

“The Ukraine” specifically referred to the Ukraine region of the USSR. Since it gained independence its just been “Ukraine.” Typically anyone calling it “The Ukraine” is either misinformed or some flavor of Russian nationalist.
And you forgot the part where russian imperialism is basically working as a recruitment drive for NATO. If you want to call Ukraine a proxy war, sure, but who the fuck started it?
Unjerking for a second, this would be pretty cool. I’m sick of playing bot games and feeling pretty good about them until I realize I played a beautiful opening then BLUNDERED TO HELL and the bot was playing sharp as well but now since I fucked the eval bar and it’s not set to “fuck you” difficulty, it also has to blunder to even it out. Totally unrealistic.