Gunny
02-13-2022, 12:43 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/12/west-gets-ukraine-wrong-helps-putin-little-russia-00007977
Some actual context. Good read.
Of particular note is Putin claiming Ukrainians are culturally Russian people. If one wishes to count the Soviets outlawing Ukrainian as a language and turning everything official in Ukraine into Russian, I guess he has a point.
Otherwise it's BS. Ukranians are as much Slavic and/or Germanic as Russian.
What I don't get is why Ukraine, as other countries have done, let the East and West debate its future as if Ukraine has no say. I'd tell both Putin and Biden to do something anatomically incorrect with themselves.
Some actual context. Good read.
Of particular note is Putin claiming Ukrainians are culturally Russian people. If one wishes to count the Soviets outlawing Ukrainian as a language and turning everything official in Ukraine into Russian, I guess he has a point.
Otherwise it's BS. Ukranians are as much Slavic and/or Germanic as Russian.
What I don't get is why Ukraine, as other countries have done, let the East and West debate its future as if Ukraine has no say. I'd tell both Putin and Biden to do something anatomically incorrect with themselves.