Mr. Gregg, would you accept as fact any of the following:
1) in September 2021 the Ukraine moved 200,000 troops into the Donbas;
2) NBC, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Radio Free Europe and International all reported periodically between 2014 and 2021 that the Ukrainian government was at best turning a blind eye, and worst aiding and abetting true neo-nazi atrocities in the Donbas (by the Azov battalion);
3) starting in 20120 the Ukraine intensified its very publicly stated intentions to join the EU and NATO;
4) That the roots of the current civilization in the Ukraine go back to about 1000 AD and the establishment of Kievan Rus’, that extended from the White Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the South, that bordered Sumi (Finland), Ests (Estonia), Latgalians (Latvia), Lithuania,The Kingdom of Poland/Prussia, and Hungary on the east, and the extended west to include what is now St-Petersburg, Moscow, Kursk, and Belgorod.
5) That in the 1500's the territory west of the Dnipro was invaded and annexed by the Poles who were definitively outsiders who had never figured into the Rus nation.
6) That in the 1700's the territory up to about Lviv was recaptured by Catherine the Great and Included into modern Russia, which as the portion of the Kievan Rus' that had not been captured by the Poles was most definitively a reconstitution of Russian nation.
7) Considering 4, 5, and 6 above it is 100% truth to state that for over 800 of the last 1,000 years, Lviv and Kiev were part of the same nation/country as Moscow and St-Petersburg.
Mr. Gregg, would you accept as fact any of the following:
1) in September 2021 the Ukraine moved 200,000 troops into the Donbas;
2) NBC, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Radio Free Europe and International all reported periodically between 2014 and 2021 that the Ukrainian government was at best turning a blind eye, and worst aiding and abetting true neo-nazi atrocities in the Donbas (by the Azov battalion);
3) starting in 20120 the Ukraine intensified its very publicly stated intentions to join the EU and NATO;
4) That the roots of the current civilization in the Ukraine go back to about 1000 AD and the establishment of Kievan Rus’, that extended from the White Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the South, that bordered Sumi (Finland), Ests (Estonia), Latgalians (Latvia), Lithuania,The Kingdom of Poland/Prussia, and Hungary on the east, and the extended west to include what is now St-Petersburg, Moscow, Kursk, and Belgorod.
5) That in the 1500's the territory west of the Dnipro was invaded and annexed by the Poles who were definitively outsiders who had never figured into the Rus nation.
6) That in the 1700's the territory up to about Lviv was recaptured by Catherine the Great and Included into modern Russia, which as the portion of the Kievan Rus' that had not been captured by the Poles was most definitively a reconstitution of Russian nation.
7) Considering 4, 5, and 6 above it is 100% truth to state that for over 800 of the last 1,000 years, Lviv and Kiev were part of the same nation/country as Moscow and St-Petersburg.