Is it really worth all the horror, the suffering, the pain and killings to be really bothered about where the boundary goes and who your President is - Volodymyr or Vladimir?
The two nations are called cousins and many eastern Ukrainians speak Russian, I have heard.
Is life really so bad under Putrid that you have to kill and be killed to avoid his governance?
Is that really worth it?
If it becomes that bad, why not simply flee and become an asylum seeker or refugee, then?
For me, this is the tragedy of Ukraine and Russia for which, it seems, we (the American-led West) are partly responsible. We failed to show magnanimity in the 90s and 00s, failed to maintain a good relationship with Putrid at that time and favoured triumphalism over restraint and empathy for the defeated 'enemy'. It was an out-and-out extension of our reach eastwards to gladly take on board the former Soviet satellite states. Even to military exercises, NATO membership and nukes in eastern Europe!
I thought it was fair enough for Putrid to claim that Russia's security was threatened by an American-led Europe and NATO coming right up to his western border by EU firebrands overthrowing Ukraine's pro-Russian President Yanukovych in Feb 2014.
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