Posted on 07/17/2023 11:08:07 AM PDT by MeganC
(Intro) As the world marked a tragic milestone on Saturday, we should remind ourselves that Ukraine's progress as a full-fledged democracy shook the seat of power in Moscow to its core, Aleksandar Đokić writes:
On Saturday, the world marked a tragic milestone: the 500th day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an all-out escalation of the Kremlin's war against Ukraine that has been taking place since 2014, when Moscow troops first entered Crimea and then the Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Even after all this time, some Europeans still struggle to understand the reasons for Vladimir Putin's act of aggression.
Yet, the main driving force is clear: Ukraine's progress towards a full-fledged democracy had shaken the seat of power in Moscow to its core.
NATO enlargement was never the issue
Some might recall that, in an ominous essay published on 12 July 2021, Vladimir Putin himself labelled Ukraine as an “anti-Russia”.
The essay itself, mostly disregarded at the time, turned out to have been the ideological and conceptual blueprint for the invasion which would follow only half a year later.
(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.com ...
And this is really the core of the conflict.
“...an autocratic, imperialistic, geriatric mafia state...”
Is this about the Globohomo Washington D.C. Regime ?
Or ... Russia decided Ukraines entry into NATO was imminent and that was something they couldn’t live with.
More gaslighting
A “free” ukraine. Thats funny...........
What matters is that this useless stalemate is brought to an end.
He could have ended it 499 days ago if he wanted. He’s playing with the mouse. There’s more to this story.
Editorial masquerading as news.
To be fair that’s about 90% of all “news”.
Uh -- whut? LOL.
1. Does anybody with an IQ over 70 consider Ukraine to be a "free" country by any stretch?
2. How does a "free" country on its border present any threat to Russia?
3. "With Russia being an autocratic, imperialistic, geriatric mafia state ..." -- Is the author describing RUSSIA here, or the United States??
This isn’t gonna end anytime soon. Cause if it did, people might actually look into why this all started in the first place.
Are there really people here who still think this is to keep ukraine “FREE”?
President (for life) Zelensky and the “democracy” of Ukraine.
IIRC, the Ukraine had a democratically elected government which the current regime ousted in a coup d’état.
That’s the exact opposite of “progress towards a full-fledged democracy”.
It’s a money laundering operation.
Since when is Ukraine even close to a full fledged democracy having no elections and jailing clergy? Even when corrupted, we have show elections, and we only thought to jail clergy when the FIB started to infiltrate fundamentalist Catholic parishes.
Zelenskyy is performing his best Hitler impersonation. Even though he's supposed to be Jewish, I'm surprised he hasn't rounded up all the Jews that have connections to Russia.
“ Russia decided Ukraines entry into NATO was imminent and that was something they couldn’t live with.”
How naive does someone have to be to believe that ? I guess no more than to believe Bush invaded Iraq for WMDs. Have you read Putin’s manifesto from August 2021 ? An English translation is on Kremlin.ru . In it he says Ukraine is not a country. It’s always been a part of Russia. That he wanted to annex Ukraine was not in question ; the only question was of timing. Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan provided him that opportunity.
All The Ukraine would need to get a Bingo there is imperialistic and maybe geriatric.
Why is this a reason for the US to own up money
We’ll give the Ukrainians anti-democratic, Nazi, anti-religious, genocidal, terroristic, corrupt and “not too bright” for their Bingo card.
No, it’s a globalist cash cow, but real peool3 are suffering. It needs to stop.
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