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.
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.
Yes Ukrainians. Also Belarusians (Polish: Białorusini, the Whiterusini, not Rosjanie too) but they're in literal backwoods (a literal swamp, even).
All the Cossacks who fought for Poland-Lithuania (since Lithuania took over today's Belarus and Ukraine during the Mongol invasion) against Muscovy would be very surprised by your assertion.
You know they once captured Moscow?
At the time of Rus? Is there even a single record of such an ancestor language? Moreover, Ukraine literally means frontier!
When was that? Before Russia's conquest of what is now Ukraine, right?
Time of Troubles? Different time. I don't think they could have pulled it off 300 years later. And even the first time, they had to withdraw, same as Napoleon.
Maybe I'll just give you this:
https://scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news%2C91645%2Cdr-piotr-kroll-history-poland-and-history-ukraine-were-often-intertwined.html
Well, Poles gonna Pole.
No wonder Orban said he had given up on trying to talk reason to PL government.