Thank you for the insight and telling us of your personal experience. My wife and I live in a community with many Russian and Ukrainian people who arrived here in recent decades. For the most part they are very good and prospering citizens. They are typically indistinguishable from one another by outside observers and even during this time of stress I am not perceiving any animosity between them except possibly from young people easily swayed by propaganda. And why should there be... they mostly left because they were not happy with the government(s) that were in control and causing hardships.
Thanks, and thanks also for your observation about Russians and Ukrainians here. They are almost all “old school,” meaning that they’re going to do their best to fit in, to be law-abiding and productive citizens, and to have thoroughly American kids who will know that this country gave them refuge and that they should be grateful for it.
Oh, and that line about younger people being easily swayed by propaganda...unfortunately they don’t have the wisdom to understand that governments of all stripes lie constantly, and we have too many like that on FR (notably one idiot who calls pretty much everyone a “Putin Puffer”). That’s a problem that we’re not going to fix - it is embedded in human nature - that’s why all of the wise men in history have white hair.