??? they were fighting and dying. what is with this characterization of the war in the LPR/DPR as ukraine idly lobbing bombs at civilians and not an actual war?
Exaggerating a bit I guess. They were fighting but it wasn't exactly full throated support, or else Russia would have recognized the DPR and LPR and actually pushed back against Ukraine like they are now. Which is the point of:
Clearly the answer was to truck RU soldiers into the donbass and just sit on their thumbs allowing Ukrainian artillery to smash them, or something
People saying Russia shouldn't have invaded are basically saying the status quo of the war was good actually.
Russian troops were in the Donbass before 2022
Yeah, sitting on their thumbs for 8 years allowing Ukrainian artillery to smash civilians.
??? they were fighting and dying. what is with this characterization of the war in the LPR/DPR as ukraine idly lobbing bombs at civilians and not an actual war?
Exaggerating a bit I guess. They were fighting but it wasn't exactly full throated support, or else Russia would have recognized the DPR and LPR and actually pushed back against Ukraine like they are now. Which is the point of:
People saying Russia shouldn't have invaded are basically saying the status quo of the war was good actually.