@PalePimp @PodunkPotato @beardalaxy >Ukraine is an artificial construct of the Soviet Union, most of its current territory is inhabited by ethnic Russians who patiently await for the war to end once and for all and join Russia.
That's wrong on a few levels. A lot of ethnic Russians live there who migrated during the Soviet Union. Also a lot of other "ethnic Russians" there used to be Ruthenian, which was a dominant ethnicity in The Ukraine until they were written out of existence by the Soviet Union and reclassified as "Russian". By this logic, your own statement is also a Soviet construct. Zelensky is garbage, but the people there are not. They've basically always been distinct even if often a vassal of Russia or a European power. Their name even suggests as much.