Tug of war
Feb. 1st, 2025 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
injunjaneCathy's mom (I speak about my friend Cathy from Virginia, USA) seems to be a trumpist (she's a wonderful charming lady otherwise), and from time to time she's posting something about Trump and his policy which is difficult not to react to considering that the future of my country depends on his whims as a new president.
The people who in turn react to my comments are some crazy US guys 40+ who try to convince me that they know my country, our people and government better than me Ukrainian. Considering that an 'average' US citizen who's never been to Europe has about the same idea about our life here as I have an idea how life could be on Mars or Venus (or what I knew about Americas before visiting any of them), that's both ridiculous and disgusting. One of such animals (no, beings, I don't want to offend animals) was aggressively trying to preach further...by becoming my friend on fb (got immediately banned), another just asked me 'does your brain even work?' (yeah, unlike him I do have a brain).
The first mentioned guy was trying to convince me and others 'to open their hearts and minds and stop this war'.
Dude, it's not us, we were attacked unprovoked. The attacker should stop - if we stop defending, we're dead.
Meanwhile, I'm talking online with my cousin (who's about the same age as me and we're best friends since the early childhood). He's a Russian citizen born and still living in Russia, unable to leave and hiding from the conscription to the Russian army in some obscure village in the middle of big Russian nowhere. Biologically speaking, we're both half Ukrainians (by our grandfathers) half Russians (by our grandmothers), but spiritually we belong not just to Ukraine but to the city of Kyiv and ancient Kyjevan state.
That's what he told me about the ongoing war: Russian wives are actually quite happy to have their husbands away to the war. Not all but many (probably most) Russian families are deeply patriarchal with the rule of the man imposed by regular beatings of his spouse. Divorces are uncommon because their folk are religious and both the church and public opinion condemn divorce. So, like my cuz told, the women are happy to have the formal marriage kept while the beast is away fighting, and when the beast is dead, she gets as much money as she has never seen in her life before.
Too bad our lads in Ukraine have the mortal job of disposing of that biological garbage.
So much for 'opening hearts and minds', damn it.
My friends from the US are often making fun of Russians, but they have never knew their kind as well as we do. There is very little space for humanity with those guys who are proud to be constantly drunk, profoundly uneducated and even more profoundly cruel.
The people who in turn react to my comments are some crazy US guys 40+ who try to convince me that they know my country, our people and government better than me Ukrainian. Considering that an 'average' US citizen who's never been to Europe has about the same idea about our life here as I have an idea how life could be on Mars or Venus (or what I knew about Americas before visiting any of them), that's both ridiculous and disgusting. One of such animals (no, beings, I don't want to offend animals) was aggressively trying to preach further...by becoming my friend on fb (got immediately banned), another just asked me 'does your brain even work?' (yeah, unlike him I do have a brain).
The first mentioned guy was trying to convince me and others 'to open their hearts and minds and stop this war'.
Dude, it's not us, we were attacked unprovoked. The attacker should stop - if we stop defending, we're dead.
Meanwhile, I'm talking online with my cousin (who's about the same age as me and we're best friends since the early childhood). He's a Russian citizen born and still living in Russia, unable to leave and hiding from the conscription to the Russian army in some obscure village in the middle of big Russian nowhere. Biologically speaking, we're both half Ukrainians (by our grandfathers) half Russians (by our grandmothers), but spiritually we belong not just to Ukraine but to the city of Kyiv and ancient Kyjevan state.
That's what he told me about the ongoing war: Russian wives are actually quite happy to have their husbands away to the war. Not all but many (probably most) Russian families are deeply patriarchal with the rule of the man imposed by regular beatings of his spouse. Divorces are uncommon because their folk are religious and both the church and public opinion condemn divorce. So, like my cuz told, the women are happy to have the formal marriage kept while the beast is away fighting, and when the beast is dead, she gets as much money as she has never seen in her life before.
Too bad our lads in Ukraine have the mortal job of disposing of that biological garbage.
So much for 'opening hearts and minds', damn it.
My friends from the US are often making fun of Russians, but they have never knew their kind as well as we do. There is very little space for humanity with those guys who are proud to be constantly drunk, profoundly uneducated and even more profoundly cruel.
