Ukraine is a country of 40 million people. They want to exist as their own country. They don't want to be ruled by Moscow as they were in Soviet times.
On the other hand, Putin believes three countries, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, representing historically the Great Russians, the Belarussians and the Little Russians, should be combined into a new great Russian empire.
Professor Putin explained this to the entire world in a televised address just several days ago, giving us all an extensive discourse on the history of the Russian peoples. And he concluded from his own perspective on history that Ukraine should not be considered a real country.
If you missed his address, find it online and listen to it.
The vast majority of Ukrainians disagree with him and do believe they are and want to be their own country and decide their own future themselves. And it appears that the future they want is to join the EU and achieve the kind of prosperity and enjoy the kind of freedoms their neighbor Poland has achieved for themselves and their children.
There is a lot of talk about what corrupt oligarchs have done in Ukraine, and slimy globalists, and sleazy selfish opportunist political families, and neo-Nazis and Russian nationalists battling over Donbass and on and on.
And a lot of that is true, yes some is just propaganda, but a lot of it is true.
But we can't allow ourselves to mistake the parasites for the organism. The 40 million people of Ukraine are the organism. The globalists and oligarchs and so on are the parasites. The organism is more important than the parasites.
Whatever Putin may or may not have been 20 years ago, today he is a Russo-fascist and neo-Stalinist, who is arresting thousands of people merely for daring to protest peacefully in disagreement with his decision to conquer Ukraine and deny them self-government.
That doesn't mean the US should go to war with Russia over Ukraine. But which side is more in the right? Ukraine is more in the right than Putin.
Kharkiv, Ukraine Freedom Square at Christmastime:
Kharkiv, Ukraine Freedom Square after a Putin missile attack:
