Goddamn whenever no5 says something it's such a Gish gallop. Random nonsense and complete and total falsehoods. Now we're arguing that Syria is a "regime change" war, instead of a natural evolution of the Arab Spring that eventually drew in the regional powers.
The idea that Russia was afraid of Ukraine joining NATO from a military perspective is pure Russian propaganda. ISW has documented heavily the truth: Putin has made it clear in word and action over the past 20 years that he will accept nothing less than Russian control over Ukraine. He explicitly said that Ukraine “never had its own statehood” in advance of the Feb 24 invasion. There is no room for an independent Ukraine in Putin’s “Russian World.”
Ukraine is entitled to make national decisions, like a closeness to EU and NATO. Putin objects to that right, and so he has tried to partition Ukraine and now invaded. There is no justification for this and I am getting sick and tired of reading it.
The idea that Russia was afraid of Ukraine joining NATO from a military perspective is pure Russian propaganda. ISW has documented heavily the truth: Putin has made it clear in word and action over the past 20 years that he will accept nothing less than Russian control over Ukraine. He explicitly said that Ukraine “never had its own statehood” in advance of the Feb 24 invasion. There is no room for an independent Ukraine in Putin’s “Russian World.”
Ukraine is entitled to make national decisions, like a closeness to EU and NATO. Putin objects to that right, and so he has tried to partition Ukraine and now invaded. There is no justification for this and I am getting sick and tired of reading it.
