Like if you're a Brit or an Aussie, you have very good reasons to hate your own country. But, well, we don't say "death to America" for no reason either. This obviously isn't an issue for us Americans here, but I'm curious how you all see it.
Of course, the obligatory :amerikkka:
feels kinda like a weird sort of colonialism where they incentivize you to leave the country and then they send in their dudes to grab the raw resources when no one is working there, creating a loyal supply network
kinda whats going on in a lot of regions, ukraine included
the EU just keeps pushing that twilight zone outwards over and over again to constantly grow the reserve army of exploitable labor and pit the states of its periphery and its workers against each other. they wanted Ukraine and Georgia to be next, but now with the war they're accelerating that Balkan countries can join instead. i'd say these nations have an intermediate and distinct position, being neither fully global north nor fully global south, and that this intermediate position plays an important role both in the economic dominance of the core EU countries like Germany and France and in the geopolitics of the US.
now that i think about it, places like ROK and Taiwan started out similarly. it's entirely possible that Poland becomes something like Europe's Republic of Korea in the next decades, being heralded as an example of economic development while having some of the most atrocious working conditions in the global north.