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> If both countries were to be compensated 'fairly' for the wheat, maybe there would be no war right now. Wow. Now this is the Putin apologist take I've never
by lotusmars 4y ago
> If both countries were to be compensated 'fairly' for the wheat, maybe there would be no war right now.
Wow. Now this is the Putin apologist take I've never heard before, and I've heard a lot of them watching Russian TV.
- thriftwy 4y agoUkraine has failed to become economically solvent - it did not even grow to 1991 levels. So it had to cling to somebody else and eventually it tore apart (in 2014)
- lotusmars 4y agoUkraine did not "tore apart" in 2014. Putin's army and mercenaries invaded its eastern regions, downed a passenger jet, weaponized criminal gangs, occupied cities and turned them into criminal neo-Stalinist enclaves with executions and torture. He did it to teach Ukrainians a lesson after they've overthrown a corrupt pro-Putin president who built himself outrageously lavish palaces with golden toilets and private zoos.[1] In the end Yanukovich blocked Ukraine's integration with EU which sparked mass protests. Yanukovich or FSB snipers opened fire on protesters and he fled the country to Russia on a private jet. [1] https://theworld.org/stories/2014-02-22/26-things-found-yanukovychs-compound-made-him-look-even-worse https://theworld.org/stories/2014-02-22/26-things-found-yanu...
- thriftwy 4y agoUkraine's eastern regions did not want to be a part of post-Euromaidan Ukraine, and one of the reasons is the poverty of Ukraine. It's not like Putin is holding crimeans at a gunpoint for 8 years.