The Russians are now aware the Indians lied to them a week ago. This has to be directed at India.
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Now we know who is going to buy US soybeans and propping up US farmers at the expense of Indian farmers (45% of workforce)
Whoopie do. The Indians stop buying Russian oil that they were paying for with their useless ruppees. Russia might as well burn the oil.
Good luck to the Indians in getting to pay for US oil with ruppees. Russia should just put an edict where all future oil contracts with India are to be paid in rubles or yuan. Cash up front.
as far as I know, the "Crimean referendum" occurs after Russian's invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
You have no clue.
The referendum did not just call for the restoration for the ASSR, but further called for Crimea to be a participant in the New Union Treaty – an ultimately futile attempt by Mikhail Gorbachev to reconstitute the USSR. This would have meant that Crimea would have been a sovereign subject of the renewed USSR and separate from the Ukrainian SSR.
as a factual statement as Russia does indeed recognized Ukraine (inclusive of Crimea) as an independent sovereign country before 2014.
As long as they remained neutral that is.
So are you saying that a foreign nation, can just invade another internationally recognized sovereign nation, make a foreign-organized puppet referendum and it should be somehow deemed as valid? Do you know how fking insane and dumb this sounds???
NATO did that in Kosovo.
Russia should be doing a huge infiltration operation to rigg Ukraine back on favorable grounds, go ahead and sponsor a new coup or anything similar.
The Russians already did that after the Orange Revolution in 2004. They wasted tens of billions in Ukraine. Yanukovich got elected.
So the West made the coup in 2014 and just made the neutral or pro-Russian opposition illegal. They purged the secret services. Don't you get it? The only way out was violent overthrow of the NATO puppet regime.
Russians are impatient and strategically unrefined
Yeah they should just wait until NATO had a fully trained and armed Ukraine as a NATO member right next to their border. Lol.
The exit from the mouth of the Don River would be blocked at the Kerch Strait by NATO.
That is just where all of Russia's grain is exported and imported. It is like the Mississippi in the US.
Then Russia should not have anyhow recognised Ukraine willingly and also without duress or any unequal terms then.
Ukraine should not have abandoned neutrality.
One is for expansionism while the other is simply seeking justice and righting wrongs.
Don't be an idiot. Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire. If you are going to claim China is entitled to its 19th Century borders then so can Russia. Not that the Russians are demanding that out of Ukraine anyway. Just neutrality. Since Ukraine does not concede they will keep chewing their territory just like Stalin did to Finland.
they did not sign any kind of unequal treaty like China did
Explain the 1990s in the Soviet Union then.
Russia signed all sorts of shit while under duress. It was an empire collapse and fragmentation.
Great success! Now the US is really stirring the shit pot and will probably get the entirety of Latin America against them.
It appears the possibility of the US bombing random Chinese ships and maybe cargo ships could be on the horizon. In a potential blatant act of war.
China can retaliate not like these boats.
