Wylie wrote:
I didn't grasp his Nazi fighting talk until this came to light.
The Maidan coup of 2014 was orchestrated by the CIA, and led to a government that's largely targeting Russian speaking minorities, going against the Minsk peace agreement. The Donbass area has been a humanitarian disaster for years, with thousands of casualties. That's why Putin claims he's fighting Nazis. There's merit to his claim.
However, this obviously isn't simply a peace mission to protect Russian minorities, it's a full blown invasion that, like V8 said, should be condemned.
I don't even understand the instant shift to talking about Trump. The Maidan coup was orchestrated by Obama. This conflict escalated because Biden refused to make the promise that the Ukraine wouldn't join NATO. Considering that NATO isn't really willing to get involved at all right now, it would have been an easy promise to make, that probably would have avoided all this.
And now we're in a situation where innocent civilians are dying left and right, because a few powerful idiots are playing geo-political chess. It's heartbreaking.
And at the same time, we (the West) are not only condoning Saudi Arabia’s years-long genocide of the Yemeni people, but actively supporting it by providing weapons and money. The hypocrisy is equally heartbreaking.