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To all those who are taking Russia's side in this war! Answer this question?

To all those who are taking Russia’s side in this war, well I have a question for you, and here it is. Explain why Russia, cut of oil/gas supplies to Ukraine at Christmas, forcing their civilians to live in the cold, over winter. The Russians tried to assassinate the Ukrainian president elected by his own people, with food poisoning. Being British, I was deeply angered by the assassination of a Russian exile, especially when they brought nuclear radiation on the streets of London, exposing it to British civilians. Do you think Russia is right for this other behaviour and other actions it has been committing?

Oh, and don’t try to side step this, and start going on about South Osettia, try and actually answer the question I’ve asked. How about that for a change, eh?
Try and answer all of them please and not just one.

I wasn't gonna comment on this, but the statement that Russia has been always "liberating" is rather hilarious.

If mr. Lucky could list who exactly was "liberated" by Russia during last couple hundred years or even further in the history I'd be very grateful. Perhaps you got liberation mixed up with conquering?

According to the history books I read, Russia (Ok, USSR, but let's face it, Russia was it) successfully "liberated" a lot of countries around them of their independence, that is true.

It is also true that Russia liberated half of the Europe from Germans, along the way "liberating" them from capitalism and bringing them 40+ years of Communist rule. Strangely enough none of those countries today are willing to say thank you to Russia for that part of their history.

In the end, my point is that Russia has been an empire for centuries. And it doesn't matter what is the current system in Russia. One way or another they always try to keep the empire and expand.

Czar Russia conquered a lot of land creating an empire, thus liberating those countries I guess.

Then bolcheviks came to power promising liberate everyone, what happened next the world shouldn't forget soon. Interestingly enough, even though bolsheviks hated everything from Czar Russia first thing they did after ensuring their survival was to restore Russian empire in its old borders. Revolution in 1917 happened in Russia and for a brief time the empire fell apart. Soon after Russian revolution they exported it to pretty much all the countries they reached.
Do you think Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Baltic republics and others ever wanted to be in USSR ruled by Russia? I doubt that. They were conquered again by Bolshevik Russia. Baltic countries survived little longer, but later Ribentrop/Molotov pact did get them too.

So, whatever is happening now is the continuation of the same old politics. History repeats itself. The empire fell apart once again in 1991. Russia is doing again what it has been doing for centuries. Rebuild the empire again... At all costs. Just the situation in the world is different, making things more difficult for Russians.
It's plain and simple,Russia wants to keep former soviet republics in check and control them...

So, pardon if I missed something from Russian history, but as far as it shows, no matter what government is in Russia so far it always tries the same thing, keep the empire, expand it.

P.S. Russia today, just like 70s got powered by oil money. Putin simply concentrated as much power or pretty much all the power in his hands and is using that money to rebuild Russian military, not Russian economy. I don't think anyoen seriously considers Medvedev to be a real power in Russia. Just watch the news, it's Putin who directs this whole thing.

BTW, why should we be afraid of Russia if "justice and peace" is with you?

"The Almamater of all Ukrainians (Indo Europeans)" by Oleg Mingalev


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