AI-generated videos promoting Poland’s exit from the European Union have appeared on Polish-language social media, featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for “Polexit”.
One TikTok account called “Prawilne Polki” published content showing women dressed in T-shirts bearing Polish flags and patriotic symbols, European analytics collective Res Futura said. The content targeted audiences aged 15 to 25.
The videos featured statements including: “I want Polexit because I want freedom of choice, even if it will be more expensive. I don’t remember Poland before the European Union, but I feel it was more Polish then.”
In which of those countries is the native population now under 5% of the country’s population because of US actions committed at least somewhat recently? For example in the Hanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 1,5 % of the population is Khanty, 0,9% of the population is Mansi.
Or, you can just look at the contemporary map of Finno-Ugric languages:
You can see the big gap east of Finland. Think about why that area is not coloured as having speakers of Finno-Ugric languages anymore.
Or just look at the population of Finland, which is about 5,6 million. Or that of Estonia, some 1,2 million. And compare it to the number of Karelians in the Republic of Karelia, right across the border: 25,901 people. 86% of the population there are Russians, only 5.5% are locals. That is what it would now look like in Finland if we had not stopped the Russia in 1939-1940. US has done a lot of evil (Hawa’ii…), but nowhere have they done within the last century what the Russia is contemporarily doing in its colonies. And yes, USA has been doing some bad shit, but it absolutely pales in comparison the Russian colonialism. The only difference is that nobody seems to care of the Siberians like they care of Africans.
Here’s a map that shows France and England, and also the size of their colonial empires:
And here’s a map that shows the Russia (marked with bright yellow), and also the size of its colonial empire:
And yes, people did say “but come on, all of that is France, you can’t say that France is just that small part there!”, and people have also been saying “but comeone, all of that is the Russia, you can’t say that the Russia is just that small part there!”, but it still holds that the colonized territories are colonized territories that need to be free.
But really, none of the those countries you listed have a situation a tenth as bad as that of the plethora of nations colonized by the Russia. Horrors have happened, absolutely, but not at the level of the current colonial Russia.