Originally Posted by
Sebastianus Rex
1. There was a civil war in the Donbass, ethnic Russians were being denied basic rights (like keep learning their language) and to vote for their independence away from the Kiev regime. Many crimes were committed against those populations by neo-nazis, a major offensive against the Donbass was about to start. The losses will be compensated by territorial, strategic and political gains.
2. Big fucking deal...they were already NATO proxies, far worse for Russia would be having Ukraine joining NATO and nuclear weapons at the Russian border which the USA was pushing (even Zelensky said that Ukraine should develop nuclear weapons), Sweden and Finland will not allow that on their territories.
3. Sanctions work both ways, the EU basically only produces consumer goods and services, for the first they need raw materials and affordable energy, without those the economy will be severely damaged and less competitive. Russia has a huge market to export, Asia, BRICS etc), in time we will see who will be more damaged by the sanctions.
4. A significant part of the Ukrainian population is sympathetic towards Russia and realistically Ukraine is a shithole uber corrupt country with 3 times less the PC GDP of Russia. That for the south and eastern Ukraine which are the richer regions and Russia has interest, the rest will be a rump state that will be neutralized and eventually absorbed into the EU at a great economic cost.
5. Most of the world 8 billion population doesn't see it that way, but we in the collective West (a bit more than 1 billion people) are so arrogant that we consider we are the entire world.
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