You don't continually shell the same people as you for a year if you care about them, no matter what their government.

Here he speaks for Ukraine. Who gave him that right? There is no single economic system. Complete BS.

"Ukraine and Russia have developed as a single economic system over decades and centuries. The profound cooperation we had 30 years ago is an example for the European Union to look up to. We are natural complementary economic partners. Such a close relationship can strengthen competitive advantages, increasing the potential of both countries."

His essay is full of self-serving BS. All old man nuttiness that you'd laugh at if I told you it was written by anyone else.

From Putin's hand:

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

We're going in circles now. Russia had a choice. You want to write me off as propaganda. Fine. That's actually how propaganda works. The ultimate question, when the dust settles, is whose propaganda was the worst. Which was the most fundamentally flawed.

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There are so many things you accuse me of saying which I did not say. Where did I say the killing was "Russian" in a racist sense? I only said that was the Russian military's tactic. It was the same tactics the U.S. adopted at the end of WWII. The difference is Russia started it right away because right away the incompetence of the Russia military was simply off the charts.

Sorry, the U.S. did not level Iraq the way Russia is leveling Ukraine. You want to talk propaganda ;)

I've watched many interviews of Russian on 1420 and I can't remember any explaining why NATO was a threat.

Germany did the same thing. Their problems were everyone else's fault. Some of their complaints were valid. Now they live with the shame of the things they did. Russians will go through the same thing. Russia was the aggressor. Russia is the one started killing people first and continues to do so. It is the one that let convicts roam the villages to rape and pillage.

You can call it propaganda all you won't. You won't enjoy the way people look at you and treat you. Because, though we may differ in various reasons for this or that, you have never said YOU wanted to invade Ukraine. But you seem like a Russian patriot so I get it.

Do Ukrainians deserve to die because you're afraid of NATO? On that question I believe your future depends. For me, I must live in shame that we killed many Iraqis and didn't rebuilt their country as promised.