SwedishAdvocate
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It's really not politics, although that answer is often given by Russians wanting to pretend nothing is going to affect them and they can't do anything about it anyway. It's all about your deranged leader wanting to go back in time and grab all the land and resources he thinks should be his and destroy anything non-Russian in order to make him more powerful and rich.
There's enough evidence to show what actually went on there between 2014-2022 if you look hard enough but it seems you're content to go with the flow and believe the future will be bright and properous. Your talent will ultimately be wasted like so many other intelligent young men in your country, which is a shame but if you don't wake up and stand against the evil and destruction your leader promotes, you won't have a future in Russia, because Russia itself won't have a future.
I agree with everything except for the first underlined part. How is this not about politics?...
There's this rather famous quote by some von Clausewitz dude: “war is a continuation of politics by other means”.
THE GRAND STRATEGY OF CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
WAR ROOM welcomes Francis Miyata to demonstrate that Clausewitz provides an implicit definition of grand strategy in his magnum opus, On War. Francis argues that the definition is found not in his theory of war but extrapolated from his theory of the state, which is the bearer of multiple means...
warroom.armywarcollege.edu
Or we can take a look at Wikipedia:
Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. [...
The Russian Dictator's illegal War against Ukraine is of course about politics. And further still: Everything is politics.