aligning with russia is literally the anti-corruption position. ukraine had actual economic and historical ties to russia, and russia is a real country you can do actual business with. eu/nato is a fake bureaucratic construct of the us to force europe into vassaldom for zog. the ukrainians who wanted to join werent interested in doing business they were all after the gibsmedats they thought they could get from the eu for cucking out and subverting the interests of their own country.
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