“La guerra ha reso mio marito un mostro”: il conflitto interno dell’Ucraina

This is pretty well documented across all wars. Some of your people are going to come back fucked up physically and mentally. I think once the war ends Ukraine is going to be ground zero for mental health research for a long time.

Here’s the n^(th) example of how Ukrainians and the rest of us in the civilized world can’t have nice things.

If a Russian can’t have something *then no one can.*

It calls to mind what Putin openly asked in a rhetorical but menacing way like so many of his compatriots in the lower castes have asked silently for generations.

[*Why do we need a world without Russia in it?*](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60551140)

To which Ukrainians and the rest of the civilized world are fully entitled to ask:

*Why do we need a world* ***with*** *Russia in it?*

More to the point, the problem has proven not to be “Russia” per se but the Russians. It’s telling how the other successors of Kyivan Rus’ (i.e. Belarusians and Ukrainians) have **not** been continuously chauvinistic and imperialistic like the Muscovites / Russians. The latter have unironically built themselves as people possessed with the self-righteousness of crusaders and jihadists plus the brutality of the pagan hordes under Сhіnggіѕ Кhаn.

If in an alternative timeline the Russians had gone the way of the Scythians and Huns by being assimilated into various ethnicities of Uralic or Baltic heritage, would that also mean that the Urals must cease to exist? Would that mean that the Volga, Kama, Ob, Irtysh, Yenisei and Lena Rivers must dry up into nothing? Would that mean that Siberia must be voided of all of the natural resources without anyone extracting them? Would that mean that all of the non-Slavs east of the Urals must share the fate of the Russians by being assimilated into nothingness?

The Russians are **not** the enlightened cogs or keys to human civilization that they think they are. It’s not so when they’ve proven time and time again that they are instead gunning to create an ultimately unipolar world with their Russkiy Mir project.