Why is the plight of the Ukrainian people seeming more important than that of the Kurds, Palestinians or Yemeni people?

@InOtterWords Point noted. Israel is also a nuclear power. I find it surprising that the concern for people's safety does not extend to the thousands if not tens of thousands of ethnic Russian-speaking Ukrainians that have been killed by their own government over the past nearly 10 years. Also, the fact that the Ukrainian government mandated that Ukrainian was the only language to be used in public sector jobs, despite the fact that more than a third of the country speaks Russian. In context it all makes me think that there is some double standard in play.

@Ozymandiaz


Israel are not going to nuke themselves.

The debate of language in Ukraine is not something that can be limited to a single sentence. For a start, Zelensky is a russian speaking Ukrainian but also how the use of the Ukraine language became a big part of national identity following Russia's 2014 campaign in Crimea.

@InOtterWords Russia are not going to nuke themselves either.

I take from what you are saying yous see no issue in the fact that Ukraine banned Russian in the public sector?

@Ozymandiaz Russia almost let a nuclear reactor explode....or did you not see that on the news?

And please do not put words in my mouth, the subject of Russian and Ukranian languages cannot be summed uo in a single sentence conversation. There is a long history to that but Zelensky himself and his family is part of the Russian speaking Ukranians.
I am most definitely against Putin, i think anyone justifying his actions is wrong.

@InOtterWords sum it up for me please.

Personally i find it disturbing that people feel ok with the fact that a state is denying a people a right to their own language. There are no honest actors here. Not Russia not Ukraine and not the west.

And the point you keep making about Zelensky speaking Russian and having some Russian heritage smacks of the “I can’t be racist I have black friends” argument. If it is not what you are implying, then what you are implying is lost on me.

I genuinely would like to gain your insight. If you don’t have the time i understand.

@Ozymandiaz you ask me to sum it up but i do keep saying it is not easy to in a few sentences but i will try.

When Ukraine was occupied by the Soviet Union Russian was the prevalent language, ukranian was spoken in mostly rural areas. As part of creating a national identity the governmwnt encouraged the state use of Ukranian within government and schools. This was zll part of creating a natik al identity. It did, hoever still protect Russian as a language, just not the national language.

Now both languages are similar and approx 30% of Ukraniabs prefer the use of Russian. The law that was passed 3 years ago was that all russian speaking schools and government buildings had to be bilingual. Note, not just ukranian. This is like saying soanish speaking schools in Texas must also speak American.

Now i bring up Zelenzky, because he was raised in a Russian speaking family is not like saying i have a black friend. He is part of thst 30% and he has said that Russian language will be constitutionally protected.

Public speeches by government are to be in ukranian, new laws and acts of parliament are to be in ukranian and state tv will be broadcast in ukranian. This was all part of building Ukranian nationalism and was not anything tondobwith Russia.

In a nutshell

@InOtterWords That was excellent. Thank you 🙏

@Ozymandiaz it isnt a quick easy discussion

@InOtterWords It rarely is

@Ozymandiaz and sorry for all the typos

@InOtterWords I didnt even notice any 😂

@Ozymandiaz You've got to be kidding. There's a Russian-backed separatist movement in Donbas that includes actual undercover Russian soldiers ("little green men") and mercenaries. As a sovereign country, Ukraine is entitled to resist that.