I’ve been keeping an eye on Ukraine since the mid 90s, closer eye over the past decade. I mostly stay off these threads because the vast majority are like football hooligan slugfests, Twitter style. Ignorant inflamed people getting vicious (and sometimes quite unhinged) over what they have little to no understanding of. There’s rarely anything to learn, which is sad. Just insults and name calling and yay for my team, death to your team.
And sorry, it’s both sides doing it. Case in point:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4109968/posts?q=1&;page=65#65
Occasionally, there is something interesting, like the graph at post #82. I doubt it proves what he thinks it does, but still interesting. And tragic.
The graph in post 82 proves that Odessa is not a “city that should be part of Russia for reasons of demographics”.
Just as Edison new Jersey should not be part of India.
Things are not that simple that we can say “the majority speak English hence they should be part of the UK “, leave alone the amorphous ethnic Russian vs ethnic Ukrainian.
Putin has invigorated the Ukrainian sense of nationhood