I’ve been talking to Russians about the gas shortage — empty tanks (I literally asked them to show me the fuel level), back to the USSR-style talon system, people queuing for miles. But everyone’s pretending it’s fine and even denying Ukrainian drones exist. Unreal.





by user112234

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  1. I know that video is long, so here are timecodes for you

    0:00 Russian lady driver shows me her gas tank
    1:28 Spent the last liter of gas for one last ride to Lenin
    2:19 Oil refinery hit in Orsk — that’s 1,400 km away from Ukraine
    3:10 Russian denies the gas shortage
    3:53 What’s wrong with the ceiling in a Russian house
    4:51 Russian imperial officer says “we are fucked”
    6:15 Denies the existence of Ukrainian drones entirely
    6:55 The huge shift happening in Russian society
    7:44 News from the city of Orsk
    8:22 Why the city of Orsk is important
    8:45 How to recognize a Ukrainian drone by its frame
    9:38 Reaction of a Russian propagandist
    10:10 Kazakhstan under threat
    11:10 Gas station lines the day after Ukrainian drone strikes
    12:11 Where in Russia the gas shortage is the worst
    12:24 Gas crisis hits a young Russian woman hard
    13:21 Russians stealing gas from each other

  3. There is a strange medical condition that exists in Russia called Spontaneous Defenestration Syndrome (SDS). It’s related to acknowledging certain aspects of realty. If one recognizes certain things too much, the disorder activates causing an irrational need to fly. People with this condition are often reported jumping out of windows after calling attention to things like drones. So, they have been developing an immune system response of selective blindness.

  4. Oh they know what’s happening, but they’ve seen this dance before and know to keep their mouths shut.

  6. It sounds like the MAGA party talking about how great the country is under Trump.

  7. I tried to message somebody I knew on telegram, but messaged a Russian girl by accident. We got talking about the war and I said a few things and she’s like “we don’t know it was Russia that started the war, we wouldn’t do such things. The enemy state attacked us “Putin is a nice guy”. The citizens are delusional

  8. What did you expect? That they admit and be sent in jail or as a cannon fodder?

  9. What occurs to me, is that Ukraine is showing up just how fragile the oil industry is. A few well-placed strikes and a large nation is partially crippled.

    Now, imagine a world when most houses have their own solar, wind is on multiple thousand towers, it’s almost trivial to build network redundancy, BEV cars can perform V2L and power a house for days while damage is routed around and repairs effected. And it’s cheaper.

    And yet people still argue that gas and oil and coal are the protections we need for the future.

    Any sane government should be ***rushing at full speed*** to remove fossil fuels from their energy portfolio.

  10. Russian citizens on video and you expect them to say anything negative about their government?

  11. Reminds me of Black Adder’s “Deny everything.”

  12. I think the residents of Japan had no idea they were getting their asses handed to them by early 1945, and only realised they were being lied to once B-29s were raining fire down on their houses. If the government controls the messaging, then the population is none the wiser.

  13. Russian oil is declining so bad I just went ahead and made r/JustStopRussianOil for analysis and laughs.

  14. I’m still confused as to why people are mystified that Russian citizens act like some aspects are nonexistent.

    Its been ongoing since the outset of the war, people confused as to why they dont admit things in front of a camera, seemingly incapable of looking at it from that Russian citizen’s perspective.

    Keep in mind they live, and have lived in for many generations at this point, a society that does not tolerate outcry until it becomes full revolution. If Putin says theres no Ukrainian drones, then theres no drones. Government says theres no Ukrainian strikes on military and oil infrastructure, then there isn’t. A military unit asks you who you praise and universally think should be leader of the world? The one in charge of course!

    Because they live in a society *where saying otherwise can very well have fatal consequences*. They’re not going to say what foreigners with a camera want them to admit because if any Russian authority catches wind of it, a life in prison is the good outcome, execution or sentenced to the front of a deliberately messy military advance are also common. They live in a world where they have to be careful what they can say because they don’t enjoy the freedom of speech that many developed countries have.

    So chances are, yes they very well know the fuel shortage is because Ukrainian drones are pounding refineries, they very likely know the shortages are because fuel logistics is in shambles, they probably dont even want this was because why are we invading a fellow neighbouring former soviet, Slavic nation? But if they admitting any of that publicly is fatal, so the day you catch people saying it out loud is the day youll know when Putins regime is getting so bad that the general public believes they cant stop them from saying it.

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