Sad, that you chose not to look over the link that I sent to you in all sincerity. You will note that in your own cut and pasted sentence here that the referral is to the “LOST RUSSIAN EMPIRE” not the former Soviet Union. There is a difference.
The situation is similar to if Texas had been allowed to secede in 1991 and President Biden decided that the “United States” wanted it back because the government had become a Chinese puppet state and they had assembled a Chinese proxy army that was threatening all of the bordering states.
Sorry to interject myself in your conversation, fireman15, but I am having difficulty understanding your analogy.
What (foreign) proxy army has been assembled in Ukraine, and is/was threatening "all the bordering states?"
As you know, Ukraine borders Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, and Russia.
And with what was this (foreign) proxy army threatening these six states?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,