Paulina
23 Aug 2022 #1531
Then why they should get much more than they bring to Russia in 1654?
First of all, it's not 1654 anymore. We're living in 2022. 1654 is distant history.
Secondly, Ukraine's borders were agreed upon by both sides in 1991, right? Russia accepted Ukraine's independence, right? Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum, right?
Ukraine didn't "steal" your lands, so stop acting as if it did.
lands that was Russian starting from the uninhabited "wild steppes", like Donbass and Novorossia?
I honestly don't know which lands exactly were Russian hundreds of years ago and which weren't. All I know is that when people start asking themselves such questions terrible wars happen. That's why Poles don't intend to get back Lviv (Lwów) or Kaliningrad (Królewiec). We prefer to live in peace with our neighbours. We don't want to wage wars against them. We don't want war. A war is the worst that can happen.
Btw, Crimea wasn't always Russian. Russia annexed it only in 1783. That's 11 years after the first partition of Poland. So why won't you give Crimea back to Turkey? Kaliningrad wasn't Russian in the past either. Why won't you give Königsberg back to Germany? And we could go on and on like that in Europe... And have a war after war and than another war... *sigh* 🙁