You definitely started bombings and intervened on one of the sides.
They felt enough encouragement to act - and they had actual NATO instructors in their forces at the time of their invasion into South Ossetia. As well as NATO ships suddenly feeling urgent need to come into Black Sea after invasion failed.So the US State Secretary started a war by visiting?
When you encourage coups you exploit those years of corruption and problems; but things could easily stew for many more years without your encouragement.I'm sure that had nothing to do with the years of corruption and economic problems and violent assault on protesters.
If you turn up the heat on boiling pot then shut lid tight, are you responsible for explosion? Water was boiling already, after all, and steam was technically there all the time.
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Context is important. I talked about NGOs with foreign funding fighting against being registered as foreign agents, and you responded with "conspiracy theory" quip.
Okay, fine.Yes, it doesn't automatically make it Russian meddling.
It depends on the context and particulars.
And case of EU/US history taught us that we need to be suspicious of their claims too.And I'm not rejecting anyone's call for more transparency.
But in the case of Russia history has unfortunately taught us that we need to be suspicious.
It's probably a pretext to create a hostage situation for international blackmail.
Even their claims about "supporting democracy".