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This isn’t remotely correct, both the US and EU have been trying to intensify efforts to pour immigrants into Eastern Europe and it has been escalating for years now. Increasingly they are cutting funding, applying sanctions, etc. In a few years countries that do not accept immigration will face the same kind of sanctions Russia is now. This isn’t some kind choice where countries “decided to invite foreigners”. This is 100% the most critical important policy objective of every major economic and political institution in the world right now. The stated goal is to prevent ethnic nationalist solidarity and electing politicians like Victor Orban who have empathy for their own people, and instead have globohomo stooges who will work on behalf of foreign entities. This is what they state publicly.
If you gave them hypothetical choice of 1) force every European country to pour in immigrants or 2) thoroughly defeat Russia and break it up into 5 small countries, but they couldn’t have both, they would probably choose option 1 and concede having Russia around. This is how Important immigration is to them. Obviously they are going to try for both though
All of Eastern Europe has been murdering each other for centuries. I don’t see any reason Ukranians and Russians shouldn’t have maintained their solidarity the way Polish and Ukranians do now. The Polish have just as much as a right to a grievance against the Ukranians as the Ukies do against Russia. Holding these ww2 era grudges isn’t useful in the modern world, and what Russia represents to the world is entirely different now.
This doesn’t change the fact that in the aftermath of euromaidan the western ukranian faction should have expected separatist movements and peacefully negotiating territorial concessions. This isn’t “rolling over” despite what some Ukranian fanatics might think.
If that had been allowed to happen, I would actually expect the Ukranian nation would have eventually re-aligned with Russia based on their mutual interests, because the world they are going into is now very different than the one in the 90s/2000s. Even life in the US is very different now vs then.
These appeals to absurdity might work on Reddit where you get 50k updoots and scores of hidden and deleted replies, but this has been thoroughly explained here repeatedly that Ukrainian demographics are
already fucked. Fighting this war has been the most single destructive force against a future Ukrainian identity. It would have unironically fared much better had Russia actually stormed kiev and got their puppet rump state.