Putin is rambling on and on and on about history and a bunch of other nonsense... Hopefully somebody in Russia can perform a sanity check on him... He appears to have truly lost his marbles, which isn’t good because he does have access to an awful lot of nuclear weapons... Does anybody out there have a bunker I can go to?
Trying to say Ukraine has no separate identity seems to ignore a lot I have read about the power and autonomy of the Don Cossacks. It seems they had a well respected leadership structure in which a group elected leader decided who would have what land to cultivate each year. Being careful to distribute these benefits to people who knew how to manage them effectively. They despised the Bolshevics who gave us Lenin and Stalin and destroyed many of their people. And gave them forced collectivization which was an economic failure leading to much starvation in many areas of the USSR.