RE: LeoThread 2025-04-28 11:13

[taskmaster4450le]

I am not sure that Putin and the Russians expected international legitimacy since the Obama administration sanctioned Russia.

The U.S. first imposed sanctions on Russia over Ukraine in 2014 under President Obama. These sanctions were in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. They targeted Russian individuals, entities, and sectors like finance and energy.

Trump was not the first to sanction Russia. However, his administration did impose additional sanctions starting in 2017, including measures under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which expanded penalties for Russia's actions in Ukraine, cyberattacks, and other issues.

Hard to think Putin overlooked this. Do you agree?

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[taskmaster4450le]

It is likely that if the West has held to the terms of the Minsk agreement, Putin might not have invaded Ukraine in 2022. This is not a popular narrative with the Western media but the leaders basically admitted they were trying to get one over on Putin.

[taskmaster4450le]

This is the situation with Donbas:

The region was never Ukrainian territory. It was occupied by Russians for centuries. The people there had a right to their own lives. The Ukrainians demanded they no longer speak Russian and they sought to deny them even their own religion and they were to report to Kyiv – not Moscow. This was like Mexico reclaiming Texas and demanding English was to be outlawed and only Spanish was to be spoken and all religions were to be outlawed except allegiance to the Archbishop of Mexico.

It has to be one of the reasons Putin invaded in 2022.

[taskmaster4450le]

This is also noteworthy to the discussion about Donbas.

Furthermore, two heads of state of Russia came from this region Ukraine claims is now theirs and not Russia’s. Does that mean that Kruschev who rebuilt Kiev after World War II and grew up in the Donbas and, of course, Brezhnev who was born there in the Donbas, were really Ukrainian? So the whole Cuban Missile Crisis was not with Russia but with Ukraine?

History shows two Russian leaders came from Donbas. If that was the case, it is impossible for the Ukrainians to legitimately deny the history of the region.