The question is not so much about “what’s okay” but why did they do what they did. How does the situation likely look from the Crimean perspective?
This is the kind of thing where hostile media bias comes into play. Given your involvement in the conflict for you “what’s okay” is very central. If you start by focusing on judging things as okay or not you will have a very hard time actually understanding the motivations of the involved stakeholders.
“Ukraine always had Nazis → what does it have to do with Russia invading the neighbor country multiple times without any provocation
“Ukraine always had Nazis” if you read my article, you would find that it points to things that actually changed. Nazis in Ukraine didn’t use to be powerful enough to get the people they look up to who did ethnic cleaning to be declared as folk heroes but that changed in 2015.
People didn’t prevent laws from being passed by injuring 100 people with a grenade in front of parliament pre-2015. Particularly laws about minority protection.
You aren’t engaging with the actual arguments I made.
The question is not so much about “what’s okay” but why did they do what they did. How does the situation likely look from the Crimean perspective?
This is the kind of thing where hostile media bias comes into play. Given your involvement in the conflict for you “what’s okay” is very central. If you start by focusing on judging things as okay or not you will have a very hard time actually understanding the motivations of the involved stakeholders.
“Ukraine always had Nazis” if you read my article, you would find that it points to things that actually changed. Nazis in Ukraine didn’t use to be powerful enough to get the people they look up to who did ethnic cleaning to be declared as folk heroes but that changed in 2015.
People didn’t prevent laws from being passed by injuring 100 people with a grenade in front of parliament pre-2015. Particularly laws about minority protection.
You aren’t engaging with the actual arguments I made.