Ingratiable You!
ОМСК So maybe I've fallen into the same attitudes that disgusted me in America. By this I mean the attitudes Russians, who had left Russia in the 1990s, had for their home country. They seemed to be taking cheap shots and jabs to ingratiate themselves. For example, at the Russian church in Miami, my wife complimented a boy's height for his age. His father said, "Sure, he doesn't eat that Soviet food that you have in Russia!" How stupid, right, for the American food supply is one of the worst in the world for chemicals and lack of gov't protection. If you fly into America, the people look as if they came from a different planet because of the huge rolls of puffy fat. At any rate, these immigrants will always be living in the 1990s, along with most of the American population, for most Americans are kept in the dark of Russian tech superiority in many ways, not to mention Iran. Iran's victory will be another Vietnam for the Americans, perhaps.At any rate, bashing one's home country is tasteless, and maybe I'm guilty of that sometimes too. I myself have nothing in the U.S. at all, or even the slightest reason to return or want to. My days there were backbreaking work for miserable pay that could not keep even me going, even working two jobs. I lived in the shocking poverty of the Black section in Baltimore. I worked with migrants in fast food and factories.What is puzzling is the Russophobia among Americans. I suppose that's due to nonstop news stations using years of lies to shovel propaganda on the people, just what they accuse Russia of doing. Projection, they call it. I'm not exagerrating. Former friends and acquaintances at Christian churches would go out of their way to put Ukrainian flags on their Facebook pages. What could they possibly know about the situation? But try to engage with them! Hopeless. Even my more liberal Christian liberal arts university had the Gordon Review newspaper, with scores of articles such as "The Wisdom of Standing Up To Russia" and articles that excitedly wrote about the Ukrainian counteroffensive that would push to the Black Sea. What did they possibly understand of the situation? So I wrote a lot in the comments, but never received a reply, and none of my own articles were accepted. Plus, my offer of engaging discussion on this was never replied to.Given that America has become this. Given that Western Europe is openly boasting about war with Russia, what can we new Russians do? We're forced to take sides, and so we have. We condemn Western actions and politics without hating America or Western Europe, as Russians are not interested in that kind of racism that the West shows to Russia. And the Gordon Review? Well, their last published article dates back to April 2025, so maybe the rubbish is looked at for what it is. Maybe my humble scathing comments helped bury the thing.
ОМСК So maybe I've fallen into the same attitudes that disgusted me in America. By this I mean the attitudes Russians, who had left Russia in the 1990s, had for their home country. They seemed to be taking cheap shots and jabs to ingratiate themselves. For example, at the Russian church in Miami, my wife complimented a boy's height for his age. His father said, "Sure, he doesn't eat that Soviet food that you have in Russia!" How stupid, right, for the American food supply is one of the worst in the world for chemicals and lack of gov't protection. If you fly into America, the people look as if they came from a different planet because of the huge rolls of puffy fat. At any rate, these immigrants will always be living in the 1990s, along with most of the American population, for most Americans are kept in the dark of Russian tech superiority in many ways, not to mention Iran. Iran's victory will be another Vietnam for the Americans, perhaps.At any rate, bashing one's home country is tasteless, and maybe I'm guilty of that sometimes too. I myself have nothing in the U.S. at all, or even the slightest reason to return or want to. My days there were backbreaking work for miserable pay that could not keep even me going, even working two jobs. I lived in the shocking poverty of the Black section in Baltimore. I worked with migrants in fast food and factories.What is puzzling is the Russophobia among Americans. I suppose that's due to nonstop news stations using years of lies to shovel propaganda on the people, just what they accuse Russia of doing. Projection, they call it. I'm not exagerrating. Former friends and acquaintances at Christian churches would go out of their way to put Ukrainian flags on their Facebook pages. What could they possibly know about the situation? But try to engage with them! Hopeless. Even my more liberal Christian liberal arts university had the Gordon Review newspaper, with scores of articles such as "The Wisdom of Standing Up To Russia" and articles that excitedly wrote about the Ukrainian counteroffensive that would push to the Black Sea. What did they possibly understand of the situation? So I wrote a lot in the comments, but never received a reply, and none of my own articles were accepted. Plus, my offer of engaging discussion on this was never replied to.Given that America has become this. Given that Western Europe is openly boasting about war with Russia, what can we new Russians do? We're forced to take sides, and so we have. We condemn Western actions and politics without hating America or Western Europe, as Russians are not interested in that kind of racism that the West shows to Russia. And the Gordon Review? Well, their last published article dates back to April 2025, so maybe the rubbish is looked at for what it is. Maybe my humble scathing comments helped bury the thing.