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We've had this conversation probably a dozen times.
The people whose land would be changing hands support Russia overwhelmingly and have been fighting to seperate from Ukraine for nearly a decade before Russia jumped in. If Ukraine joins NATO those lands will never be able to break free. If that's what those revolutionarys want I support them the same as I support leftist comrades all across the world. Ukraine is standing up for neoliberalism and the current capitalist based status quo and is more hostile towards my core values than Russia who has been supporting the leftist seperatists. Ukraine has the support of govts I don't like and has banned socialist parties in it's country. They also have the support of Nazis.
There's also the idea of ending the invincibility of the current western "rules based" order which claims to be the end of history and is arrogant enough to claim the artifical borders recognized by it are somehow more infalliable and perfect than ones established in the past. Because they said so. This order enforces the hegemony of capitalism, corporations and austerity on the worlds people. As much of Ukraine as possible should be spared from that, especially those who are willing to fight to get away from it.
There tried to give a basic rundown. But we've been interacting on these threads for awhile. If you really do not get my perspective I'm skeptical a little summary will change that.
This is also obviously not true, the areas of the country that voted for a pro-Western government by the largest majorities were literally the ones that Russia has claimed.
In fact, the only Oblast that voted against Zelensky was Lviv, the one Oblast that is furthest from the Russian border. See the image above.