i am as it is already aware that the russian/ukrainian friend i had in amsterdam was seeking asylum from russia because of being beaten by police most likely because he was part ukrainian, and he obviously didn't want to go to ukraine for reasons as well!
i didn't really grasp the importance of what was going on but i remember the news was all about ukraine in 2014 on the tv in the bulgarian prison i was in that led to the ukrainian nazis getting into power and this led to ongoing violence against ethnic russians in the east of the country until 2021 when finally all those people had had enough and petitioned to have russia intervene
as i see it, it's russian nazis vs ukrainian nazis and ordinary people in between and some 400,000 young men have died over this so far from both sides, thanks to the help of americans giving barely enough weapons to ukrainian shock troops to go out and get minced by a clearly superior military force
and all of this ties to corruption in the US federal government connected with the socialist Democrat party and their godfathers, people like Biden and the rest of them... Warren, Pelosi, Feinstein, etc
and not to forget that the russians have a big stake in all of this because ukraine and crimea are major parts of their trade infrastructure for their energy and mineral exports via the black sea
what bothers me is the nazis and the corruption, the rest of it is justifiable, and without that corruption there probably wouldn't have been such a death toll
i am fascinated by slavic and russian cultures and the west asia region in general but i think it's probably better to stay away from that part of the world these days, i left Varna shortly after the war broke out, kinda bothered me seeing all the refugees there, ukrainians, russians, indian and pakistani exchange students, digital nomads flooding in to get residence permits in bulgaria
it's all very ugly and unnecessary and would not happen if we had better leaders, the leaders we have nowadays are all the most dispicable people you could find in the population, on both sides for the most part, left and right, russia, europe, usa, china, all of them, fuckin poison