Opinions on Ukraine

[abaris]

A "what if" scenario I have imagined is what if the Germans had not tried to annex any territory when they attacked the Soviet Union but instead offered to the Ukrainians and Baltics their own independent countries, no strings attached, if they helped in the fight against Stalin. Germany would have destroyed its only rival power on the continent and the Ukrainians and various Baltic people would have gotten their independent countries.

I don't know if you realize, but the Baltic states were actually independent between the world wars.

As your said yourself - what if scenarios don't actually work.