The problem with Ukrainians and their Western sponsors thinking that all sorts of 'provocations' and terrorist attacks will somehow frighten Russian people into societal discontent is inherent in witnessing the resilience of the Ukrainian people themselves.
After 2+ years of war, we can see Ukrainian people shrug off almost unthinkable levels of social disorder, war, strife, chaos, poverty, propaganda, etc. And we all know Ukrainian/Russian, i.e. people of the Rus, are very closely related.
But there's one key difference: whatever hardships the Ukrainians can take, the Russians can bear an even far greater amount. The Russian can be thought of as a 'hardened', more feral, and ultimately even more durable variant of the Ukrainian. Where the Ukrainian has an admixture of Western sophistication and daintiness, the Russian has pure primal Siberian taiga and Mongol horde virility coursing through his veins. Whatever pain the Ukrainians can take, the Russians can take 10 times more.
These terror attacks, whether on Belgorod, Moscow, etc., as well as all other CIA provocations are merely pinpricks to the Russian psyche, to be shrugged off like steam wisping from the samovar.
I believe it was Big Serge who wrote in his latest piece:
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"The great German soldier and author Ernst Jünger had the following comment on the prospect of war with Russia:
When Spengler warned against any invasion of Russia for reasons of space, he was, as we have since seen, right. Even more questionable become each of these invasions for metaphysical reasons, insofar as one approaches one of the great sufferers, a titan, a genius of suffering power. In its aura, in its sphere of influence, one will become acquainted with pain in a way that far exceeds any imagination.
Much is always made of Russia’s propensity for “suffering”, with interpretations ranging from a romantic Russian-patriotic notion of sacrifice for the motherland to an anti-Russian criticism of the Russian tolerance for casualties. Perhaps it means both: the individual Russian soldier is more willing to sit in a freezing trench and trade shells than his adversary, and the Russian state and people are able to lose more and last longer in the aggregate.
I rather think, however, that Jünger’s metaphysical “titan of suffering” is not so metaphysical at all. It rather refers to a mundane power of the Russian state, namely its excellence and willingness across the centuries to mobilize huge numbers of men and material for war, at the expense of other social goals. War with Russia sucks. It means mass casualties, cold trenches, scarred earth, and long nights of shelling. The Ukrainians have coped with this as well as anyone (because they are themselves quasi-Russian, however much they deny it), but it is an awful thing to trade shells for years on end. The Russian power of suffering is to willingly fight wars that devolve into bat fights, knowing they have a bigger bat."
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Against Russia in a battle of hardship endurance, the West, and Ukraine, will undoubtedly break first.
