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@ Иван
2025-02-19 15:56:42
That’s all well and good, but people who like to blame everything on either Putin or the CIA/deep state tend to overlook the fact that there were real expectations among the people too. Take Maidan, for example — sure, maybe the CIA played a role in organizing it, but it didn’t just come out of nowhere. Tension had been building in society for years.
It’s the same with Ukraine now. No matter how Putin is using the situation to his advantage, the Russian people had questions about that country as far back as ’91 — but back then, there was no one to ask. In fact, it was Russia that formally set Ukraine’s modern borders without the slightest regard for its own interests, only for the interests of the elites. So, sooner or later, that was bound to lead to a military conflict.
Honestly, even in American video games from the ’90s, it wasn’t uncommon to see storylines where Moscow and Kyiv were at war. This was all pretty obvious long before anyone had even heard of Putin.