re: #362 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
Just the fact that you say “the Ukraine” may be telling where you stand on this. That’s an Anglicization of a Russian phrase that, because they don’t have articles, uses the preposition for (and uniquely for a country) “in a region of Russia” vs. “In another country”. It’s kind of exactly why the ‘the’ was dropped 22 years ago and doing it that way reduces the whole thing to ‘rightfully a province of Russia’. Please don’t use it again unless you really mean that.