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Interesting! I am from Donetsk myself, but left in 2014. I am pretty much united with my Russian friends on the topic of destroying putin's regime. Not sure if any other unity makes sense now.

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putin has objectively caused a lot of harm, and desire for carnage is understandable, yet if we are to break this cycle, we should make the format of Nuremberg trials the new norm and make it so that even if we want to, we can't start a new war. unity around hatred is fleeting, temporary, and often leads to overcorrection, such as me being harassed for talking to my mother in Russian (I also fluently speak in Ukrainian and tell them go fuck themselves using all the regional swears I collected all over Ukraine) or Israeli having to apologize themselves for Netanyahu's decisions.

and everyday matters? they are boring and important, and if someone dares to touch the supply chain, they should face all the economic repercussions imaginable. ideally, this will make punishment for war immediate, inherent, and structural. and if we take it further into pony land, we may deprecate the military because its purpose will be carried by Brenda sitting behind a desk with Excel (or LibreOffice Calc) before her. :)

Just saw your comment, thanks, not sure if putins regime can be met with anything but hatred, and not only because of its treatment of Ukrainians, but also many Russians are as well victims of nazi kgb regime in direct or indirect way. For many people born in Russia, overthrow of that regime might be the only way to achieve better future for their family and their native region. Ukraine can achieve peace, forget about Russia existence for a while, and have minimum hatred for russians going forward, like Finland did, but for those people who were unlucky to be born in Russia, destroying kgb nazi is the only possible way forward, apart from the alternative of life in exile (like many did in 20th century during the original kgb regime). Same goes for Belarus as well. The most "Russophobe" people (in terms of kgb propaganda ofc) I've ever met were Russians born in Russia.

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