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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I used to work with a girl who was from Estonia, but was ethnically Russian. She was pretty open about her dislike for Estonians and claimed that Estonia should be part of Russia. More than 25% of their population are Russian, and half of them were actually born in Russia, and almost all the rest are 1st or 2nd generation.
Nice person otherwise, but there is a lot of indoctrination among Russian settlers and their descendants within former Soviet countries. The partial Rusification of the Baltic states has always been an elephant in the room when they were admitted into NATO. Depending how this war goes, there could be a lot of infighting there.
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Don't judge all ethnically Russians based on one person. The opinions in Russia vary. The people in Russia don't want war. There's an aspect of propaganda in any country, and obviously a fair amount of people think that Putin was provoked.
The really dangerous thing about the whole situation is that all sides treat it as we're the good guys defending from the bad guys. That's how long term conflicts are made, you stop seeing people on the other side and just see enemies.
A part of me hopes that the west shows Russia the nuclear stick. As in if you don't retreat from Ukranian territory by *insert date* that will be considered as a war on Nato/EU. Otherwise, I don't see a quick resolution, but a long grueling bloody war.