It seems that most people nowadays are apt to complains about the Ukrainians: they are corrupt, thieving, duplicitous, fickle, freeloading… They wouldn’t win no matter how much money and how many weapons the Americans and the Europeans send their way and they wouldn’t surrender no matter how concertedly (yet ever so gently) Russia prods them in that general direction. Their soldiers are either insane, drug-addled berserkers with a heartfelt death wish and a mile-wide sadistic streak or eager deserters that the berserkers have to frog-march toward the front. Most of them would much rather live in Europe or in America, or, failing that, Russia, but certainly not in the Ukraine (what remains of it)! From the Western perspective, they are suspiciously Russian-like, speaking Russian instead of their “official” southern-Russian dialect and suddenly turning Russian and asking for Russian passports (and pensions, and health insurance) the moment Russian tanks roll past. From the Russian perspective, many of them are not Russian enough: sure, they speak the language and know the culture, but do they really love Mother Russia more than even themselves, and aren’t they just angling to get the best deal possible for their own dearly beloved selves, Russia be damned? And then everybody chimes in together that the conflict in the Ukraine is very dangerous and could lead to World War III, nuclear armageddon and a whole weekend ruined any moment now.
But this is wrong — all wrong! We should be grateful to the Ukraine and thank the Ukrainians for their sacrifice on the altar of world peace. More…
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