Countries can have different ethnicities, political parties and religions.
But if Ukraine became prosperous and democratic it would make Putin look bad. Think West Germany against East Germany.
But if Ukraine became prosperous and democratic it would make Putin look bad. Think West Germany against East Germany.
My point is the 1991 borders are somewhat arbitrary: they were originally internal administrative divisions inside a larger centralised state.
They don't necessarily represent a natural long term international border, and attaching huge moral significance to the specific strokes of a Soviet bureaucrat's pen is strange