Seriously, we condemned Russia for invading Ukraine and have probably acknowledged that they most likely killed civilians while trying to bombard enemy positions, while also condemning Ukraine for lying for propaganda purposes, persecuting dissidents and political rivals, and using barrier troops to force men to fight instead of letting them flee the corrupt shithole.
Meanwhile, the regressive left and globalist conspirators aggressively and blindly defended Ukraine while intensifying the Russia bashing to the point where regressive leftist russophobia was documented to have escalated.
In all honesty, fuck everyone involved in this retarded conflict that could have been avoided with better diplomacy.
OK, now I'm going to tell you to shut up, because this is a fallacious argument.
The point was that any country that existed before 1795, is a real country. This argument says nothing about countries that did not exist before 1795. You denied the antecedent, which is almost as bad as affirming the consequent.
Ukraine has never been a country. Ironically, in the infinitesimal chance that they do manage to beat back Russia, this war may make them a proper nation, as opposed to a fake puppet one.
Kievan Rus did exist before 1795, is your problem with the name? Czechia didn't exist before 2016, Czech Republic before 1992, there was never a "Czech Kingdom", it (Moravia, Bohemia, Sudetenland, etc.) was German/Austrian for centuries, whatever it has to do with anything, is it also "not real" and "fake puppet one" especially since the Czechs just fucking lie down whenever anyone invades?
Rus, you say? Vikings? The standard is an actual Ukrainian state, not a state located on that territory. That's like saying that Navarre existed as a country in 146 BC because the Romans held it.
The King of Bohemia was literally one of the electors. It has ancient pedigree. It was ruled by Germans. Being ruled by someone of a different ethnicity which is pretty common in Europe. E.g. Emperor Charles V did not speak proper Spanish or German.
[The Hussites have entered the conversation.]
Not just Vikings, mostly Slavs but also others. Muscovy later stole the name of Rus (to make their Rossiya), but we've referring to the Ukrainians as Rusini as opposed to Rosjanie (or Moskale).
Maybe ask the Cossacks to join the conversation too if you're impressed by the Hussites.
But 'Ukrainians'? Had the even Russian diverged from Old Church Slavonic at that point? Let alone Ukrainian from Russian?
Always very loyal to the tsar.