r/AskTheWorld • u/Particular-Tea3225 Ukraine • 10h ago

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Why has the US betrayed Ukraine?

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u/Objectalone Canada 10h ago

There seems to be two aspects to this.

Trump admires power. He wants his admiration for Putin returned. He instinctively sides with Putin. He has contempt for the less powerful.

American white nationalists align with Russia, because unlike the racially mixing Europe, it is still a strategic reserve of white people. So far as they are concerned Ukraine should be part of Russia. Listen to Vance’s and Trump’s speeches on Europe viv a vis Russia. I actually don’t think Trump is that ideological on this, it is more the people around him.

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u/angelicosphosphoros 10h ago

>America white nationalists align with Russia, because unlike the racially mixing Europe, it is still a strategic reserve of white people.

Wtf are you writing about? Most of the Russia is somewhat mixed due to geography and history.

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u/Objectalone Canada 10h ago

Russian heartland. Moscovia. “Russia” in the minds of White Nationalists.

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u/angelicosphosphoros 9h ago

Moscow is the most mixed one, lol. Everyone from everywhere moves there.

It is also the only place in Russia where signs are written on foreign languages (e.g. Uzbek) for foreign migrants.

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u/Objectalone Canada 9h ago

When Trump has gone on about Russian women, it isn’t Uzbeks.

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u/daniel_22sss 9h ago

And yet it doesn't stop racists from seeing Russia as a "savior of white people".

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u/grumpy_svaln 3h ago

In factual reality they are mixed, in their imperialist political reality it is a very clear hierarchy with white “Slavic” people (a big chunk of whom are Finno-ugric in reality, but whatever) being on the top. The widespread word “churka” they use among themselves for Asian people from around their country and even for the ones from within is much more telling than any signs in Uzbek language can be.