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That is interesting, but it has not happened

Really? The conflict in Ukraine is a hybrid proxy war between Russia and the US for influence in Europe. It seems that Europe is no longer interesting to the US.

Russia is more interested in defending herself than influencing other nations. True influence comes naturally to more intelligent people or nations... It's not imposed. It's like a father having great influence over his children because he knows more than they do and uses the knowledge for their own good. Such influence is also equal to power, the more influencial the more powerful one become.
As an influential person, if you support certain things because you know they are right, they work. If you are against certain things because they are wrong, they fail. It's basically you passing judgment based on how things naturally/spiritually works, and the judgement becomes true.
This natural influence is not like the aggressive influence people try to force or impose on others, especially through incentives, brainwashing, sanctions, etc. You just do the right thing and it works.

The conflict in Ukraine is as a result of Russia defending herself, protecting her borders and her people from nations/people with agenda to colonize, weaken or breakup her up.. This is basically why Donbas and Crimea were taken. They do not want to be part of system that despises Russia.. It's actually very risky for them to stay after a 2014 forceful removal of Pro-Russia President who believes that Ukraine is better off aligning with Russia than nations that are more interested in Russia's defeat and breakup.

...this is why Russia invaded Ukraine > {news link excluded}

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Ukraine has significant deposits of rare earth metals. These are a group of 17 elements that are
used to produce weapons, wind turbines, electronics and other products vital in the modern world.

Some of the mineral deposits, however, have been seized by Russia. According to Yulia Svyrydenko,
Ukraine's economy minister, resources worth $350bn (£277bn) remain in occupied territories today.

Its all about resources

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Kyiv and Washington are close to signing a deal over US you access to Ukraine's mineral deposits,
a Ukrainian minister says.

Would have believed that if Russia had not cared more for the people. Besides she went in at the right time after giving them the chance to do the right things and probably retain the land and people. But they were more concern about removing any trace of Russia from their life.

By the way, Russia doesn't seem that desperate for resources otherwise certain countries that were put under her care would've complained about exploitation. She could easily use her powers to takeover the resources to compensate for her sacrifice, which if she does, she would still deserve it. Sometimes I feel the countries don't need to be told to properly compensate her for the sacrifices. They should know the right thing to do. But we keep watching to see if they will be very grateful.

We have been long enough and well entrenched in the conflicts to understand the issue, know the feelings and true intentions of both sides. It seems one care for and welcome everyone not caring too much whether they support the nation of their enemies, while the other keep hunting down certain people for supporting the nation of their enemies.

Anyway, the land goes to the ones who love the people more, be it Russia or Ukraine. The right country has been allowed to take charge of the land on behalf of the people they truely love..

It's not right to love the resources more than the people who own it