bendog
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Stalin did starve 3 million of them, and there was Chernobyl ... so .... I can see their desire to be in Western markets, LOL.like this post, Have not made up my mind about our ability to handle the situation. And do see Putin's point of Ukraine being on its border, Has Ukraine ever tried to take Russian territory? My memory's not great but I remember Cuba. Plus 2 country's Putin's Russia tried to take by force.
For centuries, Imperialistic Russia occupied what had been an independent geographical and ethnic country for previous centuries. Crimea was a bit unique because it had been part of Russia since 1780 or so until Khrushchev gave it up. In Donbus it was a bit different in that the Soviets only changed the ethnic makeup on Donbas in the 1950s-60s. But the result is that the extreme eastern 1/4 or so of Ukraine has lots of Russians and even a maj in places, while Western Ukraine retains its ethnic identity and loathing for Imperialist Russia.