what's brainwashed about ukraine's hydrocarbon reserves? or petrov stopping a nuclear launch? or russia's economy relying on gas and oil? those are pure facts. i've already stated most of the factors before. there are many. mainly the discovery of oil fields in 2013, and the us involvement in euromaidan, followed by the complete breach of the minsk aggreement by nato, combined with the knowledge of a declining population/economy, and a general culture that doesn't value individual life (similarly to china, also influenced by the raping and pillaging of their people be the mongol hordes in the 13th century). also throw in there ukraine's building of the kherson dam, which enables them to cut of crimea from its water supply, and the original territory controlled by, and cities built by, catherine the great in the 1700s. it all ties together.
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