“He is one of the very few billionaires that won’t join the war party.”
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Putin is a billionaire.
And he not only JOINED the war party as you say...
He actually invited it and started it!
Tell MacGregor to ask Putin if he is willing to stop his warmongering and war-party and bring back the 300.000 Russian troops which are illegally invading sovereign Ukraine right now.
I’m not sure Putin will listen to Macgregor very much...
Tell China to get out of Tibet. Oh, that’s not something that matters to Democrats, so nevermind.
The war started in 2014 when a US/EU engineered coup of the duly elected government of Ukraine spawned the separatist movement in the Donbass and precipitated the unopposed Russian annexation of Crimea. This shooting war has been ongoing for nine years.
In 2007 Putin drew a red line that Russia would not accept the expansion of NATO into Ukraine. The US/NATO ignored Russia’s red line and continued the process of NATO expansion into Ukraine. Putin reacted to the provocation.
The failure of Ukraine to implement the 2015 Minsk Accords brokered and signed by France and Germany along with Russia and Ukraine was supposed to resolve the conflict. The Ukrainian government failed to give greater autonomy to the separatists in Donbass per the agreement. The Donbass would remain as part of Ukraine. Later Angela Merkel would say that the real purpose of the Minsk Accords was to buy time for Ukraine to rearm.
While this in no way is a defense of Russia’s two invasions of Ukraine, it is a statement of the events that led to the current situation. Nothing happens in a vacuum. The war did not begin in February 2022.
He is talking about Americans and America. Not EU or Russians, or Ukraine.
Now scurry off and call somebody over in Zeepervile to listen to your foreign drivel.