“Ukraine’s intelligence service says it thwarted a Russian plot to blackmail a local teenage girl into blowing up a police building by threatening to make public intimate pictures on her phone.”

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    I’m not sure saying its typical of Russians is helpful. I know two Russian people and neither of them are blackmailing kids into performing terroristic acts.

    I’m not defending Russia’s government nor the attitudes of many of the country’s civilians. I also have my own biases and prejudices that I’ve been working most of my life to extinguish.

    I just don’t think it’s helpful to go on the internet and write “typical X, X’s are all the same” in essentially any situation.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      11 days ago

      i don’t mean it’s typical of russian people, i mean it’s typical of the russian apparatus; of russia itself

    • sepi@piefed.social
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      10 days ago

      The GP didn’t say this to make anybody feel better. I dunno why you yould assume this is the intent. This is just how russians operate. It is the truth.