Texas, New England states, and Southern states all have their own dialects, identity, and state/regional pride. This is no different. Ukraine has been a part of Russia for centuries.
Kiev was a city before Russia ever was.
So? You need to go back further than 2014.
Sure, let's go back to the early 1990s, when NATO promised Russia it wouldn't encroach on its borders or add to its alliance.
You and the other pro-Ukrainian trolls obviously have some type of financial stake in getting into a hot war with Russia, who has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
“Sure, let’s go back to the early 1990s, when NATO promised Russia it wouldn’t encroach on its borders or add to its alliance.”
Please post a link to the ratified treaty or signed agreement that made such a promise.
Your analogy with the southern states and America vs. Russia/Ukraine is laughable as if Ukrainians somehow are the offspring of Russians and Russians have every right to encroach on their sovereign nation.
Two different nations.
Two different languages.
Two different histories.
They aren’t even the same ethnically with the exception of sharing a Slavic tongue.
The hate relationship between both nations is epic. Revisionist history associating Ukraine as being a voluntary part of the Russian empire is a good old commie propagandist joke.
Let’s also not pretend that the Russians didn’t murder tens of millions of Ukrainians during the Holodomor. Those good “Christian” Russians would never do such a thing.
But why stop there?
Why not attack Poland?
Latvia?
Estonia?
Lithuania?
Moldova?
We’ll wait for you to justify Russian attacks on other nations too. Heck, maybe Putin will bribe his buddy Kim Jong Un to join the party?