Archived Mattis: NATO members must boost defense spending or US will 'moderate its commitment' (foxnews.com)
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Archived Mattis: NATO members must boost defense spending or US will 'moderate its commitment' (foxnews.com)
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[–] we_kill_creativity ago
I see that you don't know what's actually going on in Ukraine at this very moment.
The elected (very corrupt, but still, very elected) government in Keiv was thrown out by groups shown to be connected to outside influences (Soros, US "ngo's", etc.) and the people in Eastern Ukraine, who never voted for this new government (no one did, actually) said, "Uh...no, actually, we don't trust them, we don't like them, and we sure as hell never voted for them, so NOPE! Big nope!"
That's why you had an actual Ukrainian army march over and try to force them to be cool with it. I have no doubt there were Russian special forces there by this time, but that only makes sense since, you know, it's right on their border, but there was never really a huge Russian military force there.
The people in Eastern Ukraine, or the Donbass, identify more as Russian in the first place, and they have many more ties to Russia as they are geographically closer to it, than they are to Kiev, where the coup they never voted for took place.
Of course, it would also be wise to consider the ancient history of the Russian people (including the Ukrainians), such as, the fact that the Russian people actually started at Kiev, known as "The Kievin Russ", but that would take me a lot of time to explain.
[–] lurklurk 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
No matter how you try to paint it, it's still an elephant. Its name is War and Russia brought it into room. And yes, I know what Kievan Rus is, please spell it properly.
[–] we_kill_creativity ago
How did Russia "bring it into room"?