That may, or may not, have been the case.
People need to UNDERSTAND that Vladimir Putin is not interested in "ANNEXING" or "TAKING OVER UKRAINE BY SOME ALL-ENGULFING INVASION". Russia does not NEED Ukraine. Russia is a virtually self-sufficient country. There is NOTHING that Russia "wants" from Ukraine.
ALL THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS INSISTED ON FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS IS THAT UKRAINE ABIDE BY ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE MINSK AGREEMENT (i.e. UN RESOLUTION 2202, AGREED TO BY THE USA AND ALL THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, WHICH MAKES IT INTERNATIONAL LAW) WHICH REQUIRED UKRAINE TO ENTER INTO DISCUSSIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE 2 BREAKAWAY REPUBLICS OF THE DONETSK AND LUHANSK AND THEREBY PRODUCE A REVISED AND AGREED-TO CONSTITUTION FOR UKRAINE.
Unfortunately NO Western country, INCLUDING FRANCE AND GERMANY, who, together with Russia in 2015 got Ukraine to sign the MINSK AGREEMENT, have been prepared to put sufficient pressure on the Government of Ukraine to abide by their Obligations.
I suspect that if Donald Trump, as president, had also not been prepared to see Russia's side of this situation regarding Ukraine's Obligations and had not been prepared to put pressure on Ukraine in that regard, resulting in the Genocide against Russian-Speaking and Russian-Aligned Ukrainians in the Donetsk and Luhansk breakaway Republics by Neo-Nazis, Vladimir Putin would have done much the same as he has done in recent weeks.
But I also suspect that Donald Trump would have been prepared to sit down with Vladimir Putin and to OBJECTIVELY listen to Russia's side of the story and would not have gone the way of "Obama-Puppet" Biden, "Bad-Hair-Day" Boris Johnson and the rest of those "War Mongering Arseholes" !!
And now, the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated into the following ........................
Due to the INIQUITOUS, SYCOPHANTIC, ANTI-RUSSIAN BIAS OF THE LEFTIST MSM, VERY FEW HAVE EVEN HEARD, OR KNOW ANYTHING, of the FAR RIGHT, EXTREMIST GROUP IN UKRAINE KNOWN AS THE "AZOV MOVEMENT" Here is who they are ---->
"Azov Special Operations Detachment, often known as Azov Detachment, Azov Regiment, or Azov Battalion, is a right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi Ukrainian National Guard unit, based in Mariupol, in the Azov Sea coastal region. It saw its first combat experience recapturing Mariupol from pro-Russian separatists forces in June 2014".
It is PRIMARILY this outfit who have been doing the indiscriminate shelling and bombarding of the two breakaway Republics of the Russian-Speaking, Russian-Aligned Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the Donbas, thereby killing MANY innocent civilians resulting in thousands of women and their children to flee to the safety of Russia.
Vladimir Putin, after getting nowhere for OVER 7 YEARS with the West in insisting that Ukraine abide BY ITS OBLIGATIONS under the MINSK AGREEMENT, which is UN RESOLUTION 2202 (2015), and thereby INTERNATIONAL LAW, approved by the USA, finally decided, with the approval of the Russian Security Council, to recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk Republics and let them know that if they requested Russian Assistance then Russia would come to their aid ...... AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IS UNDERWAY AT THE PRESENT TIME !!!!!!!!!!! ....
And with regard to the Nazi-like AZOV elements, that is EXACTLY WHY Vladimir Putin said in a recent interview that the Russian military is out to "DE-NAZIFY" Ukraine. In other words Vladimir Putin knows the INFLUENCE that AZOV has over Zelensky, especially within Ukraine's military.
So Putin has sent the Russian military into the Donbas region in order to surround and defeat and remove the AZOV military element and thereby stop their Genocidal actions against the peoples of the Donetsk and Luhansk.
The Russian military has also encircled Kiev to prevent AZOV units from heading South to the Donbas region as well as to stop any further military equipment being flown in from the "West" to boost their AGGRESSIVE MILITARY ACTIONS.
I'm afraid the collective knowledge and understanding by most Western citizenry is SADLY LACKING with regard to the Demographics in Ukraine and what has transpired since the duly elected former President of Ukraine WAS OVERTHROWN in an ILLEGAL COUP, backed by the USA and other EU countries, and replaced by the ex-comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is weak, inexperienced and inept and who is extremely antagonist towards Russia and any Russian speaking people within Ukraine and who has been powerless to react effectively against the Nazi-like AZOV "National Guard" who are, by their nature, fiercely ANTI-RUSSIAN !!!!
In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the CIA have been "collaborating" and "colluding" with the AZOV Neo-Nazis in order to INCITE a reaction from Russia and thereby fulfill the "Biden, UK, EU and NATO Prophecy" about a "Russian Invasion" of Ukraine. This is what the CIA has been so good at over the decades when it came to orchestrating a "REGIME CHANGE" within foreign countries.
Russia has NO INTENTION of "Invading" the whole of Ukraine and "Annexing it". Russia is out to rid that country of the NEO-NAZIS as represented by the AZOV "Brigade" who have been supplied with military equipment by the "West" and who are hell-bent in attacking and eliminating ALL UKRAINIANS WHO ARE RUSSIAN SPEAKING AND RUSSIA ALIGNED IN UKRAINE !!!!
Once Russia has achieved that it's my contention that the Russian military will leave Ukraine in much the same way that THEY LEFT GEORGIA after they had sorted out the "UNNECESSARY SHIT" that was going on there and left Georgia to run its own country and its own affairs, AS IN ------>
"The Russo-Georgian War was a war between Georgia, Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The war took place in August 2008 following a period of worsening relations between Russia and Georgia, both formerly constituent republics of the Soviet Union."
So there we had a similar situation where Russian-Speaking and Russian-Aligned Georgians were being persecuted by Anti-Russian elements within Georgia. So Russia went in, SORTED THE SHIT OUT, AND LEFT, ...... THEY NEVER INVADED OR ANNEXED OR TOOK OVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY OR GOVERNMENT OF GEORGIA !!!
I have suggested and encouraged folk ,who are interested to know what is ACTUALLY GOING ON IN UKRAINE, to tune into THE DURAN, as well as to tune into the separate channels of the two contributors, ALEXANDER MERCOURIS and ALEX CHRISTOFOROU. Alexander is particularly well informed of events, etc, in Western and Eastern Europe and especially in Russia, including its past history. They can all be found on Youtube, RUMBLE, LOCALS, etc....... |
