Look, “Ukraine”, like “Yugoslavia”, is an amalgamation of unlike peoples crammed in together as a result of a war - WW I in the case of Yugoslavia, WW II in the case of Ukraine.
And like Yugoslavia, Ukraine will be a potential source of violence until it is broken up into its European (Western) part and Russian (Eastern) part.
The people in Washington, and even here, who have a hard-on for war to defend this imaginary country want war with Russia. It’s very difficult to understand how we could possibly profit from such a war, but it’s very easy to understand how we could be irreversibly damaged from it.
My suspicion is, it’s an attempt to drag us (again) into a blood feud which existed before the United States did and will persist after we are gone.
And, by the way, congratulations on beating McAuliffe. I think Youngkin is terrible, obviously, but our people throwing their weight around by voting may at least postpone another war here, which is what should interest all patriots more than what happens in “Ukraine”.
Putin's invasion created a modern Ukrainian identity. A new generation of Ukrainians has been raised knowing Russia only as an hostile invading neighbor perpetuating an on going war with Ukraine.
"Instead of provoking the collapse of Ukrainian statehood, Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine succeeded in galvanizing Ukrainian national identity in ways that few had previously imagined possible. Seven years on, a clear majority of Ukrainians now see Russia as the aggressor state in a war that has come to define the nation’s ongoing struggle for true independence."
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-war-drives-ukraine-towards-true-independence/
Look, “Ukraine”, like “Yugoslavia”, is an amalgamation of unlike peoples crammed in together as a result of a war - WW I in the case of Yugoslavia, WW II in the case of Ukraine.
And like Yugoslavia, Ukraine will be a potential source of violence until it is broken up into its European (Western) part and Russian (Eastern) part.
Ukraine is actually far more homogenous than Russia. They don’t call Russia the “prison of nations” for nothing. IF you don’t believe me take a trip to some place like Bashkortostan or Chechnya in Russia.