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Originally Posted by CroFlames
True, and the same can be said for many countries like Germany, Philippines, Italians, Vietnamese etc.
But there are a ton more Ukrainian Canadians than Russian Canadians in Western Canada and they helped shape Western Canada as we know it. Because Ukraine was attacked unprovoked, sympathy and awareness is high in these parts.
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There's also the objective fact of having a large democratic nation being invaded, with the goal of annexation, by a super power. If the USA was invading Mexico, we'd have a similar, and probably much worse, sense of revulsion IMO.
If you look at the other major military conflicts, there's typically some major element of internal strife causing much of the damage.
But yes, the fact that most Canadians know people of Ukrainian descent and can place Ukraine on the map, as opposed to a place like Georgia, certainly plays a role in the reaction.