So you’re obviously not aware that the Donbas region of Ukraine voted in 2014 to become an autonomous region just like Crimea. The Kyiv govt. agreed to allow it and signed the Minsk agreement in 2015. Then Poroshenko immediately sent the Azov Battalion to the area to harass, terrorize and shell the area 24/7. Approximately 14,000 civilians were killed in 7 years just because they wanted independence from Ukraine and Poroshenko refused to keep up his end of the bargain. Isn’t that an invasion of a sovereign area too then? And shouldn’t Putin be expected to intervene when it’s mainly Russian Ukrainians being slaughtered?
No, Putin should not be expected to intervene, period. Not a reason to “liberate” all of Ukraine. Come on...
The Russians weren’t even interested in western Ukraine until oil was found there.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
Their interest is simply in raping that country. Russia gets 60% of its revenues from oil exports. Europe gets 40% of their oil from Russia.
In 2012 massive oil and gas reserves were found in Crimea. Crimea signed a $10 billion exploration contracts with Shell and Chevron to develop the new found oil and gas fields. These oil and gas products would compete in Europe with Russia’s oil and gas, reducing Russia’s oil revenues, which we recall amount to 60% of their total GDP. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, cancelling the contracts with Shell and Chevron.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc
If the Ukes allow some small region in the west to be its own republic, but the OIL belongs to Ukraine, do ya think Pootypoot would allow that? Nope.