Sorry, I’m not buying it.
You have two nations with established borders in a modern day setting. They are both sovereign nations.
This is a modern day invasion. It is not like Texas in the days when it was a vast open territory.
It has been documented that Russia has sent in mercs and former military leaders to lead out in the anti-Ukraine movement.
This is pure and simply subterfuge. It is Russia wanting to reclaim it’s old satellite territories. Russia is breaching the Ukraine’s border. That’s against international law in any book.
You act as if the people of the Eastern Ukraine were being mistreated and needed rescuing. The Ukrainian people I’ve talked to don’t see it that way at all.
There wasn’t one way of life for people in the Western Ukraine and another way of life in the Eastern Ukraine.
You guys that look for romanticism, or freedom fighter models for what is taking place here need to look at Hitler and his supposed reclaiming of former German territories. That is what is taking place here. Pupin doesn’t want it to be seen as the same, so he’s couching his actions, but that is exactly what is taking place here.
Was Austria merely seeking independence too? Come on guy, this isn’t rocket science. It’s blatant aggression by Pupin and his forces.