces we see here don’t differ much from those of the millions in the country, which is a 30-minute drive from where most of these new refugees reside. The Russians living in the Kursk Region share a similar accent with Ukrainians when speaking Russian. Many of them make beet soup (borscht) the same way as their “enemies.” For two years, though, these people were afforded the luxury of watching “that war which wasn’t a war” unfold as if it were just a movie.
But no more.
It is estimated that 76,000 residents have already been evacuated. The most interesting thing about this, though, is that the Kremlin has had almost no hand in the evacuation. Other than offering a few hundred dollars to people who had to “temporarily” leave their homes, the Kremlin has said only that the situation is “well under control.” It has been arresting anyone reporting otherwise.
Two days after the invasion began, an official directive was shared with the Russian media, now controlled by the Kremlin, that there should be no sensationalizing of the situation. There should be no alarming reports of Ukrainians advancing, and all of…
