Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Russia Ukraine Conflict: Anti-war protester interrupts Russian state TV news broadcast" video.

  1. Although Russia is an aggressor for sure here, it’s hardly been unprovoked, and this is really a Civil War (particularly from Putin’s point of view). NATO reneging on its agreement not to expand post 1989 has provoked Putin. Casual flouting of 2014 Minsk agreements not to aggress against pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east, leading to the loss of about 14,000 has provoked Putin. The 2014 coup having much evidence (surprise! surprise!) of the paw prints of the CIA\USA has provoked Putin. Zelensky has publicly expressed a desire to acquire nuclear weapons, understandably spooking Moscow and thereby provoking Putin. There’s also the stench of corrupt family Biden deals with Ukraine, as well, which might explain sleepy Joe’s reluctance to get directly involved here. For now. Add to this Putin’s statement that the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the ‘most tragic geopolitical event of the 20th century’, along with his belief in the greater mother Russia project and bringing the recalcitrant (as he sees them) Ukrainians back into the Slavic familial bosom and you have a perfect storm in which Putin feels justified in rolling his tanks into another sovereign, self-governing territory. He’s deluded in doing this, of course, as most Ukrainians want nothing to do with him, and rightly so. None of the above makes what Putin is doing right, but it makes it a little more understandable from Putin’s/Russia’s point of view.
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