“ Borderlands of what? Of the country that they were for all of their history until the foreign demon Lenin declared that they were a separate country with standard Marxist divide and conquer techniques.”
History is not your strong suit, is it?
Foreign demon Lenin (as you elegantly described him) is still laying in his mausoleum on the Red Square in Moscow, revered by the inhabitants of Russia. The line to visit this sacred place never disappears...
Borders and countries come and go during the course of the history. It can’t be a reason to justify throwing bombs on the heads of other people and destroying the livelihood of those who survived this “mostly peaceful” “military operation”.