Ukraine, A Country Of Misery: What Were The Origins And Reasons For The Current War With Russia?

In this article we would like to explore the reasons and the origins for the current on-going war with Russia. What happened?

We would like to start with several hypothesis for this war that seem to us to not have been described by political observers of various size and colors.

1. The current war is not only a geopolitical tournament for the area, it’s a war that based on vulgar reasons of access to cashflow channels from natural resources.
2. The current war is based on a combination of political, geopolitical, economic, personal reasons of higher level that just money.

Let’s begin with how the reasons for the war are viewed and declared in Ukraine. The war is on the territory of Ukraine. Russia occupied approximately 26% of Ukraine’s territory from 2014. Thus, the occupant is Russia, the aggressor is Russia. Let’s explore the views and the reasons for the war from the eyes of the government of Ukraine and the average citizen of Ukraine (peresichniy hromadianyn, as they call this resident-citizen in Ukraine).

Please, pay attention of the conflicting views on the reasons and the origins. We tried to keep the voices and the views expressed as original as possible.

From the view of citizen-resident (without any particular order, what comes first to the mind is stated first). Please, be attentive, this list includes politically-correct and acceptable expressions of average Ukrainians and “expressions that are not-voiced openly in the public”, but easily expressed in private conversations and has been recently voiced in the soccer stadiums and on public TV channels.

1. “Putin is huylo (dickhead), and he is the only and the main reason, all other reasons are derivative and subordinate”
2. “Russia is an empire state, always wanted to occupy Ukraine, this is just the way things are”
3. “Ukraine was a part of Russian Empire, thus, they want Ukraine back”
4. “They need to back off NATO from the borders”
5. “Poroshenko made a treaty with Putin-huylo and sold part of Ukraine”
6. “Zelensky insulted Putin for so many years, it’s a matter of personal revenge for Putin on Zelensky”
7. “The government of Ukraine was weak and sold us to Putin”
8. “The government of Ukraine failed to deter Russia, thus, Russia occupied Ukraine”
9. “Russia’s government understood how weak and stupid is the government of Ukraine is and decided to occupy the country governed by the imbecile politicians and the clowns”
10. “The leftist ultra-nationalist and oligarch-sponsored government occupied Ukrainian government, seized some Russian assets on the territory of Ukraine, thus, Russian bandits decided to strike back to get even more out of Ukraine”
11. “The left-sided, and brain-washed radicals and bandits from the Western Ukraine, sponsored from the Western countries, occupied the parliament, the ministries of Ukraine, and, led the country to it’s weak form, thus, allowing Putin and FSB to analyze the state of affairs and see that there is a possibility to strike”
12. “Ukraine was never an independent state, not even from the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991”
13. “KGB, now FSB decided to take Ukraine as a territory that was a part of it’s influence and temporarily went out of control after the coup of the Revolution of Dignity (or not-so-dignity, depending on what you know)”
14. “Ultra-nationalistic forces from the West and the Western Ukraine control the government of Ukraine. They could not, didn’t even have a chance to negotiate with Russia. They spent 8 years to prepare for the war. They wanted this war.”
15. “We wanted democracy and independence from Russia. Russia wants to control us, our government and our resources.”
16. “Yanukovich sold us to Russia for gas. We don’t need gas from Russia. We do not need oligarchs from Russia doing busines in our country.”

From the view of politicians, current or former (retired) state officials of Ukrainian government (without particular order, what comes first to the mind is stated first). Please, be attentive, this list includes politically-correct and acceptable expressions of politicians and “expressions that are not-voiced openly in the public”, but easily expressed in private conversations. We will not provide the sources of those expressions and the names of the people who voiced them – if you want you watch the thousands of videos with Ukrainian politicians in your own spare time. We provide you the samples of the expressions and declarations.

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