I am a human being, and I'm here learn a bit more about other points of view (say nothing about all those Ukrainians in RuNet and my own Ukrainian friends and relatives). I just see your argument as not valid.
You seem to discount the migration of Eastern Europeans and Germans into Ukraine during the reign of Katherine the Great. Nor the many Germans and their allies after WWII.
Roughly half of the Ukrainian population is not ethnic Russian. However, almost the entire Ukrainian ethnic Russians support the Kiev Regime.
They, like the other peoples of Eastern Europe have lived under Russian Rule during the Soviet Union - THEY DO NOT WANT YOU BACK!!!
Really? As it killed everyone in Las Vegas after almost a thousand nuclear bursts nearby? Or as it killed everyone in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
I didn't say that the U.S. or Europe would do well in a nuclear war. I only said that Russia would be destroyed., It's called 'Mutual Assured Destruction' - nothing new here.
Actually, the USA don't have intermediate range nuclear missiles yet. According the open sources the only tactical weapons the USA posses are obsolete gravity bombs B61 Mods 3,4 slowly upgrading to Mod 12.
You only know what we want you to know.
Another lie. NATO countries committed offensive actions and fought aggressive wars in past, and right now, it pretend to take Russian lands of Crimea and Novorussia and fight proxy-war against Russia.
There world had accepted the annexation of Crimea. No significant action was taken to change that. Only diplomatic rhetoric. Everyone knew that Crimea had been part of Russia, the people that lived in Crimea were overwhelmingly Pro-Russian and the Crimea was critical to Russian National security.
However, Donbas is different. The Russians have no valid claim to Donbas. The Russians just wanted Donbas due to its industrial value. It was thievery.
It mostly depends on definition of ethnicity. My grandfather from Kherson was registered by the Soviet power as "Ukrainian" but my father was already "Russian". It's a not big deal.
Apparently, the Ukrainians do believe that it's a big deal.
May be. May be not. That's the problem of civil wars - everyone has a cousin on another side. That's why the system supposed be not only fool-proof, but sabotage-proof , either.
You say it's a civil war, the Ukrainians say its an invasion. The Ukrainian nationalist movement & identity has existed for many, many years.
Yes, Donbass is great. But peaceful cooperation is better.
Yes, so why don't the Russians leave Ukraine and start the process of peaceful cooperation with Ukriane.
Its not just about Russian government. I do believe to the EU when they say, that they want to "decolonize" Russia. I do believe NATO officials when they say that they want to take Novorussia and Crimea. I do believe our dear members like
ESay and
Litwin when they say that the Russians, their language and faith should be discriminated.
If somebody says that he he is going to kill you - it's much better to believe him (and kill him first).
Only
Litwin and a few extremists want to destroy Russia. Nobody in the U.S., U.K., France or Germany want to destroy Russia. What we'd like is for Russia to behave like a civilized law-abiding nation. To engage in peaceful commerce with the rest of the world. That's what we thought was happening until Putin made it clear that he intended to conquer Ukraine and the Baltics and reestablish the old Russian Empire - thru brute military force.
Somehow, the rest of the world believes that a nation's strength is based on economics and commerce. Only Russia still needs to establish it's power through brute military force and enslaving the conquered people.
Russia is a nation lead by Feudal barbarians.
Bla-bla-bla. May be I'm young, but I do remember western support of Chechen terrorists and Kazakh's nationalists. Say nothing about history lessons.
Did anyone attempt to invade Russia? The Chechens & Kazakhs did not want to be part of Russia. They are only part of Russia because of brute military force and mass murder. Why are you so afraid of letting people be free?
Oh, my. By crushing Sweden Empire Peter the Great ensafed Russian people. He lost hundreds of thousands but he saved millions. As well as Stalin, who saved tens of millions of Russians.
The Russian stole land that had always belonged to Sweden. Peter the Great wanted a port on the Baltic Sea. There was no justification. It was thievery. He did not save any Russians. There was no threat to Russia. Hundereds of thousands died to make Peter the Great wealthier - no other reason.
Stalin killed Russian by the hundreds of thousands for purely political reasons.
It's not about how many millions were killed. It's more about how many millions were saved.
So, you have to kill hundreds of thousands of Russians, to save millions? Somehow, no Western nation feels that they must kill their own citizens to save them This is just testimony to how stupid the Russian people are.
Of course, you HAVE to believe that BULLSHIT or the Russian government will kill you.
I can be much more stupid than that, but I hardly can reach the deepness of your stupidity. (No offense, just trying to be polite).
Your Stupidity is as vast as the Russian Steppes.
BTW- Why can't Russia develop its own land? It's the largest country in the world. The great Russian ego only cares about some mindless competition with the West and can only satisfy that ego by stealing other people's land.
empire, do you support imperialism ? do you think age of empires has not gone yet ?
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