I'm not surprised.
He Tom, do you think we should just let Russia absorb any country that speaks Russian? Maybe the entire former USSR? Why not, right?
If they are living in poverty, yes they should be absorbed. As a bigger and wealthier country with a shared culture, Russia has more of a responsibility to them than other countries. Charitable handouts from other countries for development only goes so far. The area needs to be paying Russian taxes to get Russian benefits and continuous development effort, which is what the US expects as well from its territories.
Russia is obviously in a better sociocultural and geographic position to support Ukraine than the US is and, for example, could bring in Russian schools and Russian stores far easier than the US could bring in US schools and US stores.
Guess there'd be little problem having the USA absorbed into Mexico then, since "many of them already speak Spanish". Or more logically, England.
Correct, but it would make more sense for the USA to absorb Mexico since many people in Mexico live in poverty and the US is the bigger and wealthier country.
Many Americans already speak Spanish due to the cultural intermix, as you pointed out, and many Mexicans speak English. If the US absorbed Mexico and enforced tougher policing it would become the new Hawaii and create an economic boom as wealthy and middle class Americans migrated to sunnier climates and beach towns. It would also be easier to build infrastructure and facilitate movement to Mexico than to Hawaii, which has always been the problem.