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Why would Ukraine provoke Russia in times of peace? What is the deep hatred between Ukraine and Russia? Why does a small military country dare to provoke a military power?
Origins of the Ukrainian State
In fact, the name of the country of Ukraine appeared long ago, and it was called "Frontier Land" in the "History of Rus" in 1187. Geographically, Ukraine was a place of contention between Russia and the West, when outsiders had to pass through Ukraine if they wanted to enter Russia.
Therefore, for Russia, Ukraine is Russia's door, and the importance of resisting the invasion of Western countries is self-evident. Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, to some extent, belong to the same race, to the East Slavic people.
Moreover, in the ninth century, the Vikings helped them to achieve unification, and later they formed a grand duchy from the "Baltic Sea" to the "Black Sea" centered on Kiev, named "Kievan Rus'" as the center.
Before the Age of Discovery, the world's trading center was Constantinople under the Byzantine Empire, and random Vikings thought of going to Constantinople for business, and they had to cross several rivers through Europe to reach the Black Sea on the way, so that they could enter Constantinople.
Kiev was located in an important position between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, so Kievan Rus' development was very rapid, and its sphere of influence included the territories south of present-day Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
But Kievan Rus' came as fast as it could, and further on, the Mongol armies of the 13th century slaughtered all over Europe and the Asian continent.
At this time, Kievan Rus', which was in civil strife, successfully attracted the attention of the Mongol army, looking at the disfigured Kievan Rus' that had already been in civil strife, the Mongol army took only two attacks to capture Kiev, Moscow and Vladimir, and then established the "Golden Horde" on Rus' land.
Since then Kiev has been divided into many small states, and some of the inhabitants who were originally around Kievan Rus have fled to Galicia and the upper Volga region.
Time slowly passed, and those who fled to Galicia became what is now Ukrainians, and the inhabitants who went to the upper Volga became Russians.
Since then, the East Slavic peoples have slowly divided into three countries: Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, although the land of Kievan Rus' is basically occupied by the Mongol army, but the Lithuanians and Poles have snatched Polotsk, Warren-Galicia from the Mongol army. And so on.
Ukrainians have since survived under the rule of Lithuania and the Polish state, and during this period of humiliation and humiliation, Catholicism has slowly infiltrated and influenced Ukrainians until now.
But Ukraine is the equivalent of a protective shield for Russia, and Russia itself has slowly developed during the time when Ukraine has been bullied by other countries.
Later, in 1654, Ukraine, unable to defeat Lithuania and Poland, bent down to request support from its neighbor Russia and signed the Treaty of Periaslav under Russian conditions.
Since then, Russia has occupied the eastern part of the Dnieper River, forming a joint partition of Ukraine with Poland, and a century-long hatred between western Ukraine and Belarus has been born.
Then, from 1768 to 1774, Catherine of Russia emerged and snatched the Crimean Peninsula from Turkey with strong means and military force, and occupied nearly 400,000 square kilometers.
Because of Russia's strength, Ukraine in neighboring countries can not escape it, and it is eaten by Russia.
After swallowing Ukraine, thinking of the concept of "Russia and Ukraine under the heavens is one", quickly "assimilating" the eastern and western parts of Ukraine, and instilling the concept of "Great Russia" in people's hearts. Subsequently, a large number of Russians were sent to teach Ukrainians Russian and spread Orthodoxy.
However, such a move by eastern Ukraine under long-term Russian control will not show any abnormality.
However, western Ukraine was previously occupied and ruled by Other countries such as Germany and Poland, and whether it was the way the local people spoke or religious beliefs, it was very different from eastern Ukraine.
Now to merge the eastern and western parts of Ukraine, it is like bitter melon with white sugar, no one wants.
So such a move created a huge problem in eastern Ukraine, which, at the beginning of the October Revolution in 1917, overthrew the Provisional Government formed by the Russian aristocracy and bourgeoisie at that time.
It was made clear that Ukraine would join soviet Russia at that time, but the western part of Ukraine was reluctant to join it. Subsequently, after the civil war in eastern and western Ukraine, Germany and Poland seized the opportunity to occupy western Ukraine.
Then 22 years later, when the Second World War broke out in 1939, the Soviet Union recaptured western Ukraine.
By this time a Soviet government had been established in eastern Ukraine, which in 1922 became one of the founding states of what was then Soviet Russia, what we call the Soviet Union. Although Ukraine, which joined the Soviet Union, worked with Russia, its luck did not seem to be very good.
At that time, Stalin's policy of "exporting grain from the west to the east" caused a famine in Ukraine for nearly a year.
As time went on, more and more Ukrainians lost their lives, reaching a staggering million, and Ukraine, which was already displeased with Russia, became even more dissatisfied.
This was followed by the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in 1986, which grew in the face of Ukrainian discontent. All sorts of things happened that led Ukraine to unify its resentment towards Moscow, Russia and the former Soviet Union after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ukraine declares its independence
Since the former Soviet Union had a different treatment of the eastern and western parts of Ukraine, this is also one of the important reasons why things happened. But.
After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union spent huge sums of money to build Ukraine into a militarily and economically important country.
At this time, Ukraine not only had two intercontinental missile launch pads and ten groups of troops, but also more than 4,000 factories and more than three million workers, and at that time it was probably the only Black Sea shipyard capable of building an aircraft carrier and the Antonov Design Bureau, which built the world's largest transport aircraft AN-225, both built in Ukraine.
However, this military and economic, which seems to be very powerful, exists only in the east of Ukraine, and the construction of the western part of Ukraine is only a little better than before, and there is no great change.
Five years after the Chernobyl incident in 1991, the upheavals in Eastern Europe and Ukraine declared its independence, but when Ukraine was ready to take charge of its own affairs, it found a serious problem.
Because, since the birth of the Ukrainian state, they have not led a country alone. Ukraine, which has not experienced it, has no choice but to imitate Russia to carry out economic reforms and wants to implement a liberalized economic market as a whole.
The consequence of imitation was to raise a group of oligarchs, and the inflation at that time was as high as 1400%, and in the ten years after Ukraine declared independence, nearly 10 million Ukrainians chose to leave the country where they grew up, in order to survive, there was no way for the local Ukrainian government, only to let the Chinese smuggle weapons on the black market.
And in 1992 alone, as many as 2 million AK series rifles and nearly 1,000 tanks flowed out of the black market in Ukraine. What makes the Ukrainian people even more sad is that after independence, Ukraine has always been held in the hands of oligarchs.
From the first president, Kuchma, to The Ukrainian female president, Tymoshenko, even the newly appointed comedian Zelenskiy rose to the throne under the propulsion of oligarchs.
In this case, Ukraine's financial, chemical, energy and other profiteering industries are controlled by the bottom of the people's lives can not be guaranteed.
During this period, the chaotic war also continued to erode Ukraine, from the Crimea issue to the pro-Russian forces in East Ukraine and the Ukrainian government forces fighting in Donbass.
To this day, the situation in Ukraine has not improved, and Ukraine's request to join NATO is far from here.
For the United States and NATO, Ukraine is just a tool they use to disgust Russia. NATO knows that Russia is not a good problem, so it will not agree to Ukraine's entry into NATO.
In fact, the whole world can see this very clearly, only Ukraine does not know the stakes and dares to oppose Russia at russia's doorstep. After thousands of years, today in the 21st century, the contradiction between Russia and Ukraine has long been sublimated from historical grievances to conflicts of national interests.
In January 2022, the Western European and American media continued to blow the wind, saying that Russia was going to attack Ukraine, which made Russia feel a little inexplicable, and the strange thing was that the European and American media said that there was a nose and an eye, but Russia has been denying it.
Germany and France hurried to break away from it, fearing that the flames of war would burn to Europe.
What is even more incomprehensible is that no matter how the outside world says this matter, the Western European and American countries are still determined that Russia will attack Ukraine, and the most bizarre thing is that the time is also determined on February 16.
What is incomprehensible is that this kind of thing is a bit counterintuitive. How can the Western European and American countries say that nothing has happened, and that Russia will attack Ukraine with certainty?
The time to attack was also determined, who was behind it?
In fact, the Western media gave the answer, which was said by US President Biden himself.
But why, because even if Russia does not go back to attack Ukraine, they will find a way to force Russia to act and try their best to provoke his bottom line.
So what is Russia's bottom line? That is Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk.
However, Donetsk and Luhansk are in fact only two autonomous oblasts of Ukraine, and although they are ostensibly controlled by Russia, russia recognizes it as its own little brother, but such a thing is not recognized by the international community.
If Russia does recognize the independence of these two autonomous oblasts, then the two autonomous oblasts are already considered aggression against Ukraine. But where did the determined time for the attack come from?
In fact, they are just provocative, because they said this in January, and in early February they also said that they would send troops to attack Ukraine, and this time they said that they would attack on February 16, which was just using some actions to force it.
When we thought it was provoked by Western European and American countries, on February 17, Ukraine really went crazy, constantly provoking Russia, and also attacked Donetsk and Luhansk with its armed forces.
However, it is not known whether the speaker intends or the listener supports the proposal, Ukraine has been constantly provoking Russia since the 17th.
In two days, there were more than eight hundred armed clashes, many houses were destroyed with weapons, and one gas pipeline was destroyed.
The most infuriating thing is that a kindergarten was attacked, causing many injuries, and in just two days, an unimaginable scene occurred. It is really uncles who can bear it, sister-in-law who can't stand it, Russia is also a military power, where in recent years it has been subjected to such humiliation.
Everyone is probably wondering why Ukraine has the courage to go back and provoke Russia, and has proved it with actions.
In fact, what we see is that Ukraine has taken the initiative to provoke, but it is likely that this is some means of the US government, and the Ukrainian president may just be a "puppet".
Why? Because Ukraine's deputy minister, formerly an authentic American, became a Ukrainian citizen in 2015 and became a deputy minister a year later, do you think this is possible?
Moreover, many senior ukrainian government officials were European and American before they became Ukrainian citizens, but why are they all Ukrainian government officials now? There must be a lot of fame in this.
And if you look at US President Joe Biden in the past two years, to be honest, it's really a disgrace.
Needless to say, this time the war in Ukraine, no matter what, Biden himself is actually the biggest loser, and others have watched, not only the opposition, including the United States, including his allies, including the whole world are watching the Joke of the United States, what are you?
You said it well before, teeth and claws, a lot of grandstanding such beautiful words, like what the United States is back, we want to rebuild our ally diplomacy, our alliance system, we want to protect Ukraine, but is it really Putin who protects it when he starts the war?
And Biden said before that no matter what the circumstances, the US military can not enter the no-Kelan, this message in a sense, ah, in fact, or encourage Putin to move, so this is the attitude of the United States, which also proves what?
The first is the hypocrisy of the United States, the so-called alliance system of the United States is actually vulnerable, quite weak, and quite hypocritical.
What is the second proof? The United States is now running out of energy, and this is really a hegemony, a hegemony in the twilight, it is crumbling, and it is a symptom of deterioration.
Then everyone can see even more, then the United States you can not rely on at your critical moment, Ukraine is now the whole country will not fall into the country, then where is your United States, where is Europe, where is your commitment, where is the real protection?
So don't easily believe in the promises given by others, like Ukraine, which has brought us a deep wake-up call at a very tragic and tragic price.