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I need to apologize to people on SW (and in particularly people from the US)

It's been a few months since I was last really here, but I did make a lot of posts about "Americans" then, whatever that really means. To me it meant people who were becoming increasingly hostile towards me, and I realize that I deluded myself into feeling as though nearly everyone on SW ("the Americans") were my enemies, in one form or another. That's not true and I in part understood that much all along. Continuous post replies and DM's about how my husband should be a "real man" by enlisting into a dying army, in a losing country at war, however made me feel rage which I cannot explain to anyone who have not been in the situation of continuously being close to losing their husband for 3 years now. Not a day goes by when I don't fear that the recruiters will find him and take him, like they literally found and took every other Ukrainian man I've ever known, by now – yet these people WANT this fear to come true? I know logically that they do not understand what they are saying, but I wasn't able to keep up with this slander emotionally, and spewed hate towards anything and anyone American, in return. At this time I can still not understand the lack of empathy it must take, to believe that a person should give up their one and only life, to end up in a deserted mass-grave, remembered by no-one, or burned to a crisp as if they never existed. I hope I never understand that line of thinking, because I find it outrageously distrusting. Regardless, I think that I owe the many wonderful, interesting, intelligent Americans on SW, an apology. I hope that you are able to understand my intentions, and not paint me racist. I have always found great meaning in meeting people from different cultures online – myself being multicultural – and I hope to continue finding positive meaning in exploring the world, even when through a screen like on SW. I would still love to visit America one day, that won't change with everything happening today, and I hope the American people will still welcome me. I sincerely apologize for the times when my posts were generalizing and demeaning. I want everyone to know that I have never truly felt in such a way about America, nor any other culture.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
There's someone else from Ukraine that might be in a similar situation. I wished she hadn't blocked me. I did understand her situation.
Nightwings · 31-35, F
@DeWayfarer I you mean Yuliana, then I have spoken with her before, and she is active in the war. I'm not sure if she's a soldier or something else, but I doubt she has much time to reply to people on SW.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Nightwings no not her. And I know Yuliana well. There's a another on the North East side of Ukraine.

BTW my great grandmother was from Odessa.
Nightwings · 31-35, F
@DeWayfarer I see, well she is not at all in my situation, if she lives in north east Ukraine. She is in the opposite situation, as north east Ukraine is literally in the corner of Russia if nothing else. I basically live next to Poland's boarder, I am close enough that I might as well be in Poland. I am living in a peaceful part of Ukraine, she is living in a terrible war zone. /=
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Nightwings sorry. Typo: north West side and likely near you.

Her username starts with "F"
Nightwings · 31-35, F
@DeWayfarer Ah, I see, close to Belarus. I'm not super north, I live in Novovolynsk. I don't think I would know the person's username...
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Nightwings She immigrated to Ukraine Long ago. I believe from Denmark if I remember correctly when this site was new. And married someone from Ukraine.

We had been friends for years and I am uncertain why she blocked me. She was the first person from Ukraine that I know of. Yuliana was later.
Nightwings · 31-35, F
@DeWayfarer Are you sure that wasn't me? 🤭

I am from Denmark and came to Ukraine in 2018, because I married a Ukrainian man lol. His name is Slavik, or Yaroslav. I have never blocked you sweety.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Nightwings It could be you. Your other account though has me blocked! 😞

Nightwings · 31-35, F
@DeWayfarer I haven't used my other account for a very long time...