[martythemaniak]

"I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia."

Indeed. Under Russia's warm brotherly embrace, Ukraine will have full sovereignty, as long as Russia approves. And seeing the marvel of human civilization that Russia is today, who would say no to such a deal? High incomes, long peaceful happy lives, a representative government... The list goes on. Clearly all anti-Russia sentiment is a product of western deviousness.

[wussboy]

I heard a joke when I was in Ukraine in 1996: A Russian and a Ukrainian find $100. The Russian says, “come, brother, let’s split this like family.”

The Ukrainian says, “no, let’s split it 50-50.”

I think both sides are fully aware of what Russia’s “warm brotherly embrace” will be like.

[mint2]

I’m assuming sarcasm but it’s hard to tell because RT sources would say the exact same thing

[panick21_]

The reality is Russia has done far better economically then Ukraine. So that line of reasoning is not totally unfounded. And that was even more the case before many of the sanctions and so on against Russia before this all started.

So that part of the argument isn't actually wrong.

[AnimalMuppet]

Yeah, that quoted sentence is pure Orwellian double-speak.