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If he wanted a buffer he could have easily taken over Ukraine in the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015. Both times the rebels routed Ukrainian army and the road
by gspetr 10y ago
If he wanted a buffer he could have easily taken over Ukraine in the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015. Both times the rebels routed Ukrainian army and the road to Kiev was essentially clear. Reinstalling the puppet president would have been easy.
Not to mention that during the coup itself there were reports of Ukrainian generals sending envoys to Moscow, seeking aid and patronage to throw a counter coup and either reinstate the former president or setup military dictatorship. And they easily had the force too. Kremlin just said no.
- brilliantcode 10y agoRussiaToday is a poor source.
- gspetr 10y agoYes, go ahead and resort to stereotypes. RT is external propaganda, TV is the main instrument of internal propaganda. Very few Russians use that as their information source, even pro-regime ones. This is tantamount to Americans citing this as their source of domestic news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America