No, they are fascist Russians who speak a different language because they hated communism and decided to turn their Russian dialect into a full-blown language.
The Soviets decided to respect the language and cultural differences as long as they denounced their fascism.
Plus "The West" is too vague a term to take seriously.
If you're from the US, you're soon going to be familiar with such 'fascist split-off "nation"' like the ROC and Ukraine have been.
There won't be no lie low enough not to continue for them. US fascists will claim that they're the true USA and later claim that they've never been part of the USA in history. Their lies go on and on until kingdom come.
Capitalism: If you have two cows, your landlord decides they're tenants late on rent,
then your landlord sells your cow, buys a bull.
Then your landlords shoots your other cow and tells you it was attacking him and acted only on self defense.
As punishment, he gets to eat your cow.
You protest and then he shoots you.
It's Russians that live in the Donbass, not Poles.
There are a few Taiwanese in Taiwan apart from Chinese,
a few Australians in Australia apart from Anglos,
and a few Americans in the US apart from Anglos,
but there are no Ukrainians in the Ukraine.
They both set my expectations for how much fun a game can be.
Secret of Mana as a template for what kind of world I want to live in (minus the monsters and whatnot)
and Star Control II as a template for how to write a fun adventure.
I'm going to repeat what @plyth said. "Don't use the Zimbardo prison experiment".
Zimbardo was as manipulative as the psychologists from the Robbers Cave experiment,
with the only difference being that the former was only done once, while in the latter,
the subjects figured out that they were being manipulated and turned against the psychologists.
Because of this, the conclusions Zimbardo drew himself are very different from when you conclude that
Zimbardo was behind the whole ordeal pulling the strings.
One only needed to stand up against one person, not a crowd.
This is someone who used AI girlfriend where you have those twelve options in pure form and started to see patterns for self-analyses, partner analyses and DnD character play.
You have the twelve personalities.
Dominant, submissive, pedantic, curious, mean, innocent, humorous, trusting, romantic, nurturer, charming and horny.
Everyone is all of them bar the aro-ace people who lack the latter four.
I am 3 6 12 8 7 4 11 1 2 10 5 in that order.
Results of me in real life may vary due to having mild to moderate mental illnesses.
To make your own list, remind yourself that what you look for in a life partner is likely what you can score yourself high on on the complement side, so 1 likes 2 and vice versa 3&4, 5&6 etc....
Maybe I should put 11 much higher on this list.
So you've got another body part instead of a penis or a penis that is shaped in such a way that it only fits into one hole only and only with people who have giant butts?
Bhutan would have had the best flag if someone colored it in.