An injured Ukrainian woman
Finally, after fed up with the "tai chi" style of negotiations and endless compromises, Russia chose to invade Ukraine militarily. Since you can't solve the problem, then I will solve your Ukrainian problem once and for all.
Administrative divisions of Ukraine
Speaking of which, the contradiction between Russia and Ukraine is not a small fight overnight, but has deep historical and geopolitical factors. I hope that this letter of mine will take you to understand the reasons for the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the positions of all parties in a simple and concise way.
Natalia, a former Crimean prosecutor with the rank of Major General and now serving in the Russian State Duma, highly directed crimea's referendum in 2014
They have loved and hated each other, and now that they have separated, they still often quarrel and break up. Putting aside the internal contradictions of the Slavs in history and the aggression and expansion of the Tsarist Russia, the problems of Russia and Ukraine began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, when big brother was a family, big brother was gone, Russia and Ukraine immediately began to compete for family property.
Map of the situation in Ukraine in 2014
Closer to that, the Crisis in Ukraine officially began in 2014. In 2014, because it was impossible to tolerate the abolition of Crimea's autonomous status by the Ukrainian anti-Russian government at that time, coupled with the failure of the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations caused by the West's obstruction, Putin did not fight a fight, in order to preserve the power of the Black Sea, he first sent troops to occupy, and then held a referendum in Crimea, and took Crimea cleanly and cleanly. What is a master, this is a master.
A Ukrainian soldier who bids farewell to his girlfriend, he is about to enter the Donbass to fight, and his fate is uncertain
Crimea's entry into Russia has greatly stimulated other pro-Russian friends in Ukraine, and everyone has laid the banner and wanted to join Russia. Due to historical immigration from Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, the population of these regions is mostly ethnic Russian, speaking Russian, flower rubles, from dandruff to toenails and Russians. Among them, the representatives of which are first and foremost the donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, are dreaming of merging into Russia, at least not wanting to remain in the chaotic Ukraine.
Scarred Donbas militia
But Russia's blatant seizure of Crimea in front of the international community is already a big deal, and it is too risky to take donetsk and Luhansk at the same time in 2014. So Putin compromised and turned to supporting pro-Russian militias in pursuit of "independence" status. Russia's logic is simple: as long as the battlefield is won, the problems at the negotiating table are not a problem. As a result, from 2014 to today, the eight-year conflict in Eastern Ukraine has caused headaches for the incompetent Kiev authorities.
Today's Ukraine is no more chaotic than Afghanistan, Syria or warlord-infested Africa, and people and horses from all walks of life are killing the dark and bloody rain. Once this game starts, whether it is Russia or Ukraine, it must be played to the end.
In the face of the battle-hardened Putin the Great, Zelenskiy's political level is also the level of a comedian
Next, I would like to talk about their positions in the Russo-Ukrainian War from the perspective of Ukraine and Russia.
The Politics of Fools in Ukraine: Being Sold and Paying Someone Back?
To evaluate Ukraine, it is within two words - to die.
Map of Ukraine
Ukraine is unwilling when Russia lowers its value and wants to negotiate; when Russia compromises with its own identity, Ukraine does not agree; when Russia is kind enough to persuade it to stay away from NATO; when Russia lends a helping hand to repair the old good, Ukraine does not appreciate it; finally, when Russia decides to tear its face, Ukraine can only stand and be beaten.
A 2014 caricature satirical satirical of Russia and Europe and the United States robbing Ukraine
Nato's commitments and the support of the United States are all in vain, and Ukraine's geography determines that no matter how much it dislikes Russia, it must have good relations with Russia, otherwise the end will be like today. Do you think that if you have a lot of backers behind you, people won't dare to move you? But once people decide to take action, you don't even have a chance to cry. Every time Russia releases goodwill, Ukraine is always instigated by the West to mess things up, so that Russia's hot face is pasted with a cold ass again and again, and individuals will not be able to stand it, let alone a country.
Zelenskiy and Macron, Hum Ha Second General
The Ukrainian people are a very strange nation, obviously the East Slavs who are in the same vein as Russia, but they like to get involved with the Catholic Western Europe, similar to the two or five boys, but they can't get in or they want to go in, and they have always been played by the West as monkeys. However, Russians do not like Ukrainians, but Ukraine was once the frontier of Russia and the Western world and cannot be lost.
The Great Famine in Ukraine resulted in the deaths of 3-7 million Ukrainians
In 1654, Ukraine was annexed by Tsarist Russia in 337, and of course there were unpleasant events, the most typical of which were the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1922 and the Chernobyl Nuclear Crisis of 1986. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia and Ukraine finally separated, but politically separated, geographically still have to be neighbors, Ukraine can not like Russia, but anyone knows the principle of "good neighborliness and friendship", Ukrainians just do not understand.
Ukraine's second president, Kuchma, and Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, are really smelly of the same
Ukraine at the beginning of independence, like Russia, was not much better off in the economic downturn and political turmoil. It was just that at that time, Russia only had half a breath left, and it had no time to support the pro-Russian government in Ukraine. Yeltsin, a big drunkard, was an opportunist himself and was not very good at governing the country, and Ukraine during this period was wildly infiltrated by the West, and many people developed an "anti-Russian" consciousness from an early age. The west's favorite drama is to stir up dissension and instigate war, including this time the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
From 1991 to 2004, Russia had no way to form an effective influence on Ukraine, at this stage, Ukraine was basically a fart to follow the West, picking up some leftovers to eat, after all, Russia at that time also had to look at the Face of the West to live, who looked down on whom, and the most important thing was that Russia at that time was deeply involved in the Chechen war, and had no energy to support the Ukrainian pro-Russian faction.
The Chechen wars were fought twice, in 1994-1996 and 1999-2000, ending in the victory of the Russian Federation, of which Putin was a key figure
However, the West did not pay lip service to it, and through various means it made the Ukrainian economy stink, and bought pieces of Ukrainian state-owned enterprises at a very low price, that guy was like a wholesaler, and then called it "economic aid", lost tens of millions of dollars and did not rush things, and made Ukraine poor and poor, or had to rely on Russia.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the level of infrastructure in Ukraine has not improved much, and the forced march of the Russian army in Ukraine this time has also suffered greatly
Why is Donbass pro-Russian? Because people rely on the Russian market to eat, whoever gives food is the grandfather, the truth that has not changed through the ages.
Bank card on the neck, Ukraine I am the most bitter
Looking back at history, Ukraine is really a lament, and ukraine, which is now the most anti-Russian and anti-Soviet, would have been just a "big countryside" if it were not for the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union left Ukraine with more than 4,000 large factories, more than 60,000 state-owned enterprises, countless production bases for commodity grains, and black sea shipyards. During the Soviet period, Ukraine could produce the world's largest aircraft, but also 40% of the Soviet Union's wheat, 30% of the Soviet Union's industrial products, and deservedly the "second-in-command".
Liaoning
But now? Ukraine did not even have the ability to complete an aircraft carrier of its own, and the Varyag became a Liaoning.
Poroshenko and Obama
However, even in such a situation, Ukrainians still "have no remorse" to choose to be the licking dogs of the West and act as the first line against Russia, and the end can be imagined. The corruption of the Ukrainian government is already an open secret, whether it is the gas oligarch Tymoshenko or the "chocolate king" Poroshenko, for their own interests, they have chosen anti-Russian and pro-American. In 2000, Putin became the president of Russia, the Russian economy began to pick up, and there was also energy to deal with Ukraine, and the pro-Russian Yanukovych began to emerge, but unfortunately he was exiled abroad by the West's drumming of color revolutions, and it seems that the West is doomed to eat Ukraine.
Look at the emperor's face full of satisfaction, Yanukovych is a good president, but unfortunately born in Ukraine
In 2019, Ukrainians elected the heavyweight Zelenskiy, a comedian who once swept Ukraine, but it is a pity that politics is not a comedy. In order to get votes, this big clever did something that other Ukrainian presidents did not dare to do - openly attacking Donbass, all to this, Russia understands, I want to not fight back again, today is Donbass, tomorrow may be Moscow, so the story behind, everyone knows.
Zelenskiy's 2015 TV series Servant of the People
Evaluating Ukraine is really just two words - death.
Russia's survival worries: tigers do not threaten, really when I am sick cats?
Putin was born in the KGB and was very proficient in firearms
Many people feel that Russia is aggressive and does not do anything to expand all day long. That's right, but you don't see the roots, you don't look at Russia's strong soldiers, in fact, Russia is always panicking. It was afraid of Europe, of the United States, of even Ukraine, of waking up and having enemies on its doorstep, of being overwhelmed by enemies after a meal of Moscow.
Russia has repeatedly ordered that the limits of NATO's eastward expansion must stop in Belarus and Ukraine
Whether facing the Mongolian Iron Horse or facing Nazi Germany, Russia always has a way to push back, relying on strategic depth.
One of the most famous photographs of the Soviet Union in World War II "Charging"
Anxiety about living space forced Russia to search for a buffer zone, in order to defend the traditional Russian settlement (west of the Ural Mountains), Russia annexed Eastern Europe to the west, Siberia to the east, the Caucasus to the south, Finland to the north, swallowing itself as the world's largest country, a total of 17.09 million square kilometers, a little larger than Pluto.
The administrative divisions of the Russian Federation are very complex, consisting of roughly 89 federal subjects, with an area of about 17.09 million square kilometers and a population of about 150 million
Russia's history has long been invaded by nomadic peoples from East Asia, and the terrible memory of being ruled by Mongols, Turks, and Tatars still lingers in the mind, so after the rise of modern Tsarist Russia, Russia chose the crazy path of foreign expansion. After the founding of the Soviet Union, Russia's great power chauvinism reached its peak. Today's Russians are actually very contradictory, on the one hand, they are very disgusted with the totalitarian rule of the Soviet Union, on the other hand, they miss the status of the Soviet Union as a superpower.
At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, two Russian female fans smiled at the camera, and the one on the left wore a Soviet military hat
Russia is actually quite speechless, it thinks that I am not the Soviet Union, I want to join your West, but you are going to force me to "return to the Soviet Union", as long as NATO does not expand eastward, Russia can maintain peace with the Eu, after all, half of Russia's resources are sold to the EU, who can't get over with money?
Russian female soldiers
This Russian-Ukrainian crisis, the most interesting thing is the ambiguous attitude of Germany and France, as the two bosses of the European Union, these two countries are more rational, you Americans can think of how to scold Russia, but the French and Germans must be cautious, because they are not only close to Russia, but also need Russian heating for the winter.
The Minsk Agreement was an international convention on the peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian issue concluded by Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France, which was unilaterally undermined by Ukraine
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's economy basically depended on selling resources, its diplomacy basically relied on the military, and its internal affairs basically relied on Putin. The key word for Russia is Putin. This iron-fisted tough guy from the Soviet Union who was born as a Soviet agent was at the helm of Russia for 22 years, eliminating the insatiable giant oligarchy at home and crushing the vicious Chechen rebels externally, almost single-handedly pulling Russia from the brink of collapse to the status of a world power.
King's Landing
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, due to Yeltsin's protection, there were seven oligarchs in Russia, whose wealth was parasitic on the skinny Russia, with total assets as high as 30% of the Russian national wealth, controlling 80% of Russia's markets and enterprises, and these people were not very patriotic, Russia was just a tool they used to grab profits.
Russian oil oligarch Khodorkovsky (right) and Putin
Coupled with the bloody Chechen war, russia's situation is no better than Ukraine's. It was in this case that he came. In 2000, Yeltsin knew he couldn't go on and began looking for a successor, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was undoubtedly the best candidate. In 1999, Putin took the initiative to ask for help from the Chechen front, killed more than 1,000 Chechen bandits in Dagestan, and regained the dominance of the Chechen war, giving the Russians a fierce breath.
Yeltsin and Putin in the Kremlin, 1999
Putin's ascension to power benefited from the second Chechen war, a war he single-handedly won. After repelling the Chechen bandit army in Dagestan, Putin immediately ordered them to be suppressed, rejecting all peace talks, claiming that "it is God's business that forgives them." Putin also personally flew a fighter plane to the chechen front, commanded by the Russian generals, and the guy was extremely bloody.
In 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally flew a fighter jet to Chechnya to oversee the war
The West is still old-fashioned, accusing Russia of violating the human rights of Chechens, if Yeltsin absolutely has to kneel down to apologize, but Putin directly and toughly replied: "Americans and British people were killed when they slept, you will do the same", Putin's tough guy image and Yeltsin's drunken image all day long formed a huge contrast, in 2000 Russia officially opened the Putin era.
The current president of Chechnya, Kadyrov Jr., has an almost fanatical admiration for Putin
In 2000, on the same night that Putin delivered his New Year's message, he immediately flew to the Chechen front to see the officers and men of the Russian army, and everyone was touched and said that Pugo could be punished. It was also under Putin's leadership that Russia defeated chechen terrorists, marched into Syria, subdued Georgia, destroyed the seven oligarchs, and killed a bloody road, only because Moscow had no tears.
In 2000, Putin was on the front line in Chechnya
However, the most difficult thing to deal with is NATO, and Ukraine has become a tool used by NATO and the United States to disgust Russia. In 1991, NATO promised not to expand east of Germany, and as a result, it expanded to Poland in 1999. The three Baltic states were powerless to reorganize Russia, and White Russia was its own, and the two sides began to compete for the last middle ground, Ukraine.
Portrait of Putin on the streets of Crimea
In 2014, the Russian-backed Yanukovych was ousted by the West, and it was too late to do anything, so Russia took Crimea first. Crimea was originally Russian, in 1954 to Khrushchev to give to Ukraine, really the cub selling the field is not painful, that is the lifeblood of the Russian Black Sea Navy, once taken by the West, Russia will never see the Black Sea.
Russian Black Sea naval warships stationed at the Sevastopol military port. Sai City is one of the largest cities on the Black Sea coast and a strategic fortress
In 2014, Crimea joined Russia with 97% approval, and there is nothing to say. Immediately after, Donbass also began to make independence, Russia is tough, but also to eat, after this war, the economy was wildly sanctioned by the West, losing $4 trillion in just 6 years, when every U.S. president, the first thing to get up is to think about how to sanction Russia. But Russia still clings to the last bottom line, because although Russia is big, it is Moscow behind it!
It is precisely because of the crazy sanctions imposed by the West that Russia and China after 2014 have become closer and closer, we need their energy, they need our daily necessities and light industry, the two sides are highly complementary, and have the same strategic interests. Nato refuses to retreat, Russia also refuses to retreat, until the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia is really "not presumptuous", said almost 20 years, NATO is stunned is not listened to, Ukraine is also stunned to dare to move.
Russia's bottom line is very clear, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk. In fact, this war was provoked by Kiev first, after the Russian warning, the Ukrainian army not only did not stop fire, but also indiscriminately bombed the east Ukrainian region, what is the point of hitting children, to fight with adults, as far as your Ukrainian family foundation is concerned, I hit you as if you were not playing? So the Russian army went straight to the end.
For refugees from Eastern Ukraine entering Russia, the Russian government distributed 10,000 rubles to each person, provided food and shelter
In fact, Zezi is also quite helpless, he is just a puppet, the Kiev government is actually controlled by the United States, a large number of officials even have American citizenship and green cards, the Ukrainian army attacked Donbass, may be completely under the order of the Americans, he can only watch the Russian army attack. What now? Zelenskiy ran, Ukraine fell, the West farted, this geopolitical struggle, Russia won at the beginning.
Before the war, Putin sent a note to the French and German leaders, the meaning is very clear, I clean up the portal, you NATO and the European Union had better not wipe the ass for the United States. Not only Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk are mine, even you Ukraine are mine, tigers do not threaten, when I am Hello Kitty? Europe, which looks down on Russia, must also fear Russia.
What do you see?
As usual, the war broke out, Europe and the United States will still only impose economic sanctions, but after so many years of sanctions, Russia has become accustomed to it, not afraid, numb, after this war the strategic interests are achieved, Donbass is now Russia, the United States has also achieved the purpose of transferring contradictions and European capital inflows, anyway, Russia is the United States are showing, only Ukraine is being beaten.
Ukrainian female soldiers take selfies on the battlefield, and it is strange that they can win the battle
Kiev is now within easy reach of the Russians, with civilian casualties. I don't know if Russia won or the United States achieved its goals, but I do know that in front of the world, Ukraine has definitely lost, and lost completely.