Quote (thundercock @ Dec 9 2021 11:20am)
That doesn't seem accurate at all.
If you didn't follow the events in 2014-2015, then you have no idea about anything and certainly shouldn't be commenting on complex geopolitical affairs
If you must know, there was a CIA-orchestrated coup in Kiev, Ukraine in early 2014 which used mainly Ukraine's ultra-far right nazi groups to overthrow the government. They took the worst of the most violent criminals in the country and used them. These people then took over. They then began to slaughter any civilians that didn't agree with the coup, which led to a civil war.
Quote (thundercock @ Dec 9 2021 11:20am)
I feel like ceding the region would demonstrate profound weakness. Granted, I find it difficult to think like a Russian or Ukrainian so maybe I'm way off base there. As an American, I only know how to think like a winner and I struggle to think like a citizen who hails from an inferior country.
It is not possible for Ukraine to control the region because nobody in Donbass wants to be ruled by fascist shitpiles. Ukraine can have control if and only if they commit mass genocide, which they already tried to do and failed.
Americans shouldn't be supporting fascists in the Ukraine merely because they're useful pawns in a proxy war that America never should have started in the first place.