The only person who needs to learn something is you, Julia. Here is the crucial – and basic – reason behind the war. Russia moors its Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea, and has done so for 300 years. The engineering of NATO membership for Ukraine began at the NATO Bucharest Summit of 2008. If successful, this meant US warships moored in Sevastopol, something Russia could never accept, just as America would never accept Chinese warships moored in Pearl Harbour.
In addition, Sevastopol is Russia’s only warm-water port. All the rest freeze in the winter, rendering the Russian Navy ice-bound and vulnerable/useless. Clearly, CLEARLY, Russia could not accept losing Sevastopol. And thus – post Bucharest 2008 – began the events leading to Maidan 2014, Russia seizing Crimea and the war in 2022.
Another crucial point, Julia, is your apparent ignorance as to how the war is going. It was actually over within weeks of it starting, see maps below. By June 2022 Russia had seized control of eastern Ukraine, which is all it wanted because it provided a land bridge to Sevastopol and Crimea. The Russians dug-in behind five defensive lines and have remained there ever since even as brave Ukrainian soldiers were killed in their hundreds-of-thousands trying to breach the lines whilst wicked journalists in the West lied about Ukrainian successes and Russian defeats. You are part of this wicked, criminal lie, Julia. Look at the two maps below, June 2022 and Feb 2025. The maps don’t lie, Julia, unlike you.
This piece is a response to a foolish person but reads well and summarizes the situation very well. It is maddening to see so many Europeans, and others, acting as if something else had happened or were happening. Russia’s position is simple KOBK game theory — they have no choice; they cannot lose their base on the Black Sea. Ukraine only has its post 1991 borders because Khrushchev redrew them to include large parts of Russia in the 1960s, if memory serves. The entire war is NATO aggression and should never have happened. It’s beastly, stupid, disgusting. So many dead for no reason. I see Trump as trying to form an alliance with Russia based on the truth about Ukraine and the truth about Russia’s need to no longer be constantly attacked based on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s wrong-headed Grand Chessboard theory. ABN
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