Comments by "joe k" (@joek600) on "Kim Iversen: Former NATO Analyst u0026 Top UN Official Says THIS Is The REAL Reason For War In Ukraine" video.

There is a fact that many people in EU and US do not understand unless they have actually been in Ukraine. The Russian speaking Ukrainians is not some kind of fringe minority group counting in a few thousands. Its a HUGE part of the population. In fact everybody over 40 years old speaks Russian fluently and in the eastern part of the country most people doesnt even speak Ukrainian AT ALL in their everyday life. To drive this into your mind, Zelensky himself had to take Ukrainian language lessons after becoming president. Those pauses he does when he speaks Ukrainian publicly without a teleprompter, are not dramatic. He is trying to find the words in a language that he doesnt speak fluently. Im sure that behind closed doors he speaks Russian. The Russian language was targeted by the ultra-nationalists that wanted to break all the cultural bonds with Russia. They are trying to engineer a 19th century ethnostate on the remnants of two multi-ethnic Empires (Russian Empire-USSR) that used to move people around constantly. How is this going to work? It cant unless you enforce it with an iron grip and thats what they tried to do. Now imagine all those middle aged people who were born in USSR and speak Russian, having to deal with their own Ukrainian state in a language that they are not fluent. Imagine having to take a bank loan with terms in Ukrainian. Or have a legal case. They are forced to pay for translation IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY!! This is insane and nobody realizes that's its those small things that tip people over the edge and entrench them!
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