Posted on 12/28/2023 7:47:30 AM PST by JonPreston
The current conflict in Ukraine is a direct result of the failure of the Minsk Agreements. Between 2014 and 2015, Russia and the European Union mediated negotiations between the breakaway republics of Donbass and the Kiev government, reaching a mutually beneficial protocol that was expected to guarantee regional peace. However, the terms of the pact were never respected by the Ukrainian regime, which continued to constantly attack the republics and advance its project of “de-Russification” and ethnic cleansing.
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To those of you not keeping score, Ukraine just got hammered in one of the largest missile attacks since the start of the war, with military targets across the country burning as we speak.
There were zero reports of effective AFU air defense fire. This is Baghdad Bob-tier.… https://t.co/YhLDm2kgpP— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) December 29, 2023
Well spun but actually Angela Merkel’s point was that it was so obvious from the get-go that Russia wouldn’t honor any agreement signed let alone give up its conquest ambition, it made sense to use the Minsk agreements to buy Ukraine time to defend itself.
So the agreement was seen as a sham by Europe.
The first Minsk agreement had one simple requirement on Russia - to withdraw its troops from Ukrainian land.
Putin IMMEDIATELY denied having any to withdraw. Which was ridiculous because we already knew Wagner was taking its orders directly from the Kremlin, and Girkin’s lot weren’t even hiding the fact they were Russians operating in Ukraine.
In fact every intelligence outfit on the planet monitoring the situation in Ukraine, INCLUDING the FSB from Donetsk, knew Putin was lying the second he denied having anyone in Ukraine to pull out.
You should take note that unlike the liar Putin, at least Merkel is consistent with her statements and isn’t proved to be a liar five minutes after coming out with a load of made-up bullshit.
Merkel vetoed Ukraine’s admission to Nato in Bucharest in 2008. She allowed Germany to be highly dependent on Russian gas. Most of Europe regards her as a bit of a Neville Chamberlain, too willing to give Putin far more latitiude than that mutt has ever earned.
but by 2014 even she was acutely aware that nothing was going to stop Russia attacking Ukraine again, because Putin was still signing agreements pledging to do something and then IMMEDIATELY breaking them and lying his lying ass off as he did so.
https://tass.com/world/1578901
“Then (in 2014 - TASS), in order to prevent even worse things, everyone signed this agreement. Was it possible to stop the war then? This question is no longer relevant. I believe that the Minsk agreements gave Ukraine more time to develop between 2014 and 2021. Now Ukraine can both make a response and also to get the necessary support”
Now you vranyo fellators can read whatever you like into that, but all it ACTUALLY says is, the war was frozen at best and Ukraine needed time to get support.
Lest you forget, by then the USA, UK, Russia, and even China, not to mention the entirety of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact region, were party to multilateral agreements recognising Ukraine’s “independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
Russia had absolutely no moral or legal reason to have a single pair of boots in Ukraine. Their retarded irrational and emotional arguments - that their eleven time zone country needs a load of buffer countries between it and a whole bunch of countries that aren’t even threatening Russia in any way / Russia needs to have an empire otherwise it’ll wither and die - has never been debated let alone integrated into any international treaty.
All along there wasn’t really another option but to set up a peace deal that Putin would inevitably break because he really is that kind of shite-hawk... but do so in a way that at least would give Ukraine a fighting chance.
“The West’s lies” are not lies. They are absolute truth. Putin’s the liar, and when he finally admitted that he had had Russian boots in Ukraine all along he proved Merkel right.
No, I was reactivated to provide a list of successes in the Kremlin's Great Idiotic War on another thread. In order to assist with the educational process, here it is again:
Over the last 22 months, the Kremlin has had numerous successes in their glorious struggle against fascists, neocons and the World Economic Forum:
1. Invaded a foreign country, and then left a commie junk yard between Chernobyl and Kiev.
2. Got tens of thousands of their own people killed.
3. Launched a fortune in expensive weapons into poorly constructed soviet-era apartment buildings.
4. Got rid of Prigozhin after he made fools out of Putin and the Degenerate Tuvan on live TV.
5. Sold oil to Chinese and Indian interests at a discount, as opposed to selling at market prices.
6. Lost gas export capacity due to unfortunate developments involving the Nord Stream route.
7. Lost Russian-owned gas storage capacity in Western Europe to nationalization.
8. Created a cottage industry for videos of exploding Russian things.
9. Caused NATO to grow.
10. And made NATO relevant again, something even NATO couldn't do.
On the other side of the ledger, the Kremlin has failed to eliminate the neocon/nazi/WEF menace. More important, they failed to secure the land over the pipelines across southern Ukraine to Uzhgorod, where all that Rooshin gas has to go to get to the hard currency markets.
Please do not ping me. Thanks.
For starters, I doubt if any serious military targets were hit, since the shoot down rate was around 75%.
The 25% that got through Ukraine's defenses were those aimed at, or off course towards, civilian targets without air defenses.
The totals are said to be 158 Russian missiles and drones, of which 114 were shot down.
Second, can you explain how such attacks prove the righteousness of Vlad the Invader's cause?
“If you want to stop Russia’s invasion go to the UN, put forth a case for a UN coalition that includes binding use of force, if necessary. Remember GHWB and Iraq/Kuwait?”
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Well, Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council and has VETO power. Do you think Russia wouldn’t VETO a resolution forcing its own troops to suddenly stop its invasion of Ukraine?
Imagine if the UN had existed during WWII and Hitler having a German representative with VETO power at the UN Security Council... Then comes a UN resolution drafted by the UK... demanding the end of Hitler’s multiple invasions all over Europe and a pullback of all German troops from all the annexed and/or occupied territories... Do you really think Germany wouldn’t VETO such a resolution?
Well evidently, they WOULD VETO such a resolution!
The problem is that RUSSIA is abusing its power to grotesque levels.
Thanks to its VETO-power at the UN and its immense nuclear arsenal it just can do anything it wants against small defenseless countries which have neither nuclear weapons or VETO-power...
Yes, it is grotesque.
You could add that among Russia’s other victories they created thousands of high-paying, high-skilled jobs in the US, European, and Ukrainian defense industries.
............and created new markets for U.S. liquified natural gas exporters.
Tell me when the General Assembly even voted on one re: UKR.
Shift them goalposts.
What Krynky doink?
There are 400.000 Russian troops defending the Russian Federation oblasts of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Luhansk.
The Russian troops are also defending the the Russian Republic of Crimea and the Russian federal city of Sevastopol.
“What does this say about the world’s morality?”
Says a lot especially when taking into consideration that the UN has had such stalwarts of human rights like China, Cuba, Rwanda, and Somalia on its Human Rights Council.🙄
“The Ukraine has sent soldiers into Russia.”
Ukraine isn’t NATO moron.
I’m sorry your grade school and your high school skipped reading comprehension when you were attending.
You used to emphasize the part about "you better hope they don't change their mind", which is what they seem to be doing now.
LOL!
“temporarily occupied”
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