Jewish democratically elected president and yet you repeat the lie that this war is about nazis. Jewish people are persecuted by nazis, not elected to the presidency by nazis.
Russian land invasion fears as speculation for why Russia invaded, but this war started many years ago when Russia took Crimea and Crimea doesn't have a land connection with Russia. Russia shares a sea with Crimea, but not land. What Crimea does have is a lot of oil. So much so that it was a geopolitical threat to Europe's reliance on Russian oil.
This war isn't happening because of baby busts. It is happening because Russia raped Ukraine for oil, but then discovered that holding Crimea against Ukraine wasn't feasible. Crimea gets its water from Ukraine. Russia doesn't have a port for the sea that connects it with Crimea which is always usable. So it has to ship water in, but doesn't have a great means to do so when Ukraine is hostile.
It built a bridge, but that sort of infrastructure is vulnerable in the event of war.
Stealing Crimea turned out to be expensive. Meanwhile, Ukraine was modernizing its armies and pretty upset that its land was stolen from it.
So they call them nazis, which in this case really means people willing to defend their land, but who cares about actual meanings when you can just repeat Russian propaganda?
If Russia waits, Ukraine continues to modernize. Eventually the war starts on Ukraine's terms and instead of humiliating international defeat now they would have gotten a crushing and humiliating international rout later. The defeat is Ukraine retaking Crimea. It isn't an invasion of Moscow. The war with NATO that Russia is afraid of isn't NATO invading Moscow either. It is NATO supporting Ukraine's efforts to retake Crimea.
Which is why Russia was so desperate to do this now, even though it was a bad decision. Every moment they waited Ukraine was getting stronger. They wanted to win now to stop them from facing justice later. Except they miscalculated. Ukraine grew stronger faster than they realized. Moreover, their espionage wasn't as effective as they had hoped. They wanted to win quickly. They hoped to just take Ukraine and be done.
They didn't. They blundered. This blunder goes back many years. As far back as the invasion of Crimea itself.
The kicker? Oil isn't the currency of the future. They blundered over the resource that everyone is going to be trying to get away from.
Russian land invasion fears as speculation for why Russia invaded, but this war started many years ago when Russia took Crimea and Crimea doesn't have a land connection with Russia. Russia shares a sea with Crimea, but not land. What Crimea does have is a lot of oil. So much so that it was a geopolitical threat to Europe's reliance on Russian oil.
This war isn't happening because of baby busts. It is happening because Russia raped Ukraine for oil, but then discovered that holding Crimea against Ukraine wasn't feasible. Crimea gets its water from Ukraine. Russia doesn't have a port for the sea that connects it with Crimea which is always usable. So it has to ship water in, but doesn't have a great means to do so when Ukraine is hostile.
It built a bridge, but that sort of infrastructure is vulnerable in the event of war.
Stealing Crimea turned out to be expensive. Meanwhile, Ukraine was modernizing its armies and pretty upset that its land was stolen from it.
So they call them nazis, which in this case really means people willing to defend their land, but who cares about actual meanings when you can just repeat Russian propaganda?
If Russia waits, Ukraine continues to modernize. Eventually the war starts on Ukraine's terms and instead of humiliating international defeat now they would have gotten a crushing and humiliating international rout later. The defeat is Ukraine retaking Crimea. It isn't an invasion of Moscow. The war with NATO that Russia is afraid of isn't NATO invading Moscow either. It is NATO supporting Ukraine's efforts to retake Crimea.
Which is why Russia was so desperate to do this now, even though it was a bad decision. Every moment they waited Ukraine was getting stronger. They wanted to win now to stop them from facing justice later. Except they miscalculated. Ukraine grew stronger faster than they realized. Moreover, their espionage wasn't as effective as they had hoped. They wanted to win quickly. They hoped to just take Ukraine and be done.
They didn't. They blundered. This blunder goes back many years. As far back as the invasion of Crimea itself.
The kicker? Oil isn't the currency of the future. They blundered over the resource that everyone is going to be trying to get away from.