re: #245 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

This is an unresolved issue left over from the dissolution of the USSR. Back then it did not matter much, Russians in the Ukraine still saw themselves as Russians and Ukraine as part of “their” empire.

They were a privileged minority: they got the best jobs and had the best chances of advancement.

Since the USSR fell apart, they have been without a nation and often find themselves being discriminated against as a minority in the country they live in.

And Russia has been letting this resentment fester for over two decades now before moving in to exploit it.

I’m not “going against” them as a minority (Russians are about 17-18% of the total population, BTW), but where their loyalties and sympathies lie.

If they are more closely aligned with Russia, they simply can’t decide that a land mass they live in is no longer a part of Ukraine.

It’s like what we went through here in the US back in the 19th century, and what some are attempting to do even today, seeing the calls for states to secede, etc.