>>214092461
Ukraine is not an ethnostate and does not take any optimal strategies to become one such state.
Ukraine is not even a normal state.
It was a partially corrupt state at the start in 90's, that laid the foundation for more efficient corruption entrenchment.
It became increasingly corrupt in 2000's with the Orange Revolution, when Yushenko's wife was an actual unironic US glowie, but it still was a state.
It became more corrupt still with Yanukovich, and it was a state at odds with both Russians, the West, UK (naturally) and globalists in particular. When Russians did not take any overt actions to counter Maidan events, and internal Ukraine forces did not succeed at protecting the one chance to retain the country on course of at least stable preceding corruption, Ukraine became an mafia front.
Eventually it became a de-facto unruly "vassal", run by swindlers who have committed a MMM tier sleight of hand tactic on nation-wide scale to redirect and sublimate what in any other case would've been a full civil war into Russian vs Ukraine conflict (incl. partially due to Russia not taking any military action against Ukraine earlier, assuming they even could).
Ukraine is a partially an illusion of a state. Its political circle pursues only its own interests, its population at irrational odds with each other, and no amount of conflicting commonalities they have has any actual power bar radical violent elements and what passes for state forces.
Same elements are actually killing the Ukraine and continuously decrease any chance at at least repairing it, masking somebody else's intent to destroy stillborn and non-existent Ukrainian sovereignty with promises of its birth.
It's not a totalitarian ethno-state, it's a contested resource extraction corporation that wears national idea like a skinsuit that to some, especially to agitprop makers, appears or can be fashioned as fascist/totalitarian/insert boogeyman here.