Well, no. I recall that Gergar seemed to think that Biden had masterfully prevented the invasion of Ukraine by predicting that it would happen and doing nothing else. (It was 'masterfully' because Biden also hadn't made any diplomatic concessions or given Russia any reason not to invade other than the crying shame of it having been foretold.) I had the curse of an interest in the history of the conflict and figured the same thing would happen as all the other times.]
*All the other times except 2014, when Russia invaded and annexed it.
You bought into the hype without any convincing reason to do so and happened to be correct... eventually. You had the timing wrong because Biden had the timing wrong and you uncritically repeated Biden.
When did I make claims about the timing, exactly?
Yes, sponsoring those dastardly Russian speakers who objected to a western-backed anti-Russian coup with allegations of disguised Russian active-duty military going in to defend the breakaway republics from the aggression of a neo-Nazi military regiment armed with heavy weapons; quelle horreur.
No, not just "Russian speakers"-- they very specifically sponsored insurgent far-right militias. It's not as if they sponsored any actual civilian groups: only militias they directed.
Whenever the US sponsors an overseas insurgency, and then dismally claims to be protecting the locals by doing so, you rightfully call it out as imperialist repression dressed up with a flimsy pretext.
Then when
exactly the same method is used by Russia, and
exactly the same excuses are trotted out, suddenly they're not a flimsy pretext! Suddenly they're being uncritically parroted! Quelle surprise!
The insurgency, and the subsequent "breakaway Republics", have never been a Ukrainian project: have always been wholly set up, directed, and funded by Russia. Notice how now that Russia has claimed the Donbas for itself, it has abandoned any pretence of protecting their "independence"-- now they're just to be part of Russia in the grand imperial scheme. And the puppet leaders have just quietly shifted from talking about independence altogether.
I wonder if you actually believe that is relevant.
It's certainly relevant to the Russian media and Dmitry Medvedev, who're both screaming about the evils of Satan and LGBT people as explicit justifications for the current conflict.
It should also be of interest to anyone who's enough of a clown to buy into the risible idea that Russia is fighting the far-right, rather than fighting to impose Christian Nationalism.
