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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Western arrogance plays a big part in this. We expect everyone around the world to think like us, to value the same things we do, to have the same line of thoughts and us and react to things the same way we do. So we expect russia to think the same, when it's been clear as day since back in the initial invasion back in 2014 that this is not the case. Russians don't think like us. They are culturally different then us, they react differently to things then we do, and they push back on things that we view as normal. There is no win-win in their society. There is a winner and loser. Westerners don't think like this and still see the possibility of normalizing relations with russia down the road and that should not be the case. Until the west realizes that Ukraine must WIN, and not hope the russians magically get tired and go home (which is quite obviously the west's plan) this stupid war will grind on.
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110% agree with the bolded. And this is the source of a lot of the tensions between the west and the rest of the world's nations. The inability or unwillingness to acknowledge and accept that nations may not want to change their system of governance to what the west has and that this is actually okay. The two nations should still be able to work with each other even with all of the differences. And also, our insistence that we "know" what the other country's citizens want (which is always, "to live how we live").