For her alone in this situation? Yes, it would very likely be even worse for her (but still a silver lining if she were to take out an ICE agent or a few too). But if a community is armed and prepared to defend their members it makes it vastly harder for these fascists to just come and abduct people like this.

Guns alone are not the answer here. But guns paired with community is at least a .Major part of the answer.

Nope, this was reality (not “the story”) all along. Considering that it’s known nazis who were running the ethnic cleansing campaign, it’s pretty clear that you can’t have one “goalpost” without the other. The fact that this is the first time you’ve heard this and think it’s moving of goalposts really speaks to your utter ignorance on the topic. But I realize most westerners are completely ignorant on the topic sadly, seeing as the “pUtiN BIG MEANIE RuZzIa is EBIL dictatorship! Poor smol bean Ukraine!” narrative is the only thing that’s allowed through the propaganda filter there.

Spoken like someone who clearly has zero knowledge of actual history. Especially considering a large part of the reason why the coup government in Ukraine began their campaign of ethnically cleansing the eastern population of their own country was because the people living there more strongly identified with Russia, wanted to be able to keep speaking Russian without persecution, and eventually pleaded with Russia to intervene on their behalf, which Russia fortunately did. But anyone who actually understands the history of the region is a “psychopath.” lol

The Euros and Brits in their “garden” are just now beginning to understand what it actually means to be vassals of their “ally” the US. Most will still find a way to blame it on their go-to mustache-twirling Putler Marvel villain somehow, rather than the leader of the regime who outright and openly said they’d make sure Europe would not be allowed energy independence. Europe is in for some trying times ahead (to put it lightly) and even more so because their countries’ imaged “sovereignty” and wealth is going to be siphoned away even more than it already is by the very empire those countries used to only benefit from.