My wife is from Ukraine and thinks the trident is just a National symbol. She has a Ukraine flag shirt with the trident overlayed on it. Conversations with her about Ukraine Nazis and Russia have not been easy or fun. Either she is beginning to open her mind a bit or has learned to just not react as harshly to my musing on the subject. Her family had to escape to safety in Poland and her grandmother arrived here in our SoCal home last week. So their are strong emotions at play with her thinking.