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Former UK PM Boris Johnson says UK should immediately send non-combat troops to Ukraine (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

1994 Budapest Memorandum

You don't think Anglos would do that, would you? Sign a treaty full of lies?!

Ukraine was invaded in 2014

Curious way to describe Euromaidan.

Nevertheless, I'm sure you could say a lot about two countries in a border dispute that grows hotter and hotter to no one's benefit, depopulating some of the most fertile territory in Europe, and decimating two of the world's largest militaries through attrition.

A war that directly benefits the Atlantic gas exports business. And fattens the wallets of Western weapons exporters working both sides of the conflict.

The whole war could have been prevented

There's no profit in that

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The war started in 2014 with occupation of Crimea and Luhansk/Donetsk.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Goes back farther than that.

Ukraine has been grappling with Crimean nationalists since '91.

In 1995 the Ukrainian Parliament intervened in the political crisis in Crimea, scrapping the Crimean Constitution, removing the president and scrapping the office of President.[67] Almost 4,000 Ukrainian soldiers and police officers were sent to Crimea.[68] Meshkov was removed from power[69] after Ukrainian special forces had entered his residence, disarmed his bodyguards and put him on a plane to Moscow.[70] Meshkov was replaced by Kyiv-appointed Anatoliy Franchuk, with the intent to rein in Crimean aspirations of autonomy.

There's a certain irony to it