Yeah man, Russia so badly wanted to be rid of the people living in the Donbas that it gave them citizenship after overwhelming public referendums. Putin then went back in time and tricked them all into speaking and identifying as Russians for the past hundred years. Russia just wants land, because if there’s one thing that anyone can tell from looking at a map, it’s that Russia lacks uninhabited land.

this was always the reason for 2a: empowering white settlers to “defend” their land (stolen from indigenous people at gunpoint) and property (African slaves held in captivity at gunpoint).