UKRAINE EXTREMISM IDEOLOGY AND OTHER FACTORS THAT LEAD TO THE CURRENT CRISIS.
Australians have woken to the news in the past week of Russia moving into the eastern part of Ukraine with the narrative of blatant Russian aggression in a good guys bad guys narrative, with no reporting on how the situation reached such a crisis point. To answer this we have to go back to post cold war 1990 after the collapse of the Berlin wall in which the US gave undertakings to Russia that they would not expand NATO beyond east Germany close to Russia as we all now know they reneged on. Reference link: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shifrinson-russia-us-nato-deal--20160530-snap-story.htm l After this event Ukraine gained it independence from Russia in a deal between Kyiv (Kiev) in central Ukraine and Liviv in western Ukraine. This event was called Revolution on Granite. Leonid Kravchuk became the first president of an an independent Ukraine in 1991. Kravchuk who was born in Poland signed a decommissioning nuclear agreement with US pres...