They are all trying to build alliances for that contingency.
When Russia celebrated its 160 year anniversary of taking Vladivostok from China, there were descenting voices in Beijing calling to reverse another so called "humiliation".
Countries are allied until they are not.
Putin signed a treaty to protect Ukraine, it didn't stop him from attacking them in 2014 or escalating that again last year.
Ukraine stopped following the contents of that treaty after the US supported Maidan coup.
Sounds like the Ukrainian people should have harbored a lot of resentment against the US for interfering with their democratic process, if true. Was that the case?
In any event, what concern was this of Russia's? Russia has problems of its own, and for a nuclear-armed nation, external threats are a long way down the list. Maybe they should worry more about how to improve their own country and less about how to wreck everybody else's.
Of-course, why did you think Donetsk and Luhansk regions held secession referendums in 2014 ? Why would Russia not interfere when the US so clearly did ?
"Maybe they should worry more about how to improve their own country and less about how to wreck everybody else's."
Haha..Maybe the US should follow that advice first ? Pot/Kettle ?
Because there were Russian soldiers holding a gun to their back forcing it.
Igor Girkin who was a FSB officer and one of the former leaders of the DPR or LPR armies recently admitted it was mostly Russians and wasn’t really a civil war.
> Why would Russia not interfere in their immediate neighbourhood in a nation filled with a large number of Russian ethnic people who were turned into second class pariahs thanks to US interference ?
Because this never happened, this is a persistent myth spouted by people like Putin to justify the rape and torture of Ukraine.
A "myth" recorded in Ukraine's laws by passing bills like 5670-d that effectively made the Russian language illegal in most aspects of public life. Doing so in a multi-ethnic nation in any other part of the world would have raised howls of fascism and anti-democracy by the US mass media and state dept and extensive condemnations in the UN. But hey, its Ukraine - a promised NATO partner - who cares about the folks affected ?
That law is merely about recording the offical language of the country as being Ukrainian, and having it be used, an attempt to preserve the national identity of Ukraine, as _Ukrainian_ and not as _Russian_.
This desperate attempt to look oppressed by Russia is pathetic at this point.
This desperate attempt to deflect the actual and real ramifications of the law which made Russians pariahs in their communities is utterly laughable. Maybe you should take some time to investigate yourself. No Russian in theatres, no Russian on documents, No Russian film dubbings, be careful talking Rusian or get beat up or killed - spend some time talking to folks from Donbass and understand the kind of oppression they faced, before you call oppression as pathetic.
It's not prejudice when you have a Holodomor in your history books.
I don’t need to speak to FSB and GRU agents to know what the Russian intelligence community is trying to push as the narrative in Ukraine thanks.
If they think that the main language of the country they are in being the offical language of the area then perhaps they should move to a country where that language is the offical language.
But I don’t expect that to happen because Russians are forever imagining oppression and have forever something to gripe about.
I’m pretty sure there was endless articles about the human rights situation in most countries the us invaded and also massive protests so this is patently false.
Nope, that's not what it does. It really not helpful to post opinion-piece fodder like this -- which you obviously haven't made even minimal effort to fact-check.
What a load of bollocks.
The Ukrainian people made a choice to topple their corrupt government and take control of their countries destiny. Which is an inalienable right.
She wasn't just involved in Ukraine. Was involved in Libya as well - gleefully cheering on when Gadaffi and his grandsons were killed one by one by NATO forces.
You got any evidence of this that doesn’t stink of Russian propaganda?.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/07/eu-us-di...
That lady gets around.
Who has the nastiest trick? Who liquidates more people? Who overthrows more regimes? ...
sometimes Russia wins, sometimes the US wins
I do not know much about Mrs. Nuland and do not care about her. But she seems to be a good player:
Your basic problem here is that you're confusing "trying to get involved" with "actually being involved and affecting events in a significant way".
In short, the idea that Nuland's shenanigans did anything to move the needle on the ground is utter BS -- fodder for leftwing opinion websites in some Western countries, but not something that anybody in Ukraine takes seriously.