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This isn't an intelligence organization or unlabeled fighters. This is an actual, state-backed military and a declared invasion.
by eganist 5y ago
This isn't an intelligence organization or unlabeled fighters. This is an actual, state-backed military and a declared invasion.
- lnxg33k1 5y agoYeah but my point was that the declared invasion is happening due to the rebels that took over Donetsk and Lugansk asking for help from Putin to defend themselves from the ukrainian govt
- distances 5y agoThat is a very naive take. It's abundantly clear that Kremlin orchestrated the rebel areas to "ask for help" so they have a pretext for the invasion. I mean that was so transparent that I honestly thought it was only meant for Russian local audiences and absolutely nobody would buy that in the West.
- brightstep 5y agoI don’t think the residents of an invaded country care very much if they are killed by regular armed forces or intelligence. They’re dead either way.
- lnxg33k1 5y agoYes, you're right, but it could be interesting to understand that for the living in order to prevent to be made dead by regular armed forces or intelligence in the future, in fact right now it's mostly the living that are trying to understand what happened/is happening
- denton-scratch 5y agoIt's not a declared invasion. I've read headlines that said Russia had "declared war"; in the body of the article, it turns out that Russia has sent a "peacekeeping force" into Donbas. There's been no declaration of war. Russia has responded to requests for help from the rebel leaders in Donetsk and Luhansk. I mean, there is a war; Russia has been bombing and rocketing Ukrainian military installations all over the country. But it's not a declared war.