Lordo wrote:repulsewarrior wrote:Robin Hood wrote:This is for those that do not know the background to the Ukraine war ....... he lives in Kharkiv and is married to a Ukrainian
and up-to-date and looking forward ......
...what a mess eh?
...but the origins of this war occurs much before Maidan; it is (still) about Russia's desires to maintain hegemony over natural resources, (and "Russia's" corruption in the Ukraine).
RW have you forgotten how the Russians refused to sell cheap gas to Ukraine and forced them to buy it from the open market. There was no issue with Ukraine and Russia till they refused to sign the Minsk agreement and the coup which replaced the elected President. Add to that their declaration to join Nato. There is the cause of this war.
But do I hear my Swine friend LR claim the Ukraine has the right to join Nato if they so wish? I say stop talking 2 year-old politics and start talking mature politics. Ukraine is no more allowed to have Nato forces than Cuba was allowed to have Russian missiles by the Americans of all people. That freedom loving cunts over there accross the water as it were. This also clarifies for him who exactly is responsible for the civilians being killed before the February and since then too in Ukraine.
Sorry but Ukraine has every right to join NATO and it eventually will join the EU and NATO. It's the only viable course of action for them that will offer them protection against a war mongering aggressor such as Ruzzia.
The Revolution was not a Coup neither. It was a populist uprising to unsurp the Authoritarian Ruzzian Supported regime in Ukraine, because Ukrainians much like everyone else who has endured the torture of Ruzzian hegemony of the old and failed USSR, like Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Georgia and more, just hate Riuzzia and everything it represents and they want nothing at all to do with Ruzzia. And who can blame them? Which country in their right minds actually has any respect for Ruzzia? Not many bar a few tinpots like Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
That just explains the situation to a tee, doesn't it bitch? You would have to be a nincompoop to not get it...