Originally Posted by
peter we
it's not wrong as a generalisation. The 2014 invasion resulted in a poverty struck region where millions of young (basically) people left for Russia or Ukraine to avoid the war and wages half that of Ukraine. The region is funded by pension payments from people who don't want to move because yhey are are too old or incapable and those who decided to stay to help them. I don't understand the logic of staying in a war zone if you can possibly move, unless you support the regime. If you really don't want to get called up you should run away.
I note your family didn't move even when begged to do so, were Ukrainian yet chose to stay in Russian occupied territory, knowing what the Russians are like.
edit:
Sieverodonetsk was only recently occupied so why did you even mention this? We were discussing the areas occupied iin 2014. Anyone eligible to be mobilised in Ukraine was so in Feb 2022. By Ukraine.
- Some were trying to safeguard businesses, land, property they had;
- Some were too poor or too frightened to move away, especially if they had nowhere or no-one to go to;
- Some were genuinely deluded, and came to realise the truth too late (if they have yet done so at all);
- Some had done stuff that was not a good look outside DNR/LPR/etc;
- Some were making good money out of the situation;
- Some were in fact Russian in every way;