“That’s some mighty fine fiction you are writing.”
Just look it up.
In 1991, at the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union, Ukraine declared independence after nearly 70 years under Moscow’s control.
And when Russian President Vladimir Putin took power a decade later, he began trying to get it back. Ukraine, he says, is part of Russia’s family.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukraines-history-and-its-centuries-long-road-to-independence
“The population of Ukraine voted overwhelmingly for independence in the referendum of December 1, 1991. (About 84 percent of eligible voters turned out for the referendum, and about 90 percent of them endorsed independence.) In an election coinciding with the referendum, Kravchuk was chosen as president. By this time, several important developments had taken place in Ukraine, including the dissolution of the Communist Party and the development (under the newly appointed Minister of Defense Kostiantyn Morozov) of the infrastructure for separate Ukrainian armed forces. Ukraine also had withstood political pressure from Moscow to reconsider its course toward independence and enter into a restructured Soviet Union. A week after the independence referendum, the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus agreed to establish the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Shortly thereafter the U.S.S.R. was formally disbanded.”
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/Independent-Ukraine
“Ukraine would achieve independence on December 26, when Mikhail Gorbachev formally dissolved the Soviet Union. If August 24, 1991, represented a key step in Kyiv’s long and drawn-out fight to secure its sovereignty from Moscow, August 24, 2022, marks an equally pivotal moment. The West’s role – like in 1991 – is critical as Ukraine tries to shape its future.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/8/24/ukraines-reliving-a-promise-it-made-this-day-in-1991
I might suggest that the next time you question someone’s veracity, you might want to do your homework and know what you are talking about.
wy69
It’s all irrelevant this morning, isn’t it. Wagner is halfway to Moscow already. Rostov is going to be a massacre. And the command and control in Ukraine is going to be decapitated.
Putin is finished. This mess is going to get a lot worse.
Russia won’t own Crimea or Ukraine in our lifetimes.