Comment by achikin
5 years ago
Most of the EU countries has stopped issuing visas. We’re really stuck between two equally hostile political forces pursuing their interests.
5 years ago
Most of the EU countries has stopped issuing visas. We’re really stuck between two equally hostile political forces pursuing their interests.
>We’re really stuck between two equally hostile political forces pursuing their interests at any cost.
I know. It's awful. If we can't get Russia to stop attacking Ukraine with bombs, tanks, guns and missiles, perhaps we could convince the EU to stop bombing Ukraine? Oh, wait...
Or we can prevent ordinary Russians from leaving the country ruining their economy at the same time, pushing them into the civil war …
One of these things is not like the others.
Invading a country != denying visas to citizens of a country that's doing the invading.
Stay where you are and you may be murdered by an invading force != stay where you are and deal with the results of sanctions.
Both are definitely bad, but they are in no way equivalent.
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No. Not "equally" hostile AT ALL
Here you can see how effective propaganda is. Even when the facts are there for all to see it still work to a degree that people will take those memes and spit them back out as their own.
"Equally hostile"? Seriously?
I can understand. You are comparing the situations in the both countries from the outside and situation in the Ukraine is much worse. But from the inside I have to face severe consequences from the both sides for what I haven't done, don't support and essentially have nothing to do with.
OK, I see what you mean.
What is severe about switching registrars for you?
I know the other sanctions are extremely painful for the Russian people, but I think of it like this: you are the victim of an economic war, and it is the alternative to a physical war, where you would be bombed to death.
I would say that both sides of the pain you're feeling (from NATO and from Russia) are both Putin's fault.
For my personal perspective, I do have empathy for you (genuinely), but I still wholeheartedly support the forced deterioration of your economy if it either contributes to regime change or reduces your country's ability to wage conventional war (and I believe at least one of those outcomes is a plausible consequence).
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