The USSR broke up 31 years ago & a significant part of their population is

Younger than 31 plus even before the USSR dissolved there was strong desire to be an independent nation. It was never considered Russia even prior to the USSR dissolving. It was known as The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which was a part of the USSR.

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Posted: 03/24/2022 at 12:37PM

Russian landing ship explodes, two others damaged. -- agray123 03/24/2022 09:17AM

Those bozos. We can take 'em. It's time for US to invade Russia. Our 51st -- Stork 03/24/2022 09:28AM

Can we trade NoVA for them? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/24/2022 09:51AM

Why? ** -- KfgsHokie 03/24/2022 11:41AM

I as thinking UNC Chapel Hill. ** -- jdkhokie 03/24/2022 10:32AM

Cut NC into thirds. Keep Asheville and OBX, dump everything in the middle. ** -- HokieNoVA 03/24/2022 10:56AM

Trade Fairfax, Loudon, PW, Montgomery, PG counties….. -- CrystalCoveHokie 03/24/2022 10:10AM

Western Loudoun is beautiful. County is great other than the school board. ** -- vt90 03/24/2022 10:51AM

Can we get a petition going? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/24/2022 10:42AM

Crazy. Get rid of everything in Maryland east of Frederick. -- HokieNoVA 03/24/2022 10:12AM

Was thinking DC area….I’m fine with dumping east of Frederick also…. -- CrystalCoveHokie 03/24/2022 10:19AM

Crabcakes? ** -- bigbadbird 03/24/2022 10:13AM

You can make crabcakes anywhere. And the vast majority of that crab -- HokieNoVA 03/24/2022 10:24AM

For vodka? ** -- Stork 03/24/2022 10:17AM

They would leave after they saw the Redskins offense ** -- bigbadbird 03/24/2022 10:07AM

I work with Russians and if you think the people in NoVA are bad... ** -- HokieNoVA 03/24/2022 10:04AM

And you can tell them apart? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/24/2022 10:41AM

The accent is fairly distinctive. ** -- HokieNoVA 03/24/2022 11:12AM

At least let me get out first. ** -- Hurley09 03/24/2022 09:53AM

They’d do the same to us. Scary part is who emerges from sanctions vs Putin -- agray123 03/24/2022 09:36AM

They Told Putin there was a small fire and they could fix it ** -- bigbadbird 03/24/2022 09:23AM

Fuel and ammo depot was part of the explosions too. ** -- Kudelski 03/24/2022 09:19AM

Great article here, even if they succeed in capturing even half the country -- agray123 03/24/2022 09:23AM

And so has ukraine as the country’s infrastructure -- fordham 03/24/2022 09:27AM

Think Berlin Airlift -- hokiehunter07 03/24/2022 11:10AM

True but physically it will take a decade or more -- fordham 03/24/2022 12:09PM

Inside -- hokiehunter07 03/24/2022 12:55PM

Because Crimea largely identified as Russian. It's not the same. -- reestuart 03/24/2022 09:54AM

Cry me a river! ** -- EDGEMAN 03/24/2022 1:18PM

And so does a lot of ukraine as it was Russia not long ago -- fordham 03/24/2022 10:35AM

The USSR broke up 31 years ago & a significant part of their population is -- Hoakie82 03/24/2022 12:37PM

No, the rest of Ukraine does not identify as Russian. It's a tiny %. -- reestuart 03/24/2022 12:09PM

The fact that (your words) "it is what they have known", and... -- JoesterVT 03/24/2022 11:05AM

They should want to be ruled by someone that is destroying everything. -- reestuart 03/24/2022 1:44PM

Humans Don’t make the best decisions -- fordham 03/24/2022 12:01PM

Unless they jail you or worse for speaking -- bigbadbird 03/24/2022 09:33AM

The mayors they have captured have not been executed -- fordham 03/24/2022 10:38AM

Pyrrhic victory then? ** -- agray123 03/24/2022 09:30AM

Ukes have been preparing for 8 years ** -- bigbadbird 03/24/2022 09:25AM

I keep thinking of this Seinfeld clip. Amazingly accurate and pertinent! -- agray123 03/24/2022 09:29AM

The USSR broke up 31 years ago & a significant part of their population is

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