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(3,021 posts)Until the last two days or so I had the impression that even among those posting here who are clearly against the invasion, only a very, very few had a fucking clue how dangerous this is.
People I've talked to from Latvia, Poland, to Romania and Bulgaria in the past have told the same story your family is telling.
Alarm bells with me went off over the summer over increasingly aggressive Russian energy policy, which became focused on forcing Ukraine to accept the Russian trade agreement, which then backfired and became invasion-lite, and now playing the ethnic card. It's a violation of core European principles and progress. The EU process is slow but it works -even Serbia and Kosovo are now talking- and the intent seems to be the unraveling of its success.
I place the danger above anything since 1945. And not because of an exact repeat of problems we've had since them, but maybe more concern for the catastrophes and consequences we haven't though of --plus the fact that we don't have time for this shit. The CO2 isn't waiting for anyone.