Oh stop. Don’t be silly. I’ve lived in UA with ukraiani people for a long time,

Oh stop. Don’t be silly. I’ve lived in UA with ukraiani people for a long time, and I’m only in the states because of other issues. I was there in Maydan. I worked with Praavy Sector and Azov and the third group I’ve forgotten.

The ukrainians are absolutely positively all-in on their own, ready to die to the last man (or woman) to keep russia out of their lands, and to maintain their freedom and independence. They don’t need ‘leading’ at all.
That this president got stuck with the job of leadership is merely an accident of history and timing. he’s doing a great job.
His job is largely to use his political position to get other.countries to supply weapons, resources, and intelligence for the military to fight the russians. And in that, the ukrainians have the right guy. He’s highly educated, he’s been an actor and comedia, and he has relatively broad support in the people (now)
Yes there were russians relocted to eastern ukraine during earlier decades who were not ukrainians – and who could have and should have moved back to Russia. We (meaning I was there) wanted to get rid of eastern urkaine. Its where gangsters and low-life came from. But not by warfare.
But UA can’t tolerate RU taking Crimea and cutting off UA’s agrarian economy from the sea. So, they will take back at least crimea, and the south that borders the sea. Russia has turned the eastern provinces into rubble. And UA would have to ‘cleanse’ them and rebuild them.

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