We didn’t let them use it during the cold war because they “well-actually”'d their way through all of eastern europe
You know the USSR contained eastern europe that wasn’t controlled by the socialists in Yugoslavia right? They integrated them into their democracy after defeating the nazi collaborationist regimes and the Nazis. They subsidized their economies and those eastern European now nations voted overwhelmingly to stay in the soviet union in the last referendum on the issue.
EXACTLY LIKE THEY’RE TRYING TO DO NOW!!!
Seems to me they’re responding to a coup that the US were caught redhanded orchestrating or at least oppurtunistically using a protest to achieve. Nuland and Pyatt were talking about who to put in the government, Russia had them wiretapped and published it, and Nuland admitted it was real.
Not to mention the wave of violence, the banning of Russian language, etc in the lead up to the conflict.
So yes, I’m enjoying watching Russian kids bleed out on the battlefield very much, thank you, because everyone the Ukrainians leave feeding sunflowers is another one that isn’t threatening the Baltics or other peaceful countries.
You do realize you’re paying for that enjoyment with the blood of ukrainian conscripts right?