“The reason behind why is Russia invading Ukraine?”

“Why is Russia invading Ukraine?”

In our official propaganda, Ukraine has been a US springboard for future conquering, dismembering and enslaving Russia. An alleged “genocide” of ethnic Russians in self-declared states of Donetsk and Lugansk is a proof to that.

To prevent the ongoing genocide and future threats, President Putin sent the troops that now have been de-Nazifying and de-militarizing Ukraine for the last five days.

This move was based on a following set of working assumptions by our president.

Russia’s Top Five Assumptions for Invading Ukraine:

1. Ukraine is governed by a US puppet regime not embedded in the Ukrainian society.

2. The dysfunctionality of the Ukrainian state and political divisions between their oligarchs make it possible to overthrow them in a swift military operation.

3. Large parts of Ukraine secretly sympathize with Russia and are ready to embrace new pro-Russian rulers.

4. Civil society does not exist. Pro-Western activists are a small group of paid agents that can be chased out of the country, arrested, or killed.

5. The West is too weak and divided to stand up for Ukraine.

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Below, one of our loyalist political cartoons by Yevgény Samóilov illustrating the core of President Putin’s assumptions.

President Zelenski (center), Mayor of the city of Kiev Klichko (right) and a generic far-right nationalist in a Nazi Stalhelm (left) are addressing an unenthusiastic public.

(Zelensky’s former job was a comedian. Klichko was a professional boxer. There are no prominent Nazis at the forefront of the Ukrainian politics or in the government, but a “Nazi presence” there is the core of our propaganda narrative).

The hydra of Anglo-Saxon globalism manipulates all of them. The poster fixed to the pulpit says “Raise up, Ukraine!” The discarded ones on the floor say, “Raise up, Syria!”, “Raise up, Egypt!”, “Raise up, Libya”. This implies that the Arab Spring a decade ago was a product of American machinations, just like what happens now in Ukraine.

Westerners will say that Putin wants to invade Ukraine to take the Donbas and even more territory from Ukraine. Putin would like to make the same move he did when he annexed Crimea in 2014.

So your question adopts the Western position.

On Vladimir Putin's side, the vision is totally different. Putin considered Crimea to be a part of Russia forever. He, therefore, considers that he has re-established something logical.

For the Donbas, Putin will probably use the same narrative, saying that this territory has always been Russian and that it should therefore become Russian again.

It is all a question of point of view.

Putin may also highlight the fact that he wants to protect himself from a potential membership of Ukraine in NATO. Putin does not want NATO on his borders. Everything starts from there. He wants guarantees.

Putin wants America and the European Union to commit that Ukraine will not join NATO. America and the European Union cannot respond favorably to this request, because it would call into question Ukraine's sovereignty to choose its alliances, but above all, it would be a betrayal of a promise made to Ukraine when the country agreed to get rid of its nuclear arsenal.

As you can see, the situation here is more than complex.

It is hard to see how the current situation could be de-escalated because neither side is willing to make the concessions demanded by the other. The situation is heading towards the worst-case scenario, unfortunately.