You think my friend in kiev gives a shit about dombass or crimea? No, he mostly cares about staying alive and not sent to the butchery. It’s not supporting Putin to want the war to end. Putin is sent by the west anyway.
Your friend had no chance of avoiding violence from the Russian state. Ukrainians have to choose either violence from a puppet state, or violence from the Russian invaders. It might seem like the latter is worse, but the genocide they’ve suffered under the USSR with nobody to fight for them but literal Nazis was fairly miserable too. Famine as a food exporter was brutal, as is family separation and being unable to speak your own language.
Hum you ARE doing that?
You think my friend in kiev gives a shit about dombass or crimea? No, he mostly cares about staying alive and not sent to the butchery. It’s not supporting Putin to want the war to end. Putin is sent by the west anyway.
Your friend had no chance of avoiding violence from the Russian state. Ukrainians have to choose either violence from a puppet state, or violence from the Russian invaders. It might seem like the latter is worse, but the genocide they’ve suffered under the USSR with nobody to fight for them but literal Nazis was fairly miserable too. Famine as a food exporter was brutal, as is family separation and being unable to speak your own language.