Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on ""NovoRossiya": Putin's Plan to Take Back Ukraine - TLDR News" video.

  1. The real question is, does the land in question legally belong to anyone but Russia. Until it was put under the Kiev administration, it was Russia. It wasn't Ukraine. To now claim that it is Ukrainian land because they blackmailed Russia by holding Russian nukes, doesn't legally make it Ukrainian land. Quite frankly, I see Putin invading E Ukraine and taking what he believes is Russian, if not taking the whole of Ukraine. And if the US objects, he can always reply with "You grant independence to the Confederacy and Russia will grant independence to Ukraine," and since Ukraine is a break away province of Russia and has historically been a part of Russia for the last 350 years, it holds water that it will be a part of Russia again.
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  2.  @McLenwe  1. The national state of Ukraine has existed for a year or two in 1917 before it was reabsorbed back into Russia. PERIOD. It wasn't its own country. It did not have its own government. It was the same as the State government of Texas, within the United States. Yes, it was an entity, no it was not independent. 2. These are the sort of stupid excuses secessionists use here in the United States. "We have the right to self-determination." It holds about as much water in Ukraine as it does in Texas, Alaska, the former Confederate States, Basque, Catalonia, Silesia, Bavaria, Occitiane, or whatever other nonsense region you want to name. If the population fought for its independence on multiple occasions, as in the case of Poland/Serbia/Finland, that's one thing. But Ukraine never fought for independence from Russia. In the 1990s a couple of greedy oligarchs/generals took Russian nukes hostage, decided on behalf of everyone that they wanted to do a secession movement, when Russia was at its weakest and created a country of poverty and economic woe.
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