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These are probably Ukrainians who moved to Crimea for work from other parts of Ukraine. However, you'd not hear Ukrainian spoken anywhere in Crimea, you can trust me on that.
I trust multiple authoritative sources that say it was. You are just a guy on the internet.
USA, Canada, China, India, South Africa are not nations/ethnic states like what is found in most of Europe.
There are very few European countries that are not nation states - Russia is an example, but Switzerland is also a common example in W. Europe. Most of the rest are dominated by one ethnic group.
Ukraine is a very recent example of a 'new' ethnic identity, and since it's so new, not everyone in Ukraine subscribes to it, which is why in the east, they decided to secede.
Not a bad post overall.
Except "they" didn't decide to secede. Putin decided they should secede after Putin's puppet Yanukovych fled the country and prospects of Putin controlling Ukraine through a puppet started to fade. The secession 'movement' originated in Moscow and took fruit under the efforts of such Russian agents as Igor Girkin and Russian special forces (the Spetsnaz). Russia continued to recruit veterans from the Russian army, born in Russia, for service in the region as "separatists". The Russian government provided the "separatists" with armored vehicles (including tanks) and rocket launchers as well as troops to man them.
The result was two harsh and brutal soviet style police states. There never was any doubt that these were just fronts for Putin's aggression against Ukraine. They were never actually to be a 'thing', they were designed to dissolve on cue.
Except "they" didn't decide to secede. Putin decided they should secede
Lol, Putin cannot make anyone secede if they don't want to. If Putin had that kind of power, he'd have the entirety of Ukraine secede from Kiev.
It's true that the rebels had some support from Russia, but they still decided to secede on their own. Since Texas is being used as an example, the American ranchers that came to Texas, decided to secede from Mexico on their own, but they of course got help from America as America wanted those lands.
Btw, I'm probably one of the few (vanishingly small % of) Americans who went to both DPR and LPR back in 2019. I even ate at the "DonMak" (imitation McDonalds) in Donetsk.
While the people in the DPR and LPR have this thing where they imitate the old USSR (even call it the People's Republic), there was an interesting wall near a memorial to kids who died in Lugansk. The Russians would spray paint USSR symbols (hammer sickle, red flag etc) and the Ukrainians would come in the night and spray paint Swastikas over it.
As much as Americans always want to see the world in black and white, good vs evil, I see no good people in this story. Americans, Ukrainians, and Russians have all behaved badly in one way or the other. But when it comes to survival, it only matters to two groups - Ukrainians and Russians. Everyone else, is a spectator and therefore we shouldn't be involved.
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The degree of war crimes against civilians and violations of the Geneva convention regarding POWs is unprecedented since WWII. Russians are clearly uninterested in world opinion.
World tut-tutting only matters to Western democracies, and those that want to criticize Western democracies.
Just 2 months into the war and the Russians lost almost 1/3 of their elite soldiers. Those that fled Lyman recently were said to be the one of their elite too…I guess the elite soldiers have a bit more of common sense to gtfo rather then be 6 ft. under . The cannon fodder guys will pi** and sh* when told.
I think we're beginning to understand that simply saying you are 'elite" is not enough.
NEW: Western and #Russian reports of fractures within the #Kremlin are gaining traction within the Russian information space, undermining the appearance of stability of Russian President Vladimir #Putin’s regime.
Zelensky has assured us that one of the first casualties of a Russian nuclear strike would be Putin. Putin will be "unable to preserve his life", says Zelensky.
Good video on how the Lockheed Martin HIMARS devastated Russian forces.
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