Goodness! There's so much propaganda in here many threads look like standard MSM outtakes-because they are! For me, a constant history reader it confirms since Man first stood up on 2 legs there's been nothing new in our sociohistory under the sun.
This area,the Crimea, the Ukraine and the wider Caucasus has an especially interesting history. The details aren't important-the wider story has played itself out endlessly ever since the Kurgans,a tribe of extremely aggressive Caucasoid Neanderthals the ancestors of todays Caucasus people,the Dagestanis,Chechens,Georgians,Armenians,Abkhazians,Azeris,Turkics (not Turks!) etc,etc and ofc the Khazars stumbled off the steppes 5000 yrs ago into today Caucasus region.
A mere glance at history shows the current war is simply the latest in a LOONNGGG series of conflicts,mass murders and genocides involving the Indigenes,local and foreign state actors,the most recent being the Armenian/Azeri war last year.
As far back as a 2 millennia the first genocide of the Originals,the Out-of-Africa migrants dating from 50 kya migrations by the invading Kurgans from the steppes happened.
Warning! Graphic! They took heads of the leaders of the Originals as trophies.
http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/Russia/Russian_history.htm
If you know where to look their descendants are still around.
Now they're almost totally assimilated.
Let me leave with this typical example of a denatured Originals.
Since then the Caucasus people have massacred each other so regularly peace is just an interlude between normal times! Apart from the better known Chechen and Nagorno Karabakh wars and Armenian clashes with Azeris the Caucasus hasn't enjoyed a continuous 5 yrs of peace since.....Hmmm,I don't know when!
These are just 2 wars. The first was a 50 yr campaign that killed a million +!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_War
This was actually a series of 12 campaigns lasting 300 years!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Russo-Turkish_wars
Rmbr how Georgia was manoeuvred into provoking Russia into war in 2008?
WTF does that!?
At least it left us this memorable meme of then Prez Shasvilli. Btw,he's besties with Zelensky,
Speaking of Georgia there's an ancient culture of blood feuds.
"A 2002 article published in The Guardian reports some anecdotal figures on blood feuds in Svaneti (30 July 2002). According to a local resident, there were at least 20 families feuding in Mestia, the main city of Svaneti; the Guardian reporter also heard about one blood feud in the village of Becho Marina that resulted in 22 deaths over 10 years (The Guardian 30 July 2002). These figures could not be corroborated among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
According to the photojournalist, in the late 1980s and early 1990s there were intensive blood feuds in Svaneti, but such murders have decreased significantly since 1990 (19 Jan. 2011). He expressed the opinion that it has become "quite rare" to kill somebody for blood-feud-related motives, even though tensions between clans and families continue (Photojournalist 19 Jan. 2011). The HRIDC Executive Director, who similarly indicated that blood-feud killings are less frequent, was aware of only a few cases occurring between 2000 and 2010 (21 Jan. 2011)."
https://www.refworld.org/docid/51dd0ef84.html
Its obvious there's smth in the air,water,DNA or socioculture of these people.
One should be careful making such statements but imo the evidence is undeniable. Ideally someone from the Caucasus should tell us. Anyone else is ofc free to make a comparative study of anywhere else on earth and tell us.
If I'm wrong I'll apologise.