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In reply to the discussion: Ukrainian city demolishes monument to Russian general who beat Napoleon. [View all]another_liberal
(8,821 posts)It would be meaningful to know. I kept running into dead ends, and never did learn.
You may be right about Svoboda. I'm sure we will never give them a dime.
As to the Russians, they are a good and generous people who have an acute sense of justice (having experienced so little of it throughout their history). I honestly believe they will soon come around to recognizing the rightness of the cause of LGBT equality. I really did believe President Putin was too sophisticated and cultured to make the kind of remarks he made just before the Olympics. That was a huge disappointment to me. I had largely admired the man, and now it is hard to feel anything like that about him.
We do need to recognize how much Russia has already lost in the last thirty years or so. They were a super power with the greatest Empire the World had ever known. Now they have only their homeland and little else. One thing I would bet my life on, though, they will never accept their homeland being taken from them. They will come at you in their millions and they will stomp your very bones into the Russian soil, I have no doubt of it. We must never push them that far.
On a different front: Didn't you like how President Obama handled the Ukraine subject in his speech today. I think he struck just the right balance. If only he can prevail over what I imagine are intense pressures to get deeper involved there. We should support the Ukrainian people, but let them decide their own future. He was damn near perfect.