>>46738
Thanks. That's a good point about the russian speakers and the ex-soviet space
>It's liek cancel culture got into foreign politics
Now that I think about it, it kind of is! Apart from the serious economic war (like the announced "freezing" of sovereign assets of the central bank, by far the greatest amount of sovereign wealth ever "sequestered" in this manner, literally hundreds of billions of usd/eur), there are also signs of the persecutions of "cancel culture". For example, people who have in the past expressed positive views of Russia, e.g. regarding Syria or about their defense of marriage, are being pressured to recant and disavow; those who recognized that crimea wanted to be russian are now accused of "appeasement" (deliberate parallels drawn to the Reich); russian and belorusian teams of various sports (football, ice hokey, volleyball?) are "suspended until further notice"; international sporting events are moved from russian locations; some universities in western Europe are poised to expel russian students; etc. Do you remember anything like this when USA invaded, for 1 example, Iraq over totally fabricated nonsense? Amazing
Some of the cancelling is quite hilarious too. Like disney, netflix and other globohomo propaganda arms intending to refuse releases or distribution of their trash in russia. Or the pornography website onlyfans cancelling all camwhores from russia (Fucking LMAO)
Meanwhile, parts of Europe are moving towards full [propaganda] war footing: Czecho&slovakia threatening their citizens with jail time (counted in years!) for expressing public support for russia. Online too.
>>46761
>>46762
In short, the current ukraine is the result of german (Brest-Litovsk, Reichkommissariat) then soviet attempts at nation-building/korenizing a chunk of the russian empire out of its "russianness" (which it had acquired at varying degrees, less towards the westernmost lands once in the PLC or AHE). Similar program now carried by the US-nurtured/guided "nationalisers" since the so-called "orange revolution", specifically, and since the the fall of the USSR more generally. (Can't remember exactly, but some US official said at the time something along the lines of: We have a couple of decades to clean up [e.g. of influence] the scattered mess of ex-soviet republics, before the next challenger comes to face us.)
Even today the results are mixed with stated preferences not matching revealed preferences, as one often sees in election maps.
What seems clear is the east versus west ideological split, with the far west being the region where the "nazi" or "neo nazi" brigades (azov, right sector, and other "banderists", etc.) or the sympathizers have more widespread support. There also these people in the centre and east (and as I was told, some might be even more zealous about it) but it's not as "normalized".
>>46763
That may be because he campaigned as the peace candidate (he is a professional clown after all). In the end, he cracked down on them the most (language restrictions etc.)
>>46782
>old Soviet fighters from Eastern Europe
I have read that of the 3 countries with this kind of fighters (Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland), 2 have reportedly already declined to provide them (Slovakia and Bulgaria). While Poland was initially also reported as declining, and then shortly afterwards reverted to "neither confirm nor deny". These claims were by US media.