We never step in for the Palestinians and we start wars for totally bogus pretexts
Well, that would be an immediate reaction from Israel, so the US government could be cut some slack in keeping their allies, at least they'll be logical for once. Or they could in typical fashion keep Israel as an ally, but send weapons to Palestine.
It won't be soon. Besides, it will be just another one after him.
didn't realize it was getting that out of hand. My American Russia-fan friend kept mentioning Azov and yeah some are neo-Nazis but they don't appear to be in charge of anything. They even were banned from receiving weapons from America and they aren't in government, same as anywhere
I'm afraid it's worse. The Azov battalion is indeed armed, and doesn't belong in the same way other neo nazi organisations do.
Supposedly they are military battalions of neo-nazis that Putin will "de-nazify". I know they do exist throughout the whole East European zone and particularly there, but ironically to my knowledge murderer neo-nazis are more common in Russia.
Russian and other European varieties are somewhat organized football hooligans at best, but the ones in Azov are somewhere between military and paramilitary. If the way they are portrayed in Russia as committing all kinds of atrocities, they appear to be a self-interested group of murderers and maraduers. I imagine no different than the kadyrovites (Chechen murderers) Russia deploys. Full fledged maniacal trash.
A less fantastical reason for the invasion is that Russian citizens and rusophile separatists where being killed In Donbass and Luhansk. And they were losing the civil war.
Yes, connected to the so-called denazification, because apparently those neo-nazis have been propping up the war for 8 years. And the good old Russian nationalism and inevitable irredentism which makes the ordinary citizen convinced to no end and completely doubtless that Ukraine and Ukrainian identity are Russian and need to be taken back. That is also Kremlin's official stance.
Here's a propagandist article in English, by a Russian:
Russia needs Novorossiya
Also, Zelensky is literally a globalist puppet that used to be a comedian debasing himself on the screen and a Jew, so if you are an actual nazi you probably hate him. I don't think these groups are in the govt, probably they are tolerated while they are useful militarily and that's it.
First part isn't exactly so. Generally, in eastern politics, or at least eastern European, emotional appeal and all other bias is the basis for politics, consistency barely exists. Russian media can spin around this fact, you're not wrong, to pointing out that Ukraine's current government is a far-right one, that is what they do. So the line between coherency of the fact the president himself is of Jewish origin will be null and void, because if he's the governor of Ukraine, he is the current "nazist" far-right status quo. Or if his presidency won't be considered as legitimate in a state of martial law, then it doesn't matter that he is Jewish. They can spin it any way.
Second point, it'closest to the truth. In hard times, armed rogues always take advantage of ordinary citizens, if that's what Azov battalion is. I hope you're right.
As for Donbas, I think the Ukrainian government began contesting it when it wanted to break away because those plebiscites can be a little dubious, and Russia contributed to the shenanigans to use it as a pretext for hostilities, like in Georgia with South Ossetia
That's a little difficult to determine. In any case, very large populations in eastern Ukraine are ethnically Russian, but that leaves the question why would Russia involve separatists in a war likely to hurt their own citizens? I feel there is one way or another a strong separation among Ukrainian population that the war in Donbass is a result from, and somehow Russia is using it to its advantage.
There are large parts of Russia that aren't Russian and I don't know if they can leave
Those populations are culturally different, but very strongly pro-state, because they entirely depend on it for survival and even the most difficult form of life they have. Although not a Russian region, look at Kazakhstan and Nazarbayev, its president for life, one if the most prominent friends of Putin's. I imagine all of Russia's region heads hold him in the same regard, at the very least, because Putin props them up financially, and especially the sectors particularly important for each locality, very generously I must say. He's literally "throwing " them money.