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Georgia attacked first, after the US-sponsored 'Rose Revolution', and the US also sponsored 2 'revolutions' in Ukraine. Crimea was hardly invaded, it was a reg
by Mikeb85 10y ago
Georgia attacked first, after the US-sponsored 'Rose Revolution', and the US also sponsored 2 'revolutions' in Ukraine. Crimea was hardly invaded, it was a region which had tried in the past to separate from Ukraine.
Again, both actions you cite were reactions to US meddling in the region in the first place.
The fact Trump hasn't threatened any new invasions is already an improvement.
PS. Do you know who Mikheil Saakashvili is, what he did, where he is now, and why he's exiled from his own country? And have you seen Victor Yushchenko's face recently, what it looks like? The answers to both of these questions give a lot of insight into US actions in the region.
- kafkaesq 10y agoCrimea was hardly invaded Right -- the several thousand army and special forces troops that Putin has since openly acknowledged sending there to size buildings and other strategic checkpoints were just out on vacation.
- Mikeb85 10y agoI don't know if you know this, there's never not been Russian troops in Sevastopol...
- kafkaesq 10y agoActually the Russians are relative newcomers, having just arrived in 1783. Before that time it was controlled by the Crimean Tatars (you know, the people Stalin deported en masse in 1944). And before that, by Khazars, Bulgars, Huns, Goths, Scythians, Romans, Greeks (most significantly), and scads of others. Either way -- the main point is (and presumably you do know this), the leased military base at Sevastopol != the Crimean peninsula.
- shard972 10y agoI mean, those are talking points but it doesn't change the fact geopolitics is more complicated then "Putin invaded Ukraine"
- kafkaesq 10y agoActually it's not that complicated in this case. Except for the small matter of nearly 10,000 people needlessly killed.
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