Comment by koakuma-chan

Comment by koakuma-chan 9 hours ago

7 replies

> Exactly that gives ruskies propaganda talking points to invade Ukraine by saying they don’t like how Ukrainians treated russian speakers.

The Russians have a point there. I wish the Russian language was an official language in Ukraine, and I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions, but unfortunately the Ukranian government chose to instead try and force people to speak Ukranian at school, etc. But that obviously doesn't justify starting a war.

> British King isn’t delusional enough to start war with neighboring English speaking country.

Do they even have a neighbouring country that speaks English? They are dumb enough to quit EU though.

gkoz 5 hours ago

Wishing a national identity and sovereignty did not exist just for your convenience is what this thread is about.

> I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions

There weren't meaningful restrictions. A large number of Ukrainians still speak Russian a lot. Instead this sounds like "forcing" a number of people to speak to you in a particular language in order for you to not feel "restricted".

  • throwaway290 2 hours ago

    100%. I saw some vids from Ukrainian frontlines where people say speaking Russian is a problem because in fast situations it's more difficult to identify if you're enemy. This means even there some people speak Russian

    It's just about education in schools and official use. And it's crazy to blame a country for requiring using its home language at schools

mlrtime 3 hours ago

Kazakhstan is in the same situation. The people would be better off speaking Russian, although it should not be forced through violence.

See Hong Kong + Mandarain, etc...

Antibabelic 8 hours ago

> Do they even have a neighbouring country that speaks English?

Ireland.

  • koakuma-chan 8 hours ago

    English is an official language in Ireland, so it is not like Ukraine.

    • throwaway290 2 hours ago

      Take any neighbouring country in Europe

      Tons of people totally speak English there. But it's not an official language. And government totally forces kids to speak French/Dutch/whatever in schools. if England invades Netherland will you say they also have a point?;)

koiueo 6 hours ago

You're free to go to russia, where russian is the official language.

But I think you're already there, just trying to spread russian propaganda posing as Ukrainian