>>113128Ummm, sweetie Crimea is now Russian clay.
>>113128Ukrainians should have their own state, and their current government is their government. They are suspected to be a puppet because they're too weak and too poor too assert their sovereignty.
>>113128It's a puppet. The pro-Russian administration preceding it wasn't much better but at least it wasn't a convenient focal point for Democrat saber-rattlers. I don't really care what the west part of Ukraine wants but they shouldn't force Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk to stick around.
>>113242I'm from Donetsk and I absolutely despise everything related to russia now to the point of pure hostility.
I also know of none from my relatives/friends/acquaintances who fled to russia, rather than migrating to Kiev/Kharkov/Dnepr. The only one, who now remain in the Donetsk and Lugansk are either poor as fuck (like almost hobo-level poor, because there are state subsidies and help-programs, I, for one now get a university grant at Kievan Polytechnical only becaus i'm from that region), dumb as fuck or criminal as fuck (marauding, creating new DNR/LNR goverments, with the same surnames, who were on the newspaper headlines in the criminal chronics in the 90s after the collapse), oh and also the interventionists from russia, that are estimated to be as high as 30% of all manpower terrorist have fighting against goverment there.
Can't say anything about Crimea, though. They always had their own atmosphere there.
>>113271How do you feel about Russia taking Crimea and is it true you have fascists leading you guys?
>>113273>How do you feel about Russia taking CrimeaI have a lot of friends from Crimea, who now live and study in Kiev with me. They say that it kinda sucks to have electricity only till 22.00 and have to grab drinking water in bottles :^) But they say that majority there is anyway too strongly brainwashed, so they obediently w8 for Putin to build that ebin bridge already and scream FUKEN WESTERNS STOLE OUR ELECTRICITY!! whenever they have their power cut down.
>is it true you have fascists leadingNot leading, unfortunately, as if in the highest echelons, but we got a huge package of decommunisation laws, changed name of the streets, and owning/spreading or showing commie symbolics is a 5 year criminal offence here.
Oh and we also almost everyone dressing in the national dresses with swastikas on the independence day and paramilitary organization of the so called "national guard" all which also use rather interesting symbols…
But, though stuff like that warms my heart immensly, economics is still in ruin, just as badly as in russia.
>>113273If Victoria 2 has thought me anything, without owning their cores Ukraine will become fascist if it's not already.
>>113275>paramilitary organizationorganizationS
And this is kinda crucial, because there are many of them and they are rather disunited in their goals, beside repelling fucking ruskies scum.
>>113275You faggots should never have given up your nukes. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent to aggression.
>>113275>AzovMotorola&Givi sends their regards.
Also,
gib back Lviv.
>>113279>You faggots should never have given up your nukesAs if it were actually WE who gave up them, not a fucking Kuchma aka kremlin puppet
>>113275I wish we had an organization like that in my country.
>>113280>Motorola&Givi How is it to pretend your poster boy is alive for 2,5 years, when he is feeding warms in the nameles field all that time, so that your morale of your orcs doesn't drop?
Clining onto it pretty desperately, aren't we?
>>113283Well they are gone, but they did pretty decent job. Pity they memed too hard for independence instead of being good goys to Putin. Oh well, we can't have nice things.
>>113284>but they did pretty decent joI prefer to look at it at the angle that our army is just in as much ruin as the rest of the country.
But, personally, I fucking wish braincancer to every and each terrorist out there, as well as their families, for this scum destroyed the future of the the most rapidly developing city in ukraine, my city.
Be russian orcs now forever be damned and hated with passion along other slavic nations.
>>113275Out of curiosity, what's life like over there? Are the buildings well made or rotting? Is meat a rarity in meals? Simple stuff like that beyond what you've mentioned
>>113289>Are the buildings well made or rottingNewer ones are made exactly like in your country (suprising, duh). Old ones aka "historical center" though don't get enough maintenance, because of funds stealing.
>Is meat a rarity in mealsOur country was always a granary of the USSR, even in this deep decline, what-what we DO have is enough food to feed all the people many times over, because there is no Stalin to starve everyone, while stockpiles are full of rotting food due to incompetency and greed.
>Simple stuff like that beyond what you've mentionedEverything is _okay_ for a middle class, but not good or great, as long as you have your higher eduction you will have enough. And by "enough" I mean enough to live, meanwhile getting all the necessary skills and grounding to migrate to europe/NA, because, unfortunately to everyone clever enough it is absolutely evident, that this country won't come to prosperity in their lifetime even in the brightest of the possible scenarios.
Oh, and we also don't have to get visa to visit Europe anymore, which is a great boon, which I myself enjoyed this autumn.
>>113286>other slavic nationsThe hell did the Czechs, Serbs, Poles, etc. do wrong?
>>113292>slavic>Czechs, Serbs, PolesPls. I know the definition okay, but I'm speaking about general mentality. It took them mere years to recover and erase the USSR from their memory, same shit other "equaly" slavic nations struggle to this day.
>>113293As an unenlightened burger who has only ever traveled from state to state, could you tell me who the Ukrainians generally hate more, the West or Russia?
>>113330They probably hate Russians more, thanks to the Soviet caused famine, and other stuff that has helped keep Ukraine poor.
>>113330>who the Ukrainians generally hate more, the West or Russia?You must be trolling me or something
>>113350Most Americans don't have a clue what is going on internationally. Hell, most Americans don't know what is happening domestically. 99% of European news never makes it here. We know about as much about Ukraine as we do Ireland. Almost nothing.
>>113353This. After the Crimean Boogaloo, Ukraine completely fell off the radar.
>>113354I mean I do know about Donetsk and Russians, but that's because I'm a political autist.
>>113357Same, but that's basically like an extension of the Crimean Boogaloo.
Ukraine is a stupid state. The eastern quarter (maybe less, certainly Crimea at least) is favorable to the Russians, the western quarter is pretty much just poland-lite, and the remaining half is impoverished gopniks. Great women in the country, but Ukraine has garbage cities.