Ukraine has continued to bomb the Dombas area since the 2014 agreement killing approximately 14.000 people. Russia had to do something to stop the slaughter of these people who id as Russians. Many Germany has learned a lesson now that America is not their friend and allies after blowing up their gas pipeline and then charging them 5 times more than the Russians for natural gas. BASF and many steel mills have closed in Germany because of the high cost of gas and thus power. When this breaks we will see Germany and France on the side of Russia in the world war that the USA is pushing for. Remember folks the last thing a dying empire does is take its people to war and the US is a dying empire like those before it. Even Saudi has said they will sell oil in other than US dollars, thus the start of the end of the petro dollar thus World reserve currency