people are dying for this?
The three words to understand everything about modern russia.... "collective narcissistic wound"
russians are socialized to think of therr 'culture' and language as superior to those of other countries and to think they have a mission to bring their superiority to the world.
the fact that the world has rejected (and continues to reject) this 'gift' drives them to blind rage.
everything putain has done is about giving that rage expression through military aggression, first against the domestic heretics in chechnya and then in georgia, syria, and now in Ukraine.
check Julia Davis's twitter channel and see how often the commenters are expressing the desire to inflict mass casualties on other countries, any other countries... they're all ungrateful and they all have to be punished...
it's hard for more normal people to understand, but once you get it... nothing they do is really surprising... a very boring and predictable bunch