It depends on the point of view. From their point of view it was Ukraine who attacked Russia's allies - DPR and LPR, recognized by Russia as independent states.
Sure he did. The recognition of DPR and LPR was the last formal chance to prevent the war. And, from their point of view, NATO is an aggressive and unjustful military organisation, and it's expansion is just another Drung nach Osten, like Hitler's, Napoleon's and other northern Crusades.
Actually, it wasn't BS. The referendums were more or less fair.
Of course it was. Support of anti-Russian Chechen terrorists since 1992, aggression against Russian brothers - Serbs (especially in 1999), support of the Georgian unprovoked attack against Russian peacekeepers and Russian citizens in South Ossetia (in 2008), support of Neo-Nazi regimes in Baltic states, etc... It was quite unfriendly and they did nothing to prove their usefulness for Russia.
Actually, he doesn't need any "exuse". Clinton, Obama and Biden successfully ruined American reputation in the world.
So NATO has done lots of things like "support" the Georgians defending their own country???
Not enough to defend Georgia, but pretty enough to demonstrate hostility to Russia.
I mean that the ethic Russians in Baltic States doesn't have any civil rights or even citizenship and it's only the question of time and incompetence when the situation will explode.
It is exactly these kinds of lies Putin has been telling the Russian people for decades that has brought Russia to this sorry state and will prevent it from recovering for the foreseeable future.
What exactly is a lie? That the most of ethnic Russians don't have citizenship in Baltic States? Or that all sides see this situation as unsatisfactory and temporary? The Baltic Neo-Nazies wait for NATO and EU permission and support to kill or expell all local Russians, the Baltic 'adequates' wait for EU permission to give them all them normal citizenship and equal rights, and the local Russians wait for equal rights from EU or defence from the Russian Federation.
Yes, that is exactly the lie, the same lie Russia used as a pretext for its invasion of Georgia and Ukraine. There are ethnic Russians living all over Europe and the US and elsewhere and the one thing they all have in common is that they don't want to be governed by Putin's Russia. You are just an echo of Hitler's excuses for invading other countries. Putin is not invading these countries to protect ethnic Russians, he is using ethnic Russians as an excuse for invading these countries.
Do you want to say, that the local Russians in Baltic states are citizens of those states?
www.statelessness.eu
The truth is they are not discriminated against because they are ethnic Russians. This is part of the body of lies Putin uses to generate hate towards countries he wants to capture, and in this way he turns Russians into true orcs, motivated by nothing but hate and a desire to kill and destroy.
Russia dismissed Warsaw Pact and the USSR, for starters and allowed the USA to increase their influence in Middle East.
Actually, those numbers are lie.
Really? Do you really believe, that permission to work in "poor Russia" can overweight the advantages of a normal citizenship?“Non-Citizens” of the Baltics: Common Misconceptions explained
In the following piece I will focus on four common misconceptions about non-citizens in the Baltics.
"To this day, there are approximately 300,000 non-citizens in the Baltics, in Estonia and Latvia. "
Why? If 2/3rds managed to gain citizenship, why not the other 1/3rd?
Russians in the Baltic states - Wikiwand
Russians in the Baltic states is a broadly defined subgroup of the Russian diaspora who self-identify as ethnic Russians, or are citizens of Russia, and live in...www.wikiwand.com
"or many, an important reason not to apply for citizenship is the fact that Russia gives non-citizens preferential treatment: they are free to work[citation needed] or visit relatives in Russia. The citizens of the Baltic states must apply for visas."
Oh, yeah. Non-citizens in their own countries. That what they call discrimination and abusing.
Putin invaded the place only because Obama destabilized it. The house divided cannot stand, and Obama made everything to divide it.
It's not a crap. I just said, that there is no reliable open information about ethnic Russians in Baltic states. Unofficially, in some places, for instance, Narva, hardly 5% of population are citizens. If you think, that it's not a fuel for rebellion - think one more time.
