Btw jdege, prior to 2014 the breakaway parties that started the insurrections in Donetsk and luhansk had a negligible following in the polls. They only achieved traction because Putin poured in arms, mercenaries and false-flag military units to back them.
Before the violence, opinion polls suggested that around 25% of the population supported some kind of a split. Compared to, say, the numbers of Scots that want to split from England, or the number of Catalans that want to separate from Spain, this number is very low.
And that was asked in the context of a constitutional separation, so we can assume that an even smaller percentage support the violent insurrection.
Putin engineered the breakaway and sent in Russian special forces.
Who engineered the Maidan coup... Obama and Soros. Putin did a small counter-coup, if this is bad, why is what we did ok? If what we did was not ok, then how is a counter-coup not ok?
The American Revolution numbers weren’t exactly high.
Putin engineered the breakaway and sent in Russian special forcesBut those special forces troops were on vacation...