Fractured Friendships: How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict is Dividing Diaspora Women

[2tallbill]

Mod note: This topic was split from another.

We have had Russian company, and the girls seem to get along just fine.

The girls getting along is over now. All of them wish the war will end, but they fight worse than
anything ever witnessed here. Women who were friends for 15 years hate each other now. Having
said that, Russian women are not superior to Ukrainian women or vice versa.

[Texan77]

We have had Russian company, and the girls seem to get along just fine.

The girls getting along is over now. All of them wish the war will end, but they fight worse than
anything ever witnessed here. Women who were friends for 15 years hate each other now. Having
said that, Russian women are not superior to Ukrainian women or vice versa.

In Ukraine Yana would not take to Russian women because she felt they supported the war. Here that feeling does not seem to exist.

[Manny]

The girls getting along is over now. All of them wish the war will end, but they fight worse than
anything ever witnessed here. Women who were friends for 15 years hate each other now.

I can relate to this. Some Ukrainian women my wife was very friendly with have drifted away since the conflict broke out. There have been no arguments as such, but its the Ukrainian ones I seldom hear anything about now. And my wife won't really get into those discussions at all with Ukrainian women she knows, a, because she doesn't want to fall out with people, and b, the conflict wasn't her decision, and whatever she thinks about it won't alter what's going on there.

But not everyone is so circumspect.

[Markje]

But not everyone is so circumspect.

My wife does not wish to speak about the war , because she says were are so ill-informed or mangled by propaganda its virtually impossible to have normal conversations about that.

[Contrarian]

But not everyone is so circumspect.

My wife does not wish to speak about the war , because she says were are so ill-informed or mangled by propaganda its virtually impossible to have normal conversations about that.

The first casualty in war is the truth.

[2tallbill]

And my wife won't really get into those discussions at all with Ukrainian women she knows, a, because she doesn't want to fall out with people, and b, the conflict wasn't her decision, and whatever she thinks about it won't alter what's going on there.

Your wife has a healthy outlook on the subject.

I remember we had quite a number of FSUW come over when the old
LL chat forum was closed and absorbed here. The girls tore each other's
cyber entrails out before the war ever started. Orchid survived the longest,
she's the sweetest of the bunch (her skin a bit thicker too).

[2tallbill]

My wife does not wish to speak about the war , because she says were are so
ill-informed or mangled by propaganda its virtually impossible to have normal conversations about that.

That is EXACTLY what each side says, then the verbal/cyber fur flies.

We had it all happen right here at the forum in the Russian women section
for months? I am too busy/lazy to find the thread. I asked the girls to be
nice a couple of times. I was told to mind my own business, with various
degrees of politeness/civility. 

[AvHdB]

But not everyone is so circumspect.

My wife does not wish to speak about the war , because she says were are so ill-informed or mangled by propaganda its virtually impossible to have normal conversations about that.

Yuliia is the same. Her brother lives since University in Moscow. I might add Yuliia’s father, Georgian, was some minor general in the Soviet Army, her mother from Siberia does not want to leave her home in Ukraine.

Worth adding Yuliia has a strong disdain of politicians of any ilk.

[2tallbill]

Worth adding Yuliia has a strong disdain of politicians of any ilk.

Zhena umnaya devushka

Oxymoron #1
Honest politician

Oxymoron #2
Jumbo Shrimp

For a list of awfully good oxymorons. Follow the link
https://www.thoughtco.com/awfully-good-examples-of-oxymorons-1691814

[B.B.]

That is EXACTLY what each side says, then the verbal/cyber fur flies.

So for whatever reason I decided to hit play on that video and both of my toms came charging into my home office to determine WHAT stupid MFer though he was going to come into our house and push us around.  It was nearly RIP to my computer.

B/B