Crimea was a semi-autonomous region in Ukraine before the invasion, and now its a police state, so not sure what rights Putin has protected in Crimea.
Its ridiculous to say Putin was "forced" to go to war, neither Ukraine nor NATO was going to invade nuclear armed Russia.
“And clearly, Putin was threatened by the NATO encirclement in and around Russia. His concerns were not addressed by the West and forced him to go to war.”
Wow, this is going to ANGER the bunch who are trying to re-write history to now claim that all was fine on Feb 24 of last year, and then Putin just, arbitrarily, decided to invade Ukraine that day. Must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed that morning, perhaps?
1. We all need to grapple with the reality that Ukraine was an integral part of the former USSR till its breakdown in the year 1991. --> so? India and Ireland were integral parts of the British empire until it's breakdown (1920-1947), that does not mean they should be part of it now.
2. the growing pain of a new Russia that wants to set the course of global political leadership under Putin. -- Putin could have focused, like Modi is, on growing the wealth of ordinary Russians. But he did the opposite and is using the war to distract them from his abysmal performance
Ukrainian dictator replicates WWII-type war crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B84HPchJMi0&ab_channel=TFIGlobal
From the article:
“Above all, Putin must put this war to an end at least on humanitarian ground.”
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Some people are simply deaf, dumb and blind. Russia will never be allowed to simply end this war. Russia is being forced to retaliate against their opposition and when they do we’ll all know it happens here.
