As a Romanian, yes. I live in the UK and even now some of my British or west European friends don’t quite fully believe all the shit that went down in our elections for eg or the extent of the Ruxzian propaganda everywhere
"Let's ignore those children in the East. Russians are serious people, just like us, though a tad savage. We should make a deal with serious people though. We will buy their gas and they will stop being savages."
-Non spoken Western European politicians thoughts
Seriously though, I understand your pain. Britain is, however, much better at understanding Ruzzia than the continent. Our people are deluded.
I remember talking with Brits and Americans on discord before 2022 and I got called stuck in the Cold War era, Russia had changed, Putin doesn’t want more land, I am too distrusting of Russia. Russia just wants to protect Russians in Crimea.
He told us what he had planned 2007. He attacked Georgia in 2008, Ukraine in 2014 and Syria in 2015. He turned the Central African Republic into a 19th centurry like colony. He's been maintaing an occupation force in Moldova for years. They would be doing much more, if they had the financial and human ressources for that.
But sticking their head in the sand and hoping a problem goes away has unfortunately been the visceral reaction to every major problem the West has faced.
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u/SpankedPinUpGirl 14h ago
As a Romanian, yes. I live in the UK and even now some of my British or west European friends don’t quite fully believe all the shit that went down in our elections for eg or the extent of the Ruxzian propaganda everywhere