So you think the CIA is so competent that they can make all sorts of changes within foreign governments...Ha! Ask the Klitschko brothers about the protests against the previous treasonous government.
The Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting hard to liberate their hometowns from the hammer and sickle flags flying over them. That is one reason the one-time-zone country is humiliating the eleven-time-zone country and destroying its military.
Are there ANY Moscow talking points that you do not agree with 100 percent? You don’t think like an Oklahoma fella and I don’t think you are one.
BTW, Zelensky’s television show was wildly popular in Russia. Of the three leaders: Putin, Biden, and Zelensky there is only one who is not completely evil and demented. That one is Zelensky. He is Mister Klean compared to the other two. Putin’s extra little palace complex down on the Black Sea Coast is worth over 40 times all of Zelensky’s wealth. According to Elon Musk, Putin is the true richest man in the world.
Since you ax, just for starters I think Vlad stepped right into a stinking hsit-pot of a trap when he invaded Ukraine. From our POV, it was the act of a paranoid dictator who could not countenance the prospect of NATO being directly contiguous with Russia. In Vlad's thinking though, he cannot and will not accept the prospect of ANY military alliance bordering up against Russia, especially one that includes... well, you know... those people... the ones who are existentially superior to all other races, from the Russian POV... you know who I mean.
So far as where I'm from, I frankly don't like to disclose my exact locale but I can assure you that I live within an easy day trip of the Army ammunition plant in McAlester, OK. (JimRob has my permission to verify that for you, yes/no should he choose to.)
Guess what's going on at the plant these days? One thing fo sho, making 155 rounds literally by the train load, each day a shipment leaves McAlester and goes directly to Tinker AFB in OKC where it gets quickly loaded into a C-17 and off to Ukraine we go. So again, we're in a de facto state of war with Russia except for when we're not in a declared war with Russia, it just depends on what point you guys wish to assert.
Also you can take note of my signup date and my posting history and give a bit more informed consideration as to whether I'm a Russian troll or not, although I must confess to you that I HAVE seen Leonid and Friends live in concert, TWICE. So there is that, one would suppose but in any case I don't care if I meet your stereotype of a typical Oklahoman. I don't let Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham do my thinking for me.