One_Bell_2607 OP t1_iv48zku wrote on November 5, 2022 at 4:15 AM

Reply to comment by keepseeing444 in If you don't have a Ukrainian friend and want to find out something related to Ukraine, feel free to ask by One_Bell_2607

i would not call this as a civil war,

for instance my wife is from donetsk, and it has been occupied since 2014. her family who is there are hostages, they do not want to be part of russia.

meanwhile russia states that ukranians are part of russian nation, thus ukranians must be at home -> with russia.

They put lots of effort to destroy ukranian sovereignty, and it is possible…

if they had captured kiev in the beginning, the next step would be assining “pro russian” ukranian rulers, and indeed there are some minorities of people in ukraine who wants to be part of russia.

balkan and korea wars included lots of usa/nato forces , and in this war - nato/usa is not part of the conflict, so i would not compare them, otherwise russia would not have existed by today, i think.

keepseeing444 t1_iv4bsem wrote on November 5, 2022 at 4:45 AM

Thanks for this insight. I analyzed the relationship between the two countries as one of long married exes with Russia being the jealous ex husband impeding his ex wife from finding her own happiness.