Largo
Well-known member
I'm pretty sure you weren't wet inside your car. Being wet and cold is much more dangerous than just being cold. A basic example is that 49F outside may be fine, but swimming in 50F water will straight up kill you no matter how tough you are. No one's going to claim that the Russians will all freeze to death, but yes, people are going to be more miserable under such conditions. This is obvious.Try much colder. I've been stranded in a car without heat during a snowstorm when it was -2F.
49F is shorts and t-shirt weather.
The Southern United States existed as a country for four years, and yet Southern nationalism was a real thing which lasted for 100 years give or take. And pretty much every nation ever is a frankenstein's monster of different regions brought together under a common identity.Ukraine is basically a frankenstein's monster brought together by the Germans and the Commies, it was a de fact dualistic state with two major languages, not one, and a bunch of other, smaller and repressed ethnic groups that came in with territory acquisitions from neighboring countries, the place has existed as an actual "autonomous" country for less than 32 years, so it is likely that the Russian intervention and the eonomic damage, and the incompetence and brutality of the nationalists will turn a lot more regions against them, and a bunch of "Russian-speakers" will once again start identifying themselves as Russians.
Like, whatever you think about Ukraine, there is no doubt that what Ukraine is going through is a pretty vicious thing. This is the sort of thing which forges a nation, even if one may not have existed before. Valley Forge for the US. The Battle of Kosovo for Serbia. Being humiliated by the West for China and Japan. Common suffering is one of the keys in binding a nation together. Russia of all countries should know this.