For how many years, had the then USSR, shipped Russian nationals into industrial/ mineral rich (Donbass) or strategic (Crimea) parts of Ukraine to control them while leaving the merely agricultural parts to the Soviet perceived local yokels. Who were thought weak enough to starve out, again, if push came to shove.
Now the ‘yokels’ are pissed, no longer weak and taking it and consider the Soviet imposed demographics in Crimea and Donbass as much grand theft as we do Biden’s border policies. If those ‘Russians’ therein still prefer the culture which shipped their parents or grandparents there let them return. Putinville needs bodies and babies. Especially ethnically Russian ones. They’ll be happy there. Ukes will let them, but not with their generational loot. Let Russia annex back truly willing people, but not the land on which they’ve been squatting. Boot Putin, build a free, honest Russocentric culture. Replace years of hate and conquest with fair trade and common interests and they might have something in a couple generations.
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“Let Russia annex back truly willing people, but not the land on which they’ve been squatting.”
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