I think it matters that the cia formulated a coup against the pro-russian government. Ukraine would not have 'switched sides'if not for that. The nation was better off being friendly with russia, turns out. When we say "US will send aid" we dont mean to give ukrainians longer life. Just to give russians a quicker death. And since ukrainians are expendable, we dont care if they die 10 to 1 or 100 to 1, as long as they're taking down a few of Ivan's tanks.
I guess I didn’t mean that it “doesn’t matter” in its totality.
I meant that it doesn’t matter what the reason was that they switched to a pro western government.
Whatever the reason, cia aliens lizard people or actual popular vote…it doesn’t matter WHY Ukraine switched to a pro western government in the sense that that led to the inevitable need for Russia to secure their warm water port.
From russias point of view, they must have access to Crimea. End of story.
Russias reason for invading is really simple.
They require a warm water port (one that doesn’t seasonally freeze) for their navy on their west coast.
That port is Crimea.
After the breakup of the ussr Ukraine was politically pro Russia.
Russia was “okay” with this arrangement.
In 2014 a pro American government was elected. (CIA whatever doesn’t matter)
So Russia took Crimea. Gotta have the port. Fuck you.
But that wasn’t enough because their only domestic supply route to crimea was via a bridge that obviously can be destroyed.
They needed a land route to crimea that cannot simply be destroyed and cut off supply routes to their navy.
From the Russian point of view, this is vitally necessary.
Russia then invaded Ukraine to secure territory to create that land bridge to crimea that was not under western influence or control.
That’s the whole reason for the war in a nutshell.
It ain’t nazis and it ain’t for the “Russians” living in Ukraine.
It’s for the strategic purposes of securing their preexisting warm water port with a friendly (or at least controlled) land route for resupply.
Everything else is psyop.
I think it matters that the cia formulated a coup against the pro-russian government. Ukraine would not have 'switched sides'if not for that. The nation was better off being friendly with russia, turns out. When we say "US will send aid" we dont mean to give ukrainians longer life. Just to give russians a quicker death. And since ukrainians are expendable, we dont care if they die 10 to 1 or 100 to 1, as long as they're taking down a few of Ivan's tanks.
I guess I didn’t mean that it “doesn’t matter” in its totality.
I meant that it doesn’t matter what the reason was that they switched to a pro western government.
Whatever the reason, cia aliens lizard people or actual popular vote…it doesn’t matter WHY Ukraine switched to a pro western government in the sense that that led to the inevitable need for Russia to secure their warm water port.
From russias point of view, they must have access to Crimea. End of story.
I agree that they need their warm water port. They have said as much in justification of the special operation