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To: Chad C. Mulligan
The Ukrainians having had the temerity to defend their hard-won freedom

What hard-earned freedom? Boris Yeltsin gave Ukraine, and the other non-Russian Soviet states, its independence after he practically overthrew the Soviet Union by himself. Ukraine never fought for it and they assumed they were part of the Russian empire and Soviet Union like Ohio assumes it's part of the United States. Quit being so melodramatic.

17 posted on 02/17/2024 1:57:58 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Are you being deliberately obtuse, or is the Madman title to be taken literally? History didn’t begin the day you were hatched, y’know.


18 posted on 02/17/2024 2:08:34 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

You had to drag Ohio into this mess???
😛
We want half of Michigan like Ukraine got part of Hungary.


20 posted on 02/17/2024 2:12:36 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman; Chad C. Mulligan
Ukraine never fought for it and they assumed they were part of the Russian empire and Soviet Union like Ohio assumes it's part of the United States.

My goodness. So the Ukrainian war for independence (by which they were ultimately defeated by the Red Army in 1922 and essentially forced into slavery under Soviet control with attempts to demolish and destroy their distinct culture) never occurred? The Ukranian national anthem doesn't reference their struggle to avoid extinction "Ukraine is not yet dead" - the words of which date back to the 1800s indicating their long struggle for independence and their own national and cultural identity (and the Soviet Union banned its use)?

28 posted on 02/17/2024 3:44:17 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
Ukraine never fought for it and they assumed they were part of the Russian empire

Your statement is a great example of how utter ignorance leads to foolish thinking.

Ukrainians have fought for their freedom from Russia from before when Russia even existed. In recent times they fought against Russians in the early 1900s, in the 1940s, and in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Do you know that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, and Russian occupiers were killed in fighting after the second world war ended?

If you really don't know about the history of Ukraine you should learn about it. If you are just posting propaganda, then don't expect to fool anybody.

72 posted on 02/17/2024 9:52:52 AM PST by freeandfreezing
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