Illegitimate. IQs above 80 shouldn't hold CIA-sponsored elections during a civil war. We have seen the same dangers with the current CIA-POSPOTUS puppet. Those burned alive at Odessa began the nazi sequences to follow. That was a cool one. There should be a pop-quiz on it.
First. A civil war by definition would mean that it was hostilities between the same people. The citizens of a single country. Since Russia has been sending troops to fight in the Donbas since the beginning. It isn’t exactly a civil war.
Many Russian servicemen went to Donbas in cleaned uniforms in unmarked Russian military vehicles.
The truth is that nobody could hold out for eight years without significant support in manpower and munitions.
So calling it a civil war is not just rewriting history. It is whitewashing history. The truth is lost in your version isn’t it?
The problem with your next claim. The drug pipeline claim. It just doesn’t make sense.
Heroine from Afghanistan would have to pass through Russia if it traveled by land. If it came from the orient, again same routing. If it came by sea, the smartest and simplest route would be through the ports in Norther Europe. Perhaps the Balkins.
Following a controlled delivery of drugs across Europe led by Romanian judicial and law enforcement authorities, coordinated arrests of ten suspected members of an organised crime group trafficking large quantities of heroin to Europe took place in Belgium, the Netherlands and Romania.
www.eurojust.europa.eu
Cocaine? Why sail it all the way to the Black Sea when those ports are more regional instead of major international hubs? It would be smarter and easier for it to get lost in the shuffle at major ports which deal in millions of containers a year instead of a few thousand. Again. Northern Europe or even St. Petersburg.
So claiming that Ukraine which isn’t in the EU and has cargo shipments inspected at the borders is a major pipeline doesn’t make sense. Not when the cargo, once in the EU can move unmolested from nation to nation. Hell it would be smarter to send it through Ireland than Ukraine.
And the drug lords are not dumb.
The real threat to Russia wasn’t drugs. It wasn’t the imaginary Nazi’s. It was the solidification of western values and freedoms.
It is a threat to Putin’s dreams of a new Soviet Empire.
That is what the Russians are fighting for. Not any other propaganda bullshit.