"exagerated"... indeed, there is absolutly no evidence of it.
prove it
ok, my point of view here. one year ago some gunmen who have looked like russian soldiers have appeared in crimea.
back then the kremlin has told "no this are not our guys, they are local self defense forces".
a few month later putin-man itself has admitted "of course this were our guys in crimea".
and then suddenly more gunmen have appeared in eastern ukraine and the kremlin has told "oh, this are local defense forces".
see, and at this point i do not need any evidence anymore. they have lied before and they will lie again (or they will prove me that i am wrong).
But I can show you tons of evidences of the presence of US troops in european countries ! Even our planes carrier "Charles DeGaulle" is under US command now (against Daesh). Who is the Empire here ? And who is under military occupation ?
I mean, we know that NATO troops are present in Ukraine, and also western mercenaries. Only western countries seem blind about that reality but the rest of the world knows that.
The USA play a game against Russia, and countries like Germany just don't want to pay the price of that game anymore.
You can lie to yourself or to some people on internet. But people in the Donbass (and Russia) knows who is attacking. And that's what is important. Not what I think or what you think of the situation.
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the thing is there is no black or white. there is only black. every country has some skeletons in the closet.
the usa try to keep their dominance and bully smaller countries.
france still exploits africa and germanyland sells its shit to everyone who can pay for it.
and russia, well russia bullies smaller contries, too.