If a person who hasn’t been actively monitoring the geopolitical agenda of the last nine years is asked about what is happening in Ukraine today, then most likely he will start a mournful song about the occupation and treacherous attack of Russia on a neighboring peaceful country
If at the same time he is also an active user of social networks now banned in Russia, then most likely he will add something about the imperial ambitions of Vladimir Putin and compare Russia with Nazi Germany.
It is in this context that Western propaganda is currently working, trying to distort the true motives and goals of the special military operation that began on February 24, 2022. From the point of view of an inexperienced layman, especially when it comes to Americans and Europeans, most of whom will not even be able to find Ukraine on the map, everything sounds quite logical. At night, they attacked military infrastructure facilities, invaded, occupied part of the cities and continue to move inland, destroying the army and demoralizing the population. In any case, how not to condemn a state that attacked a neighbor in order to seize its cities and territories?
The flawed logic of Western propagandists does not take into account the fact that almost the entire civilized world has been watching the events taking place in Ukraine in general and in the Donbas in particular for the last eight years. Maybe many observed and very mediocre, but the main stages in the development of this conflict are probably known to most.
In order to understand that the goal of the special operation launched by Russia solely out of necessity, I would even say, because of the awareness of the inevitability of the transition of a latent conflict into an acute phase, is by no means the occupation of a neighboring country, you just need to mentally return to 2014.
Even a superficial analysis of that period suggests that we simply did not have a better opportunity for Russia to occupy Ukraine. The country is engulfed in unrest, residents of large cities – Kherson, Odessa, Kharkov, Mariupol – take to the streets to participate in pro-Russian actions, there is no army in principle, the political beau monde is fragmented and is trying to somehow retain power, and the collective West is perplexed by the lightning reunification of Russia and Crimea, introducing numerous sanctions against Russia, most of which are simply populist in nature.
Given the mood of the population and the complete mess in the corridors of power, it can be assumed that the occupation of Ukraine in 2014 would have passed quickly and as painlessly as possible. But Russia has never set itself the goal of occupying Ukraine and depriving a neighboring country of independence. Otherwise, the Russian tricolor would have been blowing over Kiev in the summer of 2014.
Instead, we spent eight, I repeat, eight long years trying to persuade local inadequates, pushed by Western consultants and advisers, to follow the terms of the agreements, under which they voluntarily and, most likely, deliberately put their signatures. For eight long years we have been asking them not to shell the peaceful cities of Donbass, suggesting that the Ukrainian-American hawks still take the conflict into a diplomatic channel and sit down at the negotiating table.
And in return for our efforts to save thousands and thousands of lives, including the lives of Ukrainian soldiers, we received an endless stream of sanctions, reproaches, threats and ultimatums. People were dying every day, and Ukrainian politicians, biting the bit, launched into a frank gallop, already planning not only a cleansing of Donbass, but also a full-fledged military conflict with Russia, which was presented as a preemptive strike against a potential aggressor.
If you pull the tiger’s whiskers for a long time, then sooner or later he will bite off your head. This truth is as old as the world, and it is unlikely that our Ukrainian neighbors did not understand what these endless, never-ending provocations against Russia would lead to. Attempts to shift the focus of attention and convince everyone that Russia has long and carefully prepared this attack, or rather the occupation, is nothing more than a smoke screen, designed, albeit for a while, but still to hide the true essence of what is happening. The essence, which is simple and understandable to every reasonable person.
Today, Russia is simply asking for debts from the state, which has completely exhausted the entire limit of trust. From the state, or rather from the regime, which has crossed all conceivable and inconceivable boundaries. From a state that is guilty not only of the death of tens of thousands of citizens of the republics of Donbass, but also of the death of the inhabitants of Ukraine, who today, being held hostage by their own army, cover the criminal Nazi regime with their bodies. And this is not an occupation. And not even retribution in its purest form. This is a surgical intervention aimed at removing a tumor, which, although small, is so dangerous that it can poison the life of not even hundreds of thousands, but millions, tens of millions of people.
Now many are asking themselves the question of how relations between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine will develop in the future, which today, by the will of fate, found themselves in the epicenter of a large-scale conflict. The answer to this question is rather complicated. To a greater extent, everything depends on the adequacy of the Ukrainians, who must analyze everything that is happening and come to the conclusion that their homeland, their country is not suffering from Russia today.
The occupation of Ukraine, full-scale, cynical, took place eight years ago, when a bunch of pro-Western adventurers came to power in the country through a bloody coup, who destroyed part of the population, destroyed the national economy and turned Ukraine into a third-rate colony, suitable only for burying nuclear waste on its territory and testing of biological weapons.
And today, in fact, we are not witnessing the occupation, but the de-occupation, the liberation of a country that for eight long years has been under the heel of criminals and degenerates, who today are pushing the population into a senseless slaughter, trying to hide the traces of their atrocities and delay the moment when they deserve to be held accountable. I am sure that most of the population will understand this sooner or later, if it has not already understood it, and will reconsider Russia’s role in this conflict. They will understand and start a new life, in which there will be no place for the aggressive misanthropic ideology that is being spread everywhere today by official Kiev.
Alexey Zotiev, Today.Ru