That is not the reality on the ground. Do you remember the Cuban missile crisis? Panama? The Monroe Doctrine? Great powers have spheres of influence. You ignore the historical context of the relationship of Ukraine and Russia.
Incidentally, during the Soviet period, natives of Ukraine held major, including the highest, posts in the leadership of the unified state,” wrote Putin, in an article titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” last year, referring to the Soviet Union.
“Suffice it to say that Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, whose party biography was most closely associated with Ukraine, led the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) for almost 30 years,” Putin remarked.
Beyond Soviet leadership, Ukrainian historical influence over Russia is clear in an inviolable fashion because of the fact that Kiev was the capital of the first Russian state in history, dating back to the 9th century.
Ukrainian novelists like Nikolai Gogol’s hero Taras Bulba, the story of Ukraine’s famous Cossacks, have also been a great inspiration for many Russian generations for centuries.
Get the hell out of here with that shit, for real
What was back then was back then, times change, and please don’t speak to me like I don’t anything, put simply you are an enabler of Putin, plain and simple. Does not matter one bit, and I will say this once more, Russia has no right over Ukraine and most of the people don’t want Russian Domination, if they did, then they would accept them all over the country and not resist like they are, never I would think in my lifetime I would see a segment of Americans excuse a dictator.
I have to say this, and it pains me to say this on here, but its all fun and games standing up to the China Communist Party, and bombing/regime changing Brown countries, but when it comes time to stand up to Putin, some people here are chickenshit, I wonder why.
F**k Putin.