You can attempt to obfuscate your Soviet leanings all you want. You lived and worked in Moscow for years - I get it. But don’t waste your time pretending to be unbiased. You’re not.
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Don’t forget my Ukrainian time. I found them to be much, much more corrupted than Ivan.
I have seen both sides, lived it, worked it, had my “feet in the trenches”. You and a great number of Americans have not, and are sucking up the western narrative.
As I have stated - both Zelensky and Vlad are corrupted and evil, support neither. There are no white hats in this regional conflict. Don’t get sucked in.
I’m not siding with Zelensky - yes their government is corrupt as hell - after all they had great teachers in the USSR, and sold their services to the Democrats.
Other than the desire to take over the land along the Black Sea in Crimea and the mineral riches of Luhansk, there is no reason for Russia to have invaded Ukraine. Donetsk and Luhansk conflict has been ongoing, and the Russian mafia has controlled those provinces.
The Warsaw Pact’s goal was to increase the size of the USSR - nothing has changed.
I have literally had my boots on the ground in Eastern Europe against the Soviets back in the ‘80s - so I’m not without bias either. I have witnessed how the Red Army does things first hand.
I do, however, side with the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion. I hope that if we ever get to the Ammo Box phase here that enough of us show that much bravery.
That’s interesting experience. What time period were you over there?