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Basically, this entire war is due to Russia thinking that Ukrainians were a bunch of soyboys and then realizing that Ukrainians can pack quite a punch. Russia expected this: And got this instead:

And she wasn't even particularly hott:

Gay Putin looks very feminine due to his makeup plus Slavic facial features! :)

https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/23/ukraines-government-tells-citizens-to-prepare-for-a-war-it-used-to-pooh-pooh https://news.yahoo.com/hungary-deploy-troops-near-border-153951959.html Tweets from Anatoly Karlin...

Israel also does female conscription, and yet their military is no joke! Yeah, due to mass Russification, either voluntary or coerced, as in the Kuban.

Interestingly enough, the Ukrainian presence in parts of Russia used to be very large. Here's 1926 data:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/02/23/russia-ukraine-invasion-crisis-update/6906567001/ Afghanistan, maybe?

Kiev won't start anything now that Russia is in the Donbass. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/23/ukrainians-ready-for-resistance-the-whole-country-will-be-fighting-back

Kenya's position here is unsurprising considering that it crushed a Somali separist uprising in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifta_War#:~:text=The%20Shifta%20War%20or%20gaf,part%20of%20a%20propaganda%20effort Though considering that Somalia is currently a shithole, maybe Kenya...

Ethnic and racial irredentism has been a huge thing since, what, the mid-19th century? Even before that? Khan is a Muslim last name, isn't it, Husky_Khan?

Yep, because few Americans (less than 1 in 6, I think) actually want the US to fight over Ukraine.

FWIW, in either early October or early November 2021, in a private Twitter message to an online friend, I speculated about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine and installing a nominally neutralist Yuri Boyko-led government in the parts of Ukraine under Russian occupation outside of the...

Nah, it's just that Natalia Poklonskaya is his waifu! :D ;)

What about the odds of eventually expanding East Ukraine into Kharkiv or even the rest of the Donbass, for that matter? Mariupol would make a nice port for it, after all.

Vietnam liberating Cambodians from the Khmer Rouge, or the Allies liberating Europeans from the Nazis, or the US liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein.

Yeah, one could say that an invasion was legitimate or even illegal but legitimate, but denying that there was an invasion is on a whole other level.

They're anticipating being saved by Alien Space Bats, of course! :D ;)

Fringe in what sense? https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/politics/us-russia-ukraine-thursday/index.html

A hot take: https://akarlin.substack.com/p/regathering-of-the-russian-lands

Ukraine still has LGBTQ+ rights/pride parades, but Yeah, the situation in Ukraine for them is nowhere near as good as it is here in the West: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-march-lgbtq-rights-ukraine-despite-some-opposition-2021-09-19/