I watched it a few times and I think I broke the code. She's talking like the issue is that she's suffering all this anti-Russian-person racism everywhere she goes, but it's pretty unlikely that anything like that is happening. But something made her upset.

I think she wants to come into the US, and US immigration doesn't want her to, and she identifies that as "hatred" for the Russians because she's supposed to be able to do whatever she wants because she's Russian, not have to do some kind of dodge through Mexico and not like these Mexicans and Brazilians that she mentions. She feels humiliated that she has to ask permission, and maybe the answer will be no fuck off get lost.

Honestly, I will be the last person to say that US immigration is always decent and fair. But someone not being nice to you or treating you special is not the same as them hating you. If you want to say US immigration is being a pain in the ass and it's unfair that it's gonna fuck up your life, then fine. But saying you need to be exempt from it because you're Russian specifically, makes you into a special specific kind of person.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, I get some similar feeling when she goes into the expected strength of her passport and nation. “Because I’m Russian these things should not be a problem because Russia is strong.” While basically implying that people should ignore all the negatives of carrying a Russian passport.

I’ll offer the caveat that US citizens can face the same issues for the same reasons because we do dumb invasion shit, but there are debatable differences. I’ve been to a couple countries where Russia has moved in and pulled a “West” and built their hotels and resorts, but my experience is while the locals weren’t going to be happy about either west/russia doing it, when the Russians move in you get local corruption coupled with Russian corruption and mafia-like behavior. The US businesses make attempts at appeasing and working with locals, even if it’s mostly lip service. Russians just say fuck you, this is ours now.