Obvious examples of Central Intelligence Agency covert action abroad are difficult to identify today, save for occasional acknowledged calamities, such as the long-running $1 billion effort to overthrow the government of Syria, via funding, training and arming barbarous jihadist groups.
The author’s whining tone is difficult to get through, but he fails to identify why Ukraine being a free democracy was such a threat to Russia that invasion and war crimes are justified. Ukraine is not Russia and they don’t want to be.
Whatcha talking about Willis, Ukraine a free democracy? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine
That’s why one of the biggest requirements they have to pass to join the EU is to reign in that massive corruption. It’s a known problem being actively rooted out and punished, and if joining the EU is popular enough I think we’ll see a cultural shift away from the Russian corrupt kleptocracy mindset into western European democracy and liberalism
Youkeepp on believing that. It’s a country ruled by the oligarchs and it’s working exactly the way oligarchs want it to.
You mean like Russia? And I’m unsure how belief is required in Ukrainians deciding their own destiny.
Yeah, Russia isn’t any better than Ukraine. Meanwhile, as discussed here, you need to learn a bit about the demographics in Ukraine before talking about Ukrainian destiny.
What about the 2019 election? The most recent one before the war I think, right?
I address that in the thread if you bother reading it. Zelensky ran on the platform of normalizing relations with Russia and implementing Minsk.
Aaaaaaaaand then Russia invaded and suddenly normalizing with the EU (not Russia, not invading and murdering them currently) got a lot more popular. Strange, isn’t it?