>>63838928
they fucking tried.

i'm tired of people pretending they didn't. everyone in the world just watched it happen and pretended they didn't, because to admit that the west still thought it was more comfortable to offer a soft exit from a war of conquest than to admit what was happening. the free democracies of the world watched a war of conquest and decided to just act like it didn't happen. it was easier that way, easier to pretend that russia's narrative had some amount of truth to it, after all, ukraine had just had a change of government and was unstable, any support would just mean they collapse a handful of weeks later.

when the attacks stalled, when they found people who didn't just roll over and submit to them, things got brutal. for a while i remember occasionally some of the videos the chechens were making would get put up here too. raping and executing children to try and coerce the ukes into giving up easy. meanwhile putin just pretended that he dindunuffin and that the west was being so mean asking him what was happening there and telling him he should just stop and we can all pretend like it didn't happen. somehow russia couldn't win against a bunch of local retards who picked up whatever they could from deserters and shot back, because they were cowards who couldn't commit enough to see the job done in the first place. the ukes military was completely fucking shattered, nobody was in charge, and they still couldn't fucking do it.