Good points, however I might have to disagree, a little, about Russia’s reasons for an invasion.
A lot of the Zelensky FanBois have no problem ignoring what he was doing to ethnic Russians living in the eastern part of Ukraine. Straight up genocide.
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/germany-labels-journalist-criminal
The controversy around Lipp began in March when one of her videos explaining the history and the context of the war went viral.
In Lipp’s viral video, she said, “you need to understand that Russia has been asking for eight years that the Minsk agreement be upheld. Ukraine did not adhere to it, nor did they approach the Donbas region in an attempt to come to agreement.”
“Instead, they have been bombing the outskirts of the Donbas region for eight years. They are shooting at civilians, who now also have to live in completely shot-up houses. Very many people have died here,” Lipp continued.
In the video, Lipp alleged that the Donbas citizens who overwhelmingly voted to secede from Ukraine in 2014 had been, “thankful that Russia finally did something”.
Lip added, “Finally, the people here have been liberated from the terror that they’ve been experiencing for the last eight years,” under continuous shelling by the Ukrainian military.
This whole thing saddens me. I am unabashedly a Russophile. I have a deep respect for the Russian people, and for all the misery they have endured. First came an invasion by Napoleon. And then one by Kaiser Wilhelm II. And then one by Hitler. The Russian people suffered greatly due to invasions from the west. And yet they persevered.
I even took a semester of Russian in college to get some feel for the language.
It’s on my bucket list to shake hands with a defender of Stalingrad. What remarkable men they were! But time marches on. I suppose that item will never be checked off.
Anyway, Russia is just wrong when it comes to Ukraine. They just are. Please see my post #43.