Posted on 03/02/2025 3:29:59 PM PST by Kazan
European leaders in Brussels declare themselves the “leaders of the free world” while arresting citizens for memes. Likewise, they claim Putin woke up one morning, had a cup of coffee, and attacked the beautiful democracy of Ukraine...“unprovoked.”
Who do they think they’re trying to fool?
Americans ought to know that the war started in 2014 when Yanukovych was forcibly removed from office. Some Ukrainians call it a coup, others a glorious revolution—the only difference being political affiliation.
Supporters of Yanukovych, mostly in Donbas, chose to secede and, like most secessions, it led to a civil war. Much later, the Minsk agreement was brokered to give Donbas some degree of autonomy.
Despite this agreement, Kyiv intermittently shelled the folks in Donbas, most of whom have Russian ethnicity, over a period of six years. In 2022, after years of failed negotiations, Russia decided, rightly or wrongly, to take matters into its own hands, vowing to end the conflict.
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I wonder if perhaps it’s time for those who display their Ukrainian flags to rethink what it means: Specifically, does it mean supporting Brussels, a large, inefficient, bureaucratic machine that blames Russia for all of Europe’s economic woes and whose war mongers thump their chest like foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals? Or does it mean supporting the Ukrainian military, which goes door-to-door, dragging men to war, forcing conscription?
How many of us would volunteer to travel to Ukraine to fight on the front-line?
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None of that nonsense justified Russia invading Ukraine in 2022.
Hi Ruskie.
Your mother had a better reason than my Aunt Tillie.
So wth are you even taking about.
You are the like a little bitch. NATO and Europe pulled us into their centuries long compulsion of Europeans to try to invade Russia.
Perhaps in the first but definitely not in the second.
There is an epidemic of dilusionalism going around these days in all walks of life.
I agree with Williams.
Putin invaded from Belarus driving towards Kiev in order to conquer the whole country. He didn’t (initially) go into eastern Ukraine on some sort of “liberation” operation.
“None of that nonsense justified Russia invading Ukraine in 2022.”
That’s right. Putin is the aggressor and started the war. Ukraine is the victim, and we feel bad for them. But what are we supposed to do about it? Negotiate the best peace deal we can get.
I support Trump 100%.
That completely ignorant statement.
Russia wasn't going to try to take Kiev with 40,000 troops.
It was ruse to distract from what was going on in Donbass.
Vindman, 44, explained during his impeachment testimony that he had been offered the position three times but declined the position because of his loyalty to the United States. The lieutenant colonel was born in Ukraine, but his family immigrated to the U.S. when he was a toddler.
Vindman claimed he did not know why he was offered the high ranking position of defense minister.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/vindman-reveals-that-he-had-been-offered-a-position-as-defense-minister-of-ukraine
And, amazingly, after President Trump was only out of office a little over a year we were at war with Russia at the behest of the Ukraine.
What did we do when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
None of that nonsense justified Russia invading Ukraine in 2022.
O, BS, DS/MSPMS poster.
You failed to overlook the famous NATO red line in the sand.....that was crossed....which was YUGE.
Even 0bie’s See Eye A has admitted this was a provocation.
Thank God Pres Trump won.
You sound naive and gullible.
We fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine and installed a puppet government hostile to both Moscow and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine. That threatened Russia's naval base in Crimea it had operated since before the US Constitution was written.
We then trained, funded and armed a 600,000 army on Russia's border.
If China or Russia did anything like that in Mexico, we would have invaded.
But those numbers meet Biden's definition of "minor incursion" which was allowed.
Not much except gripe about it. Take in some refugees.
They’re not restricted to Ukraine.
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