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Ukraine was to a degree also about oil/gas and cutting off a rising competitor with their new capabilities gearing up.
by sottol 3y ago
Ukraine was to a degree also about oil/gas and cutting off a rising competitor with their new capabilities gearing up.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoeh kinda. Euromaidan happened because UKR voted in a Pro-EU, relatively anti-corruption (by UKR standards) candidate. Russia never invaded before because they basically called the shots via corruption and the mafiya. When it looked like he wasn't going to die from poison or riots and would stick around, "separatists" launched an effort to take the eastern part of the country, with a lot of industry, as well as Crimea -- a highly desired port for the Russian fleet. That kicked off a whole mess of EU and NATO assistance to UKR, so the recent war was to gobble up the rest of the country before it got too strong to resist. Turns out they took too long -- they probably would have won handedly in 2016, but in 2022 the AFU had been training and re-equipping, and realized what was at stake.