Irrelevant and not even remotely close to what I asked for. This is a story about Tucker Carlson sympathizing with Putin.
It is not a story explaining the reason why Russia felt it was necessary to conduct special military action in the Ukraine. It does not explain why Russia believes they are helping to liberate the DPR and LPR from nationalists and return the borders of the republics.
I can throw you tons of support and understanding for Russia and Donbass from western media, loads of people questioning the supplying of arms to Ukraine and the involvement of the West. But I don't have all day for that.
Let's be reciprocal: please link any Russian media article (that isn't from Novaya Gazeta, where journalists routinely suffer "unexplainable" deaths) that suggests that Putin has ever done anything wrong, you know, without sugarcoating it in any way.
Seems like you’re grasping at straws if you have to resort to digging up 7 year articles to prove your point.
If there are really “tons” of stories explaining the Russian perspective on this matter why don’t you show me ONE recent story that takes the latest developments into account?
> Irrelevant and not even remotely close to what I asked for.
Only if one is too stupid to read it. It's not supposed to show that the Washington Post sympathizes with Putin.
> This is a story about Tucker Carlson sympathizing with Putin.
Exactly. You have not only Tucker Carlson but the whole Fox "News" network and other similar organisations in the USA and in Europe sympathizing with Putin.
> It is not a story explaining the reason why Russia felt it was necessary to conduct special military action in the Ukraine.
Russia didn't feel it was necessary to conduct a "special military action" in "the" Ukraine; it felt it was necessary to conduct a war in [no article] Ukraine.
- Would the majority population of DPR and LPR like to break away from the Ukraine?
No, they would not. They voted in very large majorities to be part of an independent Ukraine. Of course, now they are ruled by Russia-linked gangsters, so it is impossible to know what their citizens would like. Common sense suggests that they would rather be part of Ukraine, somewhat democratic, and relatively rich, instead of part of Russia, ruled by a warmongering dictator, and relatively poor.
I think the answer isn’t so clear cut and dry. The truth is, it’s disputed.
Here are some questions we should ask:
“ Ukraine regards both the DPR and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) as terrorist organisations.”
- Now why would the people side with a government that deems them a terrorist organization? That’s a little strange..
- Why is the official currency used in DPR and LPR the Russian ruble? Again, strange for a people that wish to be independent from Russia.
Why is the official timezone used in DPR and LPR UTC+3 (Moscow time) Again, strange for a people that wish to be independent from Russia.
I struggle to take these arguments seriously. Ukraine regards the gangsters running the DPR and LPR as terrorist, not the people under their undemocratic and illegitimate rule. The time zone and currency were chosen by those gangsters, not by the people.
I would be shocked if you could find just one actual major mainstream western media organization that tells the other side of the story.