Such a dictator could not tolerate a democracy in a neighboring country which he considered his property.
Ukraine, a democracy..? Do we talk about the most corrupted country of Europe with Russia? The one with a leader's wife who apparently spent for 40k€ in shopping while begging for money in Paris?
Plus, please, evenif Russia did so, we should look at ourselves first before barking so much. Who couldn't stand democratic movements winning in latin america? who couldn't stand the most secualr and developped countries in middle east/north africa?
Reasons behind this war are muchh more complex than a so called idiot and psychopathh leader going mad and from what I see, only Germany as a country and with few people there seem to understand what is being done to the people in Western Europe.
Even in Crimea the original people were the Tatars, not the Russians.
And before it was Scythians and Greeks... and ottomans.
The argument of the NATO‘s threat is an invention of Putin.
There were agreements and they haven't been respected. NATO expanded in the East, and,, yes, that can be considered as a threat to Russia's sovereignity, especially givent he geography of the region.
Do you think that Sweden and Finland were obliged under constraint to join NATO? No they are afraid of the Putin madness.
You are also afraid of Russia despite Russia is nowhere to be a threat for France and never has been even during the Soviet Era. Funilly, peopel like you are the first to say that welcoming potential terrorists in France is not a problem and that the fear we have of being assaulted is made up, yet when a fear is really exagerrated, you also are the first to shit your pants and act in a stupid way that cost us litteraly thousands euros per people as well as our basic freedom.
The determination of the Ukrainian people to resist at the invader surely proves that Ukraine is a real country. They have far too many bad memories with Russia or the USSR to be slave at new.
This prove absolutely nothing. Ukraine is a country because it's recognized at such, period. France is a country and its determination to resist an invader would surely be near 0 at the moment, yet it's a country.
Yes we have to go back to understand what’s happened, Don’t you see since more than twenty years how many deaths made the Putin system? Even in his own country.
Come on Anil, you are older than me and you should remmeber this better: 20 years ago, Putin was trying to get closer to the West, and seen as a "ok guy" before gettign spit on the face and described as the devil himself, once stupid, once evil genius; but never with any coherence in discourse.
How many deaths provoked by France outside and inside by the way? Special mention to BHL and Sarkozy for the outside, Macron and Attali for what's happenign within the borders.