Yet another Russian annex-ploitation by proxy.
ON THE EFFECTIVE USE OF PROXY WARFARE - by Andrew Lewis Peek, May 2021, Dissertation for PhD
CHAPTER THREE: RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, 2013-2016 [pg 118 of 446 in the PDF file] "This chapter will examine Russia’s use of proxy forces in Ukraine from the beginning of demonstrations in Kiev’s Maidan Square on November 21, 2013 to the dissipation of the conflict in 2016. Though it covers all the high-intensity periods of the war, this chapter is focused on the fighting in Donbas and not Russia’s takeover of Crimea."
You don’t get to be the largest empire on Earth by giving land away! P.S. If Russia comes calling, they will bring a whole lot of ex commie settlers with them and run you out. Next thing you know you have another Russian speaking enclave.
It’s how they roll. If you don’t have a Russo-phone minority keen to secede, they’ll send you some “little green men” to get things moving. It’s what the Palestinian thing is about, too. All would-be totalitarians learned from Hitler in Sudetenland.
He didn’t invade Ukraine because of Russo-phobia, but because of Zelensky’s overtures to eastern Russian speakers.
Sluga Narodu is mostly recorded in Russian. It was Zelensky’s first language, and he obtained fame touring Russia with his troupe, who are all featured in Sluga Narodu. The third and last season was basically a campaign ad, and an overt appeal for national unity in addition to his earlier calls to end corruption.