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Ukraine invasion showed that Russia really doesn’t need much in a way of excuse to start a war.

I don’t understand why people talk about “casus beli” as if life today was Europa Universalis game. When power want to start a war, they do.

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You can make up a "casus beli" in EU4.

Putin made up a "casus beli" before going into the special-operation. He made a speech how this territory belongs to the Russia empire.

So life is not really that different from EU4.

A couple of years of ukranians shelling the prorussian regions were a good enough reason.... considering that nato used the same one to bomb serbia in 1999.

Any evidence for genocides of pro-Russian populations in Donbas similar to Serbia's of Albanians?

What genocide? It was a fight against KLA, a group even americans marked as terrorists.

KLA was actually funded by the US

2021 only had 18 civilian deaths in that region, of which 11 were caused by mines. 79% of casualties were in separatist areas and 21% in Ukrainian controlled territory. That is a good enough reason to kill thousands and thousand, make millions of Ukrainian children flee their homes? Level entire cities?

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