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[Rigby5]

Even if it is as you say, not clear to me the Russian carnage in Ukraine is an improvement.

If Russia were serious about attending to the Azov Battalion, why not an ultimatum?
Russia inform Ukraine, terminate Azov Battalion misconduct, or we'll invade and eliminate them. I don't recall Putin making any conditional demands on Ukraine while Russian military troops were massing on Ukraine's border.

It looks more to me like Russian / Putin territorial avarice.
Much of the scholarly / experienced diplomatic / historic opinion on it corroborates that. And commonly attending such explanation, the inquiry, who's next.

Thus NATO's two most recent members, having joined NATO only after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Russia made tons of "ultimatums", ever since 2014 when the mass murders started.
Russia did not start to invade until 2022, after Zelensky cut off all communications with Moscow.

What you need to remember is that there was no violence until 2014, when the US bribed Maidan Coup took over.
There was no violence at all before that, when the pro-Russian government had been voted it.

 

[sear]

"Russia made tons of "ultimatums"" R5 #241

I'm not an expert on it, but seems to me an "ultimatum" without substantial or devastating consequence is merely a suggestion.

"... when the pro-Russian government had been voted it." R5 #241

Don't you hate it when the doorbell rings at the worst possible time ... ?

 

[Rigby5]

I'm not an expert on it, but seems to me an "ultimatum" without substantial or devastating consequence is merely a suggestion.


Don't you hate it when the doorbell rings at the worst possible time ... ?

That is why Russia was forced to finally invade the Ukraine.
From 2014 to 2022 was 8 years of negotiations where Kyiv refused to stop trying to join NATO, murdering ethnic Russians, etc.