Saryn

Wish we could watch it right now

Satire?

Pretty sure they already do

As opposed to the period before the wall fell, when it was all rainbows and butterflies and intellectual honesty.

It's not about isolating and ranking historical events or periods tied to whatever nation-state ideology you were brought up with. It's about questioning the authority and functions of nation-state narratives in the first place. And realizing that ugliness is often borne out of the most seemingly banal things ever.

Being proud of your randomly assigned geography and demography can and has come with some good. But it's nothing compared to the ugliness it causes.

Do you have the dignity to admit when you were obviously wrong?

It's a basic GDP calculation and as others have already mentioned - it was true long before AI.

You're generalizations and reductionism is so over the top and absurd, I wouldn't even know where to begin or what the point would be. It's not hard to tell that you're just regurgitating bits and pieces of and are not actually familiar with the history (not to mention the historiography) of that part of the world. The history of Ukraine (and the former Soviet bloc more generally) after 1990 is no simple matter.

I'm not here to educate you - you need to learn to do that yourself. All I am saying is that you're wrong and need to research the issue much further in order to gain a good understanding of the topic you're trying to engage in.

Am I wrong in my assessment? Well, there's only one reasonable way to find out. Good luck!

Don't take this the wrong way but as someone who has lived and worked in many of the countries you mentioned - you're full of s**t and your hyper-simplified version of history is as cute as it is cartoonish.

Throwing a pitty party isn't doing them any favours either.

IMO, most people have a personal choice to make when their lies and BS have been publicly exposed: you either "put your big boy pants on" and start dealing with your inner shadow. Or you double down on your BS and slide even further down the rabbit hole of endless human BS, losing yourself in the process.

You can try to save monsters. But you can't be surprised when they bite you.

I'm not wishing anything, just stating the obvious. And if anything, Trump has made it much much more likely that other countries will use force to fulfill their perceived interests. You'd have to be asleep not to realize it.

You mean President Petar Stoyanov, from 1997-2002?!

Do tell me about my past presidents, dumbass.