Russia has done nothing but speed up NATO accession. Finland would never have joined without this war, and Ukraine was decades away from getting in.
This Batman-ski kills, and doesn't give two sh!ts about Martha.
Too bad they have no actual culture of their own to draw on, and simply regurgitate western culture with a slight rebranding.
Same people, same rules. Nothing's changed.
Wrong on all counts. Different people in government, many legislative changes in the last 50 years. Damn near everything has changed.
In fact, I see parallels between East Pakistan and Ukraine. Both sides required bigger neighbours to interfere to end the killings, and during both times, the local Western joe unwittingly celebrated the killings just 'cause they were allied to genocidal maniacs.
The only similarity is that a larger neighbour actioned and supported the separatist movement in both cases. Russia has simply increased the killing on both sides, not ended it, so categorically wrong again. And the likes of Hindustan Times celebrate this killing. As regards parallels, Ukraine is simply following in the footsteps of all the rest of its Eastern European neighbours in not wanting any share in the misery Russia offers both during wartime and peacetime.
Funny how you are comparing riots to state-sponsored genocide. Looks like Western sheeple have been made numb to the distinction.
When that many interracial riots occur and that many are killed during peacetime, the government is complicit. In most democracies, anyone associated with a government who presided over such incidents would be forced to step down and leave politics as a minimum. And even if it was a false comparison, it would only be mirroring your own comparisons of the direct Russian killing of civilians in Ukraine with civilians killed by militant groups during the US presence in Iraq.
What's happening in Ukraine is what happened in East Pakistan. And 50 years later, someone on the Brit side will say the exact same thing you just said about Ukraine: "50+ years ago and Russian hands were hardly clean either".
Nope. What's happening in Ukraine is that Ukrainians want control of their own country without a Russian arm up the backside of their leader, as per Lukashenko. Same thing all the countries that suffered under the Eastern Bloc wanted post-1991. Bangladesh was denied democracy by Pakistan, Russian separatists in Ukraine denied the ability of people in captured areas to participate in national elections, after invading Crimea outright. The equivalent would be if India had invaded part of Bangladesh covertly and another part overtly and then denied the ability of local residents to vote, whilst Pakistan was still still allowing them to vote.
Basically, a minority group who weren't large enough to influence a national election in their favour, were supported by Russia to steal part of the country away from government. I mean, let's face it, Crimea was known to have been invaded, and the Donbass was between only Ukraine and Russia (just as S. Ossetia and Abkhazia was between only Georgia and Russia), there's only one place their military support could have come from for that long. The whole thing is due to Russian interference from the start.