Ukrainian Partisans Rock Russia from Crimea to Moscow! - RFU News

[thucythucy]

2. From the very beginning I thought there would be a serious resistance

inside Russia itself to Putin's aggression.

There are millions of people inside Russia who have ties to Ukraine, through family and friends. People with Ukrainian wives and in-laws, cousins and uncles, people with siblings living on the other side of the border. They know about the atrocities, the kidnappings, the targeting of civilians. Some of them may have even lost Ukrainian family and friends.

This doesn't even include ethnic Russians who've lost loved ones, or seen them permanently disabled, by the war. Or the non-Russians living inside the Federation borders who would just as soon be done with Russia entirely, and see the war's distraction to the Russian security forces as an opportunity. It wasn't for nothing that Russia has historically been called "the prison of nations."

And then there are the occupied territories, places that Russia has seized during the war. There's a long tradition of Ukrainian Resistance to occupation. After WWII Ukrainian guerrilla fighters kept up the struggle against the Soviets into the early 1950s.

Putin's best and probably only hope for anything approaching a "victory" lies with his puppet Trump and his MAGA enablers.