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[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The US did start it, by constantly poking with threats and actions here and there. Like in 2014 when they overthrew the actual democratically elected Ukraine government for the crime of being "Too friendly with Russia" and then propped up the current Nazi regime that is completely russo-phobic.

They even went so far as to rename a city because it had a "Russian spelling".

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right, because the US told Yanukovych to brutalize his people, and also told the people to revolt and the supreme court to remove him from office, so he could flee to Russia. Not saying the West didn't see this as an opportunity to strengthen economic ties, but it was not a bear and stick moment. Why do you insist that only the West is at fault? Culpability is shared

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why would he tell people to β€œrevolt” when he was the president of the country? That doesn’t even make sense. Who did he β€œbrutalize,” specifically? It was the coup snipers who shot people in Maidan from rooftops. It was a false flag attack.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685