>>2059590bullshit
well, not entirely, but this is turning a fly into an elephant
nation-wise, saying "ukraine was a nation separate from russians" in context of ussr (and russian empire prior to that too) is akin to saying "texas is a separate nation from the united states". they are distinct if you average them out, texas is not california and not wisconsin, but compared to neighboring states like new mexico it's a gradient rather than a hard cutoff, and the same is the case with russia and ukraine. no matter how you cut the jib, you'd end up with texans in new mexico and new mexicans in texas, and that shouldn't have been a problem. at least for as long as it's not regular mexicans in texas.
ethnicity-wise, again, you might as well say ethnic americans, same kinda melting pot. for some reason all russians get the same hate nowadays, despite a lot of them not being ethnically slavic in the slightest- be it people from republics that split off like azerbaijan (look at the list of richest people in russia, you'll find a few), people who stayed within russia as distinctly not russians like tatars and chechens, or even numerous misc minorities like jews and koreans. don't diss on russian koreans, korean carrot is the shit.
if you meant slavic russians in particular, then potato potato. both them and ukraininans stem from the same kievan rus that expanded, became too big, fell apart, got MONGOL'd, got un-MONGOL'd, reassembled back into the megazord, went to space, returned and fell apart again. like, sure, you might not have liked to be the left leg, but don't pretend you weren't a part of it. and definitely don't go pissing in torso's boots just to spite him, at least not before you actually move out like azerbaijan moved out with turkey, you'll be smelling those boots from the top bunk too.
eeeh uhh
i wonder why there are no hydrofoiling seaplanes. except for this thing, but it's a silly all-electric investorbait, and seems to be vaporware too