So what is my perspective on the whole Russia entering Ukraine with it's military and trying to take control? My perspective is that there are a whole lot of people in positions of power, authority and control who are acting like 3 year olds throwing temper tantrums with people's lives in the balance.
So who do I believe? I believe a little of both sides and I disbelieve a little of both sides. Is Ukraine, NATO and the United States in general blameless? No. Is Putin liberating Ukraine? No. Is Putin trying to rid Ukraine of Nazis? No. Are there neo-Nazi's in Ukraine? Yes.
Regardless of all the posturing and name calling the bottom line is this, Russia, under the leadership of Putin, is invading another sovereign country and attempting to eliminate its government and put them under his control. Does that sound like anyone else we remember? Yes. Has the West been guilty of doing similar things? Yes. Does either one doing such things make it right for anyone else to also do them? No.
In the mean time, there is documented evidence of Russian attacks on civilians throughout Ukraine. This includes attacks on residential areas, apartments, and public areas including memorials, hospitals and schools. There is no moral high ground to be claimed here by the Russians in behavior fitting of someone else in the mid 20th century. Then at the same time cutting off his country from any news that isn't "state owned and operated."
Putin is a war criminal. The Russian military is perpetrating war crimes. What the Russians are doing is NOT a "Special Military Operation" it is a WAR initiated by Russia on the Sovereign country of Ukraine. It needs to stop and it needs to stop now. It is time for 19th century thinking to come to an end.
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