Just a couple of thoughts on that....
the US-Nato alliance has been poking at the Russian bear for years now, basically since the end of the USSR. What you hear in Western media is very one-sided anti-russian propaganda.
Just think for a moment if the sides were reversed and Putin had been approaching and encircling the US for years with NATO and weaponry and missilies etc ....
i recommend reading "the grand chessboard" by Zbigniew Brzesinski, former national security advisor to Obama and others, he outlines it quite nicely how America want to keep hegemony and remain the sole superpower in Eurasia and therefore necessary to contain, especially Russia.
He also mentions how important it is to keep Russia and Germany apart (which is what we seeing now, Germany being a very true vassal to the US since we are still an occupied country - the Russians left long ago but American bases still remain and Ramstein has been a focal point in the US's illegal murderous drone war program )
He mentions Ukraine explicitley as an important part of the chessboard, which is why the Americans have been instrumental in the Maidan and subsequent "putsch" in Ukraine in 2014 and installing a nationalist anti-russian government, some would say right wing, just check out the Azov batallion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
The eastern republics of Ukraine, being naturally more close to Russia did not accept that government and separated into the Donetzk and Lugansk etc
What is never mentioned in Western media is that Kiew has been attacking and shelling those Republics for years now, cutting them off of funds etc (more than 10 000 civilian deaths since 2014)
(a side note re Maidan, remember Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pye handing out sandwiches and cookies to protestors.... just imagine the Russian ambassador going to NY and giving the Wallstreet occupy movement food.... how would Americans react??)
It is also helpful to listen to Pt Putin in person, there are several interviews that American media has done with him, in English translation in the internet.
The Russians do not want war!!! they are still traumatized from the Great patriotic war, which they call world war II.
THere are different estimates but it is reckoned they lost between 15- 20 million russian lives during that war.
Pt Putin himself has lost family during the Leningrad siege (now St Petersburg)
But if you bully and corner a country long enough, surround it with foreign military, talk belligerently everywhere and accuse them of all kinds of things (like the "killer remark" Pt Biden had for Putin which is more than ironic bc I think it will be difficult to find a country which has killed more people in its various wars than the US) - what will happen?
it is like playground bullies cornering another. Eventually that one will lash out in self defense. Which is what we see happen here.
Sorry for being so long but I have researched a bit on the subject and I hold the Russian people dear and it just pains my heart to see them vilified so rabidly in Western media.
Peace to all sides!!!! I pray for them.
the US-Nato alliance has been poking at the Russian bear for years now, basically since the end of the USSR. What you hear in Western media is very one-sided anti-russian propaganda.
Just think for a moment if the sides were reversed and Putin had been approaching and encircling the US for years with NATO and weaponry and missilies etc ....
i recommend reading "the grand chessboard" by Zbigniew Brzesinski, former national security advisor to Obama and others, he outlines it quite nicely how America want to keep hegemony and remain the sole superpower in Eurasia and therefore necessary to contain, especially Russia.
He also mentions how important it is to keep Russia and Germany apart (which is what we seeing now, Germany being a very true vassal to the US since we are still an occupied country - the Russians left long ago but American bases still remain and Ramstein has been a focal point in the US's illegal murderous drone war program )
He mentions Ukraine explicitley as an important part of the chessboard, which is why the Americans have been instrumental in the Maidan and subsequent "putsch" in Ukraine in 2014 and installing a nationalist anti-russian government, some would say right wing, just check out the Azov batallion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
The eastern republics of Ukraine, being naturally more close to Russia did not accept that government and separated into the Donetzk and Lugansk etc
What is never mentioned in Western media is that Kiew has been attacking and shelling those Republics for years now, cutting them off of funds etc (more than 10 000 civilian deaths since 2014)
(a side note re Maidan, remember Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pye handing out sandwiches and cookies to protestors.... just imagine the Russian ambassador going to NY and giving the Wallstreet occupy movement food.... how would Americans react??)
It is also helpful to listen to Pt Putin in person, there are several interviews that American media has done with him, in English translation in the internet.
The Russians do not want war!!! they are still traumatized from the Great patriotic war, which they call world war II.
THere are different estimates but it is reckoned they lost between 15- 20 million russian lives during that war.
Pt Putin himself has lost family during the Leningrad siege (now St Petersburg)
But if you bully and corner a country long enough, surround it with foreign military, talk belligerently everywhere and accuse them of all kinds of things (like the "killer remark" Pt Biden had for Putin which is more than ironic bc I think it will be difficult to find a country which has killed more people in its various wars than the US) - what will happen?
it is like playground bullies cornering another. Eventually that one will lash out in self defense. Which is what we see happen here.
Sorry for being so long but I have researched a bit on the subject and I hold the Russian people dear and it just pains my heart to see them vilified so rabidly in Western media.
Peace to all sides!!!! I pray for them.
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