Not the same thing really is it.
The real question is when will serious peace/border talks finally take place?
A few more years of this conflict and we'll be approaching one million dead people. Is that really worth the fraying, Chinese-made Ukranian flag hanging off the side of your house and Boris Johnson's inflated "hero of Ukraine" ego?
This quite prescient article is an interesting perspective on what might have made the most people happy whilst simultaneously killing the least.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/is-it-time-for-ukraine-to-split-up/283967/
I don't get what happened with him. Ralph was playing him and he looked really promising. Then the next season rolled around and he seemed to have been frozen out.
I wonder if the many countries opposed "Desert Storm 2" (lol) had done that outside the US and UK embassies, would those staff have seen the light and staged a coup back home?
My message to my depressed Leeds supporting mate last week just after we beat Chelsea and they'd lost to Everton:
"We got lucky today. If there's anyone I'd want to play in the league it would still be Saints."