Can you just tell us your biases instead of making us guess?

Why doesn't Russian have culture, why is it not useful?

You're honestly saying that Russia of all places has no history or culture?

She's saying that Ruzzian history and culture doesn't deserve neither recognition nor effort to learn them, at this period of time. It's fine if a person is already partially or fully embedded in those, you can't "unlearn" stuff. But I'm personally baffled at the people on reddit book subs who are clearly westerners and writing that they are actively trying to learn Ruzzian to read some Tolstoevsky. Yeah, I'm impressed, twice, both at the spectacularly low reward/effort ratio and the sheer tone deafness of it all. In 2025. Or 2024. Or 2023. Etc.

So because of a war they shouldn't learn Russian, and why do you type it as "Ruzzian"?

The effort people put into criticizing how others spend their time is baffling, especially on HN.

russians (this time spelt with a lowercase 'r') have forfeited their right to exist as a nation.

Consistently throughout history, they have invaded, colonized, and genocided their neighbors.

They are doing it now, while the whole world watches. If anything, their brazenness is increasing - because they know there will never be any punishment.

When people wonder how Germans allowed their country to tip over into Nazism, modern russia is a perfect reenactment of that: we can see it happening, in real time.

And it's a blazing indictment that the rest of our "civilized" world is doing the absolute minimum to prevent history from repeating itself. Utterly SHAMEFUL.

> russians (this time spelt with a lowercase 'r') have forfeited their right to exist as a nation. Consistently throughout history, they have invaded, colonized, and genocided their neighbors.

Just to make sure we're on the right track here, has the UK (or maybe just England?) also earned that forfeit, or does it get a pass because it did all those things further away from home? (Except for that Ireland thing, which has produced some really 'funny' jokes about potatoes...)

England was duly humiliated for its many misdemeanors (but not all, for sure), and has entered a period of "political correctness", where its sins must be acknowledged and atoned for.

Nothing like this has ever been forced onto russia.

And russian crimes are on an unimaginably vast scale. Remember, it was Stalin who said: "Quantity has a quality of its own."

> Nothing like this has ever been forced onto russia.

All empires collapse sooner or later. Give it a few hundred (or dozen, or just a few) years. It's turn will come, just like it will for the US hegemony.