War in Ukraine (Previously - Will there be War?)

Rubbish. France is part of Britain ... 100 years war & all that.

let’s ask any Indian citizens if they feel India was part of Britain under the Queen Victoria, the Empress of India.

Surely there are other ways too. Re-education, de facto language, tradition, cross-cultural marriage, the hardest one: out populate aboriginals. 🤣🤣🤣

and then Germany occupied it. So it became theirs. 

Its a bit difficult to have a legitimate claim to somewhere under international law when you have actually previously given it away. Freely. As the USSR did when it transferred Crimea (by now downgraded to an oblast) to the Urkainian SSR in 1954. I mean at the point you say "here, have this. It's yours", you tend to lose all credibility - and more importantly, legitimacy - when you turn round later and say "its ours, its ours, its all ours. Honest". 

I am primarily talking about the fact that there are a sizeable number of people in parts of Ukraine who consider themselves Russian and like the idea of being part of the Putin Federation. You combine that with the fact that a lot of the areas Russia wants to Annex also used to be part of Russia and then add the fact that there are some dangerous extremists in Ukraine who hate Russians and the whole thing becomes not totally clear cut from my perspective. Regardless of this, Russia's border disputes with Ukraine are nothing to do with me and are certainly not something I am willing to be turned into radioactive dust for.

Well there’s a slight difference between self identity and nationality. In the United Kingdom case, more than half of the usual resident population (54.8%, 32.7 million) chose a "British" only national identity in 2021 census, which is a rise of 35.8 percentage points from 19.1% (10.7 million) in 2011. It’s okay for a Welsh person self identified as Welsh and it is also totally fine another Welsh person Identified as British but not Welsh.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/bulletins/nationalidentityenglandandwales/census2021

I’m sure there are other countries where people strongly feel about their nationality but self identified as “different” people living happily with rest of the people of the same “nationality”.

Going back in times, would those Indian residents in India felt being “British” as when India was under British reign? Let’s ask any British National (overseas) BNO / BOTC passport holders how strongly they feel being “British”?