Robin Hood wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:Anyone who thinks the Russian special military operation in Ukraine is based on one and only reason, is ignorant. Anyone who thinks all those billions poured in Ukraine, are in support of Western values about democracy, freedom, and sovereignty, suffers from cranial rectal defilement (as McGregor says).
I would suggest that you are wrong in that assumption!
The SMO from the very beginning was named such because it WAS an operation with a single purpose. That purpose was clearly stated at the time by the Russians to be a special operation of limited scope and that was to protect the population of Donbas from what would probably have been a genocide by the Kyiv regime had they not responded as they did.... (snip)
That was one of the many reasons. All you have to do, is just check what were/are the OFFICIALLY published Russian objectives of the SMO, which include de-nazification, and de-militarisation of Ukraine. If the objective was to just to protect the people of Donbas , there wouldn't be any need to de-nazify the rest of the Ukraine. However Russian speakers are still the majority in many other areas outside Donbas, therefore the objective is not limited to Donbas. If the objective did not include the expansion of Nato within Ukraine as a whole, there wouldn't be any need to de-militarize the whole of Ukraine.
Nato expansion in Ukraine having 1375 Km land borders with Russia, plus the frequently spoken Ukrainian/Nato objective to retake Crimea,
is obviously one of the main reasons.
......... they forgot to mention a bit of news that had a far bigger impact (
Unless they're thinking of using some sub-surface means. Even that would be a neat trick I think. 
) had a "spy ship" (designation AGI) permanently on-station at a place called the Malin Head, which was off the most northerly point of Ireland. It's principle role being to monitor UK/US nuclear subs transiting out of Faslane into their oceanic patrol areas, or heading back to port. I heard if they detected one they would sometimes play loud music under the surface. Presumably to make a point. When we flew out of Kinloss into the eastern Atlantic we would usually update its position for the int people. That was easy enough but to make it interesting we would sometimes turn off all our transmitters and use the passive transmission receiver to home on their nav radar, going in low level to surprise them and maybe getting some pictures of them doing something interesting. Actually, .....................................................I don't think we ever managed that. 
