Ukraine is a modern invention. the word means "borderland".
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You are exactly right it is an invention not a country just invention which doesn't work properly and therefore should be scrapped as failed idea
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borderland of Russia. That says it all
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borders, by definition, are between multiple countries. some of these areas have been incessantly cut ("krai") by political boundaries for centuries. here are some of the proposed states within Karpaty, soon mainly absorbed into soviet ukrainepic.twitter.com/8FAEtXp0wL
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(i know thats kind of wild map out of context.. just amplifies how nuanced these things are
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Ukraine was part of Russia, Kiev was the first Russian capital 1000 Year’s ago .
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To prevent the land powers to take over Sir Halford Mackinder advocated a cordon sanitaire of independent states in Eastern Europe — Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary — to act as a bulwark between Germany and Russia.
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Was Ukraine even a concept in 1519??
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Strangely - the United States was not
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Ukraine is Russia. The Kievan-Russ Tribes founded Russia
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Crimeia was russian for many centuries, until XIX century.
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The idea that Crimea was a distinct entity is clearly represented, though
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This is irrelevant
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Ukraine is an artificial country which shouldn't even exist.
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Puts Ukrainian nationalism in proper proportion. It's not they who lost Crimea, it's more the other way around.
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