Lily33

The invasion has been such a catastrophic failure that I don’t see how “escalate things again in a few years to come” is even remotely plausible, even if they do get some concession at this point.

Smartphone use is certainly something that should be decided on local level. Global bans only make sense for universal human rights, or things like climate change that have global effects.

The issue is, social change should be driven by the locals, through civil organizations, grassroots movements, education, etc. If foreigners want to help, they can help local LGBT groups with support, know-how, expertise.

If, instead, you just go to a foreign country, tell people there how backwards and evil their society is, and demand they change it, at best you’ll be wasting your time, and if you’re high-profile enough, boost local reactionary sentiment.

The advance of LGBT rights in the west has been a long process. And other societies aren’t going to just magically internalize the results of it. They still need to walk the path. But, since it’s already been done once, they can hopefully do it faster.

Indeed, most can speak both. I’m referring to first language.

It was before the big war from 2022, but the was in Donbas was happening at the time. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s possible to reverse this trend while the war’s still ongoing.

But Kyiv the city also has (had before the war) about a quarter of its population being Russian-speakers, so the point stands. That said, I don’t see this trend reversing while the war’s still ongoing.

“The complete inflexibility we see from the UK government today is baffling, frustrating, and ultimately destructive for everyone who wants waiting lists to go down and NHS staffing numbers to go up,” Laurenson and Trivedi added.

Maybe the Tory government doesn’t want wait lists to go down, but want to adopt the US system instead…