Notes:

"Historically the Brits have frequently been cowtowed by threats and often back down to bullies and murderers"

~ Russian books probably

When the Ethiopian emperor Tewodros II kidnapped a bunch of our missionaries and two representatives of the British government to try and force us to join him in his war against the Ottomans and Egyptians, we launched an expedtion to Abyssinia which led to his death and the rescue of all of our people.

This is not the only time we've carried out punitive expeditions and with the DNR threatening to execute prisoners of war…

Well, they want to be a real country, don't they?

Russia certainly thinks so, and if the DNR wishes to continue with this act of war, I'm sure things will go just swimmingly for them.

After all, Russia cares about them and won't sacrifice them to avoid further galvanising the West against them, right?

Right?