Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war?

I hear a lot from the Western/Ukrainian perspective about this war but I'm curious what the Russian Hacker News community thinks.

What is your perspective on what's happening? What are you seeing and hearing from your family and friends in Russia?

My deepest sympathy goes out to everyone affected by this tragedy. <3

I have friends in Russia but if I relate their thoughts I will be downvoted and flagged to oblivion. There's no room for "the other view" on HN. Look at any old thread about PRC and see how it goes. When it smells a little of politics HN quickly devolve and moderation is needed.

This is the first Russian site I’ve been to where the chrome translations are really poor - seemingly it is filled with colloquialisms/etc.

From what I can tell the users are not at all fans of the sanctions, think they will not motivate the general population, and expect many us business to sell to intermediaries who will sell to Russia.

It may be the translations, but it reminds me of political forums where the article is about x, but the top comment is about other hot political topic y.

But also this comment is at the top of a thread of Russia’s self imposed sanctions:

>The government hammers a new nail into the coffin of the Russian economy every day.

I am Ukrainian, living in US, but have plenty of Russian friends and (still) some connections with people living in Russia.

My strong believe is that there is pretty high support of Putin in Russia, especially around mainstream population, I'd estimate at least 40-50%. This is related to 20+ years of propaganda and phantom pains of USSR collapse. West people should not be delusional. Of course it is also not black and white - not liking West in general is one thing, supporting Putin's war is another.

Finally, I hope you realize that by asking here you will get a _very_ distorted view.