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2024-08-15 16:17:09

kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: Ten years ago on 14 August 2014 two journalists Shaun Walker and Roland Oliphant were ...

Ten years ago on 14 August 2014 two journalists Shaun Walker and Roland Oliphant were in #Donbas and posted what they saw with their own eyes - a column of #Russia military vehicles with official Russia army markings crossing from Russia into #Ukraine.

That was months after Ukraine had been saying on February 2014 it was no "little green men" or "self-defense" but GRU soldiers who blocked Ukrainian military in #Crimea. And it was not "self-defense" with "weapons found in old storage" who invaded Donbas, but regular Russian army, only with their markings cowardly removed.

If Europe and USA responded to that invasion decisively instead of pretending to believe the Russian fables about "guerillas", we would live in a very different world and 24 February 2022 would likely never have happened. Western "deescalation" had exactly the opposite effect in this case.



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