re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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2014 was the time to give AID to Ukraine. Not 8 years into the war we led them into.

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Fwiw to the extent that Russians are allowed to criticize Putin one of the things often said on their telegram channels and other social media is that it was actually Russia that messed up by not going all the way in 2015. If you remember the Battle of Debaltseve and a few other major fights back then, the Ukrainians were a mess, the separatists were doing well and the Russian army likely could have taken everything east of the Dnieper. They didn't, instead they entered the Minsk agreement and let the Ukr army get western funding, training and weapons for almost a decade. Then they invaded and we've seen the result.