BS. There would be no war in Ukraine without Putin's invasion.
Donbass Airport After Putin's Invasion
Posted on 02/22/2020 3:24:15 AM PST by tlozo
Russia could regain its status as “a global rival” for Western powers through some degree of “integration” with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said...
Putin made the comment while reiterating his belief that Ukrainians and Russians are “the same people,” a claim widely perceived as a means to justify Russian influence over former Soviet nations. His reference to “integration” is even more unusual, and incendiary, according to Western analysts, given that the two countries have been locked in conflict since Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine in 2014...
Multiple Western analysts noted that Putin has been pressuring Belarus to form a new political union with Russia, a political shift that could enable him to remain president of the expanded Russian state. That effort is anchored in an ambiguous 1998 political agreement between the two countries. Ukrainian authorities never signed such a deal, and the current conflict has alienated the two peoples despite Putin’s long-running effort to deny that Russian military forces invaded Ukraine.
“The Ukrainians understand now that the Russians, particularly this group in the Kremlin, are no longer their brothers,” another former U.S. official familiar with Russian-Ukrainian issues told the Washington Examiner. “From the Ukrainian standpoint, it's ludicrous to even contemplate.”
Alisa Muzergues, a foreign policy analyst at GLOBSEC, echoed that assessment and added that the attempt to maintain influence in Ukraine is partly a way to appeal to the domestic Russian population.
“Putin is striving for recognition of Russia as a superpower, but while having limited capacities, it can only have a direct influence on its immediate neighborhood,” she told the Washington Examiner. "And Ukraine is indeed a crucial player in this game of Putin’s influence due to a number of reasons: economic, cultural, historic — but also it is important for his influence inside Russia.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
There was a Sovu\iet propagandist years ago who would do US media.
Thought he’s probably dead.
Then I see your comment so now, I’m not so sure. Hi Comrade.
If you are talking about Pozner he is alive and well. A big time Putin critic. Anti-communist but more on a liberal side.
Who drove the tanks to Ukraine? I suspect soldiers. Hard to buy tanks at your local used car lot.
Get real.
Yep, ‘borderland’, ‘a frontier’. Now think for a moment how would you call yourself living near US-Mexican border? I guess ‘borderlander’ doesn’t sound good. You’ll call yourself American or Mexican depending on your nationality. The same applies to Ukraine before 1920s.
BS. There would be no war in Ukraine without Putin's invasion.
Donbass Airport After Putin's Invasion
Nonsense, it was Russian authorities that would not use the term Ukraine or Ukrainian and instead were required by the Tsar to use the terminology "Small Russian" for Ukrainians. Ukrainian authors wrote about Ukraine even in 1840.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Ukraine
Good luck with that Vlad. The Ukranians and I don’t mean Crimea hate the Russians guts. Plus most are catholic not Russian orthodox.
Just a couple of "separatists" hmmm?
The pretty refugee girl crying with the kitten, that hits all the buttons, doesn't it?
Don't play me for a sap. It's Biden's son, and Romney's son, and Nancy's son, and Kerry's son that would get the money.
NO!
It’s been the Ukraine since the 12th century.
90% of Ukrainian military in Crimea defected to Russia.
Now think why won’t the military in Donbas defect to DNR?
Also Ukraine has universal conscription. 80% of all males over 21 knows a thing or two about how to ride a tank.
Did you read your link yourself? The border between US and Mexico exists for quite some time too. The people residing from both sides are still Americans and Mexicans. Not Borderlanders, Edgers or Ukrainians.
My ex-wife’s grandparents came to America from Tarnopol and Kiev after 1900.
The woman from Tarnopol listed her nationality as “Austrian” and her language as “Russian”, the man from Kiev answered “Russian” for both nationality and language.
When the woman died in Connecticut in 1992, she had a Russian Orthodox funeral.
Just two data points.
“” “” Nonsense, it was Russian authorities that would not use the term Ukraine or Ukrainian and instead were required by the Tsar to use the terminology “Small Russian” for Ukrainians. Ukrainian authors wrote about Ukraine even in 1840.”” “”
Ukrainian operative Chalupa, president Poroshenko, and NABU director Sytnyk persuaded half of the Americans that Trump is a Putin’s puppet.
I guess theirs would just as easy persuade Wikipedia about everything the Tsars did.
Trump at least can hit back.
Will this bring Ukraine into NATO?
True enough. That’s my point.
And it's the Ukrainian government who destroyed the Donbass airport. Those dam rebels wanting there independence. We can't have that.
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