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Both of those claims are very contested, surely we can agree on that? Western journalists in the region reported in real time during that period that both these events were driven by Russian operatives. I’m not quick to believe everything I read, but that goes both ways.

The fact that you use “Banderite government”—or “Banderite” at all—and so openly support the Soviet Union to me calls your motivation into question, so yes, I certainly find your position and arguments extremely odd.

Care to explain? My point was that we can’t know Putin’s intentions.

It’s nice that the Cato Institute found 421 people in support of their poll. Can we move on from this nonsense statistic?

Life behind the iron curtain was not as rosy as you make it out to be. I don’t know what your intentions are to argue in favor of it, but I and my family have living memories of how awful it was. I don’t need to hear from an armchair internet historian to make it out for something it wasn’t.

I’m not necessarily saying that communism is bad, but the Soviet Union is not something any of the former Soviet states, Russia included, should aspire to return to.

No, that’s not what the article says. It doesn’t mention Zionism, not even by inference.

The article points out that when a nation is under attack ideologically, it needs to put security first in order to protect itself from bad actors.

Whether you are for or against Ukraine or Israel is unrelated; the point is that these countries are facing similar challenges—which is demonstrated in this very discussion.

That is almost certainly not true, but let’s put that aside as it’s entirely irrelevant. Do you think that the Soviet Union was an exemplary communist state?

You have a direct line to the interests of the Kremlin, do you?

Either they draw out the war, forcing Russia into a costlier and lengthier victory, they surrender soon and get to keep as much as possible

If Russia has no intention for more, then why would drawing the war out be disadvantageous for Ukraine? Why are you opposed to the war being costly to Russia?

It’s odd to me that you would argue in support of Russia’s good intentions and in favor of Ukraine conceding a second major annexation of parts of a sovereign nation without casus belli. I can only imagine one possible reason and it’s not in the interests of the people of Ukraine.

I never thought I’d live to meet somebody so avidly supporting the Soviet Union. That’s genuinely amazing.

Are you suggesting that Ukraine may not exist as a sovereign nation due to their current political situation?

If we put aside for a moment whether that’s true or not, what do you think will happen to Ukraine as a nation if it no longer has the support from NATO countries? Is that the outcome you desire for Ukraine?

That’s a roundabout way of stating that it should be annexed by Russia.