My over-simplistic US-brain sees the ethnic conflicts in former Yugoslavian states and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine/Russia over the eastern portion of Ukraine and thinks “you fools! You’re falling for the bullshit that people in my country and its allies have pumped out for at least 100 years now (as far as the US goes).”
I know it’s a bit of a stupid, child-like sentiment, but goddamn I wish it were possible to knock someone’s heads together and yell at them like kids “you’re both fucking Russian! Or Ukrainian! It doesn’t matter! Your languages are the fucking same just like Croatian and Serbian! You fucking idiots, the west wants you fighting!”
So, I dunno, maybe it’s my complete alienation from any “ethnic background” as a white-ass American whose family came here so long ago that no one can even tell me when. I just can’t wrap my mind around making such a non-issue into your entire identity and life to the point you would murder and do endless wars. The entire ideology of white supremacy and its effects on those it excludes has corrupted people’s minds so deeply that I can’t find any logic and reason in their thoughts at all. Like why the fuck would you continue fighting and dying for land that the people who inhabit it would rather live in the invading army’s country? JUST LET THEM, WTF?
My over-simplistic US-brain sees the ethnic conflicts in former Yugoslavian states and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine/Russia over the eastern portion of Ukraine and thinks “you fools! You’re falling for the bullshit that people in my country and its allies have pumped out for at least 100 years now (as far as the US goes).”
I know it’s a bit of a stupid, child-like sentiment, but goddamn I wish it were possible to knock someone’s heads together and yell at them like kids “you’re both fucking Russian! Or Ukrainian! It doesn’t matter! Your languages are the fucking same just like Croatian and Serbian! You fucking idiots, the west wants you fighting!”
So, I dunno, maybe it’s my complete alienation from any “ethnic background” as a white-ass American whose family came here so long ago that no one can even tell me when. I just can’t wrap my mind around making such a non-issue into your entire identity and life to the point you would murder and do endless wars. The entire ideology of white supremacy and its effects on those it excludes has corrupted people’s minds so deeply that I can’t find any logic and reason in their thoughts at all. Like why the fuck would you continue fighting and dying for land that the people who inhabit it would rather live in the invading army’s country? JUST LET THEM, WTF?
Shit hurts my brain, seriously.