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originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: chr0naut
He wants to save ethnic-speaking Russians in the Eastern part of the country who favor Moscow from getting slaughtered by the western half who don't want to have half the country friendly with Russia. If the Americans left it alone it would all be settled by now. But they did their usual thing and shoved a puppet government in like they always do. It is cheaper than invading but has its downside when enough people want to get rid of the puppet. They left Afghanistan simply because it was costing too much, an American army is very beneficial for an economy, they are well paid and the soldiers are quite generous.
originally posted by: svetlana84
a reply to: chr0naut
more than 3k civilians killed in Ukraine pre invasion: ukraine.un.org...