I remember seeing all the discussion about it back on the Daily Paul in 2013. For all of us then who could see beyond the MSM lies, the Euromaidan was a neo-fascist coup d'etat and "Anti-Terrorist Operation" against Eastern and Southern Ukraine was a genocide in all but name against the Russian-Ukrainians. Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation thankfully saved an entire people from being steamrolled.
The War in Donbass (Eastern Ukraine) however continued because unlike Crimea, which was protected by treaty, the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts that made the Donbass had no such protections and were de jure a territory of Ukraine, even if de facto they became breakaway republics. The Russians' hands were tied, for any overt military operation to stop the genocide could be interpreted as an act of war. Thus the Eastern Ukrainians had to be supported by voluntary and round-about means, culminating in the 2014 Minsk II ceasefire agreement after the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics started pummeling the Ukrainian nationalists.
I never thought I'd see the day when this "frozen conflict" would begin to be resolved with the same Deep State who started it in the first place.
I remember seeing all the discussion about it back on the Daily Paul in 2013. For all of us then who could see beyond the MSM lies, the Euromaidan was a neo-fascist coup d'etat and "Anti-Terrorist Operation" against Eastern and Southern Ukraine was a genocide in all but name against the Russian-Ukrainians. Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation thankfully saved an entire people from being steamrolled.
The War in Donbass (Eastern Ukraine) however continued because unlike Crimea, which was protected by treaty, the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts that made the Donbass had no such protections and were de jure a territory of Ukraine, even if de facto they became breakaway republics. The Russians' hands were tied, for any overt military operation to stop the genocide could be interpreted as an act of war. Thus the Eastern Ukrainians had to be supported by voluntary and round-about means, culminating in the 2014 Minsk II ceasefire agreement after the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics started pummeling the Ukrainian nationalists.
I never thought I'd see the day when this "frozen conflict" would begin to be resolved with the same Deep State who started it in the first place.