yeah, it feels unnatural to me personally as someone who's known ukraine intimately since waaay before they started insisting on ukrainian language spellings for its regions, but i completely get why they're distinguishing themselves from russia in any way possible

still, to me it will always be kiev (pronounced "keev"), "chornobyl" just looks and sounds so odd compared to chernobyl, etc.

i'm also much more familiar with the russian language and know practically nothing about ukrainian except through russian, so i'm definitely a little biased lol

as a frenchoid it's always been kee-ev to me lol

Quote from: YPrrrr on April 29, 2022, 10:47:47 AMI don't blame Ukraine for changing the pronunciation/spelling of Kyiv to match the Ukrainian pronunciation more than the Russian.

It's mildly annoying to us but I can't hold it against them for wanting to further separate themselves from being perceived as a Russian satellite state

ukraine can call it whatever they want. im not ukranian though.

pretty much the two key tenets of 21st century russia's national identity are its faith in its military supremacy, and its faith in its superiority over ukraine

russians willingly looked the other way for over 20 years as putin plundered and pillaged their nation so long as they could trust him to, at the very least, maintain those two central pillars of russian identity


So Ukraine's spectacular shattering of both of those illusions


has also destroyed any and all remaining confidence Russia had in Putin. The Russian people now have nothing.

and with their nation in tatters and absolutely nothing left to lose, they have finally begun to openly turn on him

I cannot rest until Russia is fully dissolved. It's the only way to get Ukraine's stolen children back. At long last Russia's implosion is imminent, and its demise is now being accelerated by the Russians themselves.

link?

Putin just gets dumber and dumber. Wow.

Quote from: Majorana's Incantation on September 25, 2022, 03:21:48 AMPutin just gets dumber and dumber. Wow.

It's like he looked at all the dumb decisions Hitler made and said, 'Bet'.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-accuses-us-of-profiting-from-war/

>says the wannabe """continent""" that's COMPLETELY dependent on r*ssian oil and *MERICAN defense

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Quoteaccuse the Americans of making a fortune from the war

only a completely irrelevant sanctimonious contrarian eu ghoul could possibly believe this is a bad thing lol

https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/475ad80e2283651fe3f8b2d7d7de9a13

putin is a ickhead

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-west-must-recognize-its-vast-claims-over-ukraine-before-talks-2022-12

LOL

https://www.newsweek.com/europe-russia-ukraine-war-america-finland-sanna-marin-1764138

Quote from: Sanna MarinI must be brutally honest with you, Europe isn't strong enough right now. We would be in trouble without the United States.

BASED Mommy Marin: the only intelligent European politician.

Quote from: Majorana's Incantation on December 02, 2022, 07:40:11 PMhttps://www.newsweek.com/europe-russia-ukraine-war-america-finland-sanna-marin-1764138

Quote from: Sanna MarinI must be brutally honest with you, Europe isn't strong enough right now. We would be in trouble without the United States.

BASED Mommy Marin: the only intelligent European politician.

Meanwhile you have the German leftists in tears wishing the US away from Europe lol

it's hilarious because "g*rman" """le*tist""" has to be the greatest oxy-moron of all time lol

Are you calling Karl Marx a moron