I would like to know (or better not!) how the world would look like now, if this were the Russians who made military manoeuvres in the Gulf of Mexico, Hawai , near a US military Basis in the Pacific or off the coast of New York instead of thoses permanent sabber rattlings of the NATO during the last decade in the Baltic or in the Black sea
That was the REAL provocation!
Everybody who is owning a small basis of historical knowledge, knows that the Crimea always has been a very important and strategical military basis for the russian marine.
No doubt about it, it was a russian crime to start this war in the Ukraine, but it was also a totally stupid and very dangerous provocation from the western world to support such a corrupt ukrainian government, which only raised up with the financial help of ukrainian oligarchs (not better than the russian oligarchs!), like Ihor Kolomojskyj and his paramilitary anti-russian troops like the Asow or the Dnipro Regiment, the Bataillon Donbass and some other private mercenaries which made since the early 2000´s permanent agitations at the ukrainian-russian border, exactly like the SA methods in Germany, 1933. It´s no russian propaganda, it´s a fact! Just inform!
It´s always much easier denouncing symptoms instead of trying to understand the real genesis of the problems. There is no black and no white, no bad or good people, the world is much complicated than that, it is full of shades of grey.
And last but not least: never forget that:
this war is taking place on the european continent, NOT on the north american one!
I am a French citizen with a french father, a german mother and a russian grandfather, living in Germany with my german wife, children and grandchildren. My father fought together with young Americans 1944-45 against the Nazis and told me how ugly a war is.
As an European, I do not feel threatened by the Russians. It´s really to easy to compare Putin to Hitler...This does not work! I just want peace on our old continent and I am awaiting that our political leaders finally start the difficult diplomatic work instead of throwing more gasoline in the fire!!! Too much people from the Western world already were in the starting blocks smelling the big money to make whith selling weapons and ammos again...
And a lot of other people in the Far West were not amused at all to see that Germany, the biggest economic state in Europe, was making such pretty business with Russia. Just a matter of being afraid to be economically isolated and not being able to get rid of its own freaking gas... It´s now the racer, as the gas from the "democratic" Emirates
