Kakhovka dam

Jun 11 2023 The Guardian

What lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence? Freudian analysis offers an answer

If you can’t create, destroy.

Beneath the veneer of Russian military “tactics”, you see the stupid leer of destruction for the sake of it. The Kremlin can’t create, so all that is left is to destroy. Not in some pseudo-glorious self-immolation, the people behind atrocities are petty cowards, but more like a loser smearing their faeces over life. In Russia’s wars the very senselessness seems to be the sense.