Post #3653007

2026-07-07 13:29 UTC

@aho@mastodon.social @kravietz@agora.echelon.pl Yep. This is the problem in Central/Eastern Europe. It's an onion of grievances and all of us want to show we cry the hardest. The problem is that none of us can bring back the dead. But each of us wants someone else to "do something". And that's not wrong, in principle. Yes, build a monument, create a museum. Be proud of the past, be aware of the good and the bad. That said, I really wish we could move on. It's tiring. Europe can't be a giant WW2 museum forever.

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@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl 2026-07-07 14:04

@txtx@mastodon.social The primary problem with Poles and Ukrainians is that in their majority they have emotional control of a 5 years old and zero ability to verify anything. The amount of Russian fakes about Ukraine shared by Poles on social media is stunning, only two days ago I was going around on Twitter and explaining to Ukrainians that the video they furiously shared about “Poles want Lviv back” was produced by a Russian journalist (!) living in Tiraspol (!) but they did not give a shit because they liked how it hits Poles. In socio-cultural evolutionary terms I’m more and more convinced that the Western Slavic nations simply never developed sufficient statehood instinct to be able to be able to defend their statehood in long term. We simply prefer short-term excitation, childish emotions and silly utopias over long-term pragmatic political work. As result, we’re doomed to repeat what our equally moronic ancestors did in XVII and XX century and continue fighting with ourselves to the joy of Moscow. Poles are even more ridiculous here, because there’s now 50/50 split and one half is fighting the other, plus some are fighting Ukraine, plus some are fighting EU. In the long term however, past Polish governments had enough brains to get us into NATO and EU, while Ukrainians for decades preferred to suspended between EU and Russia, until they finally lost Crimea and kind of saw what’s going on - for a moment, because shortly after all the well-known shit was back - like corruption, “Dnipro call centers”, bribes to avoid mobilisation while politicians send children abroad. And NATO nor EU were never priority, because that would mean getting rid of the above. @aho@mastodon.social

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