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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
These reporters aren't saying that white people are more important, they are simply saying that it is harder to imagine, because they are a European nation.
In countries where there has been strife for a long time, strife is not surprising. But Ukraine looks pretty first-world-ish, and has been essentially peaceful for some time. That makes the images more surprising.
Europeans. like North Americans, would tell you "it could never happen here" if you asked them. So it is more surprising.
That was what I heard from these reporters, not some thinly veiled racism.
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I don't know, we're talking about a country that has had two revolutions in the last 20 years, was essentially invaded 8 years ago, and has been fighting an insurgency within its own borders for the last 8 years, with about 15K people being killed. There's a reason that admitting them to NATO or the EU is such a contentious issue.
Not that anyone really expected what is happening now, but in terms of stability and wealth, Ukraine has far more in common with places like Georgia or Armenia than it does somewhere like Poland or Romania. The GDP per capita for Ukraine is on par with places like Libya, Albania, and Iraq.