Fuckingmallam45: It may take years for the West to effectively respond to Putin's transgressions, because Russia now supplies 30% of Western Europe's natural gas and oil.
But right now they're desperately looking for alternatives because they now know that Putin has no compunctions about abrogating any agreement he's made with anyone--and you can't do business with someone who does that.
Meanwhile Putin has united every bordering country except the Belarussian dictatorship against him and against Russia and in favor of the West.
It's ironic, because Russia could have been friends with those countries. But Putin's paranoia and magalomania were self-fulfilling prophecies. They're all conspiring against him and Russia now, but only because he has shown who and what he is.
Man, no doubt about it, you are just against putin as a person. If not for the likes of putin, i wonder what the world will look like because of the usa and its cronies.
Ukrainians shouldn't have also voted for a comedian as a president. Zelensky might have been taking all the Russia's threats as jokes.
If not that Zelensky is unserious fellow, how did he allow USA and NATO to Bobo him when they are not going to send their troops to defend aggressive Russia.
Ukraine have been left alone while Russia already surrounded them
Putin don reason wetin fit hapun in d nearest future if Ukraine joins Nato, he won't wait for their invasion b4 making moves
We can do that without being demeaning or Childish.
There are those who have beautifully marshalled thier points in favour of and against the current invasion of Ukraine... & I assure you, the people in Ukraine who are suffering the effects of war do not think it is a 'nollywood movie'. Not by a long shot...
How can NATO be created to resist German aggression in 1949 when Germany was already defeated in 1945? Why not use Google to cure your ignorance on NATO and it's formation.
What is the founding principle of NATO?
Which Russian aggression made Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic join NATO in 1999 less that 10 years after the Soviet Union and Therefore Warsaw pact broke up?
Which security situation made Eastern European countries like Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO in 2004?
These small country offer nothing new to NATO capabilities except providing a base close to Russia.
Russia feels being chocked by the U.S. and that's why it's started to react more and more aggressively.
Imagine someone who said NATO was formed created to resist aggression against Germany accusing someone of cluelessness, is that ironic?
@FERNANDEZISBACK, I'll love to see your view or facts about this. You seem to be a very knowledgeable guy.
I'm learning a lot from you and the other arguments being put up. Just drop your 2 cents on this
Many here never understand what information war is. No doubt the Russians may find it difficult to beat the west in information war. For the Russians, they rather careless about how the rest of the sheeples care about them. Their goal is strategic and they don’t mince words when they say the west has ceased a red line.
The information war will move to the next phase now that Zelensky is declaring surrender!
The west will cry about civilian deaths, murdered babies, killed grand daddies, Russians rape of innocent teenagers in Ukraine, Turning off incubators in Kiev general hospital, taking the hearts out of dead Ukrainian soldiers... used chemical weapons to overwhelm Ukie forces... the list goes on
For no reason? The problem here is that you are giving NATO and the West a free pass. In your mind, they're infallible. You really think the West never saw this crises coming? This crises have been brewing for over a decade. The West knows what they're doing. Russia knows what they are doing too. Russia understands Western manipulations and scheming and are basically trying to upstage them.
You have to understand how NATO works. Once you're a member of NATO, if you're attacked, all members of NATO have a duty to join hands to defend you. It means that the attackers will be facing the military arsenal of the whole of western Europe and others that are members of NATO. NATO is the biggest fighting block as at today and represents the biggest military danger to countries like Russia and China...
So what happens if Ukraine joins NATO and a president of Ukraine starts a sort of war with Russia? NATO will have to do something to defend Ukraine. That means that all of a sudden, Russia will have to fight The USA, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain , Portugal etc. These are some of the most sophisticated militaries in the world. You're going to face them over a minor squabble with your neighbor? Right at your borders! Especially a neighbor that has ethnic Russians as her citizens too?
This is very simple. I don't know why it looks so confusing to some. Russia is trying to get Ukraine within her sphere of influence. That's what you do when you're a super power. The Americans do it, the USSR did it, China is trying to do it. If you leave your flanks open, your competitors will enter an dismantle you. If you doubt this, try to make Mexico a strategic ally of Russia or China, .. The Americans will react even more ferociously than Russia is doing today to that. During the Venezuelan crises, The US did whatever it could to make sure that Russia never had a military post in Venezuela. Yet Venezuela has no border crossings with The United States. How much more a country with land borders with the US..
Best analysis of the whole brouhaha! Don't mind the West and their plans. A lot of Nigerians do not even understand the issues. All they do is eat their garri and soup! They don't understand geopolitics. They see it as Russia being the aggressor, they don't understand that the West and NATO are the aggressors.
frog12: another one wey dey watch too much cnn,bbc,msnbc, etc. go to RT on youtube and you go understand putin speech. all the western media are all twisting his speech to make the guy look like hitler. even UK govt wan ban RT from broadcasting. can you believe these hypocrites ??
Just be quiet
Everything is always propaganda to jester's like you get lost jare
I read a lot about this thing,and the story which way you choose to look at it, you will be right and wrong....it just depends on ur perception and ideology.....
Check my signature guys..... Freelancing is an act,and u can get it right
Summarily, we live in a world of interest; while some people (USA) go about it covertly, others (Russia) do it overtly. Everything that Russia is doing today, the US have done the same, but they do it in the guise of democracy and freedom.
Lastly, if you interpret international politics from a standpoint of emotion you will be shocked.
Understand that we live in a world of interest and agenda; know this and know peace!
i will give you putin speech. listen to it thoroughly. it is 1hr. he gave history so we'll understand how everything started and simply was saying the guys in charge of ukraine are not serious. and if your leader is not serious, that na failing state wey dey lose its sovereignty and bandits and criminals and killers can roam free (like in the north). but he is referring to nato/usa in this case. they only take selective parts of his speech to twist it. putin is a serious guy. no joke. see the speech:
you know when russia enter, most of the west journalist were almost crying. they don wan anyone to oppose america. dey just wan you to obey when america warns you.
Adakintroy: Europe is the best Europe is the best. Athink una de see real wars. Africa na rake. Eurooe is action. Like like play this thing fit spill over. All you fools atheist. Bloody cunts. Weaklings weh no go fit lift guns Shea Una see the function of God.
You don't want to know the things men let go in this world because of God. The ones that don't have God, let's just say they are capable of anything.
you've said a lot of things without saying anything
How is NATO a threat to him? NATO is a defensive organisation that guarantees the integrity of member nations against attack through the medium of mutual support...
He is not defending his country he is invading a sovereign country.. understand that? You can't defend your country by attacking another for no reason..just like torturing your wife for saying she wanna divorce you.. NATO is still necessary because it protects its members from the “confusion, instability, unpredictability” which are persistent conditions in international affairs. So NATO doesn’t need to be against any specific state or group to continue to have a very important job to do...To prevent any more annexed Crimea’s and Russian occupied Ukraine. Russia intends to further expand her borders, NATO may deter WW3... So you gotta understand that..
Ooh so attacking them is a way forward? Why will Ukraine sort a war with Russia for no reason? isn't that d**mb?
You can't tell a sovereign country what to do and how to run their country..did they launch any offensive against Russia?no If you or Putin ain't scared and doesn't have any ulterior motive why forcing Ukraine to lick your boots?
No point here just some bully..I can't imagine Egypt or Algeria invading your country cos you decide to do something for the betterment of your country.. NATO did not launch any offensive against Russia did they? Ukraine is being bullied and needeed help?how would you feel if your senior bro keep hurting you so as to force you to do what he wants? won't you look for a solution? or you will keep smiling and enduring huh? So what exactly is your point?
But US can tell Iraq Yemen Syria Afghanistan Libya and many others what to do without impunity. If I say u are deluded here I am honestly not trying to abuse you or maybe you know the truth but decides to swim illusions
This analysis is one-sided from a western point of view only. Another proxy puppet copying strictly from a western standpoint. DID anyone remember Susan Nuland f*ck the EU statement when they were looking for the Puppet to install in Kiev? This was widespread everywhere and how Nuland herself confirm they have spent over $5 billion investing in how to topple Viktor Yanukovych, a democratically elected president of Ukraine.
There is time to start fighting all the media lies.
Do you know what it means when you remove a democratically elected president to install a puppet? It means that country has lost its sovereign state both economically and militarily. Simple as that. They have done this several time with African countries. They think Ukraine is another one. They have failed.
EXPLAINER: Why exactly is Putin invading Ukraine? EXPLAINER: Why exactly is Putin invading Ukraine?
On Thursday, the world was roused to the shocking reverberation of bombs dropping on cities in Ukraine as Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, finally sounded the long-touted invasion of the country. At least 137 people are said to have died as Russian bombs continue to cascade down the sky of Kyiv, Dnipro and other cities in Ukraine.
After months of heightened tension which saw Russia deploy over 100,000 troops to surround its ex-Soviet neighbour on three sides “like a sickle,” according to observers, Putin jacked forward the machinery of war, sending the world into jarring disbelief.
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, condemned the invasion as a “blatant violation of international law”. Joe Biden, the US president, described it as “an unprovoked and unjustified attack” while Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, declared that the country and its allies “will respond decisively”.
A global showdown is brewing, and an adamant Putin has damned the rest of the world with his action, and it seems he will not leech the war dog any time soon.
As the situation between Russia and Ukraine deteriorates beyond diplomatic reconciliation and hits the shrapnels of a full-fledged war, we take a trip down memory lane to understand the origin of the conflict.
History of the tension
The tension between the neighbours has been bubbling for a while. The protracted conflict first brewed over in 2014 after the widespread Euromaidan protest in Ukraine forced the parliament to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from office. The removal of Yanukovych, who was regarded as pro-Russia, vexed the leadership in Moscow, and they thought the best way to strike back was to reclaim Ukraine’s region of Crimea, which used to be under Russia’s control from 1783 to 1954.
The Kremlin then kicked off operation ‘Returning Crimea’, and it engineered a series of pro-Russia protests across several areas in the city. The invasion of Crimea followed as the “little green men” — masked soldiers without insignia but with distinctly Russian weaponry and equipment — took to the city. Russia then launched a referendum in the city, and in the infamously skewed plebiscite, a staggering 97 percent of the population voted for the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation.
The annexation of Crimea by Russia was a blow to Ukraine. But the onslaught had not reached an end for Ukraine as Russia began to secretly provide weaponry support for separatists in the country’s eastern region. This violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty helped the rebels claim control of the eastern city of Donbas with over 14,000 lives lost in the region.
To end the bloody crisis, an agreement was hammered out in Minsk, Belarus, in February 2015. The resolution tagged the ‘Minsk agreement’ was monitored by United Nations, and it proposed a cease-fire with all parties signing to power down their machinery of war.
Despite a ceasefire agreement, both parties have not been at peace, and the Russia-backed rebels have claimed further swathes of land in the east of Ukraine.
NATO and its eyes on Ukraine
After the collapse of the Iron Curtain and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has never been subtle in its mission to bring into its fold the majority of countries that used to be in the eastern bloc. NATO won over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 2004.
However, NATO has always had its eyes on Ukraine, a pursuit that has provoked Russia deeply over the years.
With the persistent Russian invasion and support for rebels, Ukraine finally tilted toward the Atlantic bloc. In 2019, the constitution of Ukraine was amended with the addition of parts indicating the country’s imminent membership of NATO and the European Union (EU).
For Russia, the move was a red line in the sand as it sees Ukraine’s romance with NATO as a bombardment by its Western enemies across numerous sides. And when the topic was raised again at the 2021 Brussel Summit, Russia intensified its move to bring Ukraine to its knees before it walked into the arms of NATO.
Putin said Kremlin will not allow “any further NATO moves eastward and the deployment of weapons systems that threaten us in close vicinity to Russian territory”.
He insisted that Russians and Ukrainians “were one people – a single whole,” adding that the crisis is the “result of deliberate efforts by those forces that have always sought to undermine our unity”.
In December 2021, Putin warned NATO that deploying weapons or soldiers into Ukraine would cross a “red line” for Russia and trigger a strong response from the Kremlin.
The tension boiled over with the new year, and it erupted into a war on Thursday, February 24, 2022.
What does Putin want from Ukraine?
Putin has described the West’s mission with Ukraine as “the overarching goal being to divide and then to pit the parts of a single people against one another”.
He added that “step by step, Ukraine was dragged into a dangerous geopolitical game aimed at turning Ukraine into a barrier between Europe and Russia, a springboard against Russia”.
In his bid to bring Ukraine back under Russia’s influence, he openly backed and recognised the government of rebels in the eastern part of the country and quickly sent in troops for “peacekeeping” in the region.
He wants to stop Ukraine from being, in his own words, “a puppet” of the West.
What can the West do?
The leaders of the West have been airing their condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine since it began. But, at the moment, NATO countries haven’t unfurled plans to send combat troops in Ukraine’s defence.
Instead, they’ve offered the beleaguered country weapons and medical aids. But NATO already has about 5,000 troops in Poland with other troops across the Baltic territory ready to swing into action when called.
NATO has made it clear that it will deal with Russia; using economic and financial sanctions to strangulate it to back out of the invasion.
Putin has the right to defend his country. He is taking a very important proactive step to safeguard his country. if Chad decides to give ISIS or Boko Haram a base to deploy their troops and organize their attacks against Nigeria, Nigeria has the right to take every action to stop Chad. If Nigeria refuses to act, it's a sign of weakness and lack of foresight within the countrys leadership and not something to celebrate. That exactly is the thing Russia is doing. NATO was formed to term the USSR. The USSR is dead, what's NATO still doing positioning herself within a striking distance to Russia? Ukraine got herself into this mess by deciding to join a military group that represents her neighbors worse enemies
try understand the difference between attack and defense, the functions of USSR and NATO, who is actually supporting the separatist with weapon between Russia and Ukraine, given your analogy between Chad and Nigeria
For no reason? The problem here is that you are giving NATO and the West a free pass. In your mind, they're infallible. You really think the West never saw this crises coming? This crises have been brewing for over a decade. The West knows what they're doing. Russia knows what they are doing too. Russia understands Western manipulations and scheming and are basically trying to upstage them.
You have to understand how NATO works. Once you're a member of NATO, if you're attacked, all members of NATO have a duty to join hands to defend you. It means that the attackers will be facing the military arsenal of the whole of western Europe and others that are members of NATO. NATO is the biggest fighting block as at today and represents the biggest military danger to countries like Russia and China...
So what happens if Ukraine joins NATO and a president of Ukraine starts a sort of war with Russia? NATO will have to do something to defend Ukraine. That means that all of a sudden, Russia will have to fight The USA, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain , Portugal etc. These are some of the most sophisticated militaries in the world. You're going to face them over a minor squabble with your neighbor? Right at your borders! Especially a neighbor that has ethnic Russians as her citizens too?
This is very simple. I don't know why it looks so confusing to some. Russia is trying to get Ukraine within her sphere of influence. That's what you do when you're a super power. The Americans do it, the USSR did it, China is trying to do it. If you leave your flanks open, your competitors will enter an dismantle you. If you doubt this, try to make Mexico a strategic ally of Russia or China, .. The Americans will react even more ferociously than Russia is doing today to that. During the Venezuelan crises, The US did whatever it could to make sure that Russia never had a military post in Venezuela. Yet Venezuela has no border crossings with The United States. How much more a country with land borders with the US..
Putin has the right to defend his country. He is taking a very important proactive step to safeguard his country. if Chad decides to give ISIS or Boko Haram a base to deploy their troops and organize their attacks against Nigeria, Nigeria has the right to take every action to stop Chad. If Nigeria refuses to act, it's a sign of weakness and lack of foresight within the countrys leadership and not something to celebrate. That exactly is the thing Russia is doing. NATO was formed to term the USSR. The USSR is dead, what's NATO still doing positioning herself within a striking distance to Russia? Ukraine got herself into this mess by deciding to join a military group that represents her neighbors worse enemies
I fail to see the correlation between Boko Haram and NATO
But US can tell Iraq Yemen Syria Afghanistan Libya and many others what to do without impunity. If I say u are deluded here I am honestly not trying to abuse you or maybe you know the truth but decides to swim illusions
This analysis is one-sided from a western point of view only. Another proxy puppet copying strictly from a western standpoint. DID anyone remember Susan Nuland f*ck the EU statement when they were looking for the Puppet to install in Kiev? This was widespread everywhere and how Nuland herself confirm they have spent over $5 billion investing in how to topple Yanokowich, a democratically elected president of Ukraine.
There is time to start fighting all the media lies.
Do you know what it means when you remove a democratically elected president to install a puppet? It means that country has lost its sovereign state both economically and militarily. Simple as that. They have done this several time with African countries. They think Ukraine is another one. They have failed.
For no reason? The problem here is that you are giving NATO and the West a free pass. In your mind, they're infallible. You really think the West never saw this crises coming? This crises have been brewing for over a decade. The West knows what they're doing. Russia knows what they are doing too. Russia understands Western manipulations and scheming and are basically trying to upstage them.
You have to understand how NATO works. Once you're a member of NATO, if you're attacked, all members of NATO have a duty to join hands to defend you. It means that the attackers will be facing the military arsenal of the whole of western Europe and others that are members of NATO. NATO is the biggest fighting block as at today and represents the biggest military danger to countries like Russia and China...
So what happens if Ukraine joins NATO and a president of Ukraine starts a sort of war with Russia? NATO will have to do something to defend Ukraine. That means that all of a sudden, Russia will have to fight The USA, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain , Portugal etc. These are some of the most sophisticated militaries in the world. You're going to face them over a minor squabble with your neighbor? Right at your borders! Especially a neighbor that has ethnic Russians as her citizens too?
This is very simple. I don't know why it looks so confusing to some. Russia is trying to get Ukraine within her sphere of influence. That's what you do when you're a super power. The Americans do it, the USSR did it, China is trying to do it. If you leave your flanks open, your competitors will enter an dismantle you. If you doubt this, try to make Mexico a strategic ally of Russia or China, .. The Americans will react even more ferociously than Russia is doing today to that. During the Venezuelan crises, The US did whatever it could to make sure that Russia never had a military post in Venezuela. Yet Venezuela has no border crossings with The United States. How much more a country with land borders with the US..
he don surrender