I have zero knowledge of the history or geopoliticial millieu there, I know there’s obviously lots of Ukrainians who speak both languages but not sure that translates to them wanting to necessarily join Russia per se.

    • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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      22 hours ago

      You have to go back to waaay back when. There was a dispute over how Ukraine was going to lean. On the one side they had austerity IMF loans on the other Russian banks saying maybe not so much, so really it’s a war among capitalists for market share. And of course resources, the breadbasket, the access to the black sea military shit. But mostly it’s the opportunity to sell off all the Ukrainian public resources and services to third party capitalists.