No need to sorry or apologize, especially for the things you don't control, we are here to exchange information, opinions and feelings.
Your opinion is absolutely sane and weighted. Just few remarks:
There is 50/50 Ukrainian/Russian speaking people in Ukraine. From the beginning of independence Ukrainian government thoroughly drive a wedge between two parts of population. Both parts really prefer independence, but Ukrainian speaking part is for closer ties to the West, and Russian-speaking part is for closer ties to the Russia. Instead of wise using this bilinguality to build a strong balance and complete independency with good realtions and profits from both, West and Russia, Ukrainian government just ruined everything rising tensions between that parts. If Ukrainian government from the beginning approved Russian language as state one along with Ukrainian (it is a normal and common practice in the world, even for countries with 10/90 lingual ratio), there would have been no any Crimea separation, DPR/LPR and all that stuff. So, all that was done for purpose. It is hard to say will that separation progress to complete divorce of two parts of Ukraine or will be somehow fixed, but to understand the situation you have to have it in mind.
Also, there is another interesting nuance- two decades ago Russia wanted to join NATO, even special group named "Partnership for peace" was created to prepare that process. But that process was suddenly cut from both sides at the same moment. So, Russian government do not really see NATO as eternal enemy at all, just use it as a convenient reason to justify any shit.
No need to sorry or apologize, we here to exchange information, opinions and feelings.
Your opinion is absolutely sane and weighted. Just few remarks:
There is 50/50 Ukrainian/Russian speaking people in Ukraine. From the beginning of independence Ukrainian government thoroughly drive a wedge between two parts of population. Both parts really prefer independence, but Ukrainian speaking part is for closer ties to the West, and Russian-speaking part is for closer ties to the Russia. Instead of wise using this bilinguality to build a strong balance and complete independency with good realtions and profits from both, West and Russia, Ukrainian government just ruined everything rising tensions between that parts. If Ukrainian government from the beginning approved Russian language as state one along with Ukrainian (it is a normal and common practice in the world, even for countries with 10/90 lingual ratio), there would have been no any Crimea separation, DPR/LPR and all that stuff. So, all that was done for purpose. It is hard to say will that separation progress to complete divorce of two parts of Ukraine or will be somehow fixed, but to understand the situation you have to have it in mind.
Also, there is another interesting nuance- two decades ago Russia wanted to join NATO, even special group named "Partnership for peace" was created to prepare that process. But that process was suddenly cut from both sides at the same moment. So, Russian government do not really see NATO as eternal enemy at all, just use it as a convenient reason to justify any shit.