O/T:- Ukraine [Incorporating 'Congrats to Russia' thread]

[andy6025]

I have no reason to think that the people in the documentary aren’t authentic, but it would be astonishing if there were not opposing views. After all, some misguided people support Forest. My point was simply that the documentary makes no attempt at balance. An invasion, or an insurrection, is not a good way to achieve change. In our own country, most worthwhile change has been made by pointing out injustice and winning arguments, which is a slow and frustrating process but can achieve results in the long term.

I imagine that most people in Donbas probably agree with you that an insurrection isn’t a good way to make change - hence their rejection of the US backed Maidan coup against the democratically elected constitutional government in 2014, and their being in favour of autotomy from the Victoria Nuland installed puppet government that sought to violently quash them.

Just like most people rightly reject the American “Jan 6th� insurrection as a threat to democracy, so too did Eastern Ukrainians.

Waiting for the next election, which Yanukovych’s government agreed to move up sooner, may have been a more slow and frustrating process than the US backed street mob wanted, but would likely have been much better in the long run and avoided the current mess.