Is Yukrane Using His History as a Justification to Invade Ukraine?

He's using their history to explain what, why the current events are going on. His arguments completely forego any and all ukranian national identity. He knows exactly how to work the propaganda machine for these types of conflicts. The tone is that ukraine was not ready to be a state of its own. And now they're doing all these bad things to russia,. That's why we got to go invade.