Truthfully gentlemen and lady forum members ...what we have here is the reverse of what we had in 1939. Back then, we had the Germans (Hitler) accusing the Poles/Czechs of attacking ethnic Germans within their territory. All aggressors need an excuse to attack so they don't look bad...it's a basic human psychological need., you are a bully but you have to hide it. So Hitler used this excuse to attack these countries and we got WW2. To my German friends, I know all about the stupidity of Versailles, revanche, etc...I have read it.
In this instance, we see little Putin accusing the Ukrainians of being fascists/nationalists, an excuse to satisfy the 'folks at home" and make it ok for their children to march into a special operations encounter and defeat the bad guys. Another march of the lemmings to be slaughtered! However, life has always been cheap in Russia, read Russian History.
Fortunately, for the Ukrainians and us this has not worked out for him but he is a dogged little prick and will keep on trying. I have lived on this planet for 7 decades, continually threatened by some Russian, some Soviet, some Warsaw pact asshole. So what we are seeing here, friends hopefully, is the last gasp of this Soviet era snake. Americans, and we your Allies, we need to finish this little SOB off, otherwise , he will only make further problems. Really this is what he is, the last Soviet Marxist human example of that putrid failed system of ideas spawned by another little miserable man Karl Marx. Yet another failure of a man, who lived off the fact that he had married well, a woman with a bit of money! I never tried that, I always paid in the end!
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Truly my friends, if you want to understand the problems of the present and figure them out look to the past. The current threat besides the boring Russians, are the Chinese, if you want to understand where they are coming from, check out Chinese History. They have a few historical problems with the Europeans, the Brits and the USA and that is why they are our most dangerous enemies today.