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- Dec 19, 2022
This is absolutely right. You can't drive around a Russian town today without seeing a lot more Ukrainian license plates than you could two years ago. Calling it a Ukrainian civil war that Russia is intervening in is a very accurate assessment. Russia stepped in primarily to protect the breakaway republics, who were being persecuted (and bombed) by the government (which to boot is illegitimate, installed by a US coup in the US-led Maidan""""protests"""") for daring to be born to Russian speakers in a country artificially created by the Soviet Union out of the old western borderlands of the Russian Empire. The republics had always sought annexation, because the example set by Pridnestrovia/Transnistria is not amazing for anyone involved, and if Ukraine had been willing to accept the secession of the cities they'd been bombing for years, that's all it would have been. At this point, the west pushing weapons into the Ukraine has left Russia with essentially no choice but to annex the east, which is Russian speaking and largely friendly, and letting NATO and the EU enjoy the privilege of trying to reign in the frothing retards in the west.Am I correct in my understanding that Russia has taken in more Ukranian refugees than Germany and Poland combined? I read a while ago that as many refugees fled into Russia as into Western countries and it's one of those things I mention to confound Westerners who think it's Ukraine vs. Russia rather than a Ukranian civil war in which Russia intervened.
The Ukrainian national identity is so strapped for inspiration that they even claim that a Cossack army was a legitimate "Ukrainian State" for centuries in the aftermath of the Kievan Rus' western portions being annexed and resettled by Poles. But the Russian principalities paying tribute to the mongols, who otherwise allowed them independence, is to them enough to disqualify us from claiming to be the successors to the Kievan Rus'. It's the pinnacle of 19th century nationalist schizo attempts to rewrite history uncritically parroted by the whole woke west.