You got to be kidding!
Russians separatists claiming Transnistrian in Moldova and South Ossetia in Georgia.
They gobbled up the Crimea, and are in the process of doing the same to Eastern Ukraine.
These are facts, not propaganda!
With the common denominator, the word: Russian separatists!
*facepalm*
You´re really gullible then i guess.
Crimea as a region has been badly treated by the central government ever since Ukraine became a nation of it´s own. Why do you think they VOTED for greater independence already twenty years ago?
It´s possibly even correct to say that the Kiev regimes have gone as far as to
abuse the Crimea region.
And once Kiev started chanting about ein volk, ein reich? At that point it was just a question of time before Crimea wanted out.
And Georgia? Did you bother to check up mr dictator president who started the war there?
Name of Saakhashvili, known for rigging elections, forcing opposition media closed down and suspected of blackmail and murder.
South Ossetia declared independence 1990, Georgia responded by removing the regions autonomy, completely ruining any chance of peaceful settlement.
Mr Misha had the reabsorbing of the region as part of his election promise. He did not care what the people of the region wished.
And in case you missed it, Russia was caught completely pants down in S. Ossetia 2008, when Georgia started the war to forcibly annex the area.
Oh yeah, Russian expansionism truly showing off there... If you´re blind and know exactly ZERO about the history of the area maybe.
And in E. Ukraine? Funny thing you know, the people there didn´t start out as Russian separatists. They didn´t even start out as separatists at all.
The region have worked politically for a federal Ukraine almost since indepence.
And like Crimea, the Kiev regime has not handled the issue in a nice way, and the central government caused it in the first place by being fricking IDIOTS.
If a region is your country´s economic motor, do you:
A, Develop it?
B, At least make sure people there are happy, or
C, Tax it, spend the money on corrupting the capital city while antagonising the population at every turn?
Kiev chose C from the start.
People in the region contribute more per capita to the national budget, but they could get better healthcare in Russia or even western or southern Ukraine, do you really expect people to just sit down and accept that?
Ukraine´s own governments have spent a quarter of a century to create this mess by corruption, nationalism and stupidity, under multiple separate governments, all so corrupt that they make the cliche "banana republics" look like wonders of efficiency and democracy, and yet, you still claim it to be Russias fault?
Despite there having been at least 5 "change of the guards" in Russian politics during that time?
It wasn´t Russia threatening Ukraine with "You can only sign a trade agreement with us" , that was EU (damn idiots), while Russia stated openly and repeatedly that any treaties offered were non-exclusive and that Russia was perfectly willing to make accomodations in any treaties for the existance of others.
For fun, why don´t you try and take a look at the number of military invasions and interventions since the breakup of the USSR, by Russia and by USA. Compare and see who is being expansionist.
Oh and maybe correlate to which countries tried to dump the dollar as the standard oil currency. Damn, strange how those end up under sanctions for various more or less realistic reasons like Iran. Or get invaded, like Iraq.
But hey, media can´t handle anything more complex than "Russian separatists", so obviously it must be the complete truth.
You even swallowed the nutcase story about the convoy "raiding" Ukrainian military factories? I mean please.
Did you spend even a single second thinking about how plausible that claim was? Huh?
Spare parts are made elsewhere.
The amount of parts or systems that single convoy could have brought with them is utterly negligable compared to the total.
Russia is not in any way constrained by availability of a few systems, especially not considering how Russia spent it´s first decade of getting rid of dependencies from non-national sources.
Russian, russian ears ewerywere!
