Is Ukraine about to have a war?
Now Russian citizens as Putin has issued them all Russian passports.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russ.../31234248.html
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russ.../31234248.html
Eastern Ukraine (even Donbass + Luhansk alone) has much more inhabitants than the 500.000!?
Classic casus belli.
For whome?
Ukraine? Should they invade Russia?
Russia? why would that be a reason for them to wage a war?
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It wouldn’t surprise me if they threw their own Molotov cocktail at their own consulate to escalate things.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
The passport/citizenship issue in eastern Ukraine is redolent of the Sudetenland Crisis…
https://www.historyhit.com/sudetenland/
https://www.historyhit.com/sudetenland/
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Telegraph reporting that 10000 Russian soldiers have pulled back pending talks with US/UN...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...de-escalation/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...de-escalation/
Russia pulls back 10,000 troops from near Ukraine in surprise de-escalation
Move comes ahead of expected talks with the US potential Nato concessions, but analysts warn there is still an 'enhanced' military presence
Russia said on Saturday it was pulling back about 10,000 troops from near the Ukrainian border in an unexpected major de-escalation as it gears up for talks on Nato concessions with the United States.
The troops from the Southern Military District will return to their permanent bases after months of drills near Ukraine because they have accomplished their tasks, according to the Russian Defence Ministry.
"A stage of combat coordination of divisions, combat crews, squads at motorised units... has been completed. More than 10,000 military servicemen... will march to their permanent deployment from the territory of the combined arms' area of drills," Interfax quoted the army as saying.
The exercises were held in several regions near Ukraine, including in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, as well as in the southern Russian regions of Rostov and Kuban, according to the report.
Russia has been amassing troops and equipment near the border with Ukraine since October, raising fears of an imminent invasion. Military analysts have said the buildup was inconsistent with regular military exercises.
Move comes ahead of expected talks with the US potential Nato concessions, but analysts warn there is still an 'enhanced' military presence
Russia said on Saturday it was pulling back about 10,000 troops from near the Ukrainian border in an unexpected major de-escalation as it gears up for talks on Nato concessions with the United States.
The troops from the Southern Military District will return to their permanent bases after months of drills near Ukraine because they have accomplished their tasks, according to the Russian Defence Ministry.
"A stage of combat coordination of divisions, combat crews, squads at motorised units... has been completed. More than 10,000 military servicemen... will march to their permanent deployment from the territory of the combined arms' area of drills," Interfax quoted the army as saying.
The exercises were held in several regions near Ukraine, including in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, as well as in the southern Russian regions of Rostov and Kuban, according to the report.
Russia has been amassing troops and equipment near the border with Ukraine since October, raising fears of an imminent invasion. Military analysts have said the buildup was inconsistent with regular military exercises.
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Nothing, they are an independent sovereign state and neither should NATO, we were invited into the new Countries of NATO and have worked together in peace and prosperity, we didn’t take them by force as the old Soviet Union did, they are on the whole also part of the EU as well, a free and democratic gathering.
Nothing, they are an independent sovereign state and neither should NATO, we were invited into the new Countries of NATO and have worked together in peace and prosperity, we didn’t take them by force as the old Soviet Union did, they are on the whole also part of the EU as well, a free and democratic gathering.
Ukraine is a post WW2 construct, generated by the USSR to boost its voting power in the UN.
Khrushchev arbitrarily allocated Crimea and surrounds to the Ukraine in the 1950s, perhaps to atone for his role in the murder by starvation of millions of Ukraine peasants as a part of Stalin's anti Kulak regime.
There is considerable evidence that the recent Ukraine leadership seeks to eliminate the substantial Russian minority, evidenced by the hard fought decision to prohibit Russian language instruction \in the primary schools.
Think the conflict here is entirely stupid, Ukraine is so closely related to Russia that the idea of a non Russia linked state is asking for a civil war.
Competent political leadership recognizes these realities and adjusts for them.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
More Sudetenland type arguments etudiant.
Ukraine is a sovereign country, recognised by the UN and it’s security guaranteed by the signature nations to the Budapest Memorandum - including Russia.
Ukraine is a sovereign country, recognised by the UN and it’s security guaranteed by the signature nations to the Budapest Memorandum - including Russia.
Think it is perhaps more complicated.
Ukraine is a post WW2 construct, generated by the USSR to boost its voting power in the UN.
Khrushchev arbitrarily allocated Crimea and surrounds to the Ukraine in the 1950s, perhaps to atone for his role in the murder by starvation of millions of Ukraine peasants as a part of Stalin's anti Kulak regime.
There is considerable evidence that the recent Ukraine leadership seeks to eliminate the substantial Russian minority, evidenced by the hard fought decision to prohibit Russian language instruction \in the primary schools.
Think the conflict here is entirely stupid, Ukraine is so closely related to Russia that the idea of a non Russia linked state is asking for a civil war.
Ukraine is a post WW2 construct, generated by the USSR to boost its voting power in the UN.
Khrushchev arbitrarily allocated Crimea and surrounds to the Ukraine in the 1950s, perhaps to atone for his role in the murder by starvation of millions of Ukraine peasants as a part of Stalin's anti Kulak regime.
There is considerable evidence that the recent Ukraine leadership seeks to eliminate the substantial Russian minority, evidenced by the hard fought decision to prohibit Russian language instruction \in the primary schools.
Think the conflict here is entirely stupid, Ukraine is so closely related to Russia that the idea of a non Russia linked state is asking for a civil war.
It is hard to see what advantage the post coup Ukraine leadership hoped to derive by putting its minority Russian rooted citizens into the doghouse, for instance prohibiting Russian language public schools.
The effect has been to accentuate the fissures in the country, rather than to consolidate it..
A perspective on the education law and the issues that it has accentuated is here: https://www.realcleardefense.com/art...sm_808516.html
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The human suffering caused and crimes commited by russians during the entire existence of USSR are well remembered throughout ex soviet countries from Crimea to Carelia and Katyn to Kabul. With Putin being nostalgic about it and annexing parts of sovereign countries scares everyone else.
The famine caused by USSR in Ukraine combined with mass deportations of the era gives reason enought to stand against any Russian increment of influence.
You are saying that there is evidence of Ukrainian leadership trying to eliminate Russian minority. Well, Russian leadership HAS ELIMINATED ukrainians throughout the history and there are proof of it, too.
Ah, yes, that"s just what the Russians did in the Soviet era but they did it in a much larger scale: move big portions of (or entire) ethnic people to somewhere else and replace them with ethnic Russians. A very striking example is the deportation of Crimean tatars. Then Russian was made mandatory in schools. The exact reasons why so many ex soviet countries have issues with ethnic russians nowadays are lying in soviet era.
The human suffering caused and crimes commited by russians during the entire existence of USSR are well remembered throughout ex soviet countries from Crimea to Carelia and Katyn to Kabul. With Putin being nostalgic about it and annexing parts of sovereign countries scares everyone else.
The famine caused by USSR in Ukraine combined with mass deportations of the era gives reason enought to stand against any Russian increment of influence.
You are saying that there is evidence of Ukrainian leadership trying to eliminate Russian minority. Well, Russian leadership HAS ELIMINATED ukrainians throughout the history and there are proof of it, too.
The human suffering caused and crimes commited by russians during the entire existence of USSR are well remembered throughout ex soviet countries from Crimea to Carelia and Katyn to Kabul. With Putin being nostalgic about it and annexing parts of sovereign countries scares everyone else.
The famine caused by USSR in Ukraine combined with mass deportations of the era gives reason enought to stand against any Russian increment of influence.
You are saying that there is evidence of Ukrainian leadership trying to eliminate Russian minority. Well, Russian leadership HAS ELIMINATED ukrainians throughout the history and there are proof of it, too.
That said, I see no upside for the Ukraine in penalizing the country's large minority groups by a blunderbuss ruling that hits not only the Russians, but also the Poles and the Hungarians.
Who wants to fight for a country that treats you as second rate?
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Regarding troops.
1. Ukraine concentrated more troops near the border than Russia (more than a half of their army) and started doing it first. Why this fact is not addressed when blaming Russia?
2. Any country is free to locate their forces on its territory. Imagine Cuba would start demanding to remove all the US forces out of Florida because they are too close to "the island of freedom" and they are scared?
Regarding escalation.
1. If any country plans to attack another, the first thing is to break all diplomatic and trade links, withdraw the personnel and warn its citizens that the territory is unsafe and they should relocate. Is this happening? No.
2. IMO, Russia has one serious move in its pocket - to recognise Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states. Like it did with South Ossetia and Abhazia after Georgia started the war and killed many Russian peacekeeping staff there. After that it can sign treaties to secure their security. But there are no signs of such warnings as yet.
Regarding troops.
1. Ukraine concentrated more troops near the border than Russia (more than a half of their army) and started doing it first. Why this fact is not addressed when blaming Russia?
2. Any country is free to locate their forces on its territory. Imagine Cuba would start demanding to remove all the US forces out of Florida because they are too close to "the island of freedom" and they are scared?
Ukraine has not annexed parts of Russia.
Ukrainian authorities have not threatened Russia with invasion.
Russia has done all that to Ukraine.
Russian soldiers have already entered Ukrainian soil.
So there is a big difference in Ukraine stationing its troops and Russia stationing its troops, as latter is already in Ukraine.
All true, very dark history here, so lots of bitter hatreds.
That said, I see no upside for the Ukraine in penalizing the country's large minority groups by a blunderbuss ruling that hits not only the Russians, but also the Poles and the Hungarians.
Who wants to fight for a country that treats you as second rate?
That said, I see no upside for the Ukraine in penalizing the country's large minority groups by a blunderbuss ruling that hits not only the Russians, but also the Poles and the Hungarians.
Who wants to fight for a country that treats you as second rate?
The situation reminds me of that prior to the '03 Iraq invasion - all those troops marched up the hill on the thinnest of pretexts (if you ignore 911, which most Americans seem to do nowadays). Surely Vlad remembers what happened there? And that was with the world's premier superpower up against what was a pretty depleted and ragtag opponent...