“They have the authoritarian bone in their skulls, they thrive under the whip, those despotic asiatic hordes”

“Don’t worry sweaty, I hate the government, not the people”

The unpleasant reality is Russians, like the Chinese Americans have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. They are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

After 9 Thermidor II, they never were again.