your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>BTW<br>i'd love to hear the take from other historians: when did this conflict start. </p><p>i've read some folks trace it back to 2014 and Russia's invasion and illegal annexation of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a>. </p><p>yet, am kinda on the fence on that: that invasion came about after the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Euromadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Euromadian</span></a> protests that were an off-shoot of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArabSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArabSpring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Acampadas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Acampadas</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syntagma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syntagma</span></a> protests happening all over Europe and Northern Africa. </p><p>i's say the assassination of Gaddaffi may have started it all: <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/libya-russia-ukraine-putin/626571/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/international/</span><span class="invisible">archive/2022/03/libya-russia-ukraine-putin/626571/</span></a></p>