Ever since Catherine the Great conquered Crimea in 1783 and established Sevastopol as its principal naval base, Crimea has been key to Russian military strategy. It was transferred to Ukraine in 1954 when it was part of the USSR. Then, when the USSR was dissolved in 1991, Ukraine kept Crimea.

This was unforgivable for Putin, who has long wanted to restore the USSR. In March 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and declared Sevastopol a federal city. Approximately 800,000 Russians have moved into Crimea since then. Facing constant bombardments from Ukraine from just across a narrow border, would make life unbearable for them, and for Putin.

lol … Yeah what kind of fuckery is this ? 800K Russians moved into Crimea where water supply was short ?

man its a sarcasm , if west forces Ukraine to attack Crimea it will be nothing sort of a nuke war in future.

I will say the opposition alliance is full of holes and consist of lots of opportunists , they can switch between Congis and BJP when time is favorable . Left front has become weak af post 2008, its difficult for Indians to choose a coherent party with some ideals . Congress also won’t ban the extremists like Bajrang Dal and VHP affiliated terrorist fronts and they will pursue the neoliberal policies of BJP .

but they made a major mistake , China was not very close to Russia and it was after Trump anti china policies and hardline hawks Xi kinda went to Putin’s side. Putin was also not very keen to make enemy out of US but it was the Ukraine issue which displeased him and his cohorts in the government. I remember clearly that it was the LDPR and KPRF who were very vocal about NATO intrusion in Ukraine but Putin was nonchalant about it. I will say Nixon and Kissinger were better in geopolitics , atleast they understood that Russia and China shouldn’t come together to kick their ass. Even now China can kick Russia’s butt if US normalizes relations with China but I think the hawks and incompetency in congress is very high.

Actually if Americans were any clever they would have befriended China and kept their relationship intact and after kicking Russia’s ass then they should have threatened China with full force. But US lack cunning politicians like Kissinger.

Lenin ended the white army that was funded by the west and US , period .

Thats how midlife crisis yanks spend their days

created by CIA IT cell , common NAFO’s address is blatantly langley ,Virginia

Luka said that Ukraine is begging to be annihilated by Russia . He knows more than Alexander Khodakovsky .

Putler couping newspapers and governments since 2000. 🙃

You are not wrong that North was wealthier historically but colonialism , casteism and religious sentiments ruined the North. Congress also had bad policies in the past. Though I won’t say North is like Africa but they lack affirmative policies towards downtrodden and lower caste people and they lack visionary leaders overall. Nowadays Hindutva has engulfed the whole North it will take many years to undo the Nazi mindset.

Its actually the opposite in India , Southern states are wealthier , healthier in terms of GDP/capita and HDI respectively . Kerala has been ruled alternatively by Congis and CPIM , they have superb heath care system while Tamil Nadu has Dravidian politics which is against casteism , religious extremism . Karnataka and Andhra had similar policies but their politics is language driven and not about Hindutva . If you look to the Northern states , UP and Bihar are the worst , they had decades of caste based politics and poverty , the birth rate of these states is higher than the South because of religious sentiments , Hindutva and extreme unemployment. During Covid I think most people died in UP and in the northern states instead of the South. Maharashtra being one of the largest state is an unique case , while Mumbai has higher GDP than most of Indian states , the inequality is very much high and eastern parts of Maha. still lives in relative poverty w.r.t west where we have Pune , Nashik , Mumbai and all other industrial belts.

Zelensky is a flip flop guy, once he told the media that they shouldn’t hype about Russian invasion the 2nd day he went to Munich and asked for nukes. This guy is literally brain dead. He is only living because of Western monies and weapons

Russia has also S-400, 500 and 550

Vijay is right although countering the imperialist US is more important at this stage but Vijay’s article is directed towards western audiences

Do you live in a parallel world just like Joe? What’s wrong with you?

Too much Hindu people there, along with Finns

It’s like they had to choose between poroshenko and Zelensky… And the media manipulated the people with that damm show, servant of the people.

No no , I think there is a considerable amount of population who strongly identify with the current nationalistic government. Same goes in India , majority upper caste Hindus identify with Hindutva ideology

I don’t understand how can ordinary Ukrainians stand this man and the most disastrous policy in 21st century.