[TheDandyMan]

I’m aware of some of the stuff that has occurred — as I said, there’s plenty of corruption in Ukraine, as there is in Russia as well.

None of these points make Ukraine a threat to Russia.

I do find the bit about “Russian speaking Ukrainians” laughable. Say hypothetically, in 20 years, waves of recent Mexican immigrants turn (or I should say, return) the US Southwest to a predominantly Spanish-speaking region, and decide they want to reunite with Mexico, by violence if necessary. Would you be okay with that? Would you support that effort?

[NorseViking]

What is good for the goose... Why Kosovo was split from Serbia? Or why Ukraine was split from USSR to start with?

[PGR88]

the US Southwest to a predominantly Spanish-speaking region, and decide they want to reunite with Mexico, by violence if necessary. Would you be okay with that? Would you support that effort?

You raise a very good point. Imagine if China started mucking around in Texas politics after a divided and weak USA collapses from woke politics. Helping Hispanic Nationalists split from the USA, delivering weapons, aligning with Mexico in a military alliance, promising to contain the remaining USA.

You will start to understand the role the US deep-state and neocons play mucking around in Ukraine.

[elpadre]

“... as I said, there’s plenty of corruption in Ukraine, as there is in Russia as well. ...”

As much as we have in Washington, D.C.?????

Every time I read of all the corruption in Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere, the old saying, “the pot calling the kettle black,” comes to mind.