> You do not, as a country, get to unilaterally redraw internationally recognized borders just because some people sympathetic to you or who share a language live on the other side.

History would show you otherwise.

History would suggest that you can do anything you want if you're willing to back it up with enough military force.

I never said Putin had a right to do it, I'm saying he already did it. Of course it was a totally illegal invasion, but it's done now. What I'm saying is we believe this is the end of the conflict. The official position of the President of Ukraine is that we do not believe a full scale invasion will happen, as do most Ukrainians I know.

Once you pay the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.

Ukraine will never get rid of its continent-sized neighbour, no matter what.

Nah, if Russia experiences a strong economic downturn, it may fall apart.

It already fell apart once, post-USSR, and it recovered. Russia is like China: it's too culturally coesive over too big an area not to eventually coalesce into a powerful entity sooner or later.