Bullshit - NATO isn't OSCE, which treats all parties in Europe equally. NATO was designed to fight the old USSR, and now continues to treat Russia in the same way.
You can't settle conflicts in Europe by starting out automatically taking a particular side (ie. the side that's against Russia)
When all you have is a (NATO) hammer, then every problem is made to look like a nail.
Ohh, and Stalin, who was a Georgian not a Russian, had nothing to do with Soviet policies, huh?
The Bolsheviks overthrew the Tsars and had every one of them killed. They were also bankrolled by Russia's foreign rivals, who wanted to cause the Tsars as much trouble as possible.
All Great Powers do that. France and the French, Britain and the British, etc, etc. Russia is no exception. There are ethnic Russians living nearby. One third of Ukraine's population is ethnically Russian.
You want to pretend they don't exist, because it's inconvenient of you to acknowledge their existence and their needs of existence. They're your untermenschen, and you want them gone.
You don't want them to vote, because they won't vote for the govt you want in Kyiv. You don't want them to have rights, you don't want them to be heard at all, much less to be able to protest.
You want an Apartheid state, or an ethnically cleansed one.
The Russians are your convenient scapegoat - your untermenschen. You want the Russians in Ukraine dispossessed and/or dead. I say again -- one third of Ukraine's population is ethnically Russian.
Ukraine is not some united unified society. It's a divided society. It is ethnically heterogenous. In spite of your Left-wing propaganda about diversity at home, you don't want diversity to be recognized in Ukraine.
You don't want these other ethnic groups who inconveniently exist, to have an existence, because you find it inconvenient.
What is supposed to happen to them?
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