Just because it was recognized by other nations, doesn’t mean if was formed naturally.
Iraq was recognized as a legit nation as well, yet it split Sunnis, Shia, and Kurds up and group a bunch of people that hated each other into the same nation. Resulting in decades of war.
And no, I wasn’t opposing Reagan back in the day. The USSR was run by evil Marxists. Ukraine is a product of that regime, which is why I don’t respect its Bolshevik borders.
What happened to letting people vote for how they want to be governed? No one asked the people in Eastern Ukraine SSR what they wanted, they were just thrown into the “Ukraine” nation state.
Then when the West helped overthrow the Ukrainian government in 2014 they decided they didn’t want to be a part of the new Kiev Regime installed by the US. They voted to become independent. But people like you hate that kind of democracy, when people don’t vote the way you want them to. So then Kiev started dropping bombs on them, which started a civil war.
But you don’t want to acknowledge these facts. You want to pretend they never happened. You want to pretend that Ukraine was just a wonderful little country minding its own business, until evil Russia decided to invade it. When reality is Russia got involved in that civil war because it involved ethnic Russians, who speak Russian and identify as Russians. But again, you don’t care. A man can identify as a woman and you’d defend that, but you refuse to accept a man in eastern Ukraine that speaks Russian is actually “a Russian”, so you want to drop bombs on him.