I agree with the second sentence. They are residing on the pro Russian side, does that mean that they were killed by Ukranian actions only?
Here is video from a few weeks ago about a bombing of a school at school on the separatist side. The reported location of the crater was consistent with a shell coming from the Ukrainian side.
The fact that 80% of the casualties are on the separatist side is not an accident from what I can see.
You can see that from these videos? Okie.
Russia to hold Irony Conference
Russia has a long history of fighting fascists. Here is a photo from Berlin in May 1945:
The irony is that the US continues to support the use of far-right White Supremacist paramilitaries in Ukraine with a President who made the fine-people hoax the central theme of this campaign.
Dudeā¦ that is seriously a stretch.
If Biden had bombed Charlotesville to ashes to get rid of those Nazis then maybe we could have some equivalencyā¦ but using that to give cover to invading a country over a 1000 dudes in Donbas, where there has been a contiuing conflict that Russia initiated years ago is just baby licking stupid.
Let us not forgetā¦ since 2014 it is Russia that has been the aggressor into Ukraineā¦ not the other way around.
Putin does not want to respect the soveriegnty of a neighbor and wants to have a puppet regime he can control.
Giving excuse to that is quite wild.
What would Biden do if neo-Nazi paramilitaries were killing American civilians and shelling schools?
From what I can see, elements of the US government have been trying to start a war with Russia for some time. Suspending the Minsk agreement and offering NATO membership are the most recent provocations to a war that has been going on since 2014.
Use law enforcement.
Not bomb entire cities that have nothing to do with them.
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Minsk got suspended when Russia recognized Donetsk and Luhansk as independent nations. Where do you get your news?
True, but if we assume Putin is mostly sane and isnāt suicidal we can somewhat safely assume he wonāt activate his nuclear football barring NATO assets firing on Russian assets.
Nuclear weapons are great deterrents. For deterring conventional warfare. For other forms of warfare, such as economic or supporting insurgencies, they lose their luster quickly.
An economy that is heavily damaged can be repaired once the sanctions are lifted.
Launching a First Strike over economic warfare is the height of insanity. Because the Second Strike would destroy the entirety of European Russia. It would be radioactive ashes. There would be no coming back from that.
Putin certainly knows that. He isnāt stupid.
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Did Russia ever pull out itās military and equipment as per the agreement or did the little green men stick around?
Jimmy Dore apparently
Let us not forget that the whole basis for US policy is an evidence-free assertion about who was responsible for the 2014 Maidan massacre. Check out the Reuters and University of Ottawa links in posts 69 and 70.
The Reuters link debunked alleged connections between the snipers and the elected pro-Russian president. Instead evidence points towards far-right nationalist groups allied with the US.
If groups allied with the US governments were really responsible for the massacre, then US policy has been destroying democracy, not saving it.
It is getting wild when the Maidan uprising is being painted as a fascist overthrow ofā¦ checks notesā¦ Viktor Yanukovych.
Just wild
Did Ukraine sign the Minsk agreement? Did the Ukraine government honour the terms signed in the Minsk agreement?
No one honored the agreement.
Why are you starting at the Minsk agreement and not what precipitated it in response to a post that says that it was Russia who was the aggressor since 2014.
How did the Donbas provinces not honour the terms of the Minsk agreement?
Did Russia pull out forces and equipment or did the little green men stick around?
