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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As someone born in the Russia, I support Zelensky looking at the old borders of the Kievan Rus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The problem is determining what from that period constitutes "Ukrainian" or "Russian". The old "Rus peoples" were a lot of relatively different yet also similar groups, that homogenize and heterogenize across time depending on different political and social conditions, which at a certain point in time during the modern age some intellectuals try to categorize and end up reaching some sort of consensus with "Russian", "Byelorussian" and "Ukrainian".

In the end, forgetting this kind of nuance invites people who are a little shaky on the head to come up with pan-nationalist narratives that justify some sort of anachronistic imperialism. It's already bad enough that Putin's Z-morons are trying to appropriate Ukrainian identity as a breakaway of their own to justify ethnic cleansing, let's not have some Ukrainians that try and do the same but in reverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wish we had a Zelensky here in the U.S. to help us combat conservatism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What’s happening in the US isn’s even considered conservatism anymore. It’s the MAGA cult. I am definitely left, but conservatives don’t always need to be bad. It just so happens that the Republican Party has filled itself with people serving themselves and not the people who voted for them. Fingers crossed things go well this November.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When was the last time there was a conservative president in the US who didn't cause tremendous lasting damage to the country?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your definitions. You could even say Lincoln (conservative or not) caused lasting damage through failing to prevent a civil war and then getting assassinated before finishing the affairs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Every time someone blames Lincoln for the Civil War, James Buchanan edges to completion in heaven

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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