Russia is demanding Ukraine become a vassal state like Belarus. They don't want them forming even economic trading agreements with the EU. Russia is demanding U

Russia is demanding Ukraine become a vassal state like Belarus. They don't want them forming even economic trading agreements with the EU. Russia is demanding Ukraine remain poor and cut off from the West. For tens of millions of Ukrainians who were born under Soviet occupation, this prospect scares them to the core. This means secret executions, torture, indefinite prison sentences for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person, state controlled communication and propaganda, hunger, and abject poverty. They're much more afraid of this life than dying. That's why they're fighting so hard to keep their freedom and independence. I think a lot of the West just doesn't really understand that there are fates worse than death.