Who knows which side the snipers were on...

even more interesting when you consider that ukrainian politics pre yushchenko was basically a game of swinging toward both russia and the eu depending on how unreasonable the other was acting at the time

they'd use their leverage

the pressure from both mounted to the point ukrainian neutrality simply could not last even if it wanted to remain neutral

i dont remember his government making any attempt to disown the shooters

Not my move to rationalize

doesn't hurt to try

even ukraines more pro russian presidents have flirted with the eu and nato

kuchma did it constantly beginning in the 90s, before swinging back to russia following eu criticism, which the eu would respond by softening

you can only keep that equilibrium for so long

also the russian speaking parts of ukraine in the south and east, with the exception of urban donbass and crimea, which are ethnically as well as linguistically russian, were always more russophile, but even then every single region of ukraine voted for independence in 91

the parts that would have previously been more open to russia are probably much less so now

People fail to realize how many layers of people (with children and families not in bunkers) are between Putin and the nuclear button.

As much as russian speaking and ukrainian speaking regions have issues the large majority of the country believes in a united Ukraine and wants to stay one independent country, which makes resolving the conflict even more complicated

Yes Russia

If you are inferring it’s the US, Russia was very much involved in fighting the Japanese in WWII while the US isn’t fighting at all right now.

He might be killed soon, be easy on him

Beggers really choosers (of WW3) smh

I'm aware I'm just saying that arguably Victor was not topped

Who's this?

Minister of transport for Mississauga

alright now this is f***ing stupid and unnecessary

let the innocent live

We don’t even know who’s on that private chartered plane, could be oligarchs

Airspace has been closed for what..5 or 4 days? People boarding that plane were aware of what could happen

Like naaah that’s f***ed up lmaaao

Thank you to whomever recommended Status Coup News to me. I'm loving this channel so far

Apparently everything is going as planned for Putin. Bro what