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why would the Ukraine attack another country while already at war with russia? Not like they'd want to fight two battles.
It's just Ukraine.
'The Ukraine' is a Russian dogwhistle.
oh wow. I just did a bit of a skim of an article, and ukrainians themselves have said it's just "ukraine". My apologies to them :(
You're good :)
I never knew this. Thanks for letting me know.
Not necessarily true, the Ukraine is also acceptable in British English and other languages put a definite article in front of Ukraine, if you are translating to English as a second language
To add another layer of absurdity to this linguistic debate, both of the native languages (Ukrainian/Russian) entirely lack definite articles such as "the". Russian/Ukrainian doesn't even have a word for "the".
For example, when translating "A cat is on the table" to either Russian or Ukrainian (the two languages are pretty similar), you'd end up with what would translate back most literally as "Cat is on table."
Including it or not only becomes an issue when translated into other languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine
Ukraine has a fucking bone to pick with Iran. They have been supplying Russia with drones that are killing their people. They also have the most experience and expertise in dealing with them and want to leverage that for securing aid for their own war of survival.
While it's true that Ukraine is not attacking Iran, they have sent military personnel to assist defending against incoming Iranian attacks, so the US and Israel can continue their war in Iran instead of diverting more resources to protect GCC countries.
So I'd argue both statements are true: Ukraine is not attacking Iran, but they are supporting the US and Israel.
Given that Iran has been giving support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I'd say that's fair.
My comment was not intended as judgment, but I think so too.