Putin attacked Ukraine because he cannot tolerate a democratic state near his borders.
Democracy? Again you are talking aboit demcracy! And then you would also be telling me that in Vietnam, Irak, Libiya,Afganistan the US was bringing democracy to all those countries? The type of democracy that brought about deaths of millions of people.
This is a bad example for his authoritarian empire, which relies on force of arms and coercion.
As I have already told you many times before Biden provoked this attack.
In addition, he wants to appropriate the history of Ukraine and turn it into his own history of the Russian Federation. Although Russians are called Russians, they are not the same thing. Russia as a state arose under Tsar Peter the Great at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries, and the state of Kievan Rus, with the center of the capital of present-day Ukraine Kyiv, was one of the most powerful states in Europe back in the 9th century, and present-day Moscow, being then still a small village, belonged to the Kyiv prince Yuri Dolgoruky. Therefore, before the reign of Peter the Great, Russians were called Muscovites, and the state itself was called Muscovy, but not Russians at all, since they had nothing to do with Rus', Kievan Rus. Now Russia is laying claim to the lands of Ukraine, although it is Ukraine that has the right to claim its historical lands, right up to Moscow.
The name "Ukraine" first appeared in the Kyiv Chronicle in 1187. Then it was rarely used, but it began to be used constantly from Cossack times, that is, from the 16th-17th centuries. “Ukraine” is one of the official names of the Cossack state that arose after the uprising of Bohdan Khmelnitsky against Polish power in the mid-17th century (along with other names - the Zaporozhian Army, Hetmanate, Little Russia).
@Ozero wrote about this well in his post dated April 04.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.63899296
This is total BS that you are talking about here. The meaning of the word Ukraine means okraina in Russian which can be translated as "at the border" that is at the border of Russia.
Ukraine has bever been a separate country. From times immemorial Kiev Rus and Moscovia has been one and the same country. It is all inhabited by one people.
These are not different peoples because they have been using the Russian language as their main mother tongue.
I have been living in USSR and then in Russia, I know lots of Ukrainian people and my father was a Ukrainian.
What you are trying to do is prove that Ukraine is a separate country and a separate people.
This is total BS. How can it be a separate people when they are using Russian as their mother tongue?
Ukrainian language was invented by communists in the times of USSR.
You should be thankful to Lenin for this.
Therefore, do not repeat Russian propagandists who deliberately distort history to suit Putin’s imperial ambitions and say that before 1917 there was no country called Ukraine. It dates back to at least the ninth century and was then called Kievan Rus. But Russia did not exist for another eight centuries after that.
Putin does not have any imperial ambitions. It s just that CIA installed pro American regime in Ukraine in violation of their promise in 1990 that NATO would not move a single inch to the east after USSR disintegrates.
Why did not Putin invade Ukraine in 2014? He could have done it in 2014.
The fact is that he was forced to invade Ukraine because the US insitigated hate toward Russia in Ukraine as well as because 2 breakaway provinces of Ukraine inhabited by Russian speaking population were regularly and sytematically fired upon by Ukrainian neo nazi.
Why don't you admit the fact that many thousands of Russian speaking people have been killed by artillery fire starting from 2014?
Regarding the overthrown president of Ukraine, not a single president has been overthrown in Ukraine. If you mean Yanukovych, then I already wrote that he himself fled from Ukraine, fearing reprisals for shooting down a peaceful protest. Subsequently, he was convicted by the courts of Ukraine for high treason and other criminal charges.
After Yanukovych, from February 23 to June 7, 2014, the duties of the president were performed by the Chairman of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Turchynov, then, after the popular elections from June 7, 2014 to May 20, 2019, Poroshenko was the President of Ukraine and from May 20, 2019 to the present, Zelensky. By the way, 73.22% of Ukrainian voters voted for Zelensky in the elections and international observers confirmed the free expression of the will of Ukrainians in the presidential elections. Therefore, Zelensky is a completely legitimate president. If you have facts that Zelensky was appointed president of Ukraine by the United States, provide such facts to us.
Yanukovich fled Ukraine not because of his alleged crimes but because he was afraid for his life. Ukraine has turned into a police state.
Yanukovich did not give orders to shoot at people. Instead he was trying to resolve this conflict by peaceful methods but hadn't succeeded in this because Maidan was orchestrated by CIA.
As regards all the presidents of Ukraine that you refer to tell me why these presidents did not stop massive artillery bombardments of those two breakaway provinces?
The people living in those 2 provinces did not vote for Poroshenko or Zelinsky.
And again I want to reiterate that Zelensky is a traitor because he illegally sold to the US corporations large chunks of Ukrainian land.
All the time in your posts you say that Putin is a dictator and a tyrant. OK. Let us imagine that you are right.
If this is the case can you tell me why Ukraine has been turned into a police state?
Why the police if Ukraine is kidnapping the male population al over Ukraine and forcing them to die in the war?
At least here in Russia nobody is kidnapping us on the streets and forcing us to fight in the war.
Those who went to the front did it of their own free will because they understand that Ukraine has been converted by CIA into a fascist police state.
if I want to travel abroad I have no problem with that. I just need to buy a ticket and local authorities would not prevent me from doing it but for some strange reason not any single Ukrainian male aged 18 to 60 is allowed to travel abroad.
There is a law forbidding it. How can Ukraine be a democracy when Ukrainian people are not allowed by law to travel outside of the country? What kind of democracy is that?
Well? Can you explain why? Can anyone explain it to me? What kind of democracy is this?
This is exactly the kind of democracy that the US is bringing to the whole world, that kind of democracy that kills and murders large quantities of people who do not want such a democracy