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What a tidy explanation. It might surprise you to learn the US destabilized Ukraine in the first place, when the Ukrainian president put the brakes on their joi
by rdiddly 9y ago
What a tidy explanation. It might surprise you to learn the US destabilized Ukraine in the first place, when the Ukrainian president put the brakes on their joining NATO and it looked as though they might instead join CSTO, the Russian version. This is all documented.
Also Crimea IS the piece of Ukraine.
- fuckyouzilla 9y ago> Also Crimea IS the piece of Ukraine. Was.
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- woodandsteel 9y agoPutin has been perfectly clear about this, at least when he is talking to his own public. He says the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet block was one of the great tragedies of the 20th century, and he says that Russia will be under grave threat of being invaded and occupied by the US until it gets back its old territory. He also says that Russia has a right to intervene in any country that has a substantial number of citizens of Russian decent that he believes are being ill-treated.
- Animats 9y agoCrimea was the first piece. Much more than that now. See [1]. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_war_in_Donbass.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_war_in_Do...