its also super weird how ukrainians get portrayed as a monolith resisting russia. i have a lot of friends from ukraine and none of them are as emotionally invested in the war as your average lemmy liberal; they just want people to stop dying and to be able to have some semblance of a normal life again.
fighting russia ‘to the last ukrainian’ is something that only sounds good if you’re completely detached from the people who are going to be doing the dying.
I do not have any friends in Ukraine but I do know a guy in Russia that I was talking to literally the night the “SMO” started and when it happened both of us were sure it was just NATO fearmongering and then watched in real time both of us in horror knowing exactly how all this was going to play out. Not saying that Russia should not have intervened but that they should have done so way sooner.
its also super weird how ukrainians get portrayed as a monolith resisting russia. i have a lot of friends from ukraine and none of them are as emotionally invested in the war as your average lemmy liberal; they just want people to stop dying and to be able to have some semblance of a normal life again.
fighting russia ‘to the last ukrainian’ is something that only sounds good if you’re completely detached from the people who are going to be doing the dying.
-if you’re 12, it sounds cool if you’re 12 and unfortunately all the liberals are
I do not have any friends in Ukraine but I do know a guy in Russia that I was talking to literally the night the “SMO” started and when it happened both of us were sure it was just NATO fearmongering and then watched in real time both of us in horror knowing exactly how all this was going to play out. Not saying that Russia should not have intervened but that they should have done so way sooner.