And if you actually knew fuck-all about Fenno-Ugric languages you’d know that Finnish and Hungarian (or rather their ancestor laguages) went their separate ways awfully long ago and it pretty much takes an actual linguist to recognise the shared traits. (By the way I find the Finnish equivalents of that expression much more pithy and striking.)

Not that any popular vote in Russia had possessed a shred of credibility for a good while now, ofc. Funny coincidence how the results tend to quite seamlessly fit the immediate needs of the Putin regime you know?

Again, sending in the Army almost certainly was never an option for Yanu both for legal reasons and simply because professional soldiers kind of tend to really dislike that kind of thing. That shit wasn’t what they signed up for or what the military is for in the first place, nor is it at all suited for the task. And to reiterate even the old totalitarian Communist dictatorships understood this and that they couldn’t rely on the military to curb civil unrest (also due to the very real possibility of the conscript rank and file sympathising with the troublemaker), which is why they had so numerous and heavily armed separate internal security forces.

An outright armed separatist uprising is a rather different thing, all the more so when it is blatantly fomented and supported by a hostile neighbour.

And you have no fucking idea about elementary economics, geostrategy or why either Russia or anyone else is at all interested in a run-down backwater like Ukraine in the first place. “New workers”? Are you actually retarded or something? The EU had no shortage of unemployed and immigrant labour the last I checked, nor of piss-poor postcommunist backwaters of low average wages and lower living standards people mainly want to GTFO of. And from what I hear Ukraine is run-down enough to not have much in the way of manufacturing infrastructure or purchasing power.

PROTIP: stop trying to argue from gross ignorance.
Owait, it’s not like you have anything else.