“ What about the Russian people who live there?”
If they live there they aren’t Russians, they’re Ukrainians of Russian ancestry. If they want to be Russians they can pack their crap and move to Russia.
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If they live there they aren’t Russians, they’re Ukrainians of Russian ancestry. If they want to be Russians they can pack their crap and move to Russia.
That would include Zelensky. Would you also tell the Carpathian Hungarians to pack up and move to Hungary? The whole Eastern Europe is a linguistic and ethnic hodge podge, and trying to sort it is not only impossible, but not worth it. They can learn to live with each other, which has been the case for about a thousand years, or they can have never-ending ethnic bloodshed, which has become the case after the disassembling of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, German and then Communist takeovers. Didn’t work out very well, and sending people “back” to countries they don’t even know just because they speak a slightly different language is beyond dumb. “Two states for two peoples” is racist blather.
My paternal grandfather was born in Slonim, which has been part of Poland, Lithuania, Bialarussia, Russia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Third Reich and the Soviet Union at various times. Didn’t make much difference to him. He spoke Yiddish and Russian mostly, until he took a slow boat out of Odessa to the United States to avoid getting sucked into WW I.