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    Ukraine’s army at this point has more combat experience than all of NATO combined. They should be the ones teaching NATO not the other way around, but of course they all, including the Ukrainians themselves, continue to firmly believe in the myth of western superiority. They are still convinced that western weapons and western training confer you some kind of superpowers and if you are still failing well that must mean you’re just not doing it right, it must be your “inferior slavic genes” or “leftover soviet mentality” that prevents you from becoming like the fabled western supersoldiers. I see this internalized self-loathing and inferiority complex all the time especially among the liberals and the middle class of my own native (eastern European) country. When will eastern Europeans finally understand that no matter how much they debase themselves, no matter how hard they bend the knee and try to imitate and subordinate themselves, the West will NEVER see them as anything but inferior, wannabe westerners… pale imitations who will never achieve “true democracy” and “real western civilization”? Eastern Europe lost all semblance of dignity and self-respect in 1989.

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      “leftover soviet mentality” that prevents you from becoming like the fabled western supersoldiers. I see this internalized self-loathing and inferiority complex all the time especially among the liberals and the middle class of my own native (eastern European) country.

      In Poland it’s everywhere, even more insufferable because a lot of people, especially on the right, managed to somehow combine this with the typical polish brash superiority complex, creating truly incredible pendulum.