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Ukraine's intense problems with corruption and lack of democracy actually stem from the 2014 Banderite coup. The entry of Russia into the Ukrainian Civil War certainly did not help Ukrainian "democracy," but it was already over in 2014.
As for Ukraine having a right to remain sovereign, it again returns us to the question of Donetsk and Luhansk. Do they also have the right to remain sovereign, or should they be forced to remain in Ukraine, subject to cultural erasure and mass murder by the Kiev state? For Ukraine to retain its sovereignty, it needs to respect the right of the Donetsk and Luhansk to secede, and sue for peace, not drag out a pointless war that only exists for Statesian profits.
As for communism taking me down a "dark path," I don't see how opposing fascism and supporting resistance to ethnic cleansing makes me a bad person, especially because I want the quickest end to the bloodshed possible. I'm advocating for peace, which you confuse for a "dark path."
Let's be perfectly clear, then:
I suppose if I'm the only one representing facts, and you don't care for facts, then it is accurate to say we disagree on them. In that sense, this is one statement of yours I agree on! Though obviously not the way you intended, of course.
As for peaceful secession, it would be wonderful if the Banderites let Donetsk and Luhansk secede! Too bad they responded with war crimes and attempted ethnic cleansing in a bloody civil war.
It was snark, not a point. I am the only one of the two of us that has provided any sources, and I know where each of the declarative statements I made came from. That's why I asked if there was a single fact I gave that you definitively dispute.