I give the "too stupid" compliment unused back to you. It seems, that you are getting aggressive, if you do NOT understand or don't want to understand a simple comparison.
For a 'highly intelligent reader' - like you - I repeat it with simple words what I have written before:
in the year 1867 the tzar of Russia "sold" Alaska for 7.2 million Dollars to the USA. (Alaska purchase - What a joke !). Imagine the Russians would like to have it back and therefore would start a war against the USA. And here is the analogy. Ukraine once belonged to the Russians, but they don 't want again to be under a Russian dictatorship.
I guess the USA would never give Alaska back to the Russians, and the Ukrainians would not want to be part of Russian dictatorship, again.. That's history, Russia cannot change..,,. except by a war.