Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a Ukrainian-sponsored terror plot to bomb a major gas pipeline in Moscow Region
  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    There’s a lot of Russians who live(d) in Ukraine

    So every Russian-speaking Ukrainian is just a Russian? It seems it’s you who is denying Ukrainian identity.

    What exactly constitutes a Ukrainian in your opinion? Is it just someone who hates Russia, so that if a Ukrainian speaks Russian and likes Russia do they cease to be Ukrainian?

    And sometimes they treat Ukrainians as “brothers” in the sense that they’re denying their whole identity as Ukrainians.

    So which is it? Do they hate Ukrainians or do they think they are one and the same?

    • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
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      1 day ago

      So every Russian-speaking Ukrainian is just a Russian?

      Nobody claimed this

      What exactly constitutes a Ukrainian in your opinion?

      I trust their own identity and view on this one.

      So which is it? Do they hate Ukrainians or do they think they are one and the same?

      Both happen. And denying one’s identity is a pretty hateful act.

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 day ago

        I trust their own identity and view on this one.

        So you can’t even tell them apart, is what you’re saying.

        • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
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          1 day ago

          I’m saying I’m not trying to define their identity for them. I’m happy to just go with this

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          I wouldn’t be able to tell Portuguese and Brazilian people apart either. I hope that doesn’t erase their identities.