What do foreigners get wrong when they try to support Ukraine?
I’m Cuban-American and I’ve been interested in Ukraine since I was a kid. Since I’m obviously looking at this from the outside, I wanted to ask Ukrainians directly: when foreigners say they support Ukraine, what feels sincere, and what feels shallow or performative?
When the full-scale invasion happened, there was a lot of support for Ukraine and a lot of people talking about it. I know the war did not start in 2022, but the full-scale invasion changed how many foreigners talked about Ukraine and claimed to support it. Was there anything about the way foreigners talked about Ukraine during the first year or two after the invasion that felt frustrating or flattening?
Now it feels like fewer foreigners around me talk about Ukraine unless Ukrainians bring up the war themselves. Maybe that’s just my own feed or environment, but I’m curious whether Ukrainians have felt a similar shift in attention. How does that change how foreign support feels now, if at all?
I hope my questions here don’t come across as rude. I’ve just been wondering about this for a while.