Liberal Forum

If Russia had done in Mexico what the US did in Ukraine, everyone on this board would firmly comprehend the necessity of the US invading Mexico and forcing a change in government. There wouldn't be a nay-sayer to be found against waging a special military operation in Mexico - ESPECIALLY if they had sent actual nazis to murder ethnic Americans (google Azov Battalions). The ethnic Russian Oblasts refused to recognize the coup government requiring them to lose their ethnic identities. And so Zelenskyy sent in the Azov Battalions to subdue them through murder and mayhem. Yes, an actual jew sent Orthodox Christian, professing nazis to murder fellow Orthodox Christians, and so fresh were the hatreds against their former overlords that the Ethno-centric, actual, professing nazis of the Azov Battalions jubilantly obeyed this supremely ironic command. 

The former Russian oblasts - now Ukrainian - went to Moscow begging help. Help did not come. Russia tried mightily to work a diplomatic solution, and after three years of frustration it piled up an invasion force for months and months in order to push Ukraine to the negotating table. And it worked. A deal very favorable to Kiev was hammered out in Istanbul and was literally waiting on signatures when Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv and convinced Zelenskyy not to sign, promising to help Ukraine defeat Russia through NATO arms and brutal sanctions. 

Western Europe is economically **** for generations. The sanctions hurt them far more than they hurt Russia.  But the European leader have built and bet their careers on Russophobia, and the last thing they want is for the war to end. It was France and Germany that guaranteed the Minsk Accords, and the former PMs of both nations have now admitted they were duplicitous with the Russians in order to buy time for the armament of Coupkraine. They never intended to keeptheirword. Trump pretends that he wants peace, but that peace will cost American oil companies billions. And so the Coupkrainians must continue to die.

And one of the supreme ironies of this war is that the nation which wanted an ethno-state has been bled so dry by war casualties and mass emigration that no matter when or how this war ends, there's just not gonna be much ethno- in that **** ethno-state. It was a kleptocracy teetering on failed-state status BEFORE the coup. It's so **** now that its short and ugly history makes that of Poland appear glorious and dynastic.