I have never been a member of FMTTM
I welcome alternative and even adversarial viewpoints, but I do not see the direct causal link between the US taking a direct interest in restoring democracy to Ukraine in 2014 and the West assisting Ukraine following the illegal and frankly heinous invasion by Russia.
I am no expert on what goes on with Russia or Ukraine like I said the west always has a sticky dirty hand to play in everything
One thing I have seen since all this came to light last year was the Donbass region and other close by regions that have been under attack since 2014 , Horrible things have taken place all approved by the west tens of thousands of people killed under constant shelling but I never knew this until this conflict started . Our news channels did not show what has been going on for 8 years .
I remember reading - must have been end of 2013 - that Obama and NATO heads had agreed a long-term strategy for taking control of Russia’s mineral wealth. They agreed that, by very subtle positioning and a series of unattributable inducements, that Putin would be encouraged to fulfil his long-held imperialist ambition to recreate a Soviet empire. The plan was to make him initially take over the Crimea and then, after a few years had passed, he would launch a full scale, unprovoked invasion of a sovereign, independent Ukraine.
Is this true ?
Russian forces were in Ukraine for years infiltrating and their goal was to destabilise the regions as Russia wanted to claim Eastern Ukraine. Which includes Donbas, lukansk, crimea to name just those few. When they could see they couldn't complete the job they launched the special operation.
That does not answer either of my questions Dreadnaught.
You need to adjust to the humour of this board!
They favoured russian speaking citizens and pushed out or made the lives extremely uncomfortable for the non Russian speaking Ukrainians. Before the war there would of alot of cross border working. I know that in many countries which share land borders with countries which speak similar languages, the people tend to bilingual due generations of migration and or cross border work/travelling and education. I only know this as my wife's family are from near Novoazovsk. My wife can speak some Russian. Its still under occupation. Most managed to leave but her mother and father refused to leave sadly we haven't heard from them since the start of the war.
How has democracy been restored in the Ukraine they banned most of the opposition parties and even jailed some of the members of opposition parties . I read this about the US involvement and the whole Warsaw pact I found it interesting all things considered.
Must have been pretty sickening for the Finns to have to pay war reparations to Russia because they had cooperated with the Germans, who were their enemy's enemy.
You might want to watch "Winter on Fire", it's on Netflix, might open your eyes on Russia's meddling in Ukraines democratic process.
You can't have had much free time since you joined.