Read this interesting account given by a Russian conscript about what life at the front is like. This part is particularly interesting:

“We are mostly fighting against ourselves”

RT: Do you and your fellow fighters think about the war and the enemy differently now that you’ve spent considerable time at the front?

Ural: No, not in a major way. In general, Russian soldiers are divided into two “camps” regarding their attitude towards the enemy: the people who believe they are fighting fascism and treat Ukrainians as fascists and those who believe that this is a war against a fraternal nation – a nation that has been brainwashed by Western governments. For the latter group, this is a civil war.

Personally, I share the second point of view. It’s hard to argue here, because we basically have the same guys over on the other side, especially now that the number of Ukrainian conscripts has significantly increased. These are the same people who speak Russian and have more or less the same mentality that we do.

We are mostly fighting against ourselves. Except that the other side is much more ideologically brainwashed. Moreover, this brainwashing is so severe that people do not understand what they are doing.

I have viewed this conflict largely from Urals’ point of view. I previously described Ukrainians and Russians as “kissing cousins.” They are, though there are plenty (though fewer than there were) of fully anti-Russian enemies in the Ukrainian ranks. And they have been brainwashed by the Werewest, in addition to being supported and egged on by the faux rulers of Western nations. This is most similar to the brainwashed condition many Westerners suffer under. They too are in their own civil wars, smaller fronts in the greater global war.