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If you are interested in trying to understand the Russian perspective, I'd suggest the stuff from Richard Sakwa, like his book Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the

• akhmatova 5y ago
  Pro-Ukrainian writers have accused him of being an apologist for Russia There is a certain slipperiness to Sakwa's language that makes it clear where is his sympathies rest -- and that he is not merely reporting "how the average Russian citizen sees it". For example, the title he chose for this opinion piece, put out just a few weeks before the orchestrated murder campaign that some are calling a "war": Whisper it, but Putin has a point in Ukraine as buttressed by the nauseating content of that piece are precisely what brigs the "apologist" description, applied to Sakwa, into sharp focus.
  • wrp 5y ago
    Here is that January 25 piece with its "nauseating content." https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/whisper-it-but-putin-has-a-point-in-ukraine https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/whisper-it-but-putin-has... Also, here is a more detailed piece from March 10. https://prruk.org/the-march-of-folly-resumed-russia-ukraine-and-the-west/ https://prruk.org/the-march-of-folly-resumed-russia-ukraine-...
    • akhmatova 5y ago
      Here is that January 25 piece with its "nauseating content." If you can think of better terminology to describe such obsequious blather as To protect its own security, Russia desires a neutral, friendly, multilingual Ukraine please let us know.
      • throwaways85989 5y ago
        A real bully can not have "friendly", neutral neighbors by nature not matter how much he desires it.
        • akhmatova 5y ago
          "Neutral" here of course means "pliant".