What Russia has done in the Ukraine is criminal and indicative of the way the Soviet Union starved and killed its citizens in the Ukraine from the start of the Soviet Union until the 1950’s.
One can look up the Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
The slaughter of Kulaks (farmers who were slightly better off than subsistence farmers.
Or the wholesale movement of German/Russian Ukrainian farmers to Siberian work (death) camps for the crime on not being pure ethnically Russian.
Sadly, many in this forum know nothing past their hatred for Obama. It takes a little depth to have contemp for more than two despots.
Putin is a world criminal and gangster who needs to be put down. Everyone who calls him/her self a conservative should be for taking that thug down, not making excuses for him.
It is my understanding that the Russian Federation denies the prescence of combat troops in the UKraine. It is considered very unhealthy to discuss Russian KIA. Recently, the Ukrainians captured two Spetznaz troopers who were, apparantly, “advisors” to the sepratitsts. The Russians swore up and down that these men were no longer in the Red Army and were working on their own.