You’re deluding yourself trying to explain russian millitary failure as some sort of advanced move. Remember the intense fighting at Hostomel airport? The huge column stuck on the road to Kyiv? They totaly thought Ukraine leadership would flee and they’d be able to take the capital.
russian speaking land
what makes you think russian speaking people support Putin’s regime? They don’t. That’s like assuming Zelenskyi supports Putin’s regime because he’s a native russian speaker.
US didn’t force anybody to join, countries in eastern europe applied to join because that meant they were less likely to be bullied by Russia. Look at what happened after Russia invaded Ukraine - both Sweden and Finland applied to join the alliance. Do you blame US for that too? It’s Russia’s aggresive stance towards it’s neighbours that caused the expansion of NATO.
This is awesome! Thank you.
What are some of the good things Stalin is remembered for? Genuine question.
Sure, here’s the original article in Russian: https://web.archive.org/web/20220403223221/https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html
Antisemitism? You do realize they elected a Jewish president, right?
Far right/neo nazi groups? Yeah, there are idiots like these in every country, even in Russia. Doesn’t mean the general public supports them or that they have any political power.
Banderas? He’s mostly commemorated as a nationalist who fought for an independent Ukraine. Stalin is still celebrated, yet he didn’t mind making a pact with Nazi Germany in 1939 link.
These are not legitimate reasons for destroying a country and it’s people.
The article is basically a blueprint for genocide against Ukraine. It’s published by a state owned news agency. if it wasn’t in line with Kremlin’s views it would’ve been censored or taken down.
Calling ukrainians “nazis” is a lame excuse for yet another Russian invasion, absent any convincing evidence. Fighting invading forces in their own country certainly doesn’t make them nazis. Where is the actual evidence of Nazism?
Here’s the English translation of the Kremlin propaganda article : https://medium.com/@kravchenko_mm/what-should-russia-do-with-ukraine-translation-of-a-propaganda-article-by-a-russian-journalist-a3e92e3cb64
«We will seek to demilitarize and denazify
What does that even mean? How does that make sense to you? Can you explain in your own words without repeating state propaganda?
Where does it say anything about destroying identity?
To quote from the article above, "Denazification will inevitably include de-ukrainization”.
You may be gullible enough to believe Putin’s bulshit rationalizations but the reality of the last 3 months is that Russian army invaded another country, sieged it’s cities, killed thousands of civilians and caused millions of refugees to flee from their path.
The wisest thing Ukraine could do is abandon Washington’s deluded scheme of using the war to “weaken Russia” and instead sue for peace for the sake of its people
Putin want’s to dismantle Ukraine and destroy Ukrainian identity, as stated in articles published by Kremlin over the past few months. For Ukrainians there can be no negotiated peace as long as what follows is murder, rape, pillaging and enslavement Golden Horde style.
Too many to list, here are a couple of mine:
Companies that support Russia’s war in Ukraine by doing business and paying taxes in Russia. Leroy Merlin is one of them, I used to spend a lot in their store. I use Zrada app on my Android phone to track these companies and avoid them.
Apple - mainly because they fight against customer’s right to repair their devices. Also, I prefer devices that are easy service and upgrade and I feel they steered the industry away from that.