nice try rewriting an “understanding” that NATO wouldn’t move east. As far as Crimea... that was because the Russians need a port that doesn’t freeze up.
Is Russian armed forces basically laying waste to Ukraine... yup.
Is that bad? yes
Could it have been avoided...? yes
Can it be stopped? yes
But there’s this little problem of bio-weapons labs, money laundering, bribing American officials and their families that we have to deal with.... so instead, we see Ukraine follow the path of Syria, Lebanon,Iraq, Afghanistan, and all the other little democracies we tried to “help”... and sell weapons to ... and get their natural resources for our corporations. Whichever country holds or controls Odessa and the Crimea has a lot of natural gas and oil just waiting to be brought to the surface. I suppose if the Russian gave the “big guy” 10%...then all would be good.
Do yourself a favor and look up where the biggest uranium mines are...hint. Namibia and Khazikstan are up there...
Look and see how much bauxite mining and rare earth minerals there are in Vietnam. Bauxite is used to make aluminum.
We’ll be fighting for Nigerian, Ghana, and Zimbabwe democracies soon for all the Lithium to be mined....
We don’t owe the Ukrainians sh#t.
The Europeans should be paying for all this crap and maybe we can use a couple of the BILLIONS of dollars we gave the Ukrainian military.. to pay our troops so they don’t have to be on food stamps, update their living quarters... maybe buy some equipment for OUR MEN....
or just MAYBE..... pay for housing for our wounded warriors so that we don’t have to watch disfigured and injured veterans holding out a tin cup on tv commercials to get a f@#king HOUSE to live in... Maybe we need to take care of our soldiers.
There was no promise, no agreement about central or eastern European countries joining NATO.
Gorbachev himself said do, so stop repeating that falsehood
“Is Russian armed forces basically laying waste to Ukraine”
“Is”?? Your English grammar is slipping Ivan.
Putin’s forces are laying waste to Russian speaking areas in eastern 6.