Should add question. What are your opinions on incentives?
Discussion
Prior to world war 1 there was no such concept as Ukrainian. It was the border region of the Russian empire for centuries.
Long term projects by Czechs, Poles and Austrians, attempted to tear ethinic Russians away from their identity under Austrian occuption in the western border lands of the Russian empire.
Occupied Russian people were economically and socially coerced to identify as Ruthenians/Ruthenes/Rusyns/Rusnaks.
This was built on top of previous attempts at converting them religiously from Christian Orthodoxy to a new hybrid between that and catholicism called the Byzantine Church or Uniate Church. Slowly transforming the local population by means of language, ethnicity and religion into something artifificial.
After world war 1, Vladimir Lenin granted Ukraine an artificial identity. Its name became Ukraine meaning "Border Region". This identity was a member republic of the Soviet Union. At this time there was still no such thing as a codified Ukrainian language, nor is there one today, nor do a majority of Ukrainians even speak Ukrainian but rather Russian or various Russian dialects.
Stepan Bandera the notorious Nazi and Russophobe, funded by the CIA during ww2, rallied followers from Galicia (eastern Polish lands), to support Hitler and massacre Russians.
These nazi elements were not wiped at the end of ww2 completely by Stalin, and have been revived now under Peto Poroshenko and Volodomyr Zelensky.
from 2014 to 2018 14, 000 ethnic Russians, mostly women and children were brutally tortured and murdered by Azov Batalliion and other nazi armies in the Ukraine.
Putin was criticised heavily in Russia for waiting 8 years to intervene and protect Russians under ethnic cleansing attacks from Ukraine.
Here we are today. The Ukraine was granted independence by the Soviet Union based on NEUTRALITY and nuclear disarmament.
The deal for unifying Germany was "NOT ONE INCH EASTWARD" for NATO. NATO expansion into the Ukraine and statements from its president wanting to re-arm nuclearly and the ethnic genocide were the "incentives" (reasons) for the Russian invasion.
Thats one of the most concise historical summaries have seen written. So we can possibly align on there being multiple incentives which include ethinicity, historical context as well as resource control. Rather a mess and way too many innocents in the cross hairs. But simple, it is not
It oversimplifies and skips many important details.
I am glad you are open to receiving it.
Apologies for the earlier outbursts.
The current crisis in the middle east was messing with me, and the unintentional timing of your original response to my note was not ideal which caused me to read it with fog.
Dialogue and diplomacy are our only hope.
A gracious comment. I think thats happening to all of us a times and this weekend was fairly rough for many. I was keeping in touch with frazzled friend whose father was stuck in iran so I get it. I tend to consider outbursts online as possibly cathartic at times. Its for everyone to decide how to take them and maintain empathy. I hope current situation not affecting you or family negatively.
I am not Iranian nor do I have any family from there, however it profoundly affects me, more than conflicts that are more closely related to me for some reason.
Great choice of word to describe the outbursts.
In the moment, you want to inflict as much pain on those who do not sympathize or who question your outrage, but a few hours, days, weeks or even months or years later, you transcend that and grow.
Its almost as if one is burping to aid digestion...
The energies out there right now are affecting everyone in my opinion.
Some of us are just more receptive to those energies...
I got a bit wrapped up this weekend mostly cause injured back and so wasnt out so much. I therefore overlooked a simple rule have been trying to follow. I find any big sensational media flooding story that naturally illicits emotional response is worth trying to simply park for 3 days. It seems to pass the clickbait threshold requiment, and gets past the seeming guesswork that people are doing along the way. It seems to me, one gets a clearer picture of events and lower instinctive emotional reaction which is probably healthier. We are exposed to more information that we can really handle these days. Imagine someone in a major city only 100 years ago and how long news would take to reach them.