Putin's Russia was the first to send troops and artillery shells across an international border.
Putin launched this war. If Putin had woken up on the morning of Feb. 24, 2022 and instead decided to not invade Ukraine, we'd all now still be talking only about some minor conflict involving a handful of insurgents in some eastern provinces of Ukraine. The world would be largely indifferent towards the goings-on there. But instead, we have roughly a million dead and wounded; devastated Ukrainian apartment blocks, hospitals, and nurseries; wrecked oil facilities in Russia; Russia's prized Black Sea Fleet a shadow of what it once was; roughly a third of Russia's strategic mid-range cruise missile-capable bombers out of action.
While we American patriots can cheer the gradual degradation of the war-making capabilities of Russia - a country with 5,000 nukes still pointed at our nation's heartland - and rejoice that the Baltic Sea is now a NATO lake, we must still lament the unnecessary concomitant loss of human lives.
Putin is a war criminal.
He launched a war of aggression in order to conquer territory and secure natural resources, and is hence no better than Stalin when he and Hitler fulfilled the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and invaded Poland, thus igniting WWII.
Regards,
How dare the Ukies defend themselves and their country and not capitulate to Putin.
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The Ukrainian people are tired of this war, the losses and destruction. St Z was elected on the platform of peace with Russia. The Ukrainian people were hijacked much like our senile Joe reign.
Other than that, the five ethnic Russian provinces voted for Independence from Ukraine. They are now part of the Russian Federation, codified into Russian law.