If we had shown Russia goodwill with its concerns of Russian ethnics, Ukraine would have lost far less territory and we could have discussed how to compensate Urkraine for any losses of land.
Instead, we had a war and Ukraine lost more because of it.
“If we had shown Russia goodwill with its concerns of Russian ethnics, Ukraine would have lost far less territory and we could have discussed how to compensate Urkraine for any losses of land.”
In fact, Russia didn’t want Donbass, which is why they delayed their military operation for 8 years (until the Neocons left them with no other option), as it was there for the taking in 2014. Crimea is different, and would have been difficult for Ukraine to seize it from Russia...but Russia was ready to talk even about Crimea.
As it is, you’ll see the Operatives here claim the above is BS, but they know the same history as we do, so we’ll get more of their attempts at re-writes, but it’s all out there for people to see, as most has NOT been scrubbed by them (yet), and it was written in the WEST, not by Putin operatives (although ‘Putin Operatives’ pretty much say the same).
The key for anyone wanting to look up the history is to be SURE that you discount anything after 2022 from the West (when the operation began), as that is when they attempted to re-write things, for obvious reasons.