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Originally Posted by jfman
No it was complete as is, thank you.
It’s not the civil servants working in an embassy that are impacted if it ceases to function - they’ll still get paid to put their feet up or get redeployed elsewhere.
It’s the service users - ordinary Russians. I get that being an alien concept to some.
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Russian citizens inconvenienced as a result of their government’s murderous rampage across someone else’s sovereign territory? See, how tiny is my violin. Part of the long-term problem here is your average Russian citizen’s indifference to the actions of their government. They generally don’t care if it doesn’t affect them, and when it does affect them they run away (if they can afford to). Wars have a habit of affecting bystanders (just ask the women and children of Bucha. Oh, that’s right, you can’t, they got raped and thrown in mass graves). Russia’s actions are vile and indefensible and there comes a point where the citizens of that country are inevitably going to experience consequences. War is unfair like that.
Notwithstanding any of the above, it’s quite possible for an embassy experiencing difficulties to operate a bare minimum emergency service or even to provide assistance to its nationals via a friendly third party.
(Equivocation and whataboutery incoming in 3 … 2 … 1…)