It’s great to help but there are ways to do it that don’t put several people at risk.
My birth country was invaded twice by Russia, once in my lifetime so honestly I know what I’m talking about here, high confidence and things are even more difficult now than in the past because of facial recognition and internet’s memory.
Please be cautious about naming people who are leaving or still in-country in public as this can have long term consequences for them and their families.
Visible online fundraising support could put EAs, their families and EA organisations in Ukraine and maybe neighbours in danger for decades—if you must do a fundraiser in public it’s much safer to do this as “personal fundraisers between friends”, make it clear it’s not official help from NGOs in NATO countries to Ukraine or Russian.
Russia has a deep and powerful history and brilliant people.
But Russia today is a regional power, whose economy is about the same as Canada or Italy. It struggles to conduct elementary combined arms operations against a novice, fragile, military like Ukraine. The regime has a brazen willingness to harm people and subvert institutions, in a deeply malicious way, but even this is well monitored by western intelligence services.
Separately and additionally, Western countries are providing sophisticated anti tank and anti-air missiles and unit level intelligence to the Ukraine forces. This for example, let the Ukrainians shoot down the Russian VDV like rabbits. There’s protests at the tens of thousands in cities across the world, and also in Russian cities.
I don’t see how supporting aid for Ukrainians would be inflammatory in this context.
Based on the above, it’s pretty hard for me to get into the mindset that produced your comment to me, and your rather ominous comment to Karolina.
I think your heart is in the right place, but I think it is good to say so in solidarity that while Russians are my friends in general, Putin is my enemy, and Ukraine’s enemy.
Some people here don’t think Putin is their enemy, though. They just want to help Ukraine. Going to Ukraine to help Ukrainians may be dangerous, but that’s true no matter what’s written on this forum. Still, if I were going to Ukraine or Russia, then yes, I would be careful what I say.
It’s great to help but there are ways to do it that don’t put several people at risk.
My birth country was invaded twice by Russia, once in my lifetime so honestly I know what I’m talking about here, high confidence and things are even more difficult now than in the past because of facial recognition and internet’s memory.
Please be cautious about naming people who are leaving or still in-country in public as this can have long term consequences for them and their families.
Visible online fundraising support could put EAs, their families and EA organisations in Ukraine and maybe neighbours in danger for decades—if you must do a fundraiser in public it’s much safer to do this as “personal fundraisers between friends”, make it clear it’s not official help from NGOs in NATO countries to Ukraine or Russian.
Yeah, no?
Russia has a deep and powerful history and brilliant people.
But Russia today is a regional power, whose economy is about the same as Canada or Italy. It struggles to conduct elementary combined arms operations against a novice, fragile, military like Ukraine. The regime has a brazen willingness to harm people and subvert institutions, in a deeply malicious way, but even this is well monitored by western intelligence services.
Separately and additionally, Western countries are providing sophisticated anti tank and anti-air missiles and unit level intelligence to the Ukraine forces. This for example, let the Ukrainians shoot down the Russian VDV like rabbits. There’s protests at the tens of thousands in cities across the world, and also in Russian cities.
I don’t see how supporting aid for Ukrainians would be inflammatory in this context.
Based on the above, it’s pretty hard for me to get into the mindset that produced your comment to me, and your rather ominous comment to Karolina.
I think your heart is in the right place, but I think it is good to say so in solidarity that while Russians are my friends in general, Putin is my enemy, and Ukraine’s enemy.
Some people here don’t think Putin is their enemy, though. They just want to help Ukraine. Going to Ukraine to help Ukrainians may be dangerous, but that’s true no matter what’s written on this forum. Still, if I were going to Ukraine or Russia, then yes, I would be careful what I say.