[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Depends on who is being invaded.

If you welcome your invaders with open arms are you being invaded? I don’t doubt most of Ukraine won’t want it but if the border tows are happy?

If imperialistic Wales rose up and Wrexham invaded Chester, but Chester said, but we like it, we’d rather be Welsh, what are you going to do ?

Also known as appeasement. That ended well, didn't it?

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Originally Posted by Pierre

Also Ukraine’s history with Russia is not like other communist countries Russia added to the CCCP post war. Many Russians considered Ukraine part of Russia, and many Ukrainians consider themselves Russian. It’s not like a hostile invasion, if it were to happen, a decent % of the populace may welcome it

Hardly a "decent" percentage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine

In general the population of ethnic Russians in Ukraine increased due to assimilation and in-migration between 1897 and 1939 despite the famine war and Revolution. Since 1991 it has decreased drastically in all regions, both quantitatively and proportionally. Ukraine in general lost 3 million Russians, or a little over one-quarter of all Russians living there in the 10-year period between 1991 and 2001, dropping from over 22% of the population of Ukraine to just over 17%. In the past 15 years since 2001, a further drop of Russian numbers has continued.