Jeff, do you think Texas would be allowed to simply declare independence and then say Washington should allow it?
what would if a gang of mexican criminals usurped power in a place in America and then Mexico armed and funded them for years and said, well guys, you should just let them be part of Mexico.
absolute nonsense.
Donbass and Lugansk were turned into absolute shitholes under little dictators and none of it would have been possible if Russian hadn't been funding it.