Again, I support the Ukrainian resistance whole heartedly, but I refuse to sanctify them. They are doing many shitty things right now, such as leaving immigrant families trying to flee stranded at train stations to make room for "real Ukrainians" and in general pitching their requests for help in some really racist ways.
I say this because it's important that we stop setting things up in perfect binaries where one side is pure evil and the other is pure good. Ukraine has massive fucking issues. Did before this invasion, and will after.
I hope they kick the Russians out of their country, and then I hope that they realize that "real Ukrainians" come in a lot of shades.
We can support Ukraine's right to exist and their defence against Putin and his asshole kleptocracy without the pretence that the Ukrainians are special perfect people. I do, I will admit, admire their utter attitude of "Fuck you, Putin." But it doesn't mean they haven't done, and aren't doing shitty things right now also.
There will be oodles of atrocities on both sides here when it's over, and I just pray that the average people of Ukraine suffer this for as short a time as possible.
I'm going to hold both sides accountable, and root for one of them.
War is a fucking horror, and propaganda is literally EVERYWHERE right now. And we want to believe it. We want ANYTHING that makes us feel a little better abut the war.
But it's war. We need it to be over, not an inspiring story of scrappy underdogs.
That said. Fuck you, Putin. Get out. And to the Russian people? Never a better time to revolt with so many troops elsewhere.