Think of a teenager, or a young adult who has no interest in politics. All they've ever heard is that Russia and Putin are evil. If you had an opportunity to explain to them why the war is happening - what would you say?
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I'd consider telling them about NATO expansion and how there was a deal in 1989 where Gorbachev took down the wall and started to dismantle the USSR in exchange for NATO going no further eastwards and that the west broke their promise and having them meddle in Ukraine is an existential threat for Russia because missiles can be launched towards Moscow which they don't have time to stop.
Then point out the 5Bn which the US put into radicalising the UkroNazis over 25 years and the color revolution in 2014 where some unknown snipers shot both police and protesters and Yanukovich had to run away and barely got away with his life.
then mention that awful woman in the state department Nuland and her "F the EU" and "Yats is our man" and how she, along with Geoffrey Pyatt organised the coup.
then mention that Kiev was bombing the breakaway republics since 2014 and killed 16K people, mostly Russian speakers. and they had tried to take over and ethnically cleanse the Donbass with Nazi punisher batallions like "Praviiy Sektor" and "Azov" batallion.
the Russians actually went in on a belated Right to protect context for Russian speakers as well as a de-nazi and de-militarise SMO only after the west avoided implementing not 1 but 2 Minsk agreements and later admitted that they had used them to re-arm.
don't forget to add that Ukraine shot a missile into Poland and tried to pretend Russia did it.
We haven't even talked about the bio weapons laboratories either
Oh yes!
No, I didn't mention the bio weapons. Wanted to keep it simple for the uninitiated
Post-Convid I'm just inclined to default to "It's bullshit" to explain world events, so that's a brilliant summation. Huge doots.
Thank you. I was watching Ukraine closely at the time.
yes, indeed.
Excellent summary. Thank you so much.
You're welcome fren!
I was watching Ukraine.
:-)
It shows!