Deadstick
Platinum Member
Cool story, but its total bullshit, Yanukovych wasn't a puppet he was treading a path between East and West, any election after he was overthrow has been totally illegitimate.His puppet leader was ousted and ukraine elected someone who wanted in NATO. So he used proxies in Donbas to try to break away from Ukraine.
Didnt work with proxies so eventually he took Crimea to ensure Russian access to the Black Sea. He wanted Donbas and more to put a buffer zone on land for Crimea.
Since Proxies didnt take Donbas he went full invasion to secure more ports to the Black Sea and buffer zone land to protect them.
Sound it continue he may try to permanently cease Odessa.
This War is about land and access to the Black Sea.