Vladimir Putin’s Unshakeable Popularity

You either don´t get it or have limited knowledge on this topic.

Is that just your default rebuttal to everything?

There was a coup in Kiev - where the so called democratic protestors and freedom fighters dreaming about EU made ,,show,, it ended up with elected president

The only people calling a coup are the russians. It was a popular movement, comprised of hundreds of thousands. This wasn't the military taking over.

After this ,,event,, there were months of no rules - no law, crazy gans for neonazis and private batalions of oligarsch were doing whatever they wanted.

That's an exaggeration. There was unrest, there were deaths, but it was far from total lawlessness. The most it ever escalated before the ATO was in odessa. It wasn't until the Russians started supporting the rebels that large numbers of people started dying.

Donbass thought they can follow Crimea´s example - but they didn´t knew - those ordinary people there had no idea Moscow wanted Crimea, not them. But of course when things got tougher Moscow supported them with everything they could - without being officialy involved.

It's you who knows nothing about this.

Moscow didn't begrudgingly get involved to support them because they felt sympathy. They've done this several times before. They created a frozen conflict and a cancerous breakaway psuedo-state to prevent the country from ever joining EU or NATO. That's what this conflict was about from the start. If the regions seceded, they wouldn't be able to hold the country hostage, if they were crushed, they wouldn't be able to hold the country hostage. That's what they exist for, to prevent the country from joining anything while Moscow can hang war over their heads.

Why are you comparing this to Russia only? if there would be separatist tendencies in many countries they would be crushed and you still don´t get the main problem here - what started this whole circus - Maidan - who financed it?

I assume you're talking about the NED. Which has been in place since the 90s. It's not Russia does not also have NGO's in foreign countries, they've caught a lot of flak for it.

i mean you can´t just say B, C is wron when you must 1st look at A - first letter and A here is Maidan - so this is the beginning and here you must start why when, who. Not just point the finger on Russia - yes they did many wrong things, but they were just doing their politics conserning national security.

The US did not send a single bullet to Ukraine.

While the seperatists have a larger fleet of tanks than most European countries. They can maintain a fleet of vehicles fueled and lubricated despite having no petroleum production. They can outproduce the rest of the country in arms and ammunition despite being under constant bombardment.

Neither side is innocent, but there is a side that is more guilty.

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