Ukraine is a failed state, the most corrupt country in Europe, and the ninth most corrupt country in the world.
Ukraine is also home to the most active and virulent neo-Nazi movement in the world, which New Zealand consistently refuses to condemn, and which has terrorised the ethnic Russian population for years.
A global coordinated campaign by legacy mainstream media has once again plunged the Western world into a state of fear and panic based on misinformation.
This is not to say that Russia is innocent, historically, for under communism especially atrocities were committed on the part of the USSR. However, there is a significant historical background to the current crisis, and the facts show that NATO aggression and Kiev’s consistent refusal to abide by the Minsk Agreement made the conflict inevitable.
In these videos political commmentator Stew Peters gives a basic overview of the crisis and its background, while Jimmy Dore, with the help of investigative journalist Max Blumenthal go into the topic in more detail.
Steve Turley has an interesting perspective on Ukraine too at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAXWAA5GnEI&t=25s
Thanks, helps put the situation in perspective as MSM reporting mostly woefully biased toward anti-Putin and Russia.
On what index is Ukraine the 9th most corrupt? In this one they are 60th… tradingeconomics.com
Ukraine is 117th on this corruption index. But NZ is 1st equal so who knows. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020