Fail.
Russia has been claiming for eight years that it saw the arming and training of Ukraine as a provocation. But it invaded Ukraine before all that!
Before Ukraine had armed itself and at a time when it couldn’t and wouldn’t fight Russia, Russia walked into Crimea and sent little green men into the Donbas.
So Ukraine invoked the Budapest Memorandum and asked the signatories to assist. We did, so Russia gave NATO an ultimatum in December. Pull everything out of Ukraine and the Baltic and anywhere else east of Germany that Putin had eyes on... Or Russia would invade Ukraine.
For the benefit of folks who can’t add two and two and understand that the answer is 4...
When Ukraine couldn’t defend itself, and its president sold out to Putin, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Because the Budapest Memorandum was upheld by its signatories, USA and UK, Russia threatens Europe and NATO... And readied itself to invade Ukraine.
Because Ukraine now defends itself, Russia keeps invading Ukraine.
There never was a scenario where Russia wasn’t going to invade Ukraine.
It’ll keep invading Ukraine until Putin, Prigozhin, Patrushev, Lavrov, Kadyrov, Pushilin, Medvedev, and the Duma headbangers on Rossiya1, experience such a crushing defeat that the Russian Federation decides it’s time to decorate the Moscow lamp posts with these irredeemably deranged warmongering sickos. Save Russia, by turning the invasion fetishists into Vatnik piƱatas.
And the CIA has spoken.
But his goes much further back. The creeping NATO crush is the narrative that speaks volumes. The NATO encroachment eventually ended in the Ukranian showdown.
There is no other way to see this. And the CIA is pushing the narrative.
Yo, MalPractice, ‘Disney releases a new blockbuster: “The Air Defense of Ukraine”.’
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