My response to Les Fridman's video :
Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #286
Putin did not make a mistake in going into Eastern Ukraine. He wanted the Donbass Region to remain within Ukraine and Ukraine to remain neutral. Neutral is a line in the sand that he will not tolerate to be crossed. He sees it as Russia's survival as a sovereign nation He has waited 8 years for Ukraine to implement the Minsk agreements that they signed.which was the necessary condition for the separatist groups in the Donbas Region to agree to remain within Ukraine. But we did not want the Minsk agreement to be implemented. just as we do not want to negotiate for peace. We do not want a neutral Ukraine because we do not want to coexist with Russia. We want to subjugate and dominate them. It would not have been the right decision to surrender the Donbass Region because we will not stop. It would not have been the humane decision either because the Nazi controllers of Ukraine HATE the Russian Ukrainians. They want to kill them and will kill until there is not one iota of resistance left. They have been executing a genocidal ethnic cleansing in Eastern Ukraine for the last 8 years. So Putin finally recently recognized the 2 republics who declared their autonomy in 2014. They have been asking for Putin's help for years and now he has gone into the Donbass Region to help them and to get rid of the Nazi Azov battalion that has been fighting and killing them for years and he has taken out a few of OUR biolabs as he goes. Putin is defending Russia and the Eastern Ukrainians. We left him no other choice!
