While I’m talking about Ukraine I still don’t get why it’s so vital to prevent secession of the Donbas region. I’ve seen bits and pieces of their conflict over the last few years, and it’s still surprising to me to see so many 2A founding fathers worshippers siding with the Ukrainian’s equivalent of Washington DC.
All these conservative types have spent a lifetime fantasizing about how cool it would be to tear a state or two away from the US government and strike it out on their own as a free and sovereign state. For the better part of a decade, those guys in the eastern chunk of Ukraine have been living that dream. They issued their own passports, build their own government, and shed the blood needed to pull away from Kiev - an entity they saw much the same way these boomercons see Biden’s regime today.
Saying that the secessionists need to be brought to heel, dead or alive, sounds just like the smug shitlibs (the bloodthirsty NPCs rooting so callously for ukraine already) when they say “I can’t fuckin’ WAIT to see a bunch of texan secessionists bombed into the stone age if they wanna be TRAITORS and leave their federal slavery!!!!“