It’s how they roll. If you don’t have a Russo-phone minority keen to secede, they’ll send you some “little green men” to get things moving. It’s what the Palestinian thing is about, too. All would-be totalitarians learned from Hitler in Sudetenland.
He didn’t invade Ukraine because of Russo-phobia, but because of Zelensky’s overtures to eastern Russian speakers.
Sluga Narodu is mostly recorded in Russian. It was Zelensky’s first language, and he obtained fame touring Russia with his troupe, who are all featured in Sluga Narodu. The third and last season was basically a campaign ad, and an overt appeal for national unity in addition to his earlier calls to end corruption.
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“He didn’t invade Ukraine because of Russo-phobia, but because of Zelensky’s overtures to eastern Russian speakers.”
Yeah, if by “overture” you mean banning the teaching and public use of their language, forbidding laying flowers at WWII memorials and graves, and pounding them with nazi Azov artillery.
I suppose you could call that a type of “overture”. LOL