“He also saw 8 million or so Russian speakers about to be ‘cleansed’ in Ukraine...”
No, he didn’t. And you know he didn’t.
“No, he didn’t. And you know he didn’t.”
It was OBVIOUS to anyone following the events there, the including leaders of the world representing 85% of the population (the countries that HAVE NOT imposed sanctions on Russia).
...also the statements by Merkel and Hollande also fit the above ‘next step’. Too bad Russia got there first!
It’s really not difficult. Putin and his like are irredentists. They consider Ukraine and all of the former USSR to be part of Russia. They’ve said it themselves and are happy to commit a genocidal mass murder to make it so. Yet still the Kremlin butt sniffers will go on any tangent to avoid the obvious. Pay no attention to their fevered internet games and fantasies.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Putin launched Ukraine invasion while suffering with 'megalomania' brought on by cancer drugs, Western intelligence source claims - as Kremlin admits his health is 'a matter of state security', vladimir998 wrote: “He also saw 8 million or so Russian speakers about to be ‘cleansed’ in Ukraine...”
No, he didn’t. And you know he didn’t.
Angela Merkel recently admitted that the only reason Germany, France etc. participated in the MINSK agreements was to stall long enough to build an army to take on Putin, which they did. It's a proxy war many warned against for decades so there's no point in claiming this suddenly came about like a brain tumor. The Ukraine would not stop harming the Russian speakers and a few of our own FR Ukrainian trolls get kinda rabid when they talk about Russians like they are genetically inferior and must be exterminated. Beyond politics, some really believe the genetics must be wiped from the Earth.