- the official russian position, as stated by putin himself, is to categorically deny ukraines nationhood
The incumbent authorities in Ukraine like to refer to Western experience, seeing it as a model to follow. Just have a look at how Austria and Germany, the USA and Canada live next to each other. Close in ethnic composition, culture, in fact sharing one language, they remain sovereign states with their own interests, with their own foreign policy. But this does not prevent them from the closest integration or allied relations. They have very conditional, transparent borders. And when crossing them the citizens feel at home. They create families, study, work, do business. Incidentally, so do millions of those born in Ukraine who now live in Russia. We see them as our own close people.
Russia is open to dialogue with Ukraine and ready to discuss the most complex issues. But it is important for us to understand that our partner is defending its national interests but not serving someone else's, and is not a tool in someone else's hands to fight against us.
We respect the Ukrainian language and traditions. We respect Ukrainians' desire to see their country free, safe and prosperous.
I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia. Our spiritual, human and civilizational ties formed for centuries and have their origins in the same sources, they have been hardened by common trials, achievements and victories. Our kinship has been transmitted from generation to generation. It is in the hearts and the memory of people living in modern Russia and Ukraine, in the blood ties that unite millions of our families. Together we have always been and will be many times stronger and more successful. For we are one people.
Today, these words may be perceived by some people with hostility. They can be interpreted in many possible ways. Yet, many people will hear me. And I will say one thing – Russia has never been and will never be “anti-Ukraine”. And what Ukraine will be – it is banan.
V.Putin MonKEEVich
This is what that meme manifesto nobody read but everybody references says, lol. It's all muh Rus brotherhood shit, that he says was subverted by some parentheses elements of the globo and homo variety, though he calls it "anti-Russia project". Which is sorta accurate.
- russian sources routinely paint everybody who opposes them as a nazi (not even limited to ukraine, they do this with poland and baltics too)
- russian sources also routinely describe how they are enthusiastically looking forward to annihilate all nazis and nationalists, how they intend to give no quarter, take no prisoners, etc
Funnily enough, in this instance they are more accurate than wrong. US glowies ended up empowering ultranationalists so much after maidan that jew in chief has to kiss Bandera's ring in interviews. Unironic galician neon yahtzees dictated ukranian culture for the last 8 years while oligarchs were fucking around in the west. The type that says "ukrianians are 100% different people, russians are mongols, we white", despite both being the same gene of gopnik. But, they were aggressively anti-russian and militant too, so they were the best tool for glowies.
By the time Zelensky got elected, it turned out if he so much as tried to mediate Donbass, the ultranationalists were just gonna fuck his shit up. If you want to know why he's so defiant, well, he's more afraid of what the ukies will do to him than the russians. And it's not just over meme militia like Azov. They're just larpers. Normal army itself is varying degrees of ultranationalist/has those views.
-russia has a rich history of genociding/cleansing/deporting unruly ethnic minorities. notable examples include the circassians, the chechens, and the ukrainians
Tsarist and Soviet yes, Russian Federation is cuck multiculti shit, read the above words of Senor Monke. They blew up Grozny and instead of wiping chechens out they pay billions to them so Kadyrov can buy golden toilets for updoots on insta. If they were as real mofos as you claimed, RF would be uyghuring instead of payola. Russian Federation successfully got ethnic russians cleansed out of the caucasus.
-soviet russia also had a history of aggressively forcing russification onto its subjects, including ukraine, which included not just pushing russian language on them but also large scale resettlement of ethnic russians into ukrainian territory
Russification is a tsarist thing, Soviet Union was some retarded bullshit where everyone's a republic with their own
(grorious sovyet) culture but the overall lingua franca is russian like how english is today in the US vassal zone, but also entire ethinicites and religions(mostly orthodox russians) get deported to random places because fuck you so now all the ethnicities are all over the place. History started in 1917, Lenin created the world, name your kids Lamp and Tractor, soviet future is the culture. And then WW2 happened and Stalin was also a napoleonic-boo so old history/culture was reinstated for continuity and to create patriotism.
The ukranian issue for example goes straight back to old tsarist shit with "novorossiya". Chief Banan says as much in his manifesto and reading inbetween the lines, says Khokholistan is malorossiya, and that's fine, but novorossiya banan is not malorossiya's banan. He's mostly a Three Ruses larper otherwise, so he does want Ukranny to exist, only without all the banan he claims belongs to Ruskiye.
