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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, I went to Western Europe both last summer and summer before last and Russian tourists were all over the place, having a great time and nobody was bothering them. If Europeans were leaving Russians alone, I think you are fine as an American unless your destination is literally Greenland or perhaps Denmark or Venezuela.[/quote]

Yeah, although at this point any Russians traveling around Europe are Putin opponents (or at least not supporters) who fled to avoid conscription or sanctions or whatever.  Also at least some of those “Russians” are actually Ukrainians, a large number of them are native Russian speakers.   I was just on a cruise and they had at least two cruise staff dealing with all the Russian speakers —  both had “Ukraine” on their badge.

I don’t disagree with your larger point but I think the Russian example is somewhat complicated.  [/quote]

Fair but I am a native Russian speaker (ironically from the Eastern part of Ukraine which until fairly recently was majority Russian speaking) and a LOT of these Russians were neither but clearly Russians from Russia who were wealthy and having a great time and still being treated absolutely normally.

I honestly think that unless you are wearing MAGA gear, you are going to be fine most places. At most someone might start a conversation about what’s going on (I was also traveling in Europe during the Iraq war and people got into conversations about Bush at the time.) This said, if he does invade Greenland, my calculus would change but only for certain places. I wouldn’t go to Northern Europe then for example, but going to Chile or Switzerland or Korea would be fine. 
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