“The Soviet Union came to a formal end in December 1991, leaving 25 million ethnic Russians living outside the borders of their nominal homeland.”
“...ethnic Russians are more likely than non-Russians in their countries to say that Russia has an obligation to protect ethnic Russians living outside its borders.”
They had plenty of time to move back to Russia if it was so important to them. Instead, it’s being used as a Sudetenland-type of justification for INVASION. That’s just pure bullshiite.