'I Hope The Russians Love Their Children Too'; STING...WE SHARE SAME THE SAME BIOLOGY, REGARDLESS OF IDEOLOGY, BUT WHAT WILL SAVE US IS IF THE RUSSIANS LOVE THEIR CHILDREN TOO...
'I Hope The Russians Love Their Children Too'; STING...WE SHARE SAME THE SAME BIOLOGY, REGARDLESS OF IDEOLOGY, BUT WHAT WILL SAVE US IS IF THE RUSSIANS LOVE THEIR CHILDREN TOO...
Paul, the Russians do love their children, and just as here, some people are for the conflict and some are against. Ukrainians have been supporting neo-Nazis for a long time--these are the grandchildren of pro-Hitler fighters from WW2, and though Zelensky is Jewish, he has made them part of his cabinet and put them in charge of terrorizing and shelling the hated ethnic Russians in Western Ukraine. The US has also been funding these neo-Nazis as well, which is another provocation to Putin. He has sat by and watched this happen for eight years, and watched as Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Amy Klobuchar posed for pictures withe the Ukrainian military, while they were raining missiles down on ethnic Russians begging him for help. I have friends from both Moldova and Poland, and believe me, no one in the area loves the Ukrainians, because Ukrainians HATE Slavs and have hated them for many decades. This is why they backed Hitler. The Ukrainians made a big stupid gamble in accepting meddling by the US, including the US getting rid of a pro-Russian president for them and installing someone else. They have gladly accepted gross corruption on the part of the US (Hunter Biden, Kerry and Pelosi's sons have all had their hands in the trough) and gone along with the US's plans to provoke Putin over and over, in exchange for the US's money. They also have allowed the US to install a dozen bio-weapons labs on their soil right in Putin's face. These are placed all over Ukraine, and you can be sure Putin will make sure none of them survive. This whole situation is the fault of the US, and it is being carried out now to distract from the creeping fascism that is taking place in our own country. While we are looking at Ukraine, the WHO is moving to consolidate its power over the medical decisions all the member nations. Western countries are moving ahead with vaccine passes and tech companies can't wait to get their hands in the till. Meanwhile our arms industry is making a bundle and propping up the failing stock market.
I read everything, I may not reply for time is a huge issue, stopped from driving, but I learn everyday and read this with earnest, I love when people are more informed on issues than I.
OMG. People are so gullible, and so eager to peddle BS!
This idea that the Ukrainian government is fascist/Nazi and Russia is seeking to liberate the Ukrainian people is Putin driven propaganda. Food for fools.
For goodness sake. Vladimir Putin, the closest the World has to a fascist dictator, is going to liberate Ukraine from fascism? He just needs to invade, destroy and conquer first. Then he will 'ensure' the Ukrainian people have 'self determination'? So long as they 'self determine' to support a pro-Putin government. Democracy and liberty in action!
This con is based on the fact that Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis in 1941 - WWII. How could this surprise any thinking person?
Ukraine had been living under Stalin's regime for 19 years. During that time over 10 million Ukrainians had perished, essentially being murdered by Stalin. Over 6 million from morty holodom - to kill (intentionally) by starvation - in 1932-33 alone. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians were dragged off to Gulags every year of Stalins rein, with as many being executed in situ.
If you understand this historical fact, it is not difficult to understand why Ukrainians may have been glad to see an army purporting to liberate them from the jaws of a brutal, murderous tyrannical regime. A regime that had wreaked misery on Ukrainians for almost two decades.
This nonsense that the Ukraine Government is fascist/Nazi is beyond belief. The fact that it comes from people 'defending' Vladimir Putin makes it so ridiculous that words can barely describe the level of stupidity.
Putin is going to 'denazify' Ukraine. What's next, Kim Jong-un is going to bring democracy to South Korea?
I agree with you 100%. With a myriad of professional and personal opinions, humility stands out as a way to be better humans. And it is so often left out of conversations such as these.
Ukrainians are not NAZIs or Nazi supporters. That is Russian disinformation used to dehumanize Ukrainians.
There neo-NAZIs and similar groups in every country in the World. Russia has neo-NAZIs , Germany has neo-NAZIs that doesn’t make Ukrainians or the Ukrainian leadership neo-NAZIs.
The CIA, George Soros and Obama have worked with neo-Nazi types world wide to subvert genuine populist protests and turn them in to their ‘color revolutions’ to overthrow governments. They’ve done it throughout the Middle East, Eastern Europe and in the US (subversives, ANTIFA, BLM) to install their destructive Marxist puppets.
Ukraine is a weak nation that is a buffer nation. They are very pro western and want to be part of the west but the West has been playing them like a fiddle. Ukraine has feared the Russians invading for years and the West has just used them in the most despicable way. The West has also abused Russia without doubt. But Putin is all for the World Economic Forum’s 24/7 technocratic surveillance state centrally planned global economy as are most of the world leaders on the left.
There is a political party in Ukraine that is Nazi. Two members of that party are in Zelensky's cabinet. There is also a Nazi battalion in their military called the Azov Battalion. There are public statues of Nazi generals on the streets of Ukraine, and public holidays commemorating Nazi victories in WW2. Yes, every country has neo-Nazis, but we don't make them part of our governments and allow them to form military battalions. Your comment is a straw man argument, since I never said all of Ukraine was Nazi--obviously there would not be two prominent Jewish people in the government if it were.
Nope. Antifa and BLM are left-wing movements. Nazism is a far-right fascistic movement. That is why Putin, the former left-wing communist, is targeting them.
Linda. There is no way that I could so eloquently say exactly how I feel as you did in your post. Stepping away from the hysteria you have hit the nail on the head.
Another troll? I am not surprised. As soon as any Ukraine-Russia topic is surfacing, you are here like vultures, promulgating blatant Russian lies about Ukraine Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of.
Andreas, instead of name-calling, why don't you explain what facts I got wrong? I noticed you have not done that in any of your posts here. We will be waiting for your corrections. I can post sources for all of my claims.
No point in this crowd. You guys just parrot Putin's propaganda, while he wages a biggest war of aggression in Europe since Russia and Germany together launched the Second World War. Millions will die, but you are cheering on. These are the facts.
The name calling was started by her. "these neo-Nazis", "because Ukrainians HATE Slavs and have hated them for many decades. This is why they backed Hitler", "Ukrainians made a big stupid gamble", etc. This kind of "arguments" is fine by you? And then, God forbid, going ad hominem?
Unfortunately, that is a closed FB group and it won't let me access to enjoy. Perhaps this Glenn Greenwald observation on the situation and context will be of some value to other readers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bzpo2fPTw
There is another side to the Ukraine conflict. Consider reading this interview with a real reporter Vanessa Beeley:
Ukraine, Russia and the repercussions for Syria
The following are Beeley's notes for her interview on Syria TV with journalist, Elissar Moualla:
Are you concerned about international tensions. Do you see more political and security hardships ahead? Are you concerned about Europe?
International tensions have been a way of life for decades, of course with their origins in US, UK, Israeli allied agenda to secure global hegemony and to maintain a Unipolar world without economic trade or military competition. Europe should be concerned about Europe - Germany for example has de facto been occupied militarily by the US and UK since the end of WW2. The US alone still has an estimated 40 bases on German territory. Europe needs the Nordstream gas from Russia and other resources from the Ukraine like coal. It is worth noting that the largest coal deposits are in the Donbas region. Effectively when it comes to Russia and a multipolar world Europe is instinctively heading East as is Syria and this is what the US fears above all else. The NATO occupation of Ukraine since 2014 when Obama introduced the neo-Nazi regime is to prevent the collaboration of Russia with the EU. It is also worth pointing out that the US enabled the escape of Ukrainian Nazis at the end of WW2 with this aim in mind - to use them against Russia in the future.
SInce occupying Ukraine in 2014, the NATO backed regime has been carrying out a genocide against the Russian speaking people of Donbass, killing an estimated 10,000 since the Odessa massacre engineered by the US alliance, just as they had done in 2011 in Syria.
NATO has reneged on the Minsk agreements which protected Russia against NATO expansion eastwards and NATO has refused to honour this agreement and to provide Russia with the necessary reassurances to avoid conflict. Russia has now responded and the world is in shock. Will this increase international tensions or reduce them? Only time will tell. I somehow doubt that NATO will come into direct confrontation with Russia, preferring to use their proxy forces they installed in Ukraine which include ISIS fighters drafted in from Syria. NATO has however been providing direct military aid and technology to the Ukrainians including the possibility of nuclear expertise and even potential bioweapon laboratories that are collaborating with the US Ministry of Defence.
Where are these countries heading politically speaking. How do you read what is happening and NATO?
I think that for some time some members of the EU have been trying to break away from NATO and to become more autonomous - this crisis in Ukraine is being used to seal NATO supremacy and to also prevent any EU break-away from the group.
NATO member states Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have triggered NATO Article 4 to launch consultations within the alliance over Russia's attack on Ukraine. According to the NATO website, consultation under Article 4 can lead to collective action among the 30 member states. It has been invoked 6 times since the NATO alliance formed in 1949.
What we are seeing, I believe is a global power shift towards Russia and China which are in ascendancy while the US and UK empires are really dying. This is demonstrated by Russia taking such decisive action at this stage.
How would you describe the western media handling of the current events?
They do what they are paid to do which is to manufacture consent for war and to criminalise any nation or leader that challenges US Coalition hegemony. The western media is nothing more than an extension of national security and intelligence agencies, there is no such thing as “free” press in the West. Of course they are obfuscating the complex reasons for the Russian recognition of the Peoples Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. As they disappeared the Syrian victims of the US terrorist war waged against the Syria since 2011, they are also erasing the victims of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime.
In your opinion how is the region influenced by the events, especially for us living in Syria?
The first sign of how the region will be influenced is that Israel has attacked Syria three times in one week and the most recent attack last night which resulted in the death of three Syrian Arab Army soldiers and coincided with the start of Russian aggression against NATO aligned elements in Ukraine. Ukraine is a crucial element of the Israeli tech industry, as many tech companies in Israel outsource their work to the Eastern European nation. But beyond that the collaboration between Ukrainian and Israeli military and intelligence agencies is well documented. Israel was instrumental in the regime change operations of 2014 even commanding Ukrainian militants and taking part in rallies. Israeli money sponsored the regime change. Israel has significant political influence in Ukraine. “Ukraine is a den of Russophobic Israelis” whose purpose is to limit Russia’s sphere of influence.
Ukraine has been used as a blackmail by the US to pressure Russia in Syria and to a lesser extent in Yemen. Now that bargaining chip is lost - this may lead to greater belligerence on the part of Russia and the Resistance axis towards the US occupation and sponsorship of terrorism inside Syria.
President Assad has talked about the building of economic partnerships with Donetsk and Lugansk - this must take into account the rich mineral, oil and coal deposits in the Donbass region and in Ukraine as a whole.
Russia is expanding their military hardware and presence in Syria (bringing landing ships to Tartous ready to despatch to the Black Sea) so while the US was very probably trying to force Russia to leave Syria to protect the Russian speaking Ukrainians the plan has backfired and Russia’s answer was to increase their military footprint in Syria and for the Minister of Defence, Shoigu to hold a meeting with President Assad on mutual cooperation followed by the visit of Faisal Miqdad to Moscow on the day that Putin took the decision to recognise the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk
Syria is the centre of three wars - Russia/Ukraine, China and US and Iran/Hezbollah and Israel.
The economic sanctions is the style and slogan of the West, how do you view this procedure? How does this procedure affect the targeted countries?
US sanctions began against Syria in 1979, increased in 2004 based on Syria being an extraordinary threat ie supporting enemies of US and Israel - Iran, Hezbollah, Palestinian resistance designated “terrorists” in the US/UK allied playbook. Sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction designed to unilaterally punish the population of a sovereign nation that is denying the US Coalition its agenda in the target region. They are never confined to individuals or named institutions but are always used against the people of a country to coerce them to accept and comply with US foreign policy. In reality by necessity sanctions actually strengthen perceived enemy nations such as Iran and Russia.
The act of withholding means of sustaining life to innocent civilians in order to coerce an entire nation into submission to foreign agendas in the region must surely qualify as economic terrorism. The destruction of essential civilian infrastructure is a war crime, the withholding of essential resources or occupation of those resources is also a war crime. One could argue that the US Coalition is responsible for genocide in Syria under Genocide Convention article II (e) - deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.
This brings me to the use of the word “genocide’ in Russian discourse, even from President Putin - this represents a huge threat to the West because they know Russia is capable of carrying through at the highest level - prosecution of countries involved in genocide which could include the US/UK-led alliance in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia etc
Britain and USA are at the peak of fear and hostility towards Russia, do you understand these concerns?
Declining influence and supremacy. The birth of the Resistance axis very much facilitated by the war against Syria which has given a foothold to Russia, Iran and even China in the region - the very thing that the US and UK were so keen to prevent. Russiaphobia has been the driving force behind more than 75 years of CIA and MI6 intervention in Syria including prior engineered “uprisings” most notably in the late 70s/early 80s. As Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria has said UK foreign policy towards Syria is now nothing more than a vindictive one embittered by the strength of the Russo/Syrian alliance and formerly the Soviet Syrian alliance. Russia is defending global security and international law which the UK and US are systemically violating. Russia is recognised as an honest broker on the international stage while the US and UK are increasingly seen as ignorant, thuggish and dishonest.
Explaining the reasons and consequences of Russia attacking military centers in Ukraine.
Destroying NATO military capability . Precision strikes. The consequences are the demoralisation of Ukrainian armed forces, many are reported to have surrendered and Russia is offering Amnesty if they lay down their weapons.
I have followed Vanessa Beeley and Eva Karene Bartlett on the Ukraine and Syria issues for years. They are reliable reporters, who go on the scene and talk to the people. They are not repeaters like our mainstream media 'reporters' who continually promote the narratives of their owners and sponsors. Mr. Oehler, commenting to this post, is entrenched in the official narrative, whether naively or malevolently. For some excellent analysis of the Ukraine (and many other situations) have a look at TheGrayZone, or the Duran, or even the comedian Jimmy Dore. Here is an example of the Duran's analysis from today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APcb-Yyy7Aw
And first, watch this lecture from 2015, by Professor John Mearsheimer of U of Chicago. It gives history and context that everyone should be aware of before they start opining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
I wasted my time watching the youtube video by Professor John Mearsheimer of U of Chicago that you provided. Nauseating stuff by one of the Russian stooges in the Western academia. "The coup of Feb. 22. 2014"? Significant fascist element on the Maidan, the killings (by whom)? Definitely a Russian stooge, this John. Loves Putin through thick and thin. A West Point Academy graduate. He's a traitor to his country. "When I am in China, I am much more at home than in Washington, DC. Also in Moscow." You believe this guy and his ilk - you become the useful idiot yourself.
Apparently you know nothing about the US project to oust Yanukovich. The presentations by Asst Sec of State Victoria Nuland about spending $5Billion to 'promote democracy' in Ukraine, and the tape of her conversation with US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt discussing installing Yatseniuk well ahead of the 22Feb/14 coup, and the conversation between the Estonian foreign minister, who was in the hotel overlooking the Maidan square the night of the coup, and EU Foreign Secretary Catherine Ashton, reporting gunfire from the hotel into the assembled crowd, and the presence of nongovernment forces in the hotel. After the murderous rampage of ultrarightists in Odessa, population in eastern Ukraine realized the implications for their future and rebelled. Despite the Minsk agreement, intended to quell the subsequent conflict, the Ukrainian side continued to attack the 'rebels', inflicting approximately 90% of all the conflict related deaths in the Donbass region.
Now try to use your ad hominem attack against Jimmy Dore.
You believe anything you read from some sources, I gather. These being all Russian propaganda baseless conjectures. Maybe you really are this gullible. What is in it for you, that is what I'd like to know. What makes you tick to that tune? Go on, spill the beans, take the load off your chest.
OMG! You triggered me when you noted the Israeli Agenda.
Actually, there is so much incompetence that it takes too long and makes one's brain hurt to even process all of it. I guess that is the benefit of a PhD, you get to spend time sitting thinking things through.
My experience is in chemistry and medicine, but I have read news and watched reports for decades. The intentional lying and disinformation in things I have experienced and can assess is astonishing.
I recently read "The Silk Roads" by Peter Frankopan (2015) which recast an appreciation of history from a western to an Asian point of view. Brief opinion- Eurocentrics (and especially Americans) don't get it. With details of the failures,British and American, not up to date with the departure from Afghanistan.
I tried using Al Jazeera for a source, sadly it looks fairly mainstream in prejudice. Israel has been a problem for 3000 years at least, or maybe 5000, depending on how you calculate your Old Testament dates. I thought in Sunday School that when David did the job on Goliath that the deal was done. Evidently not, and Canada still has issues from 1759 at Quebec City. So, these European and Asian issues have continued for millennia. Has anyone written a PhD dissertation on resentment as a motivating force?
I am unreconstructed and not ready for the "New World Order." I am also not hoping to be charred to a nuclear crisp, a background left over from the 1950's, but I really don't want our children to experience any more of "1984" than they already have, or to partake of "The Handmaid's Tale."
There is so much valuable information and insight on Substack that it would take a multiple (and I have no idea if the number is 10 or 1000) of anyone's available time to assess all of it and integrate the consistent truths. Thank you for your contribution.
"The consequences are the demoralisation of Ukrainian armed forces, many are reported to have surrendered and Russia is offering Amnesty if they lay down their weapons." Amnesty for defending their country? Do you read yourself?
These are well-established categories, not name calling. "Ukraine since 2014 when Obama introduced the neo-Nazi regime is to prevent the collaboration of Russia"??? Do you know that a Ukrainian PM was a Jew, right till another Jew has been elected by a landslide President of Ukraine, Vlad Zelensky? Does it get any more neo-Nazi than that? Stop writing nonsense.
These "experts" always bring up "far right, pro-Nazi forces". What are these mythical forces, other than the figment of Russian Goebbels propaganda? Rhetorical.
Aaron Maté is a Canadian journalist and a reporter for The Grayzone. He is a former producer of Democracy Now! and a contributor to The Nation and RealClearPolitics. To further your knowledge, "The Grayzone is a left-wing to far-left news website and blog founded and edited by American journalist Max Blumenthal." So here goes your expert's political affiliation. If you trust this guy, I have an investment idea for you that will make you incredibly rich in less than one week.
That’s just it - we pushed them to disarm in 1994. Turned down brining Putin I’m in 1999. Watched as Georgia got crushed a year after Merkle wanted them and Ukraine to join NATO. Biden have nothing but false hope. The west sold us out to idiotic, nonsensical, woke energy policy. Trump said no. Biden said yes. He’s weak. Thousands of strong people will die for his weakness. This never should have happened. These people need to get the hell out of western governments and stop causing people to die.
Dear Dr. Alexander. Do not wade into Eastern Europe's politics. Any person from the West is so ignorant and misinformed about the Realpolitik over there, it is laughable, if not tragic.
Ukrainians are a nation with its own voice and interests. Russian interests have been, since 1656, to vanquish Ukraine and Ukrainians as a nation and absorb its people in the Russian sea of post-Mongolian mix of nations on the territory called Russia, for now. There is no middle ground in this existential conflict. Russia wants Ukrainians to give up their culture, their language, and their nationhood, or die. There is nothing less that Russia would be willing to settle on. So, this leaves no other options for Ukrainians than to fight to death. As the death is not the worst that can happen.
Dr. Paul...Things are not as the seem in the Ukraine...
You need to watch the hundreds of LIVE 24/7 WEBCAMS all around Kyiv...
There is no fighting going on as portrayed by even the conservative media...IT IS ALL FAKE NEWS...!
People are going about their daily lives...It is rumored Russia is sending clothing and food to the areas that are inadvertently affected by cleaning out the bio-weapons labs built by Americans...
Putin also wants to capture the neo-Nazis who are continually beating and robbing the Russia Jews in Ukraine...
You will see in the live webcams there is none of the carnage depicted on TV...It's mostly fake...
Already, various governments have sent billions of dollars to the corrupt Ukraine government based on what the media is pushing down our throats...It's fakery...! Watch the video cameras
REBEKAH KOFFLER is a Russian-born former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer and intelligence expert on Russian affairs. Working with the DIA and CIA’s National Clandestine Service, she has led “red” teams during wargames and briefed the Pentagon, the White House, and NATO on Russian Doctrine & Strategy.
She says Putin has been planning this for twenty years. However, he IS feeling squeezed and threatened by the US and others trying to control the region. It’s complicated. She has been aggressively censored for warning about it. (Which is usually a “tell”; she might be on to something.)
Hitler took advantage of economic hardship to unite his country against a domestic boogeyman of his own creation, in order to restore Germany to his own warped version of “its former greatness”. Hitler did all the squeezing until he was stopped by Allied Forces.
Check viralimmunologist (Dr. Byram Bridle) on Substack. If you don't understand that Covid is politics, please keep reading. Dr. Pierre Kory also has a useful blog. Then you have to decide if chemistry or statistics is more interesting and look at the appropriate sites.
You can have a very clean mind (ie brainwashed) if you read or watch too much MSM.
You're nailing it pretty well... Trump might want to tone down his rhetoric and drop some truth bombs--that is how he became successful. I have not heard him call vax'g children criminal; like many others, I have lost much respect for the boosted Trump...
He is old and fat, and may have useful antibodies from the end of 2020, unless the rapid early treatment he had (not for the peasant classes) impaired his immunity development.
Keep in mind that the catastrophic outcomes from the injections are still pretty low so far, on an individual basis, until you start compiling them over, as McDonald's would have it, "Billions and Billions Served."
Paul, the Russians do love their children, and just as here, some people are for the conflict and some are against. Ukrainians have been supporting neo-Nazis for a long time--these are the grandchildren of pro-Hitler fighters from WW2, and though Zelensky is Jewish, he has made them part of his cabinet and put them in charge of terrorizing and shelling the hated ethnic Russians in Western Ukraine. The US has also been funding these neo-Nazis as well, which is another provocation to Putin. He has sat by and watched this happen for eight years, and watched as Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Amy Klobuchar posed for pictures withe the Ukrainian military, while they were raining missiles down on ethnic Russians begging him for help. I have friends from both Moldova and Poland, and believe me, no one in the area loves the Ukrainians, because Ukrainians HATE Slavs and have hated them for many decades. This is why they backed Hitler. The Ukrainians made a big stupid gamble in accepting meddling by the US, including the US getting rid of a pro-Russian president for them and installing someone else. They have gladly accepted gross corruption on the part of the US (Hunter Biden, Kerry and Pelosi's sons have all had their hands in the trough) and gone along with the US's plans to provoke Putin over and over, in exchange for the US's money. They also have allowed the US to install a dozen bio-weapons labs on their soil right in Putin's face. These are placed all over Ukraine, and you can be sure Putin will make sure none of them survive. This whole situation is the fault of the US, and it is being carried out now to distract from the creeping fascism that is taking place in our own country. While we are looking at Ukraine, the WHO is moving to consolidate its power over the medical decisions all the member nations. Western countries are moving ahead with vaccine passes and tech companies can't wait to get their hands in the till. Meanwhile our arms industry is making a bundle and propping up the failing stock market.
I read everything, I may not reply for time is a huge issue, stopped from driving, but I learn everyday and read this with earnest, I love when people are more informed on issues than I.
OMG. People are so gullible, and so eager to peddle BS!
This idea that the Ukrainian government is fascist/Nazi and Russia is seeking to liberate the Ukrainian people is Putin driven propaganda. Food for fools.
For goodness sake. Vladimir Putin, the closest the World has to a fascist dictator, is going to liberate Ukraine from fascism? He just needs to invade, destroy and conquer first. Then he will 'ensure' the Ukrainian people have 'self determination'? So long as they 'self determine' to support a pro-Putin government. Democracy and liberty in action!
This con is based on the fact that Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis in 1941 - WWII. How could this surprise any thinking person?
Ukraine had been living under Stalin's regime for 19 years. During that time over 10 million Ukrainians had perished, essentially being murdered by Stalin. Over 6 million from morty holodom - to kill (intentionally) by starvation - in 1932-33 alone. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians were dragged off to Gulags every year of Stalins rein, with as many being executed in situ.
If you understand this historical fact, it is not difficult to understand why Ukrainians may have been glad to see an army purporting to liberate them from the jaws of a brutal, murderous tyrannical regime. A regime that had wreaked misery on Ukrainians for almost two decades.
This nonsense that the Ukraine Government is fascist/Nazi is beyond belief. The fact that it comes from people 'defending' Vladimir Putin makes it so ridiculous that words can barely describe the level of stupidity.
Putin is going to 'denazify' Ukraine. What's next, Kim Jong-un is going to bring democracy to South Korea?
I agree with you 100%. With a myriad of professional and personal opinions, humility stands out as a way to be better humans. And it is so often left out of conversations such as these.
Ukrainians are not NAZIs or Nazi supporters. That is Russian disinformation used to dehumanize Ukrainians.
There neo-NAZIs and similar groups in every country in the World. Russia has neo-NAZIs , Germany has neo-NAZIs that doesn’t make Ukrainians or the Ukrainian leadership neo-NAZIs.
The CIA, George Soros and Obama have worked with neo-Nazi types world wide to subvert genuine populist protests and turn them in to their ‘color revolutions’ to overthrow governments. They’ve done it throughout the Middle East, Eastern Europe and in the US (subversives, ANTIFA, BLM) to install their destructive Marxist puppets.
Ukraine is a weak nation that is a buffer nation. They are very pro western and want to be part of the west but the West has been playing them like a fiddle. Ukraine has feared the Russians invading for years and the West has just used them in the most despicable way. The West has also abused Russia without doubt. But Putin is all for the World Economic Forum’s 24/7 technocratic surveillance state centrally planned global economy as are most of the world leaders on the left.
https://powerglobal.us/2022/02/26/ukraines-deadly-gamble/
There is a political party in Ukraine that is Nazi. Two members of that party are in Zelensky's cabinet. There is also a Nazi battalion in their military called the Azov Battalion. There are public statues of Nazi generals on the streets of Ukraine, and public holidays commemorating Nazi victories in WW2. Yes, every country has neo-Nazis, but we don't make them part of our governments and allow them to form military battalions. Your comment is a straw man argument, since I never said all of Ukraine was Nazi--obviously there would not be two prominent Jewish people in the government if it were.
Right on Linda...You know your history...Some of us attended very good schools and had excellent teachers some of then were veterans of WWII...
Then of course we watched what happen with Obama and Biden in 2012 -2014
You never forget how Americans were lied to with straight faces...!
You know those NAZIs were recruited and trained by the CIA. The same CIA that worked relentlessly to overthrow and frame Trump.
Correct...!
Yep.
Just replace NAZI with ANTIFA or BLM and you’ll see that the US is overrun with “NAZIs” in its government.
Nope. Antifa and BLM are left-wing movements. Nazism is a far-right fascistic movement. That is why Putin, the former left-wing communist, is targeting them.
Pawsative...You've got some true information, but fellow your are VERY wrong on quite a few things...
Linda. There is no way that I could so eloquently say exactly how I feel as you did in your post. Stepping away from the hysteria you have hit the nail on the head.
Another troll? I am not surprised. As soon as any Ukraine-Russia topic is surfacing, you are here like vultures, promulgating blatant Russian lies about Ukraine Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of.
Andreas, instead of name-calling, why don't you explain what facts I got wrong? I noticed you have not done that in any of your posts here. We will be waiting for your corrections. I can post sources for all of my claims.
No point in this crowd. You guys just parrot Putin's propaganda, while he wages a biggest war of aggression in Europe since Russia and Germany together launched the Second World War. Millions will die, but you are cheering on. These are the facts.
There is nothing to engage with, just scorn.
The name calling was started by her. "these neo-Nazis", "because Ukrainians HATE Slavs and have hated them for many decades. This is why they backed Hitler", "Ukrainians made a big stupid gamble", etc. This kind of "arguments" is fine by you? And then, God forbid, going ad hominem?
https://t.me/dsszzi_official/1140
If you can understand, enjoy!
Unfortunately, that is a closed FB group and it won't let me access to enjoy. Perhaps this Glenn Greenwald observation on the situation and context will be of some value to other readers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bzpo2fPTw
https://t.me/dsszzi_official/1140
Facebook has just closed it, but I have found same video on Telegram. Enjoy.
This is so horrifying..
I just watched and obviously cannot understand what is being said.. I am so sorry.. and so inept at expressing..
I also watched this one of Ukraine shelling schools.. it also is graphic
https://youtu.be/OIW-IacnviQ
Thank you, I will have a look when I get back from my morning X/C ski.
There is another side to the Ukraine conflict. Consider reading this interview with a real reporter Vanessa Beeley:
Ukraine, Russia and the repercussions for Syria
The following are Beeley's notes for her interview on Syria TV with journalist, Elissar Moualla:
Are you concerned about international tensions. Do you see more political and security hardships ahead? Are you concerned about Europe?
International tensions have been a way of life for decades, of course with their origins in US, UK, Israeli allied agenda to secure global hegemony and to maintain a Unipolar world without economic trade or military competition. Europe should be concerned about Europe - Germany for example has de facto been occupied militarily by the US and UK since the end of WW2. The US alone still has an estimated 40 bases on German territory. Europe needs the Nordstream gas from Russia and other resources from the Ukraine like coal. It is worth noting that the largest coal deposits are in the Donbas region. Effectively when it comes to Russia and a multipolar world Europe is instinctively heading East as is Syria and this is what the US fears above all else. The NATO occupation of Ukraine since 2014 when Obama introduced the neo-Nazi regime is to prevent the collaboration of Russia with the EU. It is also worth pointing out that the US enabled the escape of Ukrainian Nazis at the end of WW2 with this aim in mind - to use them against Russia in the future.
SInce occupying Ukraine in 2014, the NATO backed regime has been carrying out a genocide against the Russian speaking people of Donbass, killing an estimated 10,000 since the Odessa massacre engineered by the US alliance, just as they had done in 2011 in Syria.
NATO has reneged on the Minsk agreements which protected Russia against NATO expansion eastwards and NATO has refused to honour this agreement and to provide Russia with the necessary reassurances to avoid conflict. Russia has now responded and the world is in shock. Will this increase international tensions or reduce them? Only time will tell. I somehow doubt that NATO will come into direct confrontation with Russia, preferring to use their proxy forces they installed in Ukraine which include ISIS fighters drafted in from Syria. NATO has however been providing direct military aid and technology to the Ukrainians including the possibility of nuclear expertise and even potential bioweapon laboratories that are collaborating with the US Ministry of Defence.
Where are these countries heading politically speaking. How do you read what is happening and NATO?
I think that for some time some members of the EU have been trying to break away from NATO and to become more autonomous - this crisis in Ukraine is being used to seal NATO supremacy and to also prevent any EU break-away from the group.
NATO member states Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have triggered NATO Article 4 to launch consultations within the alliance over Russia's attack on Ukraine. According to the NATO website, consultation under Article 4 can lead to collective action among the 30 member states. It has been invoked 6 times since the NATO alliance formed in 1949.
What we are seeing, I believe is a global power shift towards Russia and China which are in ascendancy while the US and UK empires are really dying. This is demonstrated by Russia taking such decisive action at this stage.
How would you describe the western media handling of the current events?
They do what they are paid to do which is to manufacture consent for war and to criminalise any nation or leader that challenges US Coalition hegemony. The western media is nothing more than an extension of national security and intelligence agencies, there is no such thing as “free” press in the West. Of course they are obfuscating the complex reasons for the Russian recognition of the Peoples Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. As they disappeared the Syrian victims of the US terrorist war waged against the Syria since 2011, they are also erasing the victims of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime.
In your opinion how is the region influenced by the events, especially for us living in Syria?
The first sign of how the region will be influenced is that Israel has attacked Syria three times in one week and the most recent attack last night which resulted in the death of three Syrian Arab Army soldiers and coincided with the start of Russian aggression against NATO aligned elements in Ukraine. Ukraine is a crucial element of the Israeli tech industry, as many tech companies in Israel outsource their work to the Eastern European nation. But beyond that the collaboration between Ukrainian and Israeli military and intelligence agencies is well documented. Israel was instrumental in the regime change operations of 2014 even commanding Ukrainian militants and taking part in rallies. Israeli money sponsored the regime change. Israel has significant political influence in Ukraine. “Ukraine is a den of Russophobic Israelis” whose purpose is to limit Russia’s sphere of influence.
Ukraine has been used as a blackmail by the US to pressure Russia in Syria and to a lesser extent in Yemen. Now that bargaining chip is lost - this may lead to greater belligerence on the part of Russia and the Resistance axis towards the US occupation and sponsorship of terrorism inside Syria.
President Assad has talked about the building of economic partnerships with Donetsk and Lugansk - this must take into account the rich mineral, oil and coal deposits in the Donbass region and in Ukraine as a whole.
Russia is expanding their military hardware and presence in Syria (bringing landing ships to Tartous ready to despatch to the Black Sea) so while the US was very probably trying to force Russia to leave Syria to protect the Russian speaking Ukrainians the plan has backfired and Russia’s answer was to increase their military footprint in Syria and for the Minister of Defence, Shoigu to hold a meeting with President Assad on mutual cooperation followed by the visit of Faisal Miqdad to Moscow on the day that Putin took the decision to recognise the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk
Syria is the centre of three wars - Russia/Ukraine, China and US and Iran/Hezbollah and Israel.
The economic sanctions is the style and slogan of the West, how do you view this procedure? How does this procedure affect the targeted countries?
US sanctions began against Syria in 1979, increased in 2004 based on Syria being an extraordinary threat ie supporting enemies of US and Israel - Iran, Hezbollah, Palestinian resistance designated “terrorists” in the US/UK allied playbook. Sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction designed to unilaterally punish the population of a sovereign nation that is denying the US Coalition its agenda in the target region. They are never confined to individuals or named institutions but are always used against the people of a country to coerce them to accept and comply with US foreign policy. In reality by necessity sanctions actually strengthen perceived enemy nations such as Iran and Russia.
The act of withholding means of sustaining life to innocent civilians in order to coerce an entire nation into submission to foreign agendas in the region must surely qualify as economic terrorism. The destruction of essential civilian infrastructure is a war crime, the withholding of essential resources or occupation of those resources is also a war crime. One could argue that the US Coalition is responsible for genocide in Syria under Genocide Convention article II (e) - deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.
This brings me to the use of the word “genocide’ in Russian discourse, even from President Putin - this represents a huge threat to the West because they know Russia is capable of carrying through at the highest level - prosecution of countries involved in genocide which could include the US/UK-led alliance in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia etc
Britain and USA are at the peak of fear and hostility towards Russia, do you understand these concerns?
Declining influence and supremacy. The birth of the Resistance axis very much facilitated by the war against Syria which has given a foothold to Russia, Iran and even China in the region - the very thing that the US and UK were so keen to prevent. Russiaphobia has been the driving force behind more than 75 years of CIA and MI6 intervention in Syria including prior engineered “uprisings” most notably in the late 70s/early 80s. As Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria has said UK foreign policy towards Syria is now nothing more than a vindictive one embittered by the strength of the Russo/Syrian alliance and formerly the Soviet Syrian alliance. Russia is defending global security and international law which the UK and US are systemically violating. Russia is recognised as an honest broker on the international stage while the US and UK are increasingly seen as ignorant, thuggish and dishonest.
Explaining the reasons and consequences of Russia attacking military centers in Ukraine.
Destroying NATO military capability . Precision strikes. The consequences are the demoralisation of Ukrainian armed forces, many are reported to have surrendered and Russia is offering Amnesty if they lay down their weapons.
I have followed Vanessa Beeley and Eva Karene Bartlett on the Ukraine and Syria issues for years. They are reliable reporters, who go on the scene and talk to the people. They are not repeaters like our mainstream media 'reporters' who continually promote the narratives of their owners and sponsors. Mr. Oehler, commenting to this post, is entrenched in the official narrative, whether naively or malevolently. For some excellent analysis of the Ukraine (and many other situations) have a look at TheGrayZone, or the Duran, or even the comedian Jimmy Dore. Here is an example of the Duran's analysis from today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APcb-Yyy7Aw
And first, watch this lecture from 2015, by Professor John Mearsheimer of U of Chicago. It gives history and context that everyone should be aware of before they start opining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
I wasted my time watching the youtube video by Professor John Mearsheimer of U of Chicago that you provided. Nauseating stuff by one of the Russian stooges in the Western academia. "The coup of Feb. 22. 2014"? Significant fascist element on the Maidan, the killings (by whom)? Definitely a Russian stooge, this John. Loves Putin through thick and thin. A West Point Academy graduate. He's a traitor to his country. "When I am in China, I am much more at home than in Washington, DC. Also in Moscow." You believe this guy and his ilk - you become the useful idiot yourself.
Apparently you know nothing about the US project to oust Yanukovich. The presentations by Asst Sec of State Victoria Nuland about spending $5Billion to 'promote democracy' in Ukraine, and the tape of her conversation with US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt discussing installing Yatseniuk well ahead of the 22Feb/14 coup, and the conversation between the Estonian foreign minister, who was in the hotel overlooking the Maidan square the night of the coup, and EU Foreign Secretary Catherine Ashton, reporting gunfire from the hotel into the assembled crowd, and the presence of nongovernment forces in the hotel. After the murderous rampage of ultrarightists in Odessa, population in eastern Ukraine realized the implications for their future and rebelled. Despite the Minsk agreement, intended to quell the subsequent conflict, the Ukrainian side continued to attack the 'rebels', inflicting approximately 90% of all the conflict related deaths in the Donbass region.
Now try to use your ad hominem attack against Jimmy Dore.
You believe anything you read from some sources, I gather. These being all Russian propaganda baseless conjectures. Maybe you really are this gullible. What is in it for you, that is what I'd like to know. What makes you tick to that tune? Go on, spill the beans, take the load off your chest.
https://t.me/dsszzi_official/1140
Just now near Kyiv, bro!
OMG! You triggered me when you noted the Israeli Agenda.
Actually, there is so much incompetence that it takes too long and makes one's brain hurt to even process all of it. I guess that is the benefit of a PhD, you get to spend time sitting thinking things through.
My experience is in chemistry and medicine, but I have read news and watched reports for decades. The intentional lying and disinformation in things I have experienced and can assess is astonishing.
I recently read "The Silk Roads" by Peter Frankopan (2015) which recast an appreciation of history from a western to an Asian point of view. Brief opinion- Eurocentrics (and especially Americans) don't get it. With details of the failures,British and American, not up to date with the departure from Afghanistan.
I tried using Al Jazeera for a source, sadly it looks fairly mainstream in prejudice. Israel has been a problem for 3000 years at least, or maybe 5000, depending on how you calculate your Old Testament dates. I thought in Sunday School that when David did the job on Goliath that the deal was done. Evidently not, and Canada still has issues from 1759 at Quebec City. So, these European and Asian issues have continued for millennia. Has anyone written a PhD dissertation on resentment as a motivating force?
I am unreconstructed and not ready for the "New World Order." I am also not hoping to be charred to a nuclear crisp, a background left over from the 1950's, but I really don't want our children to experience any more of "1984" than they already have, or to partake of "The Handmaid's Tale."
There is so much valuable information and insight on Substack that it would take a multiple (and I have no idea if the number is 10 or 1000) of anyone's available time to assess all of it and integrate the consistent truths. Thank you for your contribution.
You are either a Russian troll or a useful idiot. Which one is it?
Name calling is a vacant non-response.
"The consequences are the demoralisation of Ukrainian armed forces, many are reported to have surrendered and Russia is offering Amnesty if they lay down their weapons." Amnesty for defending their country? Do you read yourself?
These are well-established categories, not name calling. "Ukraine since 2014 when Obama introduced the neo-Nazi regime is to prevent the collaboration of Russia"??? Do you know that a Ukrainian PM was a Jew, right till another Jew has been elected by a landslide President of Ukraine, Vlad Zelensky? Does it get any more neo-Nazi than that? Stop writing nonsense.
Comedian Jimmy Dore is better informed than you are. Watch this and let us know how he is wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt3Zv-e4n1M
These "experts" always bring up "far right, pro-Nazi forces". What are these mythical forces, other than the figment of Russian Goebbels propaganda? Rhetorical.
Aaron Maté is a Canadian journalist and a reporter for The Grayzone. He is a former producer of Democracy Now! and a contributor to The Nation and RealClearPolitics. To further your knowledge, "The Grayzone is a left-wing to far-left news website and blog founded and edited by American journalist Max Blumenthal." So here goes your expert's political affiliation. If you trust this guy, I have an investment idea for you that will make you incredibly rich in less than one week.
Again, an ad hominem attack. I know he is a lefty and I am not, but we are both anti-war and not blind to the American/NATO transgressions.
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Question EVERYTHING.
Wag the Dog. Russia/Ukraine War Fake News Galore
And you thought COVID propaganda was bad
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/wag-the-dog-russiaukraine-war-fake
That’s just it - we pushed them to disarm in 1994. Turned down brining Putin I’m in 1999. Watched as Georgia got crushed a year after Merkle wanted them and Ukraine to join NATO. Biden have nothing but false hope. The west sold us out to idiotic, nonsensical, woke energy policy. Trump said no. Biden said yes. He’s weak. Thousands of strong people will die for his weakness. This never should have happened. These people need to get the hell out of western governments and stop causing people to die.
The US & NATO should not have encourage UKRAINE to join NATO.
If Trump were President, and he was President, there would have been an agreement to leave Ukraine alone.
No aggressiveness by Russia, and no aggressiveness by Ukraine.
If Russia and/or China were in Canada &/or in Mexico, the US should have had some very very serious conversations with all countries.
WWWIII may be inevitable.
So many bad actors including some/many in the US government.
The question that I have is - do the Western world love their children?
Judging by the way they have treated them in the past 2 years, I'm really not sure?
Masking, preventing social interaction, expecting them to be injected with experimental crap supposedly to prevent granny from dying. Etc etc.
Is this a demonstration of love for children?
It’s a fair question that troubles me also. We have failed these kids by letting this happen.
Dear Dr. Alexander. Do not wade into Eastern Europe's politics. Any person from the West is so ignorant and misinformed about the Realpolitik over there, it is laughable, if not tragic.
Ukrainians are a nation with its own voice and interests. Russian interests have been, since 1656, to vanquish Ukraine and Ukrainians as a nation and absorb its people in the Russian sea of post-Mongolian mix of nations on the territory called Russia, for now. There is no middle ground in this existential conflict. Russia wants Ukrainians to give up their culture, their language, and their nationhood, or die. There is nothing less that Russia would be willing to settle on. So, this leaves no other options for Ukrainians than to fight to death. As the death is not the worst that can happen.
Ukraine will prevail and Ukraine is in our vital interests.
Ukraine IS prevailing. Glory to Ukraine!
Worth meditation on —in stark, unimaginable horror —for an hour .
Dr. Paul...Things are not as the seem in the Ukraine...
You need to watch the hundreds of LIVE 24/7 WEBCAMS all around Kyiv...
There is no fighting going on as portrayed by even the conservative media...IT IS ALL FAKE NEWS...!
People are going about their daily lives...It is rumored Russia is sending clothing and food to the areas that are inadvertently affected by cleaning out the bio-weapons labs built by Americans...
Putin also wants to capture the neo-Nazis who are continually beating and robbing the Russia Jews in Ukraine...
You will see in the live webcams there is none of the carnage depicted on TV...It's mostly fake...
Already, various governments have sent billions of dollars to the corrupt Ukraine government based on what the media is pushing down our throats...It's fakery...! Watch the video cameras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3yMxxAkN4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-EEnsxZXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5HBOE_sNIM
Linda Hagge post below mine is the truth...
Dr. Paul, please stay safe while traveling with the truckers...
Dr. Donnie Smith
Take this! A Russian convoy inside Kharkiv: https://t.me/LastBP/4904?single
REBEKAH KOFFLER is a Russian-born former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer and intelligence expert on Russian affairs. Working with the DIA and CIA’s National Clandestine Service, she has led “red” teams during wargames and briefed the Pentagon, the White House, and NATO on Russian Doctrine & Strategy.
She says Putin has been planning this for twenty years. However, he IS feeling squeezed and threatened by the US and others trying to control the region. It’s complicated. She has been aggressively censored for warning about it. (Which is usually a “tell”; she might be on to something.)
https://rebekahkoffler.com
Hitler also felt squeezed and threatened, didn't he?
Hitler took advantage of economic hardship to unite his country against a domestic boogeyman of his own creation, in order to restore Germany to his own warped version of “its former greatness”. Hitler did all the squeezing until he was stopped by Allied Forces.
Antiwar activist Caitlin Johnstone writes on Ukraine in comparison to other conflicts:
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/02/26/civilized-nations-kill-with-sanctions-and-proxy-armies-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/
I am unsubscribing. I subscribed for information on Covid-19, not for politics. Good bye.
Check viralimmunologist (Dr. Byram Bridle) on Substack. If you don't understand that Covid is politics, please keep reading. Dr. Pierre Kory also has a useful blog. Then you have to decide if chemistry or statistics is more interesting and look at the appropriate sites.
You can have a very clean mind (ie brainwashed) if you read or watch too much MSM.
You're nailing it pretty well... Trump might want to tone down his rhetoric and drop some truth bombs--that is how he became successful. I have not heard him call vax'g children criminal; like many others, I have lost much respect for the boosted Trump...
He is old and fat, and may have useful antibodies from the end of 2020, unless the rapid early treatment he had (not for the peasant classes) impaired his immunity development.
Keep in mind that the catastrophic outcomes from the injections are still pretty low so far, on an individual basis, until you start compiling them over, as McDonald's would have it, "Billions and Billions Served."
A broader stroke for you. 30-min old:
https://t.me/dsszzi_official/1140