Don’t fool yourself, they know it’s an ARTIFICIAL NATION, pieced together from lands that belonged to others.
I did read your statement of “belonged” as continuing into the present. If you only meant “were once part of”, then your statement is an irrelevancy.
Poland was also created from territories that once “belonged” to other nations, does that make Poland an artificial nation? If not, what’s the difference?
Yes, it’s PAST TENSE, so you would have looked smarter by ignoring it.
As to the future, I DO NOT CARE what happens to Ukraine, if they somehow survive intact, so be it, if they are pieced out, so be it. I just don’t see a need for WW3 over it (because we’re getting damn close to that point), and since I’m not on anyone’s payroll, I can clearly state that.
I’m also not so hot on the disarming of the United States for what will almost certainly be a worse Ukraine outcome, now, than simply picking up the phone when Putin was calling a year ago.
It’s the damn IDIOCY of the Neocons that pisses me off, not Ukraine, not Russia, not even Europe (they’re puppets, which is why we can blow up their pipelines and not hear a single complaint).