Putin's North Korean Soldiers

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I am pleased to see that unlike some others on this thread you are able to take a more nuanced view and appreciate the grey nature of this conflict and how both sides are at fault.  So many like to whitewash the Ukraine as nothing but the innocent victim and Russia as the idiotic bully when it is far far deeper than that. 
I just find it hilarious that any evidence of Ukrainian or god forbid Beloved NATO wrong doing is forgotten or ignored by many here.
I find it funny they would blow up Nordstream on their own .  It is all shades of Operation Gladio (hiring nationalists and fascists in Europe against the USSR in the 'good ol days' )

What I think I know is that The West and Ukraine are trying to hit Putin where it hurts, his wallet (economy). The poking the bear must be working.