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      Oh there’s plenty of other reasons to impeach Trump. Why would he even be impeached over that, though. I don’t really follow US news, it’s silly over there.

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        His first impeachment was over him extracting personal political benefit from sending weapons to Ukraine that they were using to carry out their ethnic cleansing

        If the ethnic cleansing were 100% fabricated by Russian propaganda then the Hillary Cliintons of the USA are Putin bots.

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          You are aware that Russia already invaded in 2014? That this war has been going on for a while? Why wouldn’t the US send Ukraine aid to defend itself?

          Regarding the US reaction back then in general, though: Why didn’t the US enforce the Budapest memorandum?

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            You are aware that Russia already invaded in 2014?

            No they didn’t. They were already there. The biggest feature of Crimea is the naval base that Russia had been leasing since Ukraine had a legitimately elected government. When the US supported Nazi led coup regime took power they tried to cancel the lease. The Russians simply stayed put. They didn’t invade. They were already there.

            Are there any more fundamental understandings of recent history you would like me to catch you up on?

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              You realise that Crimea is larger than Sevastopol and Donetsk and Luhansk are not on Crimea?

              Also, that “US supported Nazi coup” is 100% Russian propaganda not backed by anything but fantasy?

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                  Nah it shows that the US had opinions on Ukraine. US emissaries also tried to convince protestors to enter negotiations and compromise with Yanukovich and they were having none of that.

                  US emissaries and the Rada coming to the same conclusion when it comes to who is a good interim whatever isn’t terribly surprising, you always pick prominent, well-respected, honourable, non-partisan middle of the road people for that kind of thing. People who can be trusted to organise proper elections and not fuck shit up in the meantime.

                  • you always pick prominent, well-respected, honourable, non-partisan middle of the road people for that kind of thing. People who can be trusted to organise proper elections and not fuck shit up in the meantime.

                    Is this a joke? The US sidelined the main opposition forces who wanted to stay on good terms with both Russia and the US in favor of literal nazis. The new president was the leader of the “fatherland party” until he splintered it off into an even more conservative group which had a military council of nazi paramilitary leaders and was basically generically called “national socialist party”

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          No. Yanks impeached a President over a blowjob, that is, any- and everything.