There's three American military colonels that talk about this on You-Tube extensively. You'd be a fool to call them gullible to Russian propaganda. Wilkerson, MacGregor and Black. Then there are the experts, Stephen Cohen ( now deceased ), John Mearsheimer, Scott Ritter, and many others who put out a coherent narrative with facts, whereas all we get from our own government is propaganda and censorship.
There is no evidence that Putin wants to get the USSR back, not a shred. Nor is there any shred that he wants to take over Europe. He wants the US to stop putting nuclear weapons on his border. Putin has a military that is adequate to defend Russia, not to make any offensive moves.
Crimea was owned and built up by the Russians in the 1700's. Ukraine is a mess of a country, and we are claiming it is a democracy while the Nationalists are firing bombs at the Russian separatists. How ignorant can you possibly be?
> I guarantee Putin would have found another excuse to invade Ukraine.
Sure lots of credibility there, for someone who knows nothing about this conflict. People like you make all kinds of unqualified statements without basis - you just blabber on and one, and when challenges you call the other person a Russian agent. You're an idiot.
> Obama tried to do a "Russian reset" and become friends with Russia.
Totally untrue. Obama supported NATO expansion.
The fact is that right now the US is forbidding Ukraine to even talk with or negotiate with the Russians. We intend to fight to the last Ukrainian as they say.
You know nothing, and you seem terrified to find out anything.
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untitled6 (291)
2 years ago
"Crimea was owned and built up by the Russians in the 1700's. Ukraine is a mess of a country, and we are claiming it is a democracy while the Nationalists are firing bombs at the Russian separatists. How ignorant can you possibly be?"
I have to block you after reading this. This is just straight up russian propaganda. Don't want to waste my time with a complete delusional retard.
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TrentnQuarantino (9187)
2 years ago
Hahaha.
Russian Empire (1783–1917)
See also: Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire, Novorossiya, and Taurida Governorate
In 1774, the Ottoman Empire was defeated by Catherine the Great with the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca making the Tatars of the Crimea politically independent. Catherine the Great's incorporation of the Crimea in 1783 into the Russian Empire increased Russia's power in the Black Sea area[27]
From 1853 to 1856, the strategic position of the peninsula in controlling the Black Sea meant that it was the site of the principal engagements of the Crimean War, where Russia lost to a French led alliance.
Russian Civil War (1917–1921)
During the Russian Civil War, Crimea changed hands many times and was where Wrangel's anti-Bolshevik White Army made their last stand with many anti-Communist fighters and civilians escaping to Istanbul by with up to 150,000 murdered in Crimea.
Soviet Union (1921–1991)
In 1921 the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.[29] Crimea was occupied by Germany during the Second World War and afterwards a number of nationalities, including the Crimean Tartars, were deported to other parts of the USSR. The ASSR was dissolved in 1945, and the Crimea became an oblast which and was then transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, on the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav.
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