Joe Biden called on world leaders to stand by Ukraine in its struggle to eject Russian troops, even as Kyiv’s allies said they now expect the war to last for years to come.
What are you talking about “liberation” for? Russia isn’t liberating anyone. Russia is reestablishing the conditions for its national security. Previously those conditions were maintained by a neutral Ukraine. Once the right-wing coup happened, with John McCain and Victoria Nuland physically there (literally handing out cookies) and celebrating a great victory for democracy in Ukraine, Russia’s national security was threatened. It was easily solvable. Don’t expand NATO nuclear capabilities to the Russian border, hold elections, stop killing all the people who were voting for neutral candidates. But the US refused to do anything except continue to expand its threat to Russia.
Russia has no interest in Ukraine. It is a proxy and it is being destroyed in a proxy war. The Russian state position, expressed by Putin, about Ukraine is a position born of the necessity of justifying the war without explicitly saying that Russia is fighting against the USA, because that escalates the war to a direct conflict and no nation can really handle a direct conflict with the USA.
Russia did invade, absolutely. Russia is not there as liberators, absolutely. This has nothing to do with Russia telling Ukraine what to do and everything with the USA telling Ukraine what to do and killing anyone who disagrees with them.
What are you talking about “liberation” for? Russia isn’t liberating anyone. Russia is reestablishing the conditions for its national security. Previously those conditions were maintained by a neutral Ukraine. Once the right-wing coup happened, with John McCain and Victoria Nuland physically there (literally handing out cookies) and celebrating a great victory for democracy in Ukraine, Russia’s national security was threatened. It was easily solvable. Don’t expand NATO nuclear capabilities to the Russian border, hold elections, stop killing all the people who were voting for neutral candidates. But the US refused to do anything except continue to expand its threat to Russia.
Russia has no interest in Ukraine. It is a proxy and it is being destroyed in a proxy war. The Russian state position, expressed by Putin, about Ukraine is a position born of the necessity of justifying the war without explicitly saying that Russia is fighting against the USA, because that escalates the war to a direct conflict and no nation can really handle a direct conflict with the USA.
Russia did invade, absolutely. Russia is not there as liberators, absolutely. This has nothing to do with Russia telling Ukraine what to do and everything with the USA telling Ukraine what to do and killing anyone who disagrees with them.