Manufactured Hatred

You don't hate Russia; you hate the projection, the propaganda established in your country for decades that you've made yourself believe about Russia.

You hate your own lie.

But you are too much of a coward to recognize your own mistakes, yet you're still ready to encourage war in nations and lands you know nothing about just to see them suffer and fall apart.

Most of what you think you know about Russia today or its past history was told to you by your government in order to manipulate your opinion. It is not what Russia was or is.

You are racist, not even about real people or countries. You are racist about your own distorted, taken-out-of-context judgments you have manufactured yourself.

You are racist about your own lies.

Historically, after the Second World War, demonizing, shaming, and being scared of Russia created the necessary tension to provoke a tremendous Industrial Revolution in North America.

If you weren't seeing Russia as your direct enemy and danger, you wouldn't have invested in many things.

Technology would never have been able to develop to the point it is right now if you hadn't based your public opinion on making Russia a monster and your enemy. The main impact of the Cold War was actually exponential investment in science and technology all around the world.

If you weren't scared of Russia or someone else, you would have built a very different civilization from what you have right now.

If your people weren't manipulated to believe that Russia is a real danger, no one would have worked so hard and invested so heavily in military and technology. And, as you already know, most scientific research is done with military money.

We used the tension with Russia to make people scared. Because when people are scared of something, they work harder and they obey authority better. They ask fewer questions, and they don't care about paying their taxes to produce bombs instead of social welfare.

The only way a government can enslave, control, and manipulate its own population is when its people are terrified of being abused by some sort of external danger.

The only way I can steal your freedom and personal sovereignty from you is when you are scared and believe you need my protection to survive and thrive.

Your government has manufactured this collective fear about Russia, mainly to develop your own economy and shape your inner politics. Without this threat or idea of a very dangerous enemy, it would be impossible for your government to steal your money and force you to work like they did.

The decades-long propaganda about the USSR is exactly what has made your economy and your politics the way they are right now.

It was really useful in the '60s and '80s to use a potential war with "crazy Russians" as an excuse to foster technological development and Industrial Revolution in your own country. But today, this strategy makes no sense anymore. It is actually a highly dangerous strategy to keep believing that Russia is your enemy.

They are not your enemy. They honestly don't give a shit about you. And probably never did.

They are not stupid. And with everything they lost during the First and Second World Wars, trust me, they had even less desire than you to ever engage in such thing again.

They actually know what war and its complex trauma is way better than you do. And their people are even more scared of international conflict escalating too much than you are.

The only wars you have fought on this land were local. You were either abusing other colonists like you, or you were abusing indigenous people here.

Russia was fighting both world wars on its own land and ground. They were directly engaged in conflicts of international scope to actually protect the entire world from Nazis. They were always fighting for peace.

Their lands and their bodies have experienced the suffering of war way more than you think or would be able to imagine. They don't want to repeat it. Not with their brothers and not with anyone else. They will never do something on purpose simply to provoke a conflict that could become a war.

This is not how Russians think or strategize.

Russians are very nice, kind, and also very smart people. They use their brains to fight way more than they use direct violence, intimidation, or abuse.

They are clever, direct, and honest. They can get angry and they can show you your place very easily. But they are not tyrants, and they are not mean for no reason. They simply don't let anyone disrespect them.

For Russians, it's mostly about personal dignity and respect. Most of them are ready to die to protect their honor.

You can do many things to Russians, and they will not care. It is truly hard to make them react emotionally to something stupid. They are tough, wise, resilient, and cold-blooded. They are not resentful, and they don't really judge others.

But as soon as you try to disrespect a Russian, they will react instantly and will do everything to protect their dignity.

There is a very clear limit you don't cross with Russians if you don't want to fight with them, and this limit is called respect.

Disrespect is potentially the only reason a Russian could become truly violent.

Now, when you have an entire country that has been programmed with propaganda based on disrespect of an entire culture and their heritage, don't be surprised why they don't respect you very much right now either.

They are not your enemy, they are not tyrants, they don't want to fight, and they are not mean. They simply don't respect you enough to be truly friends with you.

They will not justify themselves to you. They will not ask for forgiveness. They will not seek any validation. They will simply not do business with countries who don't respect their people and their culture.

They will not negotiate or collaborate with you if you see them only through the lens of propaganda your own country has created and made you believe. They want to do business with people who have the humility and decency to see them for who they truly are and not endlessly argue who is the victim and who is the persecutor.

They don't negotiate based on toxic emotions, unprocessed trauma, or on lies you have in your head about them.

If you want to be good friends with Russians easily, there are mainly two ingredients you need: authenticity and respect. They are truly very easy-going, fun, and very simple people to understand and collaborate with, but only if you know how to be truly authentic and how to respect both them and yourself while you work with them.

They hate manipulation. They hate being lied to. They hate when other populations impose a very questionable cultural supremacy on them. They hate when someone who knows nothing about them interferes and tells them what to do. They will not be slaves to any other ideologies than their own dignity and self-integrity.

They hate and highly disrespect cowards.

If you think a Russian hates you for some reason, you are most likely wrong. To hate you, they need to have some kind of relationship and intimacy with you. But if they don't, it is most likely because they just don't respect you.

Russians prefer playing chess and not poker. Do you know why?

Because in chess, everything is fully visible. The entire game is fully open and transparent to both players. Nothing is hidden; there is no place for bluffing or lying.

Everyone knows in real-time what is happening and why. There are no secrets and no unknown parameters to take into consideration. It is all about strategy. But it's about a strategy that has zero place for cowards.

It's about your real capacity to think with your own brain and not your clever ability to fool or manipulate the other. It's about your authentic ability to be smart.

You're either good at it or you're not. You cannot pretend to be something you are not. There is no ambiguity about your current situation, your threats, and your opportunities for next moves.

Your cowardice is completely useless in chess, and it is the same with Russians. They will simply not enjoy playing any games with cowards.

They respect themselves way too much to lose their time with those who are not willing to act with real honor and integrity while dealing with them.

They love clarity, consistency, coherence, and they need to trust you to be able to collaborate with you.

They don't really care about contracts or whatever else; they need to feel authentic trust in their heart. They also need to know they are respected for who they are no matter what, and they need to respect you to do any real business with you.

If when you look at a Russian, you don't even see a real person in front of you, but only the propaganda that lives in your head about their ancestors, don't expect them to be nice to you.

It is very hard to build a relationship based on trust and mutual respect if you see me as a stupid tyrant without even truly knowing me.

If you already judge them harshly based on projections and narratives that are not even true and have nothing to do with their personal experience or their history, how could they even trust you or have any pleasure collaborating with you?

They don't co-create with ungrounded lies or meaningless projections; they co-create with real people who have the wisdom and humility to ask, to listen, and to experience something before blindly judging, rejecting, humiliating, and condemning someone.

They act based on their own experience and lived wisdom, not on the fear and hatred-based discourse of fully corrupted international bullshit.

They don't simply repeat what they have heard somewhere without using their own brain and heart. And they certainly don't build their national strategies on rumors and lies of others.

They usually think very well before they act.

In their head, they are not victims of anything, and they are not saviors of anyone. And they very often take full responsibility for their actions no matter what. Remember this very simple idea: dignity for these people is way more important than comfort or even security.

They have no problem admitting when they did something wrong, and they will do their best to make sure they don't lose the authentic respect of their peers.

Shame works very well on these people. They hate this emotion a lot, and they will do everything to feel as little of it as possible.

They've already understood that the best way to protect themselves from feeling shameful or guilty is to always act with unshakable integrity, transparency, and responsibility.

If you just try to be a bit curious and learn a bit more about this culture, you would see that your judgments about them are completely nonsensical and illogical.

Just read some of their classic literature and watch some of their old movies. You will clearly see what the real values and virtues of their culture are. They have very sophisticated moral, emotional, mental, and spiritual intelligence.

Their culture and their country are incredibly beautiful, so unique, and extremely powerful.

Their ancestors were nurturing and taking care of the land they are on for a very long time. They are native for many centuries to the Nature and to the soil that is feeding them right now. Their civilization is very old, and their culture is profoundly rich on so many different levels.

It's a crime against humanity, the Nature that feeds us, and our own ancestors to destroy what we have built until now so stupidly and so violently.

Ukrainians and Russians are like two native tribes to the lands they inhabit for many centuries (they were where they are and they were neighbors before America was even discovered by colonists).

They share the same land, air, water, and their cultures are intertwined in ways you would never be able to even suspect or ever understand. They are indigenous to where they are, and they are sharing the same ancestry whether you like it or not.

You will never be able to understand their ongoing conflict from your personal perspective. You will never comprehend their culture enough for you to be able to judge them.

You still don't recognize the voices of your own indigenous populations as valuable or meaningful; how the fuck can you judge those you have never visited or intimately know yourself?

How the fuck can you believe in your head that you know what is better for Russians and Ukrainians if most of indigenous communities here are still in deep suffering and extreme poverty?

How the fuck do you even dare to tell Russians or Ukrainians what they should be doing and who they should be asking for forgiveness, if you still have no idea how to reconcile with those you have abused with unimaginable terrors here on their own land?

How do you even want me to honor you or your opinion about our human dignity and respect, if every time I go outside, I see the suffering of natives all around me and your people are just walking by like they don't exist?

You walk by them every day, and you don't care. You judge, you insult, and you condemn them. You don't give a shit about the fact that they are on the street, drug addicts, and mentally ill mainly because of you. Their still ongoing suffering is in your face, and you don't really care. But you are fucking ready to send billions to save my ancestors from their own brothers?

You can't even see how violent, hypocritical, tyrannical, and egocentric your own ass is when it comes to your own population and territory, but you still pretend to save or help those who have absolutely nothing to do with you or with your own history?

You hate, argue, and create more and more conflicts with French, English, Americans and whoever else that doesn't think exactly like you. Your own systemic racism, mental health issues, drug pandemic, and social violence are skyrocketing at an impressive rate, and you have no idea what to do about it, but you wage wars elsewhere to protect their democracy and freedom?

Who the fuck are you kidding? Look very well in the mirror, see your own reflection, heal the suffering of your own people before telling others what they should be doing, how, and why.

Mind your own business, and once it is in a shape that is respectful and truly honors the freedom and dignity of other cultures and people, maybe your opinion would matter. But now it does not.

Don't tell me what suffering for a Ukrainian or Russian is right now. If you don't even have the courage and humility to see, acknowledge, and truly forgive the suffering that is right in front of you on your own land, don't make a fool of yourself and don't tell me your completely useless opinion about how my people across the ocean are supposed to be doing it.

Clean your own mess. Find your own redemption. Create your own forgiveness and reconciliation. Make authentic peace with those you have abused for centuries on your own land, potentially even more and even more violently than Russians and Ukrainians ever did to each other.

Make peace and forgive the persecutor in your own self and take proper care of the victims you have created before you dare to judge or criticize the behavior, the reality, or the current challenges of other cultures and tribes.

You don't hate Russia, and you don't hate Ukraine. You are not saving anyone. You are not scared of them either. You hate and you are scared of your own inner bully that you so stubbornly don't want to accept, forgive, and learn how to love again. So, you project it mindlessly and stupidly on everyone around you, on your own neighbors, and on those you don't even know.

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This viewpoint represents not an absolute truth, but rather one lens through which we might examine our collective assumptions about international relations. Perhaps the greatest wisdom lies not in certainty, but in the humble acknowledgment of what we do not—and cannot—fully understand.

When we rush to judgment about cultures and nations distant from our own experience, we tread dangerous ground. The presumption of cultural superiority—that our values, systems, and perspectives should be universal—echoes the same colonial mindset that has caused immeasurable suffering throughout history. Whether dressed in the language of salvation, democracy, or freedom, the belief that we know better than others how they should govern themselves carries the shadow of imperialism.

Consider the physician who attempts to heal others while suffering from an untreated illness. How effective can their care truly be? Similarly, nations wrestling with unresolved systemic issues—whether inequality, historical injustices against indigenous people, or social fragmentation—might question their readiness to prescribe solutions for others. The savior complex often serves as a convenient distraction from confronting our own uncomfortable truths.

History teaches us that genuine respect for sovereignty and cultural dignity forms the foundation of meaningful international dialogue. When we approach other nations with curiosity rather than judgment, with questions rather than prescriptions, we open possibilities for authentic understanding. This doesn't mean abandoning our values, but rather recognizing that wisdom often emerges from the tension between differing worldviews.

The most profound form of strength may be found not in the confident assertion of moral superiority, but in the vulnerability of admitting our limitations. "I don't know" can be a more honest starting point than "I know what's best." Perhaps true leadership on the world stage begins with addressing our own contradictions and healing our own wounds.

What might happen if we redirected the energy spent on judging others toward honest self-reflection? What if we approached other cultures with the same patience and nuance we wish others would apply to understanding our own? What if we recognized that the path to peace begins not with changing others, but with the courage to change ourselves?

Before positioning ourselves as arbiters of global justice, we might first ask whether we've created the just society we claim to champion. Before exporting our vision of freedom, we might examine where bondage persists within our own borders. Before denouncing the darkness in distant lands, we might illuminate the shadows we've tried to ignore at home.

This perspective invites us not to abandon engagement with the world, but to transform how we engage—to approach international relations with humility rather than hubris, to listen before speaking, to learn before teaching. In embracing this stance, we might discover that true influence comes not from imposing our will, but from modeling the self-awareness, healing, and integrity we hope to see in the world.

The greatest contribution any nation can make to global harmony may be the honest work of addressing its own contradictions and healing its own wounds—not behind closed doors, but openly, with courage and vulnerability that invites others to do the same. For in this shared acknowledgment of our imperfections lies the seed of our common humanity.