What should be done about Russia and Ukraine?

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91. noooope

I contest point 1 and point 11:

1. Add up the Slavic population that is part of NATO/EU/EU candidates, compare it with the Slavic population of Belarus and RF (and please do not assign the entire 142m pop. Of the Federation as 'Slavs') and then tell me where the Slavic majority (that the 'other' Ukraine is supposed to be siding with) really is today

11.Ukraine (incl its ethnically Russian citizens) has a very distinct identity. I am not even going to touch on the topic of what was the capital of the state that gave Russia its name and the exact territory that it covered a millenium ago, or the fact that it has its own language and culture (let wikipedia help you out). More importantly, it is home to the people that had the guts to overthrow a corrupt President earlier this Feb and stand for their rights, very much unlike their counterparts to the East. Think of it as what Russia could have been if it was not a police state. And that is the source of Ukraine's identity and that is why its people (of all creeds, ethnic Russians included) are willing to go to the East of their own country to fight off the invasion by the alleged friendly neighbour that feels a tad too threatened to let Ukraine go its own way and inadvertently become an example of European values actually working in a post-Soviet state