I’m sorry that 30 years of history can’t be summed up in a convenient soundbite for you.
I didn’t ask for a summary, I asked you about evidence to back up your specific point that the Maidan government planned to join NATO, and that Russia wouldn’t have attacked otherwise.
It is nice of you to provide extra context, what I am calling out is that you didn’t separate the context from the actual answer to my clear specific question
That application was shelved in 2010 by the Yanukovich government. The Maidan government changed nothing to that status, and explicitly said that it had no intention to join NATO. So from that perspective it is hard to see the Crimean invasion as a direct consequence of that 2008 application.
It was rather, I guess we agree on that, a direct consequence to the Maidan revolution. The link being, you claim, that this government was set up by the US and planned to join NATO. What did it say or do that indicated that it wanted to join NATO? The fact that it didn’t, over a few weeks, cancel the shelved application that the Yanukovych government didn’t cancel over 6 years?
I didn’t ask for a summary, I asked you about evidence to back up your specific point that the Maidan government planned to join NATO, and that Russia wouldn’t have attacked otherwise.
It is nice of you to provide extra context, what I am calling out is that you didn’t separate the context from the actual answer to my clear specific question
The evidence that the government explicitly said it wanted to join NATO that you yourself already admitted?
Sorry, what did I say that you interpret as admitting that?
https://lemmy.ml/post/262111/comment/179510
You admit it and then coach it with saying they shelved the plans, which obviously does not change the original intent.
That application was shelved in 2010 by the Yanukovich government. The Maidan government changed nothing to that status, and explicitly said that it had no intention to join NATO. So from that perspective it is hard to see the Crimean invasion as a direct consequence of that 2008 application.
It was rather, I guess we agree on that, a direct consequence to the Maidan revolution. The link being, you claim, that this government was set up by the US and planned to join NATO. What did it say or do that indicated that it wanted to join NATO? The fact that it didn’t, over a few weeks, cancel the shelved application that the Yanukovych government didn’t cancel over 6 years?
If you don’t understand why US ran a coup in Ukraine and installed the government they did, I really don’t know what else to tell you.