Its lack of History, and education in the west. No one knows that the Ukraine was apart of Russia Via the soviet Union for 3 quarters of a century, allot of Soviet Union Premier's were Ukrainian. The break up of the Soviet Union was a good thing, however it destroyed the social order of millions of people. Russians found themselves overnight foreigners in a hostile nation In the eastern regions of Ukraine.
This is ignoring a shit ton of historical context. Like how before Russia took control of Ukraine it was mostly part of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. And before that was the Cossack Hetmantate. Russias control of the entire territory that now makes up Ukraine, including the 20th century up until 1992 is barely 200 years.
The entire issue is in fact the Commonwealth and Cossack side of the equation being NOT Russian at all, vs the Donbass which, yes, are, and have been historically.
The Oligarchs that looted Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union were not Russians, they were Ukrainian born Oligarchs like Poreshenko and co who are the reason for Ukrainians woes more so than the West or Russia. Ukraine did this to themselves for 20 years after the fall.
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The Ukrainian Oligarchy found a friend in the Obama Regime's state department, in 2014 the Neocons and Liberals joined hands and walked in the streets of Kiev to hand out Cookies, Pamphlets, cash and Promises of Joining the EU, NATO, and all the riches of the west if they just over throw there democratically elected leadership.
Vast over simplification. People forget this all went down a few years after the Russo-Georgian war. THAT was the major turning point, because up until 2008 the consensus in Washington was the cold war was over and Russia could be worked with.
After that war the pro-Russian faction in DC intelligencia lost out to the hawks and the decision was made to fortify NATOs eastern flank. Ukraine was critical to this because if Ukraine remained in the Russian Camp it would be easy for Russia to isolate the Baltics.
With the help of the Right Sektur, and the Azov Battalions and every eastern European Neo Nazi with a Ukrainian passport rioted people died, cops stood down, and you have a new un-elected government that 40% of the people in the east had no say in. The goon squads started intimidating the Duma fist fights assassinations of politicians, burning out and murdering government officials in Odessa.
Now we are getting into fan faction territory. The Cops "stood down" because the central government of Yanukovych lost legitimacy when he fled. Anarchy ensued, as it usually does when a government collapses. Of course score settling starts.
People in the East held referendums to break away from there un-elected government LPR and DPR are created, Poreshenko sends in his army, and Putin sat back for 8 years trying to get a Minsk agreement through the UN. Allot of fighters on the DPR side were Russians volunteers, there were allot of Americans too, volunteers from all over the western world ardently saw Maiden was another Globohomo CIA sponsored Coup.
Fan fiction becomes lies. The eastern regions never held referendums. Russia invaded in 2014, they just made sure their soldiers had taken off their unit and country insignias first. Russia in fact achieved complete strategic surprise with this initial invasion, and they only stopped because the Ukrainian Army by some miracle actually managed to halt the Russian Army at the Battle of Mariople. In order to keep going Putin would have had to commit to all out war with Ukraine in 2014, and that was a bridge he was not prepared to cross at the time.
It was then that the sham referendums were held. The US and NATO, in the interest of keeping the peace didn't belabor the point. But to say that the danbass and Crimean referendums were some sort of native reaction to the Maidan revolution is a complete lie.
Trump had allot of faults but when it came to NATO, Ukraine, and Putin he was dead correct. Russia has been been playing peace keeper in the middle east, managed to stop the Syrian war dead by intervining and removing Assad's Chemical weapons. Putin Stopped the other Puppet stooge Georgian Seklesvili from pulling the same shit in south Osetta.
Damn, you almost realized what happened but then glossed over it.
Putin has played a very rational and sane game up until the February 22 invasion of Ukraine. He sent in Columns of tanks and had nearly one with out firing a shot, and then pulled everything back. He turned a sure quick bloodless victory into a prolonged shitshow stalemate. what it was that pulled him backThreats from the UN? Dissent in his own cabnet? Revolt at home? whats done is done, a prolonged stalemate that for the moment he is winning, but at what cost?
He pulled back because he broke every rule in the fucking book. He launched a ground invasion in WINTER. He launched an Air Assault without taking air space control FIRST. He launched an assault on a major city of millions of people and didn't send his troops with enough supplies for a siege.
The Russian assault on Kiev was doomed from the start. The only reason it was even attempted was because Putin assumed the mere act of invading was the fait accompli in and of itself.
As for regime change in Russia, I doubt that's the goal at this juncture. The only goal is thwarting an effort to change European borders by force.
Sending in 150 tanks is not going to change the war for Ukraine, its just more targets and scrap metal to go along the prior 2015 war junk yard. this war needs to come to a conclusion preferably with the original stated goals of Integrating DPR LPR into Russia, and holding a buffer zone. What KYiv Kiev do is come to the table, or this goes to a real War a nuclear war and allot of people on both sides cheering this shit show on will find they arn't as far from the battle lines as they thought. In major cities it should be quick.
If Russia uses nukes, NATO goes to war. Russia will have broken the Budapest Memorandum, the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, and the UN Charter. It would be a hostile rogue state with Nukes. It's either war or nuclear blackmail.
Food for thought from a guy who has been studying this horror show since 2014 take it as bullshit or truth. Just being real.
Maybe you should have studied more.