The feeble response of the West to Russia's initial invasion in 2014, combined with Ukraine's multiple weaknesses, set the stage for where we are today.
The challenging aspect of Russia’s seizure of Crimea was that their military and naval installations there, existing under bilateral agreements between Kyiv and Moscow, meant that Russia needed only to move units into these bases and then extend outward to control key points and installations- in the process disarming or gaining allegiance of the local Ukrainian units. There simply was no way to prevent them gaining control. Once there it now became a problem of how do you force them to leave and neither Ukraine nor NATO were up to fighting a war over it at that time.
…been writing and saying that for ten fucking years… i was so mad at Obama… still am, he’s actually responsible for all this and biden, despite, his help, which is NEVER on time when it needed most, protecting russia and their “rights” more then Ukraine, so yeah there is a fucking pattern - nothing’s really changed
..... yup. A a pattern there certainly is. A sad, bad, infuriating one. Future historians will be hard on the West when writing about Putin/Ukraine/the West, I fear (hope).
…well, let’s see what happens, i think ukraine has a better perspective for future then us, they already made their choice and do not let anyone second guessing it
The challenging aspect of Russia’s seizure of Crimea was that their military and naval installations there, existing under bilateral agreements between Kyiv and Moscow, meant that Russia needed only to move units into these bases and then extend outward to control key points and installations- in the process disarming or gaining allegiance of the local Ukrainian units. There simply was no way to prevent them gaining control. Once there it now became a problem of how do you force them to leave and neither Ukraine nor NATO were up to fighting a war over it at that time.
…been writing and saying that for ten fucking years… i was so mad at Obama… still am, he’s actually responsible for all this and biden, despite, his help, which is NEVER on time when it needed most, protecting russia and their “rights” more then Ukraine, so yeah there is a fucking pattern - nothing’s really changed
..... yup. A a pattern there certainly is. A sad, bad, infuriating one. Future historians will be hard on the West when writing about Putin/Ukraine/the West, I fear (hope).
…well, let’s see what happens, i think ukraine has a better perspective for future then us, they already made their choice and do not let anyone second guessing it