Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Anna Danylchuk - Immediately after 'Euromaidan' Putin began Gathering Forces for Invasion of Ukraine" video.

  1. Ukraine probably would have become a Russian vassal by stealth if Yanukovich wasn't tossed out. He was the one who renewed the lease for the Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol with his infamous "Kharkiv Pact"when it was decided by Ukraine not to renew it by President Yushchenko. (He was the one who also was poisoned) from Wikipedia - Kharkiv Pact "During the presidency of Victor Yushchenko (January 2005 – February 2010) the Ukrainian government declared that the lease would not be extended and that the fleet would have to leave Sevastopol by 2017
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  2. I think Tsar Putin definitely decided to invade after he couldn't get the DNR & LNR into some kind of Federated Ukraine as Trojan horse wreckers via the bogus Minsk Agreements. Putin has said publicly he decided to enact the plan to retake Crimea after Euromaidan, but his decision to eventually take Crimea goes all the way back to 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia and helped Kosovo's independence. I remember seeing an interview years ago (I can't find it, it's buried by recent events) were he got angry with a bunch of journalists asking him if US meddling in Syria to topple Assad was the reason he decided to take Crimea and he got really annoyed with them and told them all to shut up and then said something like "none of you have any idea, it was not Syria it was Yugoslavia, it was what NATO did to Yugoslavia, that's when I decided Crimea would have to be taken in the future".(something like that, was a long time ago) He also mentioned it to Sholz when he visited Moscow in Feb 2022 just before the invasion.  from "EXPLAINER: Putin’s Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war" by The Associated Press "“But all of us were witnesses to the war in Europe that NATO unleashed against Yugoslavia,” Putin said. He recalled that it was a major military operation involving bombing strikes against a European capital, Belgrade. “It did happen. Without any sanctions by the U.N. Security Council. It is a very sad example, but it is a hard fact,” Putin said. He has argued that by intervening in Kosovo, the West created a precedent with longstanding consequences."
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