>>18312364Ukraine's post-1991 borders really didn't make any sense, and this civil war which started in 2014 which has escalated in 2022 is a result of it.
I think what we are seeing now is the formation of new, more natural political boundaries that better represent the national and ethnic division of Ukrainian society.
The Russian speakers living in Ukraine were not colonists, most of them have lived there and spoken Russian for hundreds of years in what was politically Russia at the time.
So I'm glad the Russians didn't capture Kiev and topple the Ukrainian state, but I'm also glad the Ukrainians have been getting their asses kicked very hard now trying to re-conquer historically Russian lands inhabited by Russian peoples.
Why the West is insisting that the Kiev regime continue to attack into Donetsk and try to take Crimea and cities like Mariupol, where there are zero Ukrainians and zero sympathies for the Western Ukrainian Kiev government is beyond me.
A ceasefire in 2024 and political settlement is the only option.
