@synlogic It seems you deleted a post about Ukrainian's being similar to Russian's and a boycotting theme. About 1.5hours back from this post.

But I send reply now anyway as my own toot since it's gone as it had a good point not many might mention. So I'll take a few points and make it my own thread... (if you put the post back let me know and I'll add it there)

People are most measurably behind in the mind. And to say that Ukrainian's might be also, that can be hard for me to say, but apart from naturally being behind as humanity (or letting things slip in exchange for money, banks. gov etc) it's also that YES:

UKRAINIANS AND RUSSIAN MAY WELL BE SIMILAR AND THE SAME... (assimilated)

It's also a case of "one looks better that the other" in terms of oppressor and weaker person but on other terms there is a rolling history and "just another leader" timeline (like a boss in a company that suddenly comes in) and in this template anyone can come along and do similar things in the past (which quite all countries did or didn't know how to give power to it's people to conquer this major re-occurrence and only defended it's land to oppress the people... again)....

It's not easy either as anyone just coming into life has the previous rolling crap to deal with as a 'system' (way of cheating people or imposing an original idea ⬅️ many ways to see it but ultimately uncaring EVERYWHERE )

So like a leaning tree nobody want to straighten or hold up, it just keeps leaning towards the same things - so it's also made up of the same type of dynamics (largely people don't doing anything or not to the end to say it's unacceptable for any war or heavy extraction as cruelty and false freedoms- and with actually caring nothing can be built on top of that)

Ukrainians are Russian-ish... And so are many elsewhere - but you're right to point to language, habits, assimilating for so long next to each other...

Just people/humanity are very much behind and still letting things slip despite the lessons...

(and just for historical imagination without adding fire...)

Just imagine what might happen as examples and money / war orientated stuff...

example ➡️ ❓ Ukraine becomes a super power over time or instantly and then tries to take over Europe with all that money.

example ➡️ ❓ USA's money ruins Ukraine and it just becomes another crappy copy with the same high street we see everywhere
Culture is irrevocably eroded,
Americanism's are copied and then imposed. Already something everywhere as ultimatums almost.

example ➡️ ❓ Ukraine and Russia team up temporarily and already have skilled mercenaries going to Africa to extract big bounties there and pave the way for Western expansion (and agree to call off war for now and sort out Africa with their own mutual teams of specialists since Africa is a lesser / weaker team - and that's what the monopoly board is about - to conquer, extract - the weaker the better so why not divert attention for a bit and call it "ceasefire") 🌍

example ➡️ ❓ LOTS OF EXAMPLES. It's all a dirty business of extraction / prostitution unless your business become actually caring and resolving all past problems and letting the people have more power over governments.
ETC.

Ukrainians are Russian-ish ?...
Yes. And so are many cultures as a people and humanity very much behind - just letting things slip by the minute avoiding all responsibility / personal conflict themselves... which adds to all this immorality on a lower level or higher up...

Once you sell yourself only and don't aim for anything more, you leave yourself at the mercy that give "no mercy" and frankly don't care and won't until people do better to care daily together...

I have answers but who wants to try ? ❓