I had no idea that Ukraine has been part of Russia or its control for 337 years:
After that, promises were made by both the West and East that were eventually broken after Ukraine finally was recognized as a nation after they voted for independence in 1991.
Now try to comprehend what the Soviet Union was.
It had legitimate member states. Soviet Republics.
At the collapse of the Union, the states opted for a better life under Democratic freedom.
Belarus is the only one to have rejected that.
It is our duty to defend those former member states. To protect the weak from the strong. That is the meaning of honor and of goodness. To realize our goal of human rights and self determination for all peoples. To oppose slavery, tyranny, and death by madness. To oppose the evil that human nature has wrought upon the world.
When a people are invaded, it is our duty and our honor to answer the call and to kill the invader.
To shrink from this creed is to abandon our own humanity and to shrink back towards what we were. Before our people had freedom. We would forsake our own liberty.
For our own sake, all free nations must hold each other up. One for all and all for one.