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Cannonpointer » 27 Jan 2025, 9:16 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jan 2025, 9:16 pm

I have seen Putin explain that again and again and again. 

I cannot control what media others consume. I watch Putin speak, rather than getting his positions second hand. 

In one interview, with tuckker carlson, he went to great lengths to describe the historical brotherhood and amity between Russia and its Slavic brother state. Why he felt that tucker's audience needed that history lesson, instead of a sharper focus on why he went to war, I cannot say. But I have seen him state again and again what the causes of the bellicosity are.

They are three things: Ukraine's murder campaign of ethnic Russians;
Ukraine's coup-government violating its own Constitution to solicit membership in a military alliance;
Ukraine's failure to keep its agreements under the Minsk Accords.

Ukraine forfeited Crimea when it wiped its US-proxy *** with the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership which formalized Crimea's ownership by Ukraine and guaranteed Ukraine's borders. It forfeited the eastern oblasts when it decided to start murdering its own people. They declared independence - which under the U.N. Charter and under the Word Court's rules, they have every right to do. They asked Russia to recognize their independence, and Putin refused, urging rapprochement. The Minsk Accords were the vehicle for that rapprochement between Ukraine and its rebellious provinces. 

The murdering of civilians continued apace. 

When Ukraine defaulted on the treaty that settled the borders, it waived the settlement of the borders. In 2022, Angela Merkel admitted publicly that the west made the minsk agreement in bad faith, to give the west time to create a Ukrainian military machine. 

I cannot find tape of her saying the precise words, but here those words are immortalized and explicated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-57KOwG9co