You’re absolutely right. We usually get dragged down into the mire about NATO this and enclosement that but the fact is, we know there was a campaign of collective punishment on the people of the Donbas starting after the Maidan coup which carried on for almost a decade. The people of the region requested Russian presence to stop the bombing and they did it even knowing sanctions and fighting would come to Russia itself.
People have been begging other countries like Saudi Arabia to intervene in Palestine with something more than rhetoric, this is what it looks like. I’m no more a fan of modern Russia than I am of, say, Egypt, but if they chose to give military support to the Palestinian people that would be commendable nonetheless.
You’re absolutely right. We usually get dragged down into the mire about NATO this and enclosement that but the fact is, we know there was a campaign of collective punishment on the people of the Donbas starting after the Maidan coup which carried on for almost a decade. The people of the region requested Russian presence to stop the bombing and they did it even knowing sanctions and fighting would come to Russia itself.
People have been begging other countries like Saudi Arabia to intervene in Palestine with something more than rhetoric, this is what it looks like. I’m no more a fan of modern Russia than I am of, say, Egypt, but if they chose to give military support to the Palestinian people that would be commendable nonetheless.