Nope, didn't forget the annexation of Crimea and subsequent landslide vote by the people of Crimea to join Russia. If I go back before the Minsk agreement, I have to include the CIA funded coup. No doubt you will call this coup the Revolution of Dignity, Color Revolution or some other cheezy name to cover the fact it was just another generic CIA funded coup. They even had Victoria Newland on tape deciding who would fill the positions of power. That is complicated with its roots going back decades, and I don't have the time. I think Russia was shooting for a semi autonomous Donbus still under the Ukraine flag. The SMO was launched because it was about to get very hot for the citizens of the Donbas breakaway states. Why would anyone think they could wipe out ethnic Russians right beside Russia. I guess that would be somebody who really believed Russia was a gas station that thought it was a country. That is the danger in believing BS propaganda.
