There's the rub. it depends from whom you take the temperature. I wouldn't be asking global business in Ukraine for a reading, because their profits are very much being defended by the Zelensky regime. Naturally, they would support everything that Zelensky says and does, because creating terra rasa in Ukraine, as Zelensky is doing, will create great investment opportunities for them. They are rubbing their hands in glee over the slaughter in Ukraine. If the Eastern Europeans that you are interviewing are connected with these same corporate interests, they likewise will be a cheer squad for Zelensky and NATO.pietillidie wrote:[
I can tell you right now, if you'd taken the temperature of Ukraine through global business or Eastern European friends or Eastern Europeans working and travelling in Europe, you just wouldn't be making the mistake of imposing Chomskian 1980 metatheory on either Ukraine or the region.
On the other hand, if you were interviewing the working class population in Ukraine, the workers who are being forcibly conscripted into armies and then marched to their deaths as they are forced to attack entrenched Russian positions kamikaze style, like in Verdun - or workers forced to work for starvation wages while all political opposition is banned in "free Ukraine", they might give you a different opinion.