ChatterBank0 min ago
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The amazing thing about the Irish is their ability to separate the individual from the Nation - for which I am profoundly grateful.
They find it entirely logical to loath and detest the British State (which has treated them appallingly for so many centuries of exploitation and oppression), whilst extending the hand of friendship to people like me who come in peace and want to make our homes in this wonderful country.
It will be interesting to see (once the fog of Putin's War clears) whether the Ukrainian on the Kyiv Omnibus can make the same distinction between the Russian State and individual Russians.
They find it entirely logical to loath and detest the British State (which has treated them appallingly for so many centuries of exploitation and oppression), whilst extending the hand of friendship to people like me who come in peace and want to make our homes in this wonderful country.
It will be interesting to see (once the fog of Putin's War clears) whether the Ukrainian on the Kyiv Omnibus can make the same distinction between the Russian State and individual Russians.