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by hutzlibu 1102 days ago
The difference is the shared history and language.

(also true for border regions with finnland, but way less overall as finnish is a different language family)

Russian nationalism consideres Kiev the root of the russian culture (but they might change that narrative soon).

Also, they are really not happy about it.
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_kbh_ 1102 days ago
> The difference is the shared history and language.

I don't think a language matters with a war with NATO.

> Also, they are really not happy about it.

Yet there is no war, shows you that NATO really works as a deterrence to Russia and that it had nothing to do with Ukraine being close to Russia and in NATO.

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RealityVoid 1102 days ago
Yes but then this very statement directly contradicts the "realpolitik" as pect so loudly touted earlier.

It's not about pragmatism, it's a sort of nationalistic fervor!

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qwytw 1102 days ago
> Also, they are really not happy about it.

I think they are just inherently unhappy and miserable because they are Russians living in Russia.

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