Comment by favorited
4 years ago
> US rhetoric on this has predicted a full-scale invasion that hasn't come to fruition multiple times and the media just laps it up.
The invasion is happening right now. The "peacekeepers" are Russian troops invading Ukraine, after Putin claimed, "Ukraine has never had its own authentic statehood."
I don't think you know what a full scale invasion is.
They've crossed the border into Eastern Ukraine that have been in conflict for years between Ukrainian nationals and Russian separatists. Like I said, not good. But full-scale invasion? Not even close. Not a single shot has been fired that we know about. Or have I missed the missile strikes? Artillery bombardments of Ukrainian forces? Aerial bombardment? Infantry engagements?
Yet US rhetoric on this was basically "Putin is going to glass Kiev and murder everybody". When is that happening exactly?
You understand this thing is literally hours old right?
Do you have any experience with anything military related or some reason why you are trying to speak with any level of confidence on this?
The invasion only just started a few hours ago. It's not like we saw all of the casualties immediately when they last invaded – hell, it was several months later that the a Russian SAM was used to shoot down an airplane of civilians.
> Yet US rhetoric on this was basically "Putin is going to glass Kiev and murder everybody".
No, it wasn't. It was that Putin wants to control Ukraine, and plans to invade. Today he went on TV and said that Ukraine is not a sovereign nation. He annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014, and is annexing the DNR and LNR regions as we speak.