"The fact is that not Putin and a couple of thousands of lumpens attacked Ukraine, but that the whole Russian people at some point decided that he was above the Ukrainian nation and that one could live by the principle" who is stronger, who is right ". That you have the full right overnight to despise the law, international norms and universal beliefs about good and evil, if you are Russian.

And this people spontaneously, with glee and gloating supported the annexation of the Crimea and the military invasion of eastern Ukraine.

And Putin and the lumpen from the gas stations are the executors of the will of the Russian people, his creations, flesh from the flesh. This does not add up to blame for Putin, just do not forget about the guilt of tens of millions of bearers of the imperial ideology of national supremacy and lovers of conquering wars from Moscow to Vladivostok. These dumb, submissive, ignorant, hidden and obviously aggressive crowds of great-power chauvinists are the real leaders of the tragedy that came to the Ukrainian land, "the journalist concluded..