“Ukraine has a solid 30 years of being a country. Nearly 32 yrs total! That builds a lot of nationalism. They’re losing their very identity!”
You didn’t need the sarcasm tag because everyone knows your comment was just dripping with it.
Have you ever heard of a little nation called Israel? Became an independent country in 1948, and was immediately attacked; but won. A mere 19 years later it was engaged in another existential war; and won. Just six years later (or 25 years after it became an independent nation) it again fought an existential war; and won.
Good for Israel.
There is no country like them.