The people of eastern Ukraine, particularly Luhansk and Donbas WANT to be absorbed into Russia, or at least be free of the kleptocracy in Kiev. The US neocon supporters particularly ignore the 14K Russophone people killed in these areas since the 2014 CIA-Maidan coup. They forget the whole reason there were Minsk Accords in the first place.
“The people of eastern Ukraine, particularly Luhansk and Donbas WANT to be absorbed into Russia”
Actually that’s false.
The breakaway parties that started the insurrection 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.
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) showed in a survey taken from 29 April to 11 May 2014 that only 23% of the people in Donbass supported joining Russia
As go Russophonee, that includes the president of Ukraine, Zelensky.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1533119410138927104?t=xLsJ1SYmWb7ruZeAPnZYwQ&s=19
Even Russian TV now complains that the opposition to Russian takeover comes from... russian speaking Ukrainians.
And apparently they’re nazis too. Because they don’t want to be Russified.
Yup, the people who Russia thought wanted this war and would welcome them with flowers and songs aren’t... How else can they explain it on Rossiya 1.
“Dagnabbit,we were liberating the nazis only by accident because they were complaining about Nazis, fortunately we are very incompetent and accidentally bombed a lot id civilians who by a quirk of fate turn oyt to have been Nazis we didn’t know were nazis.”
The amount of vodka you need to consume just to make that sound sensible. Probably explains why they used a toy tank in their inspirational war footage at 2:38.
It’s all a bit “Our tanks’ll send ‘em back to the Stone Age. Pedal power! WILMAAAAA!”
So please don’t waste your time with this desperate bullcrap. Even Russian television, slavishly sticking to the Kremlin narrative, cand deliver it without getting wasted first.