When will President Obama grow a pair and a backbone and stand up to putin?
This man foreign policy is a laughing stock lol, didnt he ever know when becoming president there will be some international issues where you have to built a strong foreign policly to keep yourself respected as a tough leader and your country lol if he did then this guy failed big time and letting putin run his A, how ashame. leftist democrats are you proud of yourselfs now?
Who does Vladimir Putin want to win the Ukrainian Presidential election?
Putin and his advisers realize that a comfortable candidate like Yuriy Boyko has no chance of winning the presidential election in this political cycle. Opposition parties from eastern Ukraine stand a good chance of getting decent results in the October parliamentary elections, but not in this presidential race. As a result, Russia probably provides some form of support for Boyko and his party, but mostly as preparation for the parliamentary elections.The leading candidates - Zelensky, Poroshenko and Tymoshenko - are all uncomfortable for Russia in terms of political rhetoric, but there are positive sides to each of them as well.Vladimir Zelensky is a fresh face who would likely initiate big chances in Ukraine’s politics, and he has said that he would be willing to negotiate with Putin. This could create an environment for positive shifts in Ukraine-Russia relations and possibly achieve some breakthroughs. His candidacy is probably viewed relatively positively in the Kremlin.If Petro Poroshenko manages to secure a second term despite his low approval ratings, no changes in the bilateral relationship will occur, and it will remain very cold. That is not necessarily a negative for Russia as Poroshenko’s continued presence at the helm will further degrade the morale within Ukraine and will sharpen political divisions. This would weaken the power of Ukraine’s government, improve the chances of opposition parties in the parliamentary elections, and improve attitudes toward Russia by way of contrast with a deeply unpopular and corrupt Ukrainian president.Yulia Tymoshenko is a candidate Putin knows well personally, and she is known for backroom dealings. She may talk a big hostile game in public, but in private Russia will be able to deal with her and achieve some limited results. At the very least she is a person with whom Russia can negotiate, but with her at the helm most improvements would be on the business side of the relationship while maintaining a mostly negative atmosphere in public rhetoric.
Will Russia ever leave Ukraine alone? Will the world ever help Ukraine turn back the Russian invasion?
The short answer would be: No, they will never do. And the reason is straightforward. Russians (at least most of them) do not recognise our right to independence and statehood. The best of them think (and do not shy to express their opinion) that Ukrainians and Russians are just the same nation. Some of them even claim that the Ukrainian language is just a dialect of Russian, even despite the fact that they do not understand anything in Ukrainian speaking. They say that we have a shared history and shared culture with them and many more falsehoods like this. They prefer not to recognise the fact that Kyiv is several hundred years older than Moscow and many other commonly known facts of Ukrainian history.Worst of them go much further and blame Ukrainians in "fascism" just for our eagerness to independence from Russia. Honestly, I do not know how much truth was in 86% of Putin's support among Russians after they had taken Crimean peninsula, but I know for sure that only a few Russians dared to speak out publically against Russian aggression in Ukraine. So, no, Russian people do not want to leave Ukraine in peace, at least most of them. Noone of them tries to stop the war. Not really.I do not expect the end of this war before Russia get much weaker than now. Before it either becomes as weak as it cannot maintain its army or even is torn apart into several independent states by national independence movements (Tatars, Chechen, Dagestani etc.). As long as Russian war machine exists and they have enough money to feed it, they will never leave us alone. Never. They are just such a sort of people.And one more thing. If Russians manage to swallow us, another war will come shortly. Nobody knows exactly who could be the next, but it will never end until they are stopped.
Why doesn't Mr. Putin take aggressive fascist Ukraine back and divide its territory back to the countries it has been stolen from?
Because he can’t, and because Ukraine, in contrast to Russia, is not an aggressive fascist state and hence enjoys the support of western democracies. Dictator Putin attempted to annex South and East of Ukraine, but was defeated by Ukrainian people who didn’t want to join fascist Russia.
What will Mr. Putin annex next?
Nothing. Russia is absolutely peaceful country. Currently there is nasty, insane Russophobic hysteria in the West information space. It is anti-Russia propaganda based on the fake facts.Crimea joined Russia via referendum with 98% people voted to join Russia and according to the Ukrainian constitution and International law. Crimea was an autonomic state of the Ukraine and had the right to break away from the Ukraine, which it did. Nothing else happened.Russia is peaceful country but will always protect Russian people from genocide anywhere in the world using Diplomatic measures and according to the International Law.Russia is not part of the civil war in the Ukraine. There is no Russian troops or weapons in the sovereign country the Ukraine. Russia does not hate Ukrainians. Moreover, Russia invests the most amount of money in their economy. Russia allows 7 million Ukrainian citizens work in Russia since they cannot get any job back home. Also, Russians help people in the East Ukraine who are at civil war. Russia helps them humanitarian spending a lot of money from the budget basically taking funds away from Russians. Those peopled are being constantly killed from the Ukraine controlled territory by heavy artillery usage against civilians including women and children. Ukraine blocked the energy, water and food supply to the region. Russia supports these Ukrainian citizens from dying by providing them with food, water and medical help. This is what really happens there besides all the propaganda.
The fact remains that Russia wanted Trump to win. Why did Russia want Trump to win the election?
Actually that link answered my question: "The Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goal of harming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, and increasing political discord in the United States. "
Why Putin attacks Ukraine, has he gone crazy?
He doesn't care about his own economics. The Russians have got so zombified with Putins TV, that they'll support the war even if IPhone and PC imports stop. A Russian mystic D.Andreev described that as a nation controlled by "imperial state demon". It's an ugly man politics -- when your rating falls, and chaos wrecks the country, lets attack a weak neighbor, and the "small victorious war" brings ratings up. But this time it's different: Putin has got into complex war. The fighting in Eastern Ukraine goes with losses on both sides, and Putins militants get killed much more often then he would like.