@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal I want to (as respectfully as possible, I mean it 🙇‍♀️) request you to try and put yourself in the shoes of someone whose family has been in occupation, someone who has to look if there’s relatives or friends in the casualties lists after every strike, 1/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal Someone who has to be the pillar of a whole community, especially if it’s a minority community, or a responsible parent, or the only family for their aging grandparents, or otherwise have already challenging and touch enough life… 2/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal And do all of it as Russians prey on you every moment; to kill, to harass, depending on where you are. And you survive. You cope with anxieties, complete inability to plan your life, inability to go back home. Or worse the crippling fear that someone you love won’t come home. 3/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal You try making your life a tad easier by searching for support, attempt to make as many people as possible realize how overarching and truly hazardous this real-life nightmare is. Being abroad doesn’t make the lives of you care about any safer and your future any more lucid. 4/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal And it all weighs heavier on you with each day. After some time everything starts repeating itself.
Most Ukrainians have 2 main requests:
1. Arm us adequately to the war and its consequences
2. Don’t endorse Russian influencers that will have us arm again in the near future. 5/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal And look at how both is virtually impossible.😔 The basic. Without this any Ukrainian can’t even begin to feel safe.
And if you don’t feel safe - you will eventually act abrasively. You will lose your cool with those who snark the same questions and paste the same stereotypes. 6/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal And what you always need to keep in mind when this happens that most Ukrainians who speak on these topics carry a whole baggage of knowledge of the road that was paved to these horrors. Not from a gazillion years ago but literally from the past decade +. 7/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal I didn’t witness how Ukraine was stripped of nukes and MLRS over the ten years from 1996. But I watched Stoltenberg beam with Medvedev over the signing of Barents Sea agreement or Clinton and Lavrov pushing the “relationship reboot button” after Russia had attacked Georgia. 8/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal I heard Merkel saying that Ukraine has can’t receive a MAP for NATO because of corruption issues and then watch her turn the valve of Nordsteam2. Wirecard and Deutsche Bank sponsored wars and smear campaigns but Ukraine was “the corrupt county” that didn’t deserve protection. 9/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal Ukrainians want a peaceful life that would’ve been very possible if certain actors didn’t get in the way of our security reinforcement, didn’t engage in energy politics with Russia, didn’t arm for the past 8 years, and didn’t block weapon deliveries to Ukraine. /10

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal The war scales and your country, its people, its military, its democratically elected government fight a dangerous, aggressive state, the outcome being so crucial to the whole continental and global security — and the word does the slowest bare minimum to help winning it. 11/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal And this is the insanity of the situation: from its making - to now. No matter how hard you tried there were always people who took Russian money to gatekeep you.
And the people who elect these people will feel very comfortable tone-policing those, whose lives get destroyed. 12/

@trinzu @ohrwurm_AT @LvivJournal This is all unfathomably sad. But every person has different degrees of involvement in Ukraine. Different stretches of their lives compromised or already destroyed. And this affects all how all of this background overlays with the current situation and makes them respond. /🔚😔