Kyiv existed as a cosmopolitan center of commerce 1000 years before Moscow was even a village. Putin is an authoritarian KGB thug, a Soviet era reject, with delusions of “Tsarhood” dancing in his head. He is so caught up in Russian history - the past - that he ignores the ancient history of Ukraine.
Despite all the East European political intrigue and chicanery of the Western powers, conducted over the last 3 decades, The Ukrainian people are not going to sit back and let Putin just “take” their country.
The “Putinistas” here will make their arguments against corruption, western interference, neocon war mongering, etc. However valid those arguments, they change not the fact that Vladimir Putin invaded a sovereign nation, based on a mindset that perceives only historic fears, and is hell-bent on a return to pre-1914 “Greater Russia.”
Bravo!
Well said.
Bravo! Encore!