Western glee, we put the boot in, we get our comeuppance!

HOW I SEE THE SEEDS OF RUSSIAN ANGER FINALLY COME TO FRUITION

We were not magnanimous, understanding or fair in taking over, lock stock and barrel all the friends and allies of the enemy we had vanquished at the end of the Cold War in 1991.  And it was this no 1 sworn enemy who had graciously retired from the field of battle too, to allow us to claim a mighty victory in the Cold War!

There followed the arrival in Moscow of the Chicago Boys' neoliberal economics under Milton Friedman that didn't help either, I have heard from a Radio 4 programme.

But, it's even worse than that, for in 2014 the properly and fairly elected pro-Russian President was unceremoniously bundled from power by over-enthusiastic pro-American/European fanatics to put their man in the top spot.  This was like a red rag to a bull to Putin, according to Philippe Sands, a British and French lawyer in an interview on the Jeremy Vine Show.  In revenge, Putrid took back Crimea, given to Ukraine in 1954 by Krushchev.  Hardly surprising.

Next, through 2021/2, we called it appeasement to comply with Putrid's security concerns.  These were to withdrew our nukes from E Europe, stop our military exercises in the former Warsaw Pact nations and to refuse Ukraine membership of NATO.  There was no way that the American led West would comply.  As a result, the war of 2014 ratcheted up to full blown war.  The Russian world and the American/Western world both suffer from bloodshed and sanctions resulting in sky-high energy prices, with the attendant cost of living crisis.

24 August addition:

This very day, 31 years of glorious independence for Ukraine. However, after the last 21 years of deeply nationalistic Putrid, they still failed to cosy up to their very big brother neighbour - if only out of sheer self interest and for a little peaceful co-existence. Instead, they very foolishly, without waiting for the next election, violently overthrew their 2010 properly and fairly elected pro-Russian President in February 2014. That was like a red rag to a bull for our dear friend Putrid. Thus, 14,000 killed in the first eight years of the war before Putrid upped the stakes and escalated the killings exactly six months ago today, 24 August 2022. Now, the death toll of Ukrainians is 9,000 military deaths and 5,500 civilian deaths I heard on Radio 4 today.