war to the last Ukrainian is the motto of Europe.
That's a bit too simple no?
Next thing i'll hearTrump say is that it was the EU who started the whole war.
Realistically, and on a serious note, it's more like the Ukrainians are fighting for their country and as long as they don't give up Europe is helping them?
Ofc that take is still a bit too simple. No one is completely innocent here, Ukraine, the USA, Russia, and even the EU did ugly things.
I just read today Trump said that Ukraine started this. And ofc everybody's calling him a traitor and similar things, even though he's not 100% wrong. Ofc no one with any brains likes Trump, obviously he's just another selfish billionaire who wants to milk everybody, make money for himself and his rich buddies and take the rights of poor people.
Now i, as a Hungarian in my 40s, have seen lots of things, i worked with Ukrainians, worked with Russians, they're the sweetest people ever, just like the average citizens in every country, I've had American, British teachers, they're also the sweetest people ever.
Actually when someone asks me whether i'm afraid of Russia invading one day, i say why would i be afraid, when i was a kid they were here, they never harmed me in any way, and they just packed up themselves and left.
Normal citizens just wanna live happy, prosperous lives, do business, raise families, etc.
Of course it's the systems that are rotten everywhere, in the USA, in Russia, in the EU and in Ukraine.
Now i don't like the Russian leadership and system, who would want to live in a country where opposition people are thrown out the windows.
The EU and the USA were guilty of letting loose the corrupt, nationalistic elements in Ukraine. That sealed Ukraine's fate.
Since they got rid of the Russia-friendly government, the Ukrainians have been making mistake after mistake. They were really treating minorities like dogs, they made the infamous language law that restricted native language use of minorities in education. That was a grave mistake. I remember the Poles, Romanians, Russians, Hungarians protesting on the USA embassy's twitter page against this law.
Now Trump has a big mouth, he's acting like he was just and committed everything to prevent war, however, during his first cycle, when we repeatedly asked his ambassador, Cornstein to do something against the minority-oppressing Ukrainian language law he always gave evasive answers and pretended not to understand the problem.
And of course there were the other mischiefs of the Ukrainian leadership. They let loose all the white pride nazi loonies. Ofc there are "proud boys" everywhere, in the USA, in Russia, in Germany, in Hungary, but what the Ukrainians were doing was outrageous compared to other countries. Mayor with Bandera picture in his office, openly nazi symbols everywhere, families nazi saluting at parades.
And ofc apart from the anti-minority laws there were other actions against minorities. For example I as a hungarian remember all the well-documented cases when they repeatedly burnt out the Hungarian cultural office in Transcarpathia. No one died, but still the message was obvious. Ukrainian nationalists were trampling on and burning even Polish flags.
Now this is the big mistake the Ukrainians did. They should have treated minorities as first class citizens, meet the requirements to join the EU as fast as possible, send the image to the outside world that they were the nicest, most democratic people on Earth. To gain entrance into all the important western institutions and gain real prosperity and freedom for their people. Instead they let loose their nazi loonies, i remember there were articles even in the western media that American neonazis were trained in Ukraine. With this behavior they gave good excuse for Putin to attack "righteously".
However, of course all the ukrainian mischiefs were forgotten when Putin invaded, because burning the cultural offices and flags of minorities and restricting their language use looked like kids' pranks compared to the destruction of whole cities the Russian army did.
Anyway, this whole war is very sad for everybody.
Wow, i rambled a lot, anyway, i thought the Europe wants to wage this war to the last ukrainian theory was a bit too simple, that's why i went into details.
