Mar 26, 2020, 7:54 PM
Um. He panicked. The ukrainian revolution spread to st petersburg and moscow and he had to crack down on it there. Secondly, it meant nato could take ukraine, the crimea, and the black sea, and leave russian with her artic ports only.. Third it meant his attempt to rebuild russian military capacity was done, because all the high tech equipment was in the don valley in ukraine near the coal mines. That’s why those two hundred and some odd ’emergency supply’ trucks went to ukraine – sure, they brought in arms. BUt more importantly they took all the precision equipment back to russia. Hence the’ little green men’ (russian soldiers without insignias) quickly arriving in crimea. They seized all the private property and redistributed it to russian nationals.. He panicked. The man doesn’t even use cell phones, tablets, or computers because he’s so afraid of the CIA everywhere. The russians are hella good at war plans so they pulled it out of the deck and set it off. They didn’t expect the ‘fight’ from the volunteer (militia) ukrainians – especially Right Sector nationalists. He’d spent years killing off the ukrainian military through their puppet president in ukraine. The military didn’t fight. But the ukrainians west of the dnipr didn’t want any repeat of generations of their families being murdered, or their opportunity for joining europe ended so they fought hard. What I found most interesting was his rapid nationalization of the press, and the manufacture of fake news – staging false testimony. Using video from the chechen war. Making up all sorts of nonsense. We were keeping track of how they were using the same actresses to fake different videos. It was hysterical. Ukraine had to shut off the media from russia and the trains. Russians still sneak in and bomb all sorts of stuff now and then. The idea is just to wait until they can seize the territory, cut the west of ukraine off from the black sea, open the land route to crimea, and incorporate Transnistria – and possibly moldova.