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  • Where are people getting this Lord of the Rings-ass idea? Russia doesn’t want to absorb Ukraine because

    A) They do not want to be responsible for tamping down decades of Banderite insurgencies, and

    B) Doing so would mean that they now share a vulnerable border with a NATO member which is, and I cannot stress this enough, most of the reason they went into Ukraine in the first place.

    What they actually want is a buffer zone in the form of a demilitarized Ukraine. The Donbas Republics have voted to join the Russian Federation, so they’re not going back to Ukranian control, but western Ukraine is far more strategically beneficial to them as a rump state.