The fact of the matter is that the WESTERN population is not really at all well informed about the REALITIES within Ukraine.
Ukraine is divided between West and East with the natural dividing "line" of the Dnieper River down the middle. To the West the Ukrainians tend towards Western Europe. To the East the Ukrainians are far more aligned with Russia and the majority of them speak Russian.
One of the reasons that there was the breakaway of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions was because the current Ukraine administration wanted the language of Ukraine to be the Ukrainian language and there was NOT TO BE Russian spoken. That was COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE TO THE ABOVE TWO REGIONS ..... so they broke away.
That caused Upheavals and Demonstrations and Violence in 2014. As a result of that France, Germany and Russia entered into discussions with the Ukrainians in order to stop the violence.
Eventually the Ukrainians agreed to enter into discussions with the leaders of the Donetsk and Luhansk. That culminated into the drawing up of the MINSK AGREEMENT which passed through the UN SECURITY COUNCIL where everyone agreed to it ..... INCLUDING THE USA, and that became UN RESOLUTION 2202 (2015), which is INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Unfortunately the current ex-comedian president of Ukraine, Zelensky, is hell-bent on NOT ABIDING by his OBLIGATIONS OF THE MINSK AGREEMENT and last year sent the Ukraine military to the border of the DONBAS with the intention to invade.
As soon as Russia saw that she amassed 2 Army Divisions close to the border and made it VERY CLEAR with Zelensky that Russia would not abide an attack against the two breakaway states who's populations were very much aligned with Russia.
Zelensky SHAT IN HIS PANTS because he knew, that without outside Military assistance, Russia would wipe his forces off the face of the map. His military forces are still there today on the border, twiddling their thumbs and doing FUCKALL.
This is one of the MAIN REASONS why Zelensky wants to join NATO because according to "Clause 5" of the NATO AGREEMENT, if one NATO member is attacked the other NATO members are obligated to come to his assistance. However, the USA and Western Europe are not stupid. The last thing that they want is to enter into a Military conflict with Russia, ON RUSSIA's DOOR STEP, so they have not been prepared to have Ukraine join NATO ....................
All that Vladimir Putin wants is to have good relations with countries on the European continent and to do business with them and for everybody to just mind their own business and TO KEEP THEIR NOSES out of the affairs of other SOVEREIGN NATIONS, something, unfortunately, that several US Administrations have not been inclined to do as has been seen in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, etc,.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, as long as Ukraine doesn't "invade" the DONBAS, there is very little that Vladimir Putin has to do.
He can just sit there and watch Arseholes like Biden, Blinken, Johnson and Co. talk SHIT about his "planned invasion(?)" of Ukraine, while he sells his gas and agricultural products to Eastern countries and also to India.
If Europe doesn't want his gas via Nord Stream 2, then fine. He's already recovered the cost of the pipeline from his oil and gas revenues due to their sharp rise in prices as Russia's oil "cut off" price is around $45/barrel ...... |
