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Quote Originally Posted by wanderlust View Post

Perhaps we should be asking why our gutless, spineless government isn't freezing Russian assets? Perhaps it's because of the massive Russian donations to the Tory party and their influence over our government? Especially those Tory donors who have known links with the Kremlin?

because the people with the Power (and I dont mean the actors they beam into folks houses to persuade/propogandize) are sunk into all aspects of business, Globally - it doesn't have a country, and it means that those with the Investments hold the cards, they'll decide it....

as of Euromaiden (perhaps earlier) the Ukraine government was decided for them (U.S.A et al), just as it was decided, by "Ukraine" that Donetsk and Luhansk should be cut from the country - back in 2015 there was the (Minsk2) ceasefire deal - this should have stopped the fighting in the the Donbas region, but it failed....long story short, the idea was to reintegrate the breakaway regions back into the Ukraine, but instead - Ukraine cut ties economically - fuel/energy/food etc etc....why do that - because it left Russia to fill the void, support them....when as I read it, all they were asking for was some level of independence (think Wales)....then in 2019, with the fighting in it's fifth year - Putin offered them Russian passports....thus making those that accepted the offer - Russian citizens, under Russian protection.
The leaders of both breakaway states are now members of Putins ruling party btw - and in 2020, both regions ended the use of Ukranian as the state language, as for the regions buisness, it's been ceded to Russian businessmen

as I see it, this this whole affair has been managed to one end, the people of Ukraine are being used, split apart and forced to choose a side....caught in the middle of geopolitical gamesmanship and it's consequences....and as usual , it us that do the suffering. Personally, I think they're two jaws on the same Pacman, economic colonialists, and I dont trust any of them, I have no reason to.