Ukraine already made peace when they gave up their nuclear weapons in exchange for Russia’s promise that they would respect Ukraine’s sovereignty in the Belarus Memorandum in 1994. A promise which Russia broke repeatedly.
Russia has demonstrated over and over again that it will not abide by its own peace agreements. Russia cannot be trusted to honor any treaty. There can be no peace so long as they are duplicitous.
fallowseed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
“In 2014, after a well-prepared[3] US-sponsored anti-Russian coup in Kyiv, Ukrainian ultranationalists banned the official use of Russian and other minority languages in their country and, at the same time, affirmed Ukraine’s intention to become part of NATO. Among other consequences, Ukrainian membership in NATO would place Russia’s 250-year-old naval base in the Crimean city of Sebastopol under NATO and hence U.S. control. Crimea was Russian-speaking and had several times voted not to be part of Ukraine. So, citing the precedent of NATO’S violent intervention to separate Kosovo from Serbia, Russia organized a referendum in Crimea that endorsed its reincorporation in the Russian Federation. The results were consistent with previous votes on the issue.
Meanwhile, in response to Ukraine’s banning of the use of Russian in government offices and education, predominantly Russian-speaking areas in the country’s Donbas region attempted to secede. Kyiv sent forces to suppress the rebellion. Moscow responded by backing Ukrainian Russian speakers’ demands for the minority rights guaranteed to them by both the pre-coup Ukrainian constitution and the principles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). NATO backed Kyiv against Moscow. An escalating civil war among Ukrainians ensued. This soon evolved into an intensifying proxy war in Ukraine between the United States, NATO, and Russia.”
from former ambassador chas freeman. you know what came after this ? a brokered peace agreement by osce france and germany in which various terms were settled which neither france, nor germany, nor ukraine were intending to uphold. this is the minsk agreement.
there’s a lot of history you like to leave out, and i’m sure you’ll deign to forget this history, too.
Weslee@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You say coup, rest of the rational world says anti corruption revolution.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
fallowseed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
you may notice the “quotation marks” and the attribution. ‘revolution of dignity’ lol
Katana314@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Citing Crimean election results from a nation that “keeps overwhelmingly voting Putin into office, as his opponents are too dead to run” is a bold move.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 days ago
What the fuck source are you even quoting from?
NATO aggression is one of Putin’s favorite talking points. If you’re just going to parrot his propaganda then no one rational should listen to anything you have to say.
Where “backing” means “sending Russian military across the Ukrainian border illegally in order to conduct an invasion based on a flimsy pretext”, yeah, Russia backed them.
fallowseed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
isn’t it possible russia has just cause to fear nato build-up on their borders?
poseur@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Ah yes, from all those times NATO invaded Russia, clearly.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 days ago
OK so now you’re admitting that Russia broke the peace intentionally because of ‘fear’, and moving the goalpost you set earlier about Ukraine not wanting peace.
Classic bad-faith argument practice.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
referendums… Lol, right…