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I'm not sure how Zelensky's incompetence made Putin park 100,000 troops across the border.
You are "not sure," only because you are not aware of all the details - the media doesn't let you in on them.
Not only Zelensky is incompetent, but he is not in charge of the situation, when it comes to the military affairs.
The Nationalist battalions do not recognize his commandment on the "Eastern front," so even if he'd tell them to retreat from the LDNR and to follow the "Minsk protocol," they would simply disregard him as a "traitor."
So the way I see it - Putin amassed all these troops on Ukrainian border because Ukrainian troops are threatening to attack the LDNR, and they amassed THEIR troops there.
(The Western media is simply not telling you this part of the story.)
And Putin can't let this happen, even because a lot of the LDNR citizens already have Russian citizenship as well.
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Both things can be true. Ukraine does have a lot of government corruption and the economy is in shambles.
It's not only corruption but incompetence too.
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Putin is an ambitious megalomaniac bent on recreating former Soviet glory.
I am not sure what does it even mean.
Putin is a "businessman" first of all.
He looks at what's profitable and what's not ( taking over the neighboring former republics including.)
This was totally NOT the approach of the former Soviet leaders.
We're really in a perfect place to bleed the Russians a little bit without lifting a finger. Feed the Ukrainians enough anti-tank and anti-air weapons to keep Russian body bags heading back home. Make a nice bloody quagmire for the little puffed up Russian full of latent gay anger.
Ha-ha!
The civil war is not between Russia and the Ukraine. Otherwise, Russian army would test its most modern weapons - it wouldn't take more than a day to cleanse the Ukrainian territory.
The civil was is between Ukrainians and Ukrainians.
We're really in a perfect place to bleed the Russians a little bit without lifting a finger. Feed the Ukrainians enough anti-tank and anti-air weapons to keep Russian body bags heading back home. Make a nice bloody quagmire for the little puffed up Russian full of latent gay anger.
Wrong. Russia has NUKES.
They could nuke Kiev in 5 seconds and call it a day.
What it looks for the time being, is whether the Western powers will finally FORCE KIEV to fulfill Minsk obligations or not. ( And this includes the US government too of course.)
If Kiev will finally fulfill agreement that it signed back in 2015/16, then LDNR go back to Ukraine with that special status that protects the inhabitants from the Nationalists ( i.e, LDNR will be allowed to have its own people's militia, to elect its own officials instead of them being appointed from Kiev.)
But then this would mean that Putin has achieved his goal and OTHER South-Eastern regions might want to demand the same status. I.e. Ukraine will be Federalized for real.
So at this point, with American/UK weaponry delivered to the LDNR borders and Ukrainian troops amassed there, Kiev and Moscow re-engaged in negotiations one more ( and most likely last) time.
But I don't hold my breath to be honest.
Because the LDNR already requested the weapons from the Russian government, looking at the concentration of Ukrainian troops and all kind of weapons on their border.
Russia will invade Ukraine, which means Poland and Hungary can never trust America again.
They never thought they would see the day where Russia was back on their border, once it invades Ukraine.
Biden has blood on his hands.
Oh stop wringing your hands.
To make this kind of guesses means to understand NOTHING in geopolitics.
As in zero, zilch.
Most likely Putin will recognize the independence of the LDNR.
If Ukrainians will decide to attack after that, it will be on them.
( Hungary was never part of the Russian Empire. Poland is in very unfortunate situation, been sandwitched between Russia and Germany. So it was partitioned between both.)
P.S. Ukrainians on another hand won't trust America ever again, if the US won't bring troops on the ground.
That's all you need to know about the current situation there.
There is an interesting article on the supposed invasion, in which they show how we are being manipulated. Seems that the satellite images of the supposed troop buildup in Russia have deliberately been cropped in order to keep people from seeing the extensive permanent facilities right next to the troops. In other words, it is not a recent troop buildup, but simply a regular exercise.
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