I was hanging out with some friends, one of them born and raised in Ukraine, and another born to Russian parents who immigrated when he was a kid. We were eating, and a friend of the Russian guy comes up and starts talking to us.
First thing I notice is a tattoo on his left arm, and the first thing that comes out of his mouth is that he was heading to the gym. At first, I assumed he was just a typical dudebro who loves to pump iron. How wrong I was.
My Russian friend asks him if he's taking classes for summer quarter; the dudebro responds by saying he's taking Russian 101 at a local community college. I thought that he might be a Russian-American who, for whatever reason, can't speak Russian. Again, I was wrong.
The dudebro starts a discussion about how he's working with some people to establish some sort of contact with the Donetsk People's Republic. He wasn't really clear about what exactly he was doing; it sounded almost like he wanted to establish an embassy, but I seriously doubt the US would ever establish formal diplomatic relations with an enemy of one of its key European allies. Then I fucking realise - the tattoo on his arm is a fucking red fist; pic related.
He also said shit about how 'eastern Ukraine will probably be annexed by Russia in the next 10 years' (as if Ukraine hasn't reoccupied half the of the rebellion's territory), how 'the Donetsk People's Republic named their intelligence agency the KGB' and how great it was that they're staying true to their socialist roots, and how Russia is a great country and they deserve the entire USSR back.
All while this is going on, my Ukrainian friend is sitting there, staring at me, with his Ukrainian themed lanyard laying on the table we were sitting at.
I have little against the state of Russia and nothing against its people, but I do have a problem with supporting what is essentially state-backed terrorism. Is there anything substantial I can do to report this to the US government?