Putin and his Akhand Russia

The worst outcome of the invasion would be nuclear conflagration

At various times, Ukraine has been part of sundry political conglomerates. It’s been part of the Russian Empire, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and part of a coalition consisting of what is now Poland-Lithuania-Ukraine.

It was also controlled by the Nazis during World War II and part of “Grosse Deutschland” — the Nazi version of Akhand Germany. Ukraine was also a founder-member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with a vote in the UN and a stash of nuclear weapons, which it surrendered in 1991.

Many modern nations could, therefore, point to a historical connection and argue this translates