Not really. Mostly online there’s some bloodthirst that can be disappointing, but I know how this works so I get it, it’s not the worst thing happening right now.

I think casual counterproductive xenophobia with e.g. Linux kernel banning russian maintainers supposedly as opposed to people explicitly involved with the war or gov’t is also disappointing.

Back before the war, a lot of my western friends in the UK were either Putin apologists, whenever I’d bring up my persecution as a trans person in Russia, they’d laught if off or say something like “I just like Putin, he’s so funny”. It’s been enjoyable watching them be silent now. It’s been less enjoyable to see them follow Farage and Trump and similar paternalistic populist “charismatic” leaders though.

No quantity of “I told you so” will ever get through to them, a lot of westerners are too close minded and westcentric and they don’t always have the capacity to have discussions about geopolitics that don’t necessarily relate directly to them.

At the outset of the war, literally on day 1 iirc, I was dating somebody from Ukraine, and we had a lot more common ground and ability to discuss geopolitics, probably helps both of us were really engaged leftists at the time.

I mean, I’m guessing it’s not going to be as bad as during the Cold War, and even back then they were white and there were plenty who settled in North America and contributed their 1/32 of ancestry, so I’m not aware of much stigma here.

I live in the US and I haven’t noticed any xenophobia. I have heard a couple of people refer to “Russians” like we are a monolith but they were still understanding of someone like me who is very anti-war.

Idiots do that. Resenting a whole people for the acts of one asswipe. Not every Russian want this war. Not ever person loves war. Stupid propaganda shit from both sides.

Also, if you’re still in Russia, are you okay with taking over neighboring countries? If not, are you able to leave, or have they shut down travel?

You mean Lemmings?