>>513478788 (OP)>I don't understand what the point of the war even was then.Checked. Stopping NATO partly, partly protecting Russian people who got caught on what ended up being the wrong side of a border which was quite arbitrarily drawn.
What was the original document Putin put out? It had three points, kill the Nazis and root out nu-Nazism as exemplified by Azov. Reduce the Ukrainian military so it won't be a further threat to Russia. And liberate the Russian-speaking provinces, which they clearly need to secure a land bridge to Crimea.
>Biolabs?Recall they only found those LATER. But when they did they got big mad and China said the Russian story about them had legs.
>I mean Lavrov says it was about protecting ethnic Russians in eastern UkraineWatch Tucker's interview with Putin, Putin goes into this. Turns out there has been contention in the are between what we could call Germanizers in the West, and Slavs in the East, the Germanic kingdoms sending out colonies going back into the Roman times right up to the 20th century. So from a Russian standpoint there has always been this border land full of people who are part invader, part Slav. Even they themselves are the result of the union of Slavs and Vikings. A Germanic people. So they'd know.
>but they're all dead now and only babushkas are left. And all the ethnic Russian cities there are nothing but rubble.No no that's not how it works, long before the fighting hits these villages and forts, the people have been evacuated. They don't just huddle in their homes as all the bombs go off. LOL