The war crimes in Bucha convinced the Ukrainians to keep fighting.
Claiming it was Boris Johnson is just Russian propaganda to attempt the depict the Ukrainians as agency-less puppets. Certainly Russia never considered the Ukrainians could have any agency of their own, people having agency is strictly forbidden by the Tsar and the Soviet both.
The reality, though, is that you can't make people fight if they don't want to fight. Afghanistan should be proof enough of that. The reason Ukraine fights is because it wants to fight, and the reason it wants to fight is because the Russians are barbaric invaders who want to genocide them.
Yeah but no. The point of NATO is that it's the aggressor that makes it move.
Again, do you really think that Poland and Finland will just sit on their thumb if the EU is attacked? Just because Washington is all "who cares, I'm on the other side of the ocean so I don't feel like doing anything"?
There's absolutely no need for consensus. If a country decides that all it's going to do is send thoughts and prayers, this doesn't constrain the reactions of the others. You can easily find tons of NATO operations in recent history that did not have full consensus for them, e.g. NATO founding member Italy was opposed to the intervention in Libya.
Putin never respected Minsk, so that's nonsense. And the demands of Putin went far beyond that, he also wanted all the post 1989 members of NATO to be expelled from the alliance so that he could invade them safely. Total delusional madman. There was never going to be any way for peaceful coexistence with this power-mad dictator.
Nope, because Putin never respected Minsk and planned on never respecting Minsk and instead planning on invading Ukraine so that he would be better placed to invade Moldavia and the Baltics.
