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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5234719" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Are all of the former Soviet republics fake countries?  Does Ukraine only exist because the Russians allowed it to?  And nowhere did I say the American Southwest wants to secede.  Or Northern Ireland.  But people in countries next door feel that those places legitimately belong to them.  At any rate the Ukrainians, who are a legitimate, recognized ethnic group, are trying to protect their sovereignty, their border integrity.  Whether they'll secede remains to be seen.  What we have firmly established here however is you're a Russophile who won't admit it and who seems to have some ingrained animosity towards Ukrainians.</p></blockquote><p></p>