It makes me think of someone pointing a finger at your eye from 2" away and saying "I'm not touching you." It's just legalism being used to obscure what's actually happening.
Edit: I remember the breathless news about how a clearly reluctant Russia was definitely going to invade on a certain day, and then when it didn't happen the bombing of cities in the Donbas would accelerate. Maybe I'm an idiot, but it seemed obvious that Russia was being provoked into having to intervene. There had to have been a lot of public pressure to do something to protect people in the LPR and DPR.
I also can't see any broad Ukrainian interest in having a war with Russia. If they wanted this I think more of them would've stuck around. If this war isn't a project of the Ukrainian working class, then I wonder who's interests it actually does serve?
It makes me think of someone pointing a finger at your eye from 2" away and saying "I'm not touching you." It's just legalism being used to obscure what's actually happening.
Edit: I remember the breathless news about how a clearly reluctant Russia was definitely going to invade on a certain day, and then when it didn't happen the bombing of cities in the Donbas would accelerate. Maybe I'm an idiot, but it seemed obvious that Russia was being provoked into having to intervene. There had to have been a lot of public pressure to do something to protect people in the LPR and DPR.
I also can't see any broad Ukrainian interest in having a war with Russia. If they wanted this I think more of them would've stuck around. If this war isn't a project of the Ukrainian working class, then I wonder who's interests it actually does serve?