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3-813-811. Several big subjects today, of course. The Supreme Court, the loss of Disney World as a family-friendly place, and more.

But let me begin with this. I've now done more studying about the history of Ukraine than I ever thought I would in my life.

I've always studied the history of Russia and so forth, but the history of Ukraine just Ukraine. Furthermore,

the article by Vladimir Putin on quote the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians that he published on July 12, 2021, and he distributed on July 12, 2021.

Gives you a laser view into this man. He's not trying to recreate the Soviet Union. He is going back to the 1400s to the 1500s.

He says, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians are all descendants of ancient Russ, which was the largest state in Europe, Slavic and other tribes across the vast territory, from LaGoda, Tanovgorod, and Pasape, Kiev, and Chernakov.

We're bound together by one language, which we now refer to as old Russian, economic ties, the rule of the princes of the Rorak dynasty, and after the baptism of Russ, the Orthodox faith, the spiritual choice made by Saint Vladimir, who was both Prince and Navgorod, and Grand Prince of Kiev, still largely determines our affinity today.

The throne of Kiev of the dominant position in ancient Russ, this has been the custom since the late 9th century. The Tele-Bygon years captured by posterity, the worlds of Oleg, and profit about Kiev, let it be the mother of all Russian cities.

Later, like other European states of that time, ancient Russ faced a decline of central rule on fragmentation, the same time, both the nobility and common people preserved Russ as a common territory, as their homeland, and he goes on and on and on.

The southern and western Russian lands largely became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which most significantly was referred to in historical records as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia.

So Lithuania, Bosnia, Latvia, Ukraine, most importantly, and I'm skipping around, both in the western and eastern Russian lands spoke the same language, their faith was orthodox, up to them, middle of the 15th century, the unified church government remained in place,

and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, other processes were unfolding in the 14th century Lithuania's ruling elite converted to Catholicism, and the 16th century signed the Union of Lubin with the Kingdom of Poland to form the Polish Lithuania commonwealth.

The Polish Catholic nobility received considerable landholding some privileges in the territory of Russ, see he claims Poland.

In accordance with the 1596 Union of Breasts, part of the western Russian Orthodox clergy submitted to the authority of the Pope, the process of colonization and Latinization began, alesting orthodoxy.

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