Russia was involved in one sense, Putin immediately recognized the coup regime, which served to limit efforts to restore the elected government. It is not clear that the so-called separatists were actually separatists committing to fusion with the Russian Federation. Certainly the bombardment for years of ethnic Russians/Russian language…
Russia was involved in one sense, Putin immediately recognized the coup regime, which served to limit efforts to restore the elected government. It is not clear that the so-called separatists were actually separatists committing to fusion with the Russian Federation. Certainly the bombardment for years of ethnic Russians/Russian language speakers increased any such tendencies. Yet Putin refused to recognize any unity. Indeed, Minsk II openly committed the Donbas governments to Ukraine, albeit with autonomy and guarantees of rights you would deny them. But Minsk II was a fraud designed to buy time for further war.
It was the Kyiv regime which decided ethnic Russians/Russian speakers were not equal. An issue you have ignored, the right to national self determination, favors the Russians. Old boundaries cannot be sacred, especially given that imperialism freely ignores them when it wants to (Vietnam, Korea, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Sudan, the PRC, for glaring examples.)
You are not a consistent anti-imperialist, you are consistently pro-imperialist. Enough of this, no one else is paying attention anyhow.
It's like Donald Trump's fanboys explaining how he was never found guilty of rape, just sexual assault. It wears on you, having to explain the difference all the time.
I understand, it must be tiring always having to explain why the country that sent its tanks rolling over the border of another country wasn't actually doing an invasion.
Russia was involved in one sense, Putin immediately recognized the coup regime, which served to limit efforts to restore the elected government. It is not clear that the so-called separatists were actually separatists committing to fusion with the Russian Federation. Certainly the bombardment for years of ethnic Russians/Russian language speakers increased any such tendencies. Yet Putin refused to recognize any unity. Indeed, Minsk II openly committed the Donbas governments to Ukraine, albeit with autonomy and guarantees of rights you would deny them. But Minsk II was a fraud designed to buy time for further war.
It was the Kyiv regime which decided ethnic Russians/Russian speakers were not equal. An issue you have ignored, the right to national self determination, favors the Russians. Old boundaries cannot be sacred, especially given that imperialism freely ignores them when it wants to (Vietnam, Korea, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Sudan, the PRC, for glaring examples.)
You are not a consistent anti-imperialist, you are consistently pro-imperialist. Enough of this, no one else is paying attention anyhow.
It's like Donald Trump's fanboys explaining how he was never found guilty of rape, just sexual assault. It wears on you, having to explain the difference all the time.
I understand, it must be tiring always having to explain why the country that sent its tanks rolling over the border of another country wasn't actually doing an invasion.