Why do domestic netizens support Russia and seldom sympathize with Ukraine?

World peace is the eternal wish of people. No one wants to light the smoke, and no one wants someone to shed blood and sacrifice. However, netizens on Russian and Ukrainian campaign networks generally don't sympathize with Ukraine, but support Russia on the grounds that Ukraine is too overreaching to deserve sympathy.

The relationship between Ukraine and Russia is very special. The two Soviet powers are as close as brothers. Even after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the two countries separated like brothers and maintained friendly relations regardless of feelings.

But all this changed completely after the color revolution broke out in Ukraine at the end of 20 13. After the chaos, the pro-Russian Ukrainian government stepped down and was replaced by the pro-American opposition.

According to the survival experience of a small country sandwiched between two big countries or two powerful groups in the past, no matter who is in power in Ukraine at this time, no matter whether it is pro-American or pro-Russian, it should adopt a relatively neutral policy, at least not too obviously favoring one side to avoid offending the other. After all, neither side can afford to offend itself, but Ukraine does not.

In order to express its sincerity towards the US-led NATO, Ukraine took a radical pro-American and anti-Russian stance, became an all-round enemy with Russia in the diplomatic, economic and military fields, and began to exert pressure on pro-Russian areas such as the eastern part of the Russian-Ukrainian border, which led to fierce confrontation between Russia and Ukraine in order to preserve this last strategic buffer zone, and finally a fierce conflict broke out between the Ukrainian army and the militia in the eastern region.

The result of the conflict is surprising. The Ukrainian army was defeated and suffered heavy losses. The autonomous Republic of Crimea in the east left Ukraine and joined Russia. Subsequently, the two sides have been fighting in eastern Ukraine. Until now, the Ukrainian army has regained its vitality. With the support of the United States and other NATO countries, it has once again assembled its troops and rushed to the eastern region. This time, Russia and Ukraine once again confronted each other head-on, and it is still unknown who will live or die.

Putin hopes to rebuild European order with strength.

If the "Iron Curtain" built by Yalta system in Europe after World War II was from Szczecin in the Baltic Sea to Trest in the Adriatic Sea, then NATO's eastward expansion after the disintegration of the Soviet Union actually pushed the European Iron Curtain eastward, and now it has pushed it to the doorstep of Russia. Therefore, Putin can't bear it. Even if the iron curtain cannot be restored to its original position, it will inevitably tear a corner of the iron curtain.

Putin said: "In the long eight years, we tried our best to mediate the situation through peaceful political means, but to no avail. For the United States and its allies, this is the so-called policy of containing Russia and an indisputable geopolitical dividend. For our country, this is ultimately a matter of life and death. "

In Putin's view, peace is a priority to defend national interests, but strength is always a passport to the international political order. He chose Ukraine as a breakthrough to reshape the European order.

As early as 2008, Putin declared to George W. Bush, then president of the United States: "You must understand that George, Ukraine is not even a country." Putin's last two speeches wrote an "epitaph" for Ukraine. He believed that Ukraine was "a colony with a puppet regime". In Putin's view, only by completing the demilitarization of Ukraine can such Ukraine be qualified to sit down and talk to Russia.

The international order respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries. At the same time, the Ukrainian issue has a complex and special historical latitude and longitude. The European security mechanism should be "balanced, effective and sustainable". Putin tried to seize the opportunity to fight back and rewrite the invalid, unreasonable and unsustainable European order imposed on Russia by the United States and the West.