> There is way more to it. Thank you for that nuanced point of view. The history of that region is indeed very long and very complex, and the black and white

> There is way more to it. Thank you for that nuanced point of view. The history of that region is indeed very long and very complex, and the black and white picture painted by both western and Russian media is downright frustrating. To give examples, Crimea was historically neither Russian nor Ukrainian, it was Tatar, and Ukraine is itself a weird cultural patchwork of Poles, Lithuanians, Prussians, Russians and a long list of other minor ethnic groups.