Question: Is the collective consciousness of Russia changing? Are the people of Russia awakening to the realization that the blind are leading the blind and in the end, everyone will fall into the pit? Or has not enough time passed and more vigorous blows are needed?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 Easter webinar.
Well, I have commented somewhat on this in a previous answer about the war. But what I will add to it here is that obviously the change has not happened yet, because if it had happened, Putin would not be in embodiment and there would be at least a beginning of a process of Russia withdrawing from the war. Because if it was not for Putin sitting there holding the entire situation in this fixed position, then there are other people who can see that there is no military victory that can be achieved in Ukraine. And it does not matter how many soldiers you throw at it, how many bombs, how many rockets, how many drones, how many artillery shells. There is no military victory that can be achieved, at least not a meaningful military victory. And the cost is way too high compared to what you get out of it.
Obviously if there had been enough of a shift in the collective consciousness, as we have said before, Putin is kept artificially alive by the Russian people and the moment that changes, then he will no longer be in embodiment. Obviously, the blows have to become harder.
You see, what most people do not realize is that when a situation like this happens, an entire nation can be put on a downward track. And an example of this is the German nation after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. The entire German nation was put on a track that was leading downwards. It was, as we have called it, the School of Hard Knocks, and the knocks got harder and harder. And the two very decisive knocks were that Germany lost the war and the exposure of the Holocaust. Because what caused Germany to go into the war was this dream of greatness and the sense that we are so special and we have a special role in the world and we are saving the world. And when the war was lost and the Holocaust was exposed, many among the German people could see that there was a glaring contradiction between what Germany actually did and this over-inflated sense of self-importance. And the sense of self-importance cracked and that has caused the German nation to move on to a much higher level than it would have been otherwise.
When Putin invaded Ukraine, he put Russia on the same kind of track. Russia has the same over-inflated sense of self-importance— the dream of being an empire, being important in the world, even saving the world. This is what led to this notion that the goal was to de-Nazify Ukraine.
But the mindset that caused Putin to start this war was exactly the same mindset that the Nazis had in the 1930s. This over-inflated sense of self-importance, wanting some recognition from the world of being an important nation. It is a matter of how hard do the knocks have to become before that over-inflated sense of self-importance cracks for the Russian people.
When will they see that there is a glaring discrepancy between this sense that Russia is such a special nation and the level of brutality that is being acted out in Ukraine? I am not only talking about the level of brutality against Ukrainians, but the level of brutality against Russian soldiers, where so many—tens of thousands—have been killed unnecessarily. You do not win a war by walking out in front of machine guns in an open field and being shot without having a chance of shooting the enemy. As an American general once said: “You do not win a war by dying for your country, but by making the other guys die for their country.” And the way that soldiers have been used in these “meat wave” attacks as they are called is not going to help win the war for Russia. It is simply a level of inhumanity and brutality that has not seen in Russia since Stalin’s time and that most of the world has transcended.
This level of brutality against your own people is in glaring contradiction to this over-inflated sense of Russia’s importance in the world or greatness as an empire. And it is a matter of when a critical mass of the Russian people sees this contradiction and gives up this dream of creating some Russian empire that saves the world from the decadence of the West. And when will that happen? Well, as we have said, there is great movement, great upheaval in the collective consciousness and things are shifting. But when exactly the critical mass will be reached, well, that is something I will not put a date on.
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