I’m going to get flamed but what else is new, right? Here goes:
Ukraine started this whole thing. For years and years and years, it had been shelling Russian cities and towns on the border, killing and maiming thousands of Christian Russian men, women, and children in the process.
The New York Times and the CIA ignored it all. Then, when Moscow finally decided it needed to defend these outlying areas, after having delayed and exercised a degree of civilized restraint, the New York Times and the CIA and the NSA awoke from their slumber and accused “Big Bad Vlad” of invading a sovereign nation. “Oh”, they cried, “What a warmonger!”
If we had a president and administration with half the commitment Mr. Putin has in defending the Russian people and nation from invasion, we would have a southern border second to none, and the cartels and child sex traffickers and birthright babies would be an anachronism and a parenthetical in American history.
Putin once stated Russia is a Christian nation and will never succumb to Islamification. And boy, did that piss off a lot of people in Washington, DC.
And that has proven to be one very, very, expensive hissy fit.
Nonsense.
Russia's Igor Strelkov: I Am Responsible for War in Eastern Ukraine
Russian national Igor Strelkov, a former commander of pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, has claimed personal responsibility for unleashing the conflict in which 4,300 people have been killed since April.
"I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war," Strelkov said in an interview published Thursday with Russia's Zavtra newspaper, which espouses imperialist views.
"If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out — like in [the Ukrainian city of] Kharkiv, like in Odessa," Strelkov, who uses that nom-de-guerre meaning "Shooter" to replace his last name Girkin, was quoted as saying.
"There would have been several dozen killed, burned, detained. And that would have been the end of it. But the flywheel of the war, which is continuing to this day, was spun by our unit. We mixed up all the cards on the table," he said.