For months now Putin has been sticking tens of thousands of additional troops on the border for “exercises”. Thats got absolutely fuck all to do with Biden.
Biden didn’t write the essay last year (that Russia claims Putin wrote) going back to the history of Ukraine and The Russ vikings and that the origin story of both countries is the same and thus they go back to being rules jointly.
All this “This is Biden’s fault” “This is because of NATO” is absolutely fucking bollocks and totally ignores that there is one reason and one reason alone for the current crisis - a huge build up of forces on the border of a country to which the U.K., USA and Russia all signed an agreement to protect the sovereignty of.
Half you weirdos would have been saying “Britain has no right to defend Poland, Britain has an empire. Hitler just wants a bit more land. Chamberlain is struggling at home so wants a deflection” etc etc if this was 1939. It’s very strange.
Where did I blame NATO, the majority of it's members are bein g sensible over this matter and not spouting rhetoric and encourag war.
you will find this ramped up tension began last spring when the DPR broke the minsk treaty and started fighting ukrainian forces again.
Ukraine complained that Russia who had influence could have prevented it, they also reported that Russias usual exercises in Belarus had seen an extra large number of forces deployed, though both Kiev and Moscow downplayed the severity of such.
Russia left more than the usual numbers of troops some several hundred miles from the ukrainain border after the exercises and a substantially larger force both army and naval in crimea, still Ukraine and Europe were not overly concerned, as for 8 years Putin has been taking the piss/pushing his luck over Ukrainian independence.
So Russia being gobby pricks and in escence pavment dancing around the border never actually attacking while letting the pro russian sepratists and political figures in ukraine cause trouble, again been the status quo for 8-9 years and Europe being concerned but relaxed it would not escalate.
It was only when Biden Started hawking a possible war and sent ships into the black sea did russia send a new and second larger deployment of troops and since he has shown a strategically wank foriegn policy, after all he has already said if russia invade he won't do anything but sanction them and protect NATO countries borders, there is zero chance of seeing a US soilder in Ukraine defending this soveriegn nation
Joe has form and has backed most pointless or hawkish military operations the US has undertaken for decades, he does seem to see conflict as a viable early option to solve issues.
Putin is a complete loon and **** and has caused the murder of thousands of Ukrainians and Russuan needlessly since 2014, and there is no condoning or letting him off the blame, however it cannot be denied Biden has ramped this up since late last year while other NATO members are trying to de-escalate.
I get why he may think this has been necessary, Trump pandered to all the cunts in the world and Biden needs to show America is still the worlds greatest power on the back of that, also Russia going unchecked is not a good thing for anyone, but in my opinion this has been an escalation that never needed to happen and both (but mainly Putin) men are at fault.
Also the we woulda have said don't defend poland stuff is nonsense, different times and mindsets, it cannot be equated.
