@noemon , first of all, I wish you a good Great Lent this year. I'm trying to be off the internet from now until after Pascha, but I saw your post and have decided to answer it. Thank you for your patience.
Regarding my comment about the Turks and WWI and it's aftermath, the massacres of the Armenians and Pontic Greeks, etc;
Mate, Constantinople was liberated(no thanks to Russia) and then Russia directly armed Kemal to take it.
The Bolshevik Revolution happened. And some would say that Russia and the Soviet Union are and were two different political entities. That's not to say that I'm unaware of the Bolshevik support for Kemal, but then there's always been a strong resistance at all times by the West to the liberation of Tsargrad.
Same time 100 years ago, the Greek flag and the Cross were flying over Constantinople.
Briefly. Had the Russians been there, the Cross would still fly over Constantinople to this day.
I'm asking you again:
How on earth are you going to spin this?
It's not for me to support or not support Putin's government of Russia; he replaced a bad President who was destroying Russia, and Putin's replacement obviously should be a patriot who represents Russian interests first and foremost.
On the situation in the Ukraine;
What on earth are you talking about? that you felt Russian people to be in danger in the Ukraine?
Former Ukrainian citizens of Velikorussian descent have been and are in danger in today's Ukraine, which is why the Crimea decided to rejoin Russia and why the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics were created.
What is your problem with the Ukraine signing a trade deal with the EU?
I have a problem with the EU in general, it being German dominated and basically an enemy of it's member states in my opinion.
They did now, so what? Did the world fall apart? You went to war with the Ukraine to prevent it from trading with Europe. What is wrong with you? And you 're trying to defend it too.
There was no war between Russia and the Ukraine. The war has been between the Ukrainian government and a portion of it's former citizens.
If people want to trade with Europe they should be able to without having to worry whether Russia would kill them to prevent them.
That's not what this is all about.
Americans stopped their operations in Syria for years now. If they come back, this time it will be to put an end to the mess.
Nonsense.
What do I refuse to see?
A lot in my opinion. But i'm still trying to understand your worldview so perhaps that is a factor in what I'm missing in seeing of your worldview.
Real men and proud nations do not blame foreigners for their failures, they look at them in the eye and face them down.
Ah, sometimes there are enemies from within and from without.
Even if foreigners turn them into stooges which is what Putin really is, that is on them and the failure of their system to prevent a foreign takeover.
I don't believe that's what Putin has been, but I do agree with your statement here.
Your problems are far closer to home than abroad. You do not have a functioning state, nor do you have a functioning economy.
That is on you and not on any foreigner.
Things could be better, but they could be worse, far worse.
Unless you take destiny onto your own hands and learn how to organise a state with consent and logic, you will never join any of those who have already made the leap. Because you do not have a mandate to and without a consensus and a mandate you can not operate on that basis.
The consensus that exists is something against the West, or rather, what the West is increasingly becoming, that the West is against Russia in an existential sense.