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,
You are funny.
“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.”
Oh well. He is all that. Now tell us what we are supposed to do about it. What’s your genius idea?
“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 about some minor conflict involving a handful of insurgents in some eastern provinces of Ukraine.”
Did you neglect to mention all the NATO forces and CIA bases that would be DIRECTLY threatening Moscow for NO US national interest? IDJIT!!
Or how about if the U.K/US had not torpedoed the agreement Ukraine and Russia had come to in Istanbul in the first month that would have left all of Ukraine intact ?
Real Meathead thinking..
Moscow Times [10/27/2021]
The neighboring separatist-held Luhansk People’s Republic accused Kiev of using the Bayraktar in violation of ceasefire agreements that ban the deployment of foreign drones on the front line.
The Kremlin said Wednesday that Turkey’s supply of drones to Ukraine risks destabilizing the eastern Ukraine conflict
The Ukrainian army has been locked in a long-running conflict with separatist fighters in Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014 after Moscow annexed the peninsula of Crimea from Kiev. The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives.
Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russia of sending troops and arms to support the separatists, which Moscow denies.
Warsaw Institute [27 October 2021]
“The Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 combat drone has been deployed at Donbas by the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation for the first time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement. The drone targeted the positions of pro-Russian insurgents on October 26. The incident has been met with criticism from Moscow.”
“The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the unmanned aerial vehicle was used to attack a battery of howitzers that fired Ukrainian positions in Hranitne on the southern part of the line of contact. One Ukrainian soldier was killed and the other was wounded. Despite calls for a ceasefire from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, “Russian-terrorist” forces did not stop the fire. The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces ordered the drone strike to “force the ceasefire.”
“The Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation said on October 26 that separatists made thirteen breaches to the ceasefire”
https://warsawinstitute.org/ukraine-uses-bayraktar-tb2-first-time-donbas/
New York Times [Nov. 15, 2021]
How a Dispute Over Groceries Led to Artillery Strikes in Ukraine
Deployed for the first time in combat by Ukraine and provided by a country that is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the drone hit a howitzer operated by the separatists. Things quickly escalated.
Across the border, Russia scrambled jets. The next day, Russian tanks mounted on rail cars rumbled toward the Ukrainian border.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-putin.html
BBC [26 November 2021]
they see the Kremlin sending a message that it’s ready to defend its “red lines” on Ukraine: above all, that it must not join Nato.
“I think for Putin it’s really important. He thinks the West has begun giving Ukraine’s elite hope about joining Nato,” political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya at R.Politik told the BBC.
“The training, the weapons and so on are like a red rag to a bull for Putin and he thinks if he doesn’t act today, then tomorrow there will be Nato bases in Ukraine. He needs to put a stop to that.”
Ukraine’s desire to join the security bloc is nothing new, nor is Russia’s insistence on vetoing that ambition in what it sees as its own “back yard”.
But Moscow has been rattled recently by the Ukrainian military using Turkish drones against Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine; the flight near Crimea of two nuclear-capable US bombers was an extra irritant.
“At a meeting between Putin and Biden, neither will give clear commitments but there may be some tacit understanding on how far the US is ready to go in increasing its military support to Ukraine,” Mr Kortunov argues. “That’s not impossible.”
“Whilst Putin has a flicker of hope that he can do a deal with Biden, he won’t take any rash steps. But if he thinks it’s all doomed, he could do the worst things we can imagine,” Tatiana Stanovaya warns.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59415885
Guardian [December 16, 2021]
“With tensions escalating along the border with Russia, Luke Harding visits troops in Ukraine’s Donbas region to gauge the mood ahead of a possible invasion. The war here has continued since 2014, when pro-Russian separatists seized Ukrainian cities.”
There’s a video I didn’t watch:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/dec/16/on-the-ukraine-frontline-only-the-dead-arent-afraid-video
“Putin’s Russia was the first to send troops and artillery shells across an international border. Putin launched this war.”
That’s not quite true...the globalists, led by the CIA, overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014 that had been more sympathetic to Moscow rather than the globalists. That was the start of this conflict.