I don’t think this had anything to do with Crimea.....it had everything to do with Nato Expnsion and filling Ukraine with military and military equipmnt, conducting military drills etc. in Ukraine with Ukrainians and Nato troops long before Putin went into Ukraine.
Do you think it has anything to do with Putin’s ideas regarding Novorussiya?
None of your/Putin business if Ukrainians want to pack their country with military equipment.
None of your/Putin business if Ukrainians want to dance naked on the tables every other Wednesday - it’s their business.
None of your/Putin business if they want to run military drills every day, no one demands from Russia not to run military drills in the Kurils, a few kilometers from Japan any time they want, which they do.
No one threatens Russia’s security and territorial integrity in any sense, shape or form.
It was mainly due to the huge natural gas and oil reserves discovered in Donbas and to the west.
Ukraine was going to develop them and sell to Europe.
This would have started a price war and would have devastated the Russian economy.
NATO already told Ukraine they wouldn’t be admitted, but Xiden, supposedly, told Zelensky the keep up the appearance that Ukraine would join.
Why?
That’s right. NATO was going to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine so Russia had to invade Ukraine.
Well, now we have to prevent Russia from attacking NATO by destroying Russia.
That’s your logic so I’m sure you’ll understand when NATO tanks parade through Red Square. We have to do this to decommunize Soviet Russia.