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.
Do Russian Nazis support Putin's aggression in Ukraine? Or they against it, because Ukrainians are Slavic nation like Russians?
Russian fascists and neo-Nazis don’t invite Ukrainians when they host their international conferences in Russia.They see ethnic Russians as the rightful owners of Ukraine, and Ukrainians as Russians who deny their rightful identity. To them, Ukrainians are simultaneously their dearest blood kin, “one people” with Russians, and subhuman vermin to be eliminated. Except for Ukrainians from far-Western Galicia, who are lower still, and labelled with the Russian fascists’ vilest epithet for their enemies, fashísty.If they had a worldview that made sense, they wouldn’t be fascists, right?Since the 2014 attack on Ukraine, the Russian régime has put a damper on the most publicly visible activities of domestic fascism, and redirected some of its energy to recruiting and sending volunteers and mercenaries to fight in Ukraine’s Donbas, where 13,000 Ukrainians have been killed so far, and in Syria and elsewhere.So yes, Russian fascists support and participate in the illegal violation of Ukrainian sovereignty, the attempted destruction of the Ukrainian state, and the killing of Ukrainians in Ukraine.Photo: Dmitry Utkin, right, the decorated field commander of the Wagner military organization, which is reputed to an illegal mercenary company, but behaves more like a combat branch of the GRU military intelligence agency. The unit is named after Utkin’s personal callsign Vagner, as his musical tastes are informed by the late German Führer’s (source).Photo: Russian fascist philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, right, seen here chumming with KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, lost his post at Moscow State University in 2014 after he went a little too far by publicly calling for genocide against Ukrainians (source).Addendum: Speaking of things Wagnerian, it turns out the painting in the second photo is by Soviet artist Konstantin Vasilev. Woah!Konstantin Vasilev Canvases, at Slavyansiy MirKonstantin Vasilev, in Varvarskaya GalleryArt of Konstantin Vasilyev, in Pinterest
Are Russia and Ukraine fighting in Donetsk?
In a way, yes. Donetsk mostly used to feel more as part of Russia than Ukraine from the start (not officially, of course, after the USSR collapsed but at heart). Ukraine began fighting our “Russian mentality” back in 1990s, by forcing us to change our names in personal documents, pay for notarized translations (although any certificate issued in Russian was perfectly understandable to any person around including officials), demanding all store signs to be in Ukrainian (in a city where close to no one spoke it), teaching children to see Ukrainian as a ”a better language than the one they speak at home”, etc. etc.We fought it back by parents’ written protests against the closure of Russian-speaking schools, by completing most official forms required in local bodies in Russian (the forms themselves being in Ukrainian) and, of course, by speaking Russian in our everyday life and to our children.Perhaps this smoldering fight just had to ignite one day but who knows how long it would take if it was not for Maidan and the subsequent (very hasty) enactment of an “anti-Russian language” law in Kiev. To which Donetsk reacted as follows:
How are the Donetsk Airport Cyborgs remembered in Ukraine?
It depends on person’s stance and opinions.For many those who support Ukrainian army they are heroes.For many those who don’t support army and war in general they are crazy persons who fought and many died for nothing good, not something a peaceful person wants to remember or have around. For instance, one “cyborg” run for mayor post in Pavlograd, a city close to Donbass. He lost elections ( In the elections in Pavlograd "Appblock" scored the most votes ), what proves that many people do not support “cyborgs”, and those not supporting can have majority on elections in some places. I witnessed myself and had read about situations in which when turned out that someone at table was in Ukrainian army at this war, those not supporting war excused themselves and left, because they feel uneasy near people who support the war.Similar thing with people who sympathize with Donbass civilian population: you are not going to hear anything good about “cyborgs” from them.There are also people who just hate them (because cyborgs are considered supporters of Donetsk shellings, in which many civilians, including children, were killed). They may use derogatory word “п*дорги”, what is mix of “киборг” ( “cyborg” ) and “п*дор” (“f*ggot” in Russian / Ukrainian slang).I don’t know how it is going to develop, what I’m sure is that Ukraine was and is going to remain divided, and the war and the “cyborgs” won’t be a topic to unite people.
Why won't the US and NATO attack ISIS and the terrorists in Libya?
I think the US won't do it because our President thinks the country is completely war-weary and won't support him in doing anything militarily against ISIS. He seems very worried about his popularity and doesn't want to risk damaging his party's hopes in the coming elections. It would have been a good thing to do some real damage to the ISIS terrorists while we had an army of them out in the open. But it's too late now. They have switched from direct attack tactics to guerrilla fighting so we can't hit them as easily as before.
Why doesn't Ukraine launch a full out organised campaign to recapture Donetsk and Luhansk?
They already were defeated in 2014 when trying to do just that very same thing: capture Donetsk and Lugansk. Also they were defeated near Saur-mogila, near Lugansk airport, near Donetsk airport and at Debaltsevo. Actually Ukrainian army had no major win. Where they won, they won over negligible force of separatists or taking a city after separatists left. These defeats and clever tactics of separatists all are good reasons to think a lot before trying to do any offensive.They were losing battle machines all the time, and actually lost so many warplanes that stopped to do air missions.Some reports about Ukrainian army using machines and weapons of 1960s or even WW2 ones allows to suggest that Ukrainian army lost a lot of good war machines and has to scramble whatever left.Their representatives agreed to Minsk agreements. A full-scale campaign will mean break of Minsk agreements, what would allow other parties to do as they please too. After forcing parliament to approve laws about elections on Donbass Poroshenko said something like “If we had not approve that we would end one-on-one with aggressor”There is no major gain there. Donetsk and Lugansk can be recaptured only as destroyed. Majority of population living there never supported “pro-Ukrainian” forces and hardly be happy to “recapturing”. When recaptured Mariupol , city close to front line, held elections of city counsel in the end of 2015 no party present in central government won even a single seat.It seems that those who want to fight from Ukrainian side (actually many Ukrainians do not want to fight) believe in their “creeping offensive” and that separatists and those Russians who help them may be finally tired by “war fatigue”.Would you be too eager to go all-out to destroy and recapture cities which population won’t support you and risking to suffer one more major defeat like Debaltsevo?