>>43307519For example,
https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/10/five-years-of-war-in-the-donbas/ https://tass.com/world/1289095If you have the attention span for grownup stuff, you can watch Mearsheimer here (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVozNtCDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4), who gives what is perhaps the closest 'establishment' take you will find permissible in popular discourse.
The difference in writing before and after 2020-22 is pretty remarkable. An unfortunate epiphenomena of the fact that most cattle living under anglo empire dominion are trained to have the perspective of goldfish and can only think that history begins with yesterdays news bulletin, so as to form the impression that everyone who is outside the empire is just randomly doing things for no raisin.
How many people are aware of the fact that a war in fact already occurred back in 2014? Not many apparently. Or the fact that the fighting never actually stopped since then either? Again not many apparently.
The war has been going on for years now - sometimes massively, but most times the eastwards aggression takes the form of plausibly deniable 'low intensity' killing. And actually, you could say that the war really started in earnest the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
NATO bringing Ukraine into NATO to expand NATO to Russia's doorstep was always NATO's plan, because destroying all rival powers and partitioning them into vassals states through the imposition of its religious faith over the rest of the world was always USG's plan.
In the mid 20th century communists running the state department advocated for Amerikaners to surrender to Russia; and after the Soviet Union fell, they advocated for Amerikaners to destroy Russia; and both of these facts are motivated by the same animus. They will never forgive the Russians for abandoning communism.
Mumei is cute.