> As always, westerners leave in an information bubble. Chechnya was always a part of Russia. It was a civil war. Ukraine was always a part of Russia until 1991

> As always, westerners leave in an information bubble. Chechnya was always a part of Russia. It was a civil war. Ukraine was always a part of Russia until 1991, btw, there was never a separate country called "Ukraine" before 1991 - you can easily find that even in Western history books, although I'm sure they'll be rewritten in some way soon, if not already. While this is categorically not true (WWI, the Ukrainian SSR), it's also irrelevant. There wasn't an independent Czechia or Albania either, or Turkey, or Greece, or Italy, or Germany, until there was. Historical non-existence of a state doesn't mean that with the rise of nationalism in the 19th and 20th century those states didn't become entities people wanted to belong to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Ukrainian_language_suppression#:~:text=1876%20%E2%80%93%20Alexander%20II's%20Ems,all%20Ukrainian%20books%20from%20school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Ukrainian_langua... Here's a chronological list of various supressions of the Ukrainian language. There has been a semblance of a Ukrainian identity long before the 1990s. > Georgia launched attack in 2008, it is easily confirmed by: Interesting, the timeline does not add up with the independently sourced Wikipedia article on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War Is it wrong? Feel free to update it. > 2. There was an independent EU investigation that also confirmed that Georgia started the attack in 2008. link? > "Ukraine burns thousands of Russian tanks and armored vehicles a day: here's a photo proof", Yeah, where are the Russian battle groups? Where are the modern tanks? Why did last year's 9th of May parade have so few armoured vehicles?