Geriatric Gardener<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@sinabhfuil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sinabhfuil</span></a></span> </p><p>Without justifying Russia’s invasion in any way, I’d just like to point out something you may (or not) have missed: the Russia-Ukraine proxy-war didn’t start on Feb 24 2022. In fact, according to Prof Jeffrey Sachs (below), it started in 2014 and was provoked by the US/ NATO!</p><p>Please have a read!</p><p>“The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace”</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-war-in-ukraine-was-provoked-and-why-that-matters-if-we-want-peace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/opinion/the-w</span><span class="invisible">ar-in-ukraine-was-provoked-and-why-that-matters-if-we-want-peace</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProxyWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProxyWar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nuland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuland</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Maidan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maidan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NeoNazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazi</span></a></p>