I meant for Russia, whenever this war happens (which is now), all they can do on their end is win. They can’t control how other European countries direct nationalist sentiments. Also, my “support” is literally just musing on this website.

I’ve always mixed with a lot of eastern Europeans in the US, and trying to figure out if Russia was really a bogeyman that was a dark cloud over their lives has always been really murky. I’ve known jews that had to leave when the USSR was collapsing and rightwing nationalists were becoming terrifying.

I known a lot of Polish workers that had their lives upended by rightwing nationalists as the USSR collapsed. They came to the US trying to scrape a living together.

Of course people process the experience in all kinds of ways, arriving at coherent and incoherent conclusions.

The one universal is that unless they agree everything is the fault of Russians and absolve all of their country’s rightwing opportunists and collaborators from 1917 on, their stories aren’t part of the broader media narratives.

I guess what I’m getting at, when I talk to people in the diaspora, the relationship with Russia might be highly contingent on class and heavily colored by ethnic nationalism.