But back to the mutual comprehensibility - UKR and RUS overlap by around 60% to 80% mutual comprehension
There are about 25 million Russians living outside of the Russian Federation in what were former parts of the Soviet Union.
These ethnic Russians often hold down prime jobs.
Other people such as Ukrainian speakers want the prime jobs just as black American DEI people want the prime jobs of Caucasian Americans.
There have efforts made to dislodge ethnic Russians from the prime jobs in Ukraine by requiring the use of the Ukrainian language in public life and by KKK-type intimidation of ethnic Russians by swastika wearing groups.
Putin wants to protect these ethnic Russians both as a fellow ethnic Russian and to prevent 25 million ethnic Russian refugees showing up in Moscow and Leningrad.
Putin demanded the anti-ethnic Russian efforts in Ukraine be ended. They were not. Putin launched a Special Miliary Operation for the same reason Eisenhower sent in troops to Little Rock back in 1957 to protect black Arkansas students.
You know that is false when Zelenskyy is a native Russian speaker
But back to the mutual comprehensibility - UKR and RUS overlap by around 60% to 80% mutual comprehension
1. Eisenhower did not send any military forces into a foreign sovereign country.
2. Eisenhower did not fire-bomb civilian centers in Arkansas.
3. Eisenhower did not annex vast swathes of Arkansas.
But other than that, your comparison is totally valid!
Regards,
Putin launched a Special Miliary Operation for the same reason Eisenhower sent in troops to Little Rock back in 1957 to protect black Arkansas students.
But the resentment of Ukrainians towards ethnic Russians is, no doubt quite real. There is a lot of recent bad blood in that part of the world.
That is ludicrous. It is like claiming that Nazi Germany declared war on the US in 1941 due to concern over the treatment of German Americans.