I have looked it up. That’s why I’m correcting you.
The country changed it in 1991, which is the year they got their independence.
“Ukraine” means “borderland”. Adding “the” in front of it makes it descriptive: the borderland of a larger nation. Removing the “the” makes it a name, which it is, because it’s its own country.
I don’t correct people unless I’ve already looked it up. And I don’t continue the conversation without looking it up again. Just say “Ukraine”.
Except it’s not like that. “The Ukraine” is how it was referred to when it was part of Russia. “Ukraine” is correct.
It’s just “Ukraine”. “The Ukraine” implies that it’s a territory and not the name of an independent country.
The first part of doing this intellectual exercise should be to eliminate the obviously unacceptable options. For example we can pretty definitively say, right off the bat, that a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay is not worth considering even for a moment.
Giving everyone a reasonable path to citizenship. Immigration is good. It’s good economically, culturally, and morally. The only argument against immigration is bigotry.
Are you suggesting that imprisoning them indefinitely is somehow the correct solution?
Why would you disregard the political implications?