That's just not true, there's been various laws against the Russian language and outside of the law, there's plenty of videos where Ukrainian nationalists go up to Russian speakers and tell them to say Ukrainian words that are hard for a Russian speaker to pronounce and they harass them or in some cases assault them if they couldn't say it properly. There's been a divide and it's largely been forced by the Ukrainians.
And in 2014 she lost her seat in parliament. Her party, Svoboda, only got 4.7% of the votes.
Most of which they create - just like in this current conflict.
The one that didn't mention Putin?
It's not my fault your "jokes" aren't funny.
What "wars" did Russia start in the late 90s?
Borscht has already illustrated how hilariously misinformed you are on that point.
Well, I can only call them as they are... Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya... "We" were to be welcomed as liberators, remember? In fact we were directly responsible for wrecking three of those nations and contributing to ongoing strife in the fourth. Contrast that with how Russia is viewed in Crimea and the LPR/DPR... As for the larger Ukrainian population, well...... wasn't naZielenski's big selling point that he was going to open a true and honest dialog with Russia and the separatists and negotiate some sort of regional autonomy [not to mention enter into a joint venture with Moscow to redevelop the industrial base in that region] - only to do exactly the opposite upon getting elected, which got him an approval rating so low he'd be jealous of Spaghetti Sauce Joey?
Russia has every right to Crimea and Ukraine has no claim to the place. Most of the locals are Russians who want to be part of Russia, Ukies had been trying to deny them self-determination since abolishing their president and constitution at gunpoint in 1995.
She was endorsed by the infamous Oleg Tyahnybok, another government lawmaker and two-times councilman of Lviv. In my book, she is 1) absolutely rabid, 2) far from being alone as demonstrated by the endorsements and 3) popular enough to make a career in politics. And the situation only went downhill from 2014.
Even where my mother is from, she said the real fire that put her onto med school to GTFO was Kiev/Lvov already trying to restoke the fires of banderism when gorbachev and the CCCP was still a thing. The yanks promised those morons the moon, and they went right back into shitting effectively on half their population. Now domineering mother Moscow is back to put them in their place. That's what happens when you ideologically leave the back door open.
Spergs always got to ruin it for everyone else.
Her political career kind of ended in 2014.
>"BRO THE US JUST WANTS TO SELL WEAPONS"
I got tired of saying RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIANS so I mentioned Putin specifically so that my comments would not be understood as hatred for Russia or the Russian people.
I'll let Liberal Russian Man™ do the talking.
Trust me he actually does understand the dynamics going on very well, if anything it is actually you that don’t understand what is going on here. You see he is a Western (or westernized) Liberal, and as such, he has an entire well developed and structured ethos guiding him in every thought and action that he undertakes, that can properly be summed up as “IT’S ‘OK’ WHEN WE DO IT”
"Agency" is an interesting word to use for a system that requires me to register for the draft and pay taxes so that Eastern Europeans don't have to deal with their retarded blood feuds like grown-ups.
Here is a video from 2012 about Ukrainians going on a hunger strike because Yanukovych allowed local governments and media to serve Russian speakers in Russian.
Russia HAD "every right" when they pulled off a fait accompli. Even NATO was willing to ignore the obvious issues of Russias invasion in 2014.
The difference between moskals and ukranians is like the difference between mexicans and colombians lol
Which is actually a huge difference you mong. The Colombians have strong historical and cultural ties to the Cuzco Inca and the Mexicans are more culturally aligned with the Aztec Mexicali. FFS, in one case the name of the country is actually taken from its traditional culture.
The more countries in an alliance that doesn't fight between itself and deters attacks from outsiders, the less military conflict happens?
You're wrong. I spent my life criticizing Western imperialism. I always said it was wrong even when we did it.
The president fled to Mother Russia after police and hired thugs killed protesters. His own party disavowed him.
"Separatists" that murdered 298 people by shooting down MH17 with a Russian Buk launcher.
Fun fact: Yanukovych had his 2004 election overturned due to electoral fraud. With some places having over 100% turnout.
Another fun fact: Yanukovych cracked down on free speech due to the Maidan protests.
Yet another fun fact: did you know that Tony Podesta helped Yanukovych lead a media campaign against Yulia Timoshenko, the politician who got pelted with not only criminal charges regarding corruption but also a bullshit murder charge?
As opposed to the people on these two threads who have stated that Zelensky should have just conceded on this?
But enough about Russia's actions since the mid 90s.
What right does the Ukrainian ethnic group have to seize and Ukrainize the entirety of the historically multiethnic, multilingual territory of the former USSR adminstrative unit that happens to be named after them?
the right to undo the damage done by centuries of russification efforts carried out by both tsarist and soviet occupiers
How do these people do before/after polls and not realize you now have two totally different population subsets? Ukraine has literally lost tens of millions of people now. The people that were talking about joining Ukraine and Russia into one country back then, literally DID JUST THAT already. They are no longer “Ukrainian”, at all, the rest probably fucked off to literally anywhere else on earth rather than stay in the war-torn, corrupt, oppressive, desolate shit hole that modern Ukraine descended into.
Putin would force you to serve for one year, and you're on call if he fucks up what should have been a quick invasion.
