The Lebanon used to be common. We still use it for countries named after geographical features (the Congo, the Sudan). Kyiv is indeed Ukrainian and many of the locals have Ukrainian as a first langua… (View Post)

Actually none of the other reenactors like them. They tend to get tripped over, beer spilled etc. We didn't mind people dressing as Wehrmacht, after all you need an enemy, but SS seemed beyond the pa… (View Post)

Sanctions at a level that can destroy the Russian economy would be my choice. Freeze the assets of all Russians in London and arrest the oligarchs and question them on suspicion of corruption and/or … (View Post)

Well Donetsk and Luhansk are probably majority-Russian now, but that is because most of their Ukrainian inhabitants are now living elsewhere as refugees. And don't believe Putin's irredentism. Speaki… (View Post)

Some Ukrainians certainly see themselves as Europeans, and the Russians as Asiatics. But, inasmuch as any white European can be a different ethnicity from another, the Ukrainians are different to the… (View Post)