The number of Russians who say their salary does not cover basic spending has jumped by 20 percentage points in two years to almost half, a survey by recruiter Headhunter showed, as Moscow diverts record fiscal resources to funding its war in Ukraine.
My point is you can’t tell intent from simple statements and you shouldn’t make assumptions when in modern vernacular the phrase is perfectly accepted as syntactically correct.
TL;DR – you’re making up arguments no one is arguing.
Mate you’re the one making assumptions here as I even said seem to despite people literally saying its hard to sympathize with Russians. Either way this is going in a completely unrelated direction and pointless to argue more.