https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2135509

this is practically a child’s view of the world. good guy vs bad guy. Russia = bad, NATO = good. plus, someone should tell her she has it completely backwards: ending russia is kinda natos entire thing

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The war with nato was always going to be “reinvigorated” whenever it chose to start a war with Russia. There’s nothing Russia can do about that. They just need to win. Also, it’s not as if the war wasn’t inevitable. There’s so much money to be pulled out of Russia while the nato armies are on their way to China. There’s no way the richest westerners were just gonna leave it on the table.

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      It’s very easy to say “they just need to win!” when you have no skin in the game. Eastern Europe knows what it’s like to be under Russian subjugation, and no amount of anti-NATO critical support will change that fact.

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        I meant for Russia, whenever this war happens (which is now), all they can do on their end is win. They can’t control how other European countries direct nationalist sentiments. Also, my “support” is literally just musing on this website.

        I’ve always mixed with a lot of eastern Europeans in the US, and trying to figure out if Russia was really a bogeyman that was a dark cloud over their lives has always been really murky. I’ve known jews that had to leave when the USSR was collapsing and rightwing nationalists were becoming terrifying.

        I known a lot of Polish workers that had their lives upended by rightwing nationalists as the USSR collapsed. They came to the US trying to scrape a living together.

        Of course people process the experience in all kinds of ways, arriving at coherent and incoherent conclusions.

        The one universal is that unless they agree everything is the fault of Russians and absolve all of their country’s rightwing opportunists and collaborators from 1917 on, their stories aren’t part of the broader media narratives.

        I guess what I’m getting at, when I talk to people in the diaspora, the relationship with Russia might be highly contingent on class and heavily colored by ethnic nationalism.

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          Thank you for this comment. I mean that very honestly. Far too many people see countries as monoliths, and I fall into that trap when trying to make a point from time to time.

          About the overarching media narratives, the most rabidly anti-Russian atm are Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, just fyi.

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            I was really worried about saying well ackshually to someone actually living in eastern Europe. Here in my part of the US the wildest anti-Russian media narratives also center on Poles and Lithuanians.

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              I’ll never fault anyone for talking about facts and their experiences. Even (especially!) if they contradict mine, I’ll always appreciate someone talking to me in good faith.

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        Most immediately, a escalating genocide in the Donbas that Russia intervened in after several years. Otherwise it’s a story that would probably make the most sense to start in the early 20th century.