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I'm actively helping my Ukranian employee and her family adapt to Canadian life. Things are gradually getting easier for them, but multiple times now I've witnessed her have extreme episodes of terror/panic over her former home reduced to rubble, her mother still in Ukraine, the stress of fleeing the war with her husband and two children, and now the looming threat of Ukranian embassies withholding passport renewals in an effort to bolster their numbers against the constant Russian advancement.
I can't say I'm particularly sympathetic that the child killers and rapists from the other side are having a difficult time assimilating back into their culture. I suppose I can exercise mild sympathy for young conscripts who never wanted it, though.
It's more about those
coming back into a society and either practicing their stuff there or becoming a burden for mental health professionals or both.
The good part is that they will have lots of useful skills applicable, among other things, for changing governments, what Chechen Tiktok troops don't have.
This war is, well, the bleeding edge of modern warfare. It might look very old and nonsensical for people watching from the West, but people with knowledge and practical command of modern tactics will come back. They don't need tanks and artillery as much as some Mavics and grenades.
It's going to be an interesting future, only I'd rather be far away and I likely won't be.