Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Putin on unity of Russians and Ukrainians | Serhii Plokhy and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. How close are ireland and britain? 99% speak english, 800 years part of british empire, cultural very closer. Much closer than ukranians and russians. But ireland is not Britain. Nationality is identity.
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  2. They already voted to be independent in 91. Shame he doesn't respect their sovereign decision.
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  3. Ukranian is russian, like English is French. Ukranian is actually closer to Polish.
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  4. It can be based on many things; traditions, ethnicity, language, whatever makes groups see themselves as having enough in common to imagine themselves as a nation. Russia never had this. It was crested by a ruler. Hence the difficulty Russians have separating the nation and the ruler.
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  5. People have the fundamental right to self-identify as they choose. It is not for tyrants to tell them who they are.
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  6. ​@aleksandrs1422 ukraine is product of 19. Century nationalism, as is germany, Italy, Greece etc. The difference is that statehood was delayed by the Poles and Russians crushing the new state in 1921.
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  7. Sorry to disappoint you, but the English and Irish are both majority iron age Gallic regarding their DNA. The Romans were confronted by "Celtic" tribes such as the Belgae when they invaded. Later invasions did not radically affect the genetic pool. The English are 65% Gallic, the Welsh and Scots 75%. As to Celtic culture, visit Stonehenge some day. Lots of Celtic burial mounds all over Europe. Christianity, a Judo-Roman cultural phnonoma reached England around 600 AD, from Ireland. I didn't actually use the word England in my original post, so you answered what you wanted to read, not what I actually said.
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