I'm back on Hexbear after a few months of forgetting that this website exists just to celebrate Zionist settlers getting smashed on live TV. Historic day.
Remember to not discuss or even engage with the zionists in any shape or form, our position of being pro-kicking out Zionists is the the correct one no matter how many arguments or whatever they present.
I don't know if this is the right thread, but posting must commence. I work as a teacher in Sweden and I've been assigned a group of refugee children to work with. Four students are from Ukraine, and it has been a very interesting experience to observe them and their interactions with the war. They all regularly consume war-related content through TikTok, and I've been talking a lot with them about their feelings in some kind of makeshift Russian/English/Swedish mashup language. Three of the students speak Russian as their mother tongue, but all three are very flexible in switching to Ukrainian, and the fourth student only grew up with Ukrainian. The three "Russian" students are from Dnipro, Zaporozhye and Cherkasy and they only interact with each other and barely interact with the guy from Ternopil. Funnily enough, the pure Ukrainian guy has become friends with Uzbek and Chechen guys and they speak broken Russian with each other despite being from two opposite sides of the former USSR.
The most interesting part for me is the fact that the three students that grew up with Russian language and culture are way more hostile towards Russia as an entity than the Ukrainian guy. In the beginning when they were trying to gauge my "russophobia", they only used Ukrainian pronunciations and were very insistent that they wanted Ukrainian default language on the translation app on their school Chromebooks, but now they've dropped the act and openly use Russian terms for cities and so. They're still very "anti-Russia" in their own way, and call Putin all kinds of nice Russian insults. The Ukrainian guy on the other hand seems pretty chill about the whole thing, he even shows me anti-Zelensky memes on TikTok and made fun of Klitschko after he claimed that Ukrainian AD stopped all missiles, "khwhy no electicity if 50 rocket no boom?".
The main takeaway for me is that the conflict is way deeper than just "oh russians live in this part, so invasion good" or the opposite NATOoid "le big bad putler" narrative. Another big conclusion is that the fall of the USSR is truly the biggest tragedy in modern history, it's a crime against humanity that some fake ass administrative borders leads to brutal dumb wars when all these people lived in peace and harmony under the USSR. Asian-looking Uzbeks, ginger Chechens and a blond Ukrainian guy whose ancestors were probably Polish all shared a common destiny and even today watch Hasbulla clips together and share the same Telegram memes, despite growing up with three different languages and cultures.
It's so funny how all the "muh connection to the land" settlers head for the airport with their German, American, Ukrainian and Russian passports as soon as shit gets uncomfortable in the Holy Land. Imagine now one week, or one month, or even one year of sustained discomfort for the settlers and their friends. The pathetic losers would all gather all their stuff and run back to Moscow and NYC. The only "Israeli" people I have a degree of sympathy for are the older Mizrahi Jews who came to Israel from countries like Iraq, Egypt and Yemen. These people can't just take a flight to Cairo with their Egyptian passports and were kinda forced to believe in the Israeli project. But after the liberation of Palestine, these people should just learn to live again with Arab Muslims and Christians like they did pre-1948.