Sanctions failed so many times but the West just keeps trying and hoping for a different outcome this time.
Didn't the West just ban RT and many pro-Russian media and people.
It is only going to drive up the oil prices in the US. Guess this is what the big oil wants.
The PBS interview is a good demonstration of hypocrites. Blurring the painting of a Nazi collaborator to hide the fact the mayor is a Nazi sympathizer. The West during the cold war had trained so many Islamic extremists and today they made the same mistakes of enabling Nazi and fascists. They never learned that their actions today would come back to bite their ass one day.
The blurred image is of Stepan Bandera, who's officially honored as a Hero of Ukraine.
It's easy to demonize Бандерівці, but has anyone else here ever known one?
Before 2014, I (a speaker of Russian) had a long conversation with a Ukrainian nationalist student.
He proudly said that his grandfather was a 'general' (his word) in a Ukrainian army that had fought against the USSR.
Although he was vague about some details, I knew enough of history to know that he was referring to the OUN.
His grandfather was a follower of Stepan Bandera.
He told me that his grandfather's village in western Ukraine had welcomed the German soldiers as their 'liberators'.
The women and girls had thrown flowers and offered bread to the Germans. Every young man in the village had
volunteered to fight alongside the Germans against Stalin. That's how his grandfather's war had begun.
How did it end? My impression is that his grandfather was one of the Ukrainian nationalists who had kept fighting
the USSR even after Germany had surrendered. His grandfather could not have expected any mercy from Stalin.
Before his death, he had urged his children (including the student's parent) to keep fighting the good fight for Ukraine.
This student told me that he hoped to enter politics in Ukraine someday and live up to his grandfather's heroic legacy.
Although he and I sometimes disagreed, our conversation was amicable. My impression was that he liked me.
At that time, it was far-fetched that Russia and Ukraine would ever be at war against each other.
I don't know where he is today. If he's in Ukraine, then he presumably would be fighting against Russia.
I never thought of him as an enemy. I don't demonize him or dehumanize him. I hope that he survives.
Every war must end. In order to build a lasting peace, one should strive to have enough understanding, if not
some respect, for one's former enemies' motives.
