This indeed would be a big problem in a capitalist society where people have to work for the sake of working.

it’s even more stark if you compare by population

yeah, I’m pretty sure that as a westerner you have zero agency over either government in practice

I imagine that’s going to become a common way to do memes and cartoons going forward. If somebody has an idea, they can get a model to generate an image from a prompt and then slap whatever text they had in their mind on it.

Who knew that gaslighting people for four years telling them that the economy is doing great while they see their standard of living decline would backfire!

If I have to choose which government I’m going to share my secrets with it’s going to be the one that doesn’t have agency over me.

I’m convinced that’s precisely what drives the insane policy the west pursues. The fall of USSR and the unipolar moment that followed were the formative years for these people. The world has moved on, but these people never adjusted their thinking.

The only good Russia is one that’s Balakanized and exploited by western oligarchs.

The other option is to just not make enemies in the east, and learn to coexist with the rest of humanity.