gegyx wrote:Anything. The Russian intervention, it is by understanding a little belatedly that the West was making fun of him
(Cf: Interview with macron who said that minsk2 was obsolete It's factual!)
Let's put the context:
- Russia launched two wars in Chechnya, the first in 1994-1996 and the second in 1999-2009.
The first war in Chechnya began in December 1994, when Russian forces invaded Chechnya to suppress a separatist movement, for the second, the FSB was able to convince of the interest to make it: natural-human-disasters/tension-with-russia-in-ukraine-t17111-6480.html#p527102
- Russia invaded Georgia in August 2008, in response to a conflict between Georgian forces and Russian-backed separatist forces in South Ossetia. The conflict had started several days before, when Georgia launched a military operation to regain control of the region. Russia responded by sending troops to South Ossetia and launching air raids on Georgia.
Russia justified its intervention by invoking the protection of Russian citizens living in South Ossetia. However, observers have suggested that Russia's real motivation was to reassert its influence in the region and prevent Georgia from drawing closer to the West.
- Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, after sending troops to Crimea and holding a referendum on the future of the peninsula.
The crisis in Crimea began in February 2014, when protests erupted in Ukraine, leading to the impeachment of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Viktor Yanukovych was considered a pro-Russian politician. During his tenure as President of Ukraine, he sought to strengthen economic and political ties with Russia, including signing an economic cooperation agreement with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2011, and joining the Union Eurasian economy in 2013.
The new Ukrainian authorities have taken steps to get closer to the West, which has angered Russia.
Some consider Russia to be a dictatorship, while others consider the political system to be more authoritarian or semi-authoritarian.
In these 3 conflicts, we see each time countries which want to emancipate themselves from the Soviet past, to emancipate themselves from present-day Russia and mechanically, which want to get closer to the West.
One wonders why ?
Do they have the right to self-determination?
To remain factual, through these 3 conflicts, we continuously observe that the Russian sphere of influence seeks to maintain itself or to extend through arms.
Always to remain factual, it is not Europe, nor the US, nor even Ukraine which took up arms to attack Russia.
Russian paranoia has a good back, honestly who is going to attack a country at the head of 6000 nuclear warheads?
Europe is drowsy by 70 years of peace, chilly at the idea of fighting itself, Putin has understood this well.
We can legitimately be worried and wonder where this desire for Russian expansion, avowed and above all silenced, is going to stop.
So who cares who?
(the situation goes up another notch...)
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