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gzh | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I was writing from my phone. Now switched to pc client. Okay ) Ukraine in Ukrainian language means about the same as "country". Russians tend to say it's an "edge" or "borderline", but the word does not come from Russian language so they're probably wrong. Whatever, Kyivan Rus' was long before the Moskovia.
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jackspirko | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ukrainians didn't come up with the word, the place was called Ukraine long before there was a thought of a Ukraine nation.  The words root is not Russian, rather Polish and it does basically mean "borderlands".

And you've ignored all my other points, I guess they are uncomfortable.  Also you missed the original point, Ukraine has lost, badly.  There is no path to victory.  Putin is no interested in all of Ukraine, never has been.  

The US should simply step OUT of this, Ukraine and Russia would have a treaty in a few weeks if we did.  No nation has ever benefited by a prolonged war.  

If Ukraine wants to pick a fight with Russia (which they did) they should fight their own fight.  If we hand't promised unending checks there'd be no war because Ukraine would not of pushed Russia into it.  

The US in this is like the asshole kids that convince a wimpy kid that he "can take the bully" in a fight, razz him up and then get involved just enough to keep the fight going while the wimp gets beat to shit for their amusement. 

Ukraine was used by the US and this was all set into final motion when we created and illegal coup in Ukraine.  Ukraine has lost about 500K men to death, far more to disabling life long injury.  The population has largely fled in a hot chick and productive upward male brain drain.  

The writing is on the wall.   The only question is how many more die and how many more years will Ukraine be set back before Blackrock et al. make a fortune rebuilding what is left with a FLOOD of immigrants brought in to do the work and take over Ukraine in the end. 

AND ONE MORE TIME, if this fight is so righteous why are you hanging out in the safe zone instead of going to the front.  The play the piano with a dick cross dresser that runs Ukraine is drafting senior citizens, I am sure they'd take you in a heart beat.
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gzh | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I did answer your "points", some of them more than once.

I'm 44, that's average age in UA army now. Not a senior but not the youngest. I cannot run and cannot dig. But if/when they draft me, I will go. I'm on their list.
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gzh | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 >The words root is not Russian, rather Polish and it does basically mean "borderlands".

There is word KRAJ in Polish, but you know that Rzeczpospolita was not only modern Poland, right? And in Polish, kraj means country, not borderland.