They would also tell me to my (virtual) face that they think my country has no right to exist, so that too makes it pretty hard to have any sort of productive collaboration.
I don't know if this helps, but your posts and comments always make my day just a bit better whenever I see them. Whatever else, you're contributing to myself feeling less of a burden from gestures broadly at everything
My favourite foil cap trope reference is Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. It has several characters with supernatural abilities that can affect other people's emotions, and aluminum happens to block all kinds of magic powers in Sanderson's larger book universe. So a lot of rich and important people wear hats that are lined with aluminum foil on the inside to protect them from emotional influence.
Well, yeah, it's not like our soldiers just ignore all the stupid shit happening outside of their control. But, still, the alternative to fighting against russia is not peace - it's genocide. And so we persist, both in the army and outside of it.
Also Cowbee in the same thread: "Russia cannot become an empire by invading neighbouring countries". Jesus Christ, how else do you think empires are formed?
Really funny how Putin (allegedly) trying to get fewer countries to join NATO by invading Ukraine got even more countries to join NATO. He could've just done nothing and be better off
Why do you choose the ability to give birth as the deciding factor if you say that the biological part is irrelevant?