I’m Russian. I Hope My Country Will Cease to Exist Soon.

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Over the past few weeks, watching what the government of my country — but not my government by any standards — is doing to the people of Ukraine, I caught myself thinking something horrible.

I hope my country defaults on its foreign debt, airports are closed, businesses go bankrupt, food runs out in stores, the so-called “middle-class” immigrate elsewhere, and…