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  20. I am old enough to remember watching a UK tv programme in the early 90s where a muslim lady said that the biggest threat to world peace looking forward was the rise of islamic fundamentalism. I had no idea what she was talking about. A few years later there were the terror attacks on the uss cove and then 9/11. Looking back now, how right she was. Hamas was one of many of those groups that formed in the 80s along with al queda. I have read of thousands forming since. IS being the biggest and most significant. Most are sunni too it would seem tho they all seem to despise israels presence in the muslim middle east. Thats why they wont negotiate any solution. They still seem to want to carry on the 1948/67/73 attempts to destroy israel. As for the footage of the massacre i watched plenty of it. From cctv to videos, some made by the targetted and some by the perpetrators themselves. Horrendous to watch. From random killing of motorists and civilians trying to run and flee. Some whilst trying to hide. Some videos showing them hunting for victims in the kibbutzes. Worst one was cctv watching a terrorist chasing 2 women. He was sprinting and caught up to the first one and he shot her as she struggled. The other lady was then on her knees below him pleading for her life while he was reloading. He then just shot her and walked off. Owen jones and the other marxists need to watch it.. I did actually see them shoot an armed israeli soldier once who was trying to respond in a base but they then showed another video in there of them shooting an unarmed conscript who was trying to hide under a table. There were civilian bodies everywhere.. There was a group of corpses by a bus stop and in cars. It even showed them pulling out the bodies from cars and driving off in them. Then there iwas all that music festival footage as well. It was ethnic cleansing no doubt in my mind and israel has every right to go after those who did this. Try to limit the civilian casualties as much as you can but do what you have to do. There is no other way.
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  36.  @cmoore7518 Well this just came out as i just googled it "His remarks came a day after the Byline Times outlet published a number of detailed and serious allegations against Mr Wootton, claiming that it had evidence he had pretended to be a man named Martin Branning. Byline Times claimed two victims made criminal complaints to the Metropolitan Police, based on Branning’s activities since 2019. Both News UK – by whom Mr Wootton was formerly employed – and the MailOnline’s publisher have said they are looking into the allegations. Contacted by The Independent following the publication of the Byline Times report, Scotland Yard said: “In June 2023, the Metropolitan Police was contacted with regards to allegations of sexual offences committed by a man. “Officers are assessing information to establish whether any criminal offence has taken place. There is no police investigation at this time.”....... So there is no police investigation at this time in mid july after recieving the complaint in june....... The report goes on..... Mr Wootton’s name has been trending on Twitter frequently in recent days, with posts on social media that make accusations against him gaining millions of views. Shortly before Mr Wootton’s Tuesday night show, The Guardian also published a report which made similar allegations against Branning. The paper reported that it had not been able to independently establish a link between Branning and Mr Wootton. So the guardian has not been able to provide any hard evidence but still published the article anyway. Nice fact based journalism there guardian. Or was the chance of a political kicking too much of an opportunity to miss? I also just found out that byline times is a left wing journalist group funded by activist supporters who seem like they only report on or go after prominent people who have the opposite political views to themselves. No unbiased agenda there then
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  49.  @gerifiu5485  "this was the cause why the ukrainan army attacked them".....Is that the genocide that putin described was happening after minsk peace treaty that he claimed was the reason for the invasion? If so then how come the UN monitors present on the front line those 8 years never noticed any genocide? How come putin never raised the issue at the UN those 8 years? It would have brought worldwide condemnation on ukraine. How come he didnt just recognise the the 2 disputed regions, which he did do, but then create a buffer zone at the border area to prevent this supposed genocide from occuring? He invaded a UN recognised sovereign state instead. Ever wonder why? Because he wanted to recreate the former soviet empire. Where the belorussians, the greater russians and their so called "little russians" of ukraine all combine together once again to become a superpower that would once again rival the west. Imperialism in other words. Putin and others never recognised the 1991 independance vote where 92% voted to become an independant sovereign state. All the regions voted in favour including the donbas and crimea. Also the 2015 minsk agreement had autonomy for those regions as one of its targets. But putin never recognised it. As it didnt suit his ultimate target. The 3 (of the 13) points in the minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deasl was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation.
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  150.  @JoaoDuarte-ru2ue  Yep and they have no svoboda ministers or any mps at all now do they? The provisional government, which wasnt elected, which only ruled for 4 months until poroshenkos quickly scheduled election, had 3 ministers in it according to wiki. They had none under poroshenko and no mps either, polling only 1% of the vote. In 2019 all of the far right parties combined together and only gained 2% during zelenskys victory again with no mps elected.. The odesa tragedy was caused by the police and fire service not responding or in some cases taking sides. It started when a smaller pro russian group attacked a much larger pro maidan march that had been reinforced by visiting football supporters.. Anarchy then ensued. Molotovs etc were thrown from both sides and it escalated to shots being fired. 6 anti maidan and 3 pro maidan were shot and killed. The police meanwhile either watched on or took sides. The weight of numbers finally told and the anti maidan were chased back through a tented pro russian languge encampment, which got destroyed, into the trade union building. The entrance got blockaded and molotovs were again thrown from both sides which caused the fire to break out. The fire service, like the police, failed to intervene and 48 people died trapped inside. Many were rescued as 500 were estimated inside at the beginning. Pictures show people outside erecting scaffolding and using it to rescue people inside. The united nations, where this info comes from criticise the ukraine authorities slowness in bringing the perpetrators to justice. Some of the people responsible from the police and fire service having left the country apparently. The investigation is still ongoing.
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  152. Putins imperialist ambitions were revealed just a few days into his special military disaster. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules. Putins special military disaster has never been about NATO expansion or ukranian nazis committing genocide on ethnic russians. It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. I will also add that they spent 1.9 billion usd last year on their propaganda. Its putins most potent weapon. The maga stuff is identical in its nationalist narrative. Im pretty sure that putin and trump have allied in some way since 2016 and the maria butina spy episode when putin was using the NRA to secretly gain contact with trump pre his election win.
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  187.  @DZHONNILPR  In 1991 All the regions/oblasts in ukraine voted 92% to leave a union with russia. Including donbas and crimea. 17% of the population at the time were ethnic russian so many of them must have voted for it too. The independance referendums you talk of were never going to be legally binding as the host nation needed to be involved. As well as a peaceful environment so both sides could make their case before a vote. And all the displaced people who lived there at the time but fled due to the violence. Including the local football team shaktar donetsk for example. В 1991 г. все области/области Украины проголосовали 92% за выход из союза с Россией. Включая Донбасс и Крым. 17% населения в то время были этническими русскими, так что многие из них, должно быть, тоже проголосовали за это. Референдумы о независимости, о которых вы говорите, никогда не станут юридически обязывающими, так как в них должна участвовать принимающая страна. А также мирная обстановка, чтобы обе стороны могли изложить свою позицию до голосования. И всех перемещенных лиц, которые жили там в то время, но бежали из-за насилия. В том числе, например, местная футбольная команда «Шахтер донецк».
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  201.  @FishandHunt  Heres my little list i often use. 1.Putin invades a sovereign independant nation and annexes territory for no good reason. 2.Putin invades a sovereign independant state and is condemned twice by 141 nations of the world at the UN. 3.Putin facilitates his military to commit regular war crimes on civilians, buildings and infrastructure. 4.Putin has been charged at the hague for the ethnic cleansing/russification and abduction of ukranian children. 5.Putin facilitates assassinations at home and abroad. 6.Putin uses state funded propaganda to suppress his people and misinform the world. 7.Putin uses oppression to suppress his people. 8.Putin breaks negotiated peace deals regularly eg minsk 2015. 9.Putin jails/murders any political opponents. Nemtsov/navalny. 10.Putin promotes extreme far right nationalism and acts like extreme far right nationalists of the past like hitler and mussolini. 11.Putin is an imperial nationalist that wants to recreate a soviet/russian empire again. 12.Putin facilitates nationalist and military ideology/education for russian children. 13.Putin lives in a palace while many of his people live in squalor. 14.Putin treats his mobilised like cattle off to slaughter. 15.Putin faciltates "filtration" camps for ukranian refugees. 16.Putin facilitates the russification and torture of ukranian refugees and ukranians trapped in occupied territories. 17.Putin prevents osce election observers from observing russias supposed elections. 18.Putin rewards successful proxies/assassins places in his state duma. etc etc etc.
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  207.  @dutube99  Civilised behaviour involves more than manners pal. Ask the ukranians about "strong egotistical leaders", nationalism and uncivilised behaviour because of it.. Im also going to add my reply to julin bashir-8472 here as it keeps getting deleted. No, its about maintaining democracy and civilised behaviour from the GOP under trump, if elected, which has moved to the extreme nationalist far right of the political spectrum. Why do you think maga under trump, parrot and promote putins narrative? Another far right extreme nationalist who used the far right in his country to "take over" democracy there. Whats project 2025 all about then if it isnt threatening democracy? 25K unskilled maga volunteers to replace thousands in the US civil service and legal system. Trump to pass it as soon as elected. Who says so? The heritage foundation. They love trump and trump loves them. Then you got another far right nationalist in orban who is best mates with trump. Then you got trump talking of going after his political opponents if elected. Another putinism. Anti NATO is another. What about all the true conservatives who have abandoned trumps GOP then? How come you cant see what they and i can see? That trump aint no conservative. Keep heading further to the right and you will hit far right nationalism. Thats where trump is taking the US right now. Where the flag is more important than what the country stands for. Recent history has also proven that political extremes never do democracy. As for the democratic process biden won his personal race and then elected a VP and then endorsed her as his replacement. The people then get to say if he was right to do so in november. Seems pretty democratic to me.
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  252. I. How is it antagonistic of zelenskyy to say that the diplomacy of minsk 1 and 2 failed in reply to vances talk of diplomacy being the only way forward? He would also have liked, no doubt, if he had been allowed a word in edgeway, that security guarantees in any diplomatic peace deal was his main objective here. 2. You conveniently forgot to mention that zelenskyy was having to communicate in his 3rd or 4th language. So was always gong to struggle when 2 native language speakers ganged up on him. 3. There was a wartime leader who also visited washington for similar assistance dressed in military gear. His name was winston churchill. Zelenskyy had stated from the very beginning that he will dress the same way as his people/military are having to do until the war ends. 4. Vance started it with his putin propaganda narrative about conscripts. That is obviously a wind up attempt on zelenskyy. So understandably zelenskyy then asked if vance had been to ukraine. Vance replied, no i have seen the stories. I bet i know where he seen those stories. In the far right muskospere. You know where putins state funded propaganda narratives are allowed to flow unchallenged. 5. Vance then continues to be an attack dog by accusing zelenskyy of using visits by democracy leaders to ukraine, who are there to show their support for ukraine, as propaganda exercises. 6. How was zelenskyy attacking the US in him stating that diplomacy had failed before? As the US were not involved in minsk 1 and 2. 7.You again conveniently forgot to mention that vance had just criticised ukraine and its people in public with the world watching. With those two lies i mentioned above. What would you expect any leader to do in those circumstances? Why would you expect him not be defensive about it? 8. Its not body language that matters. Its the words that are used. If you really are a barrister do you trial by body language then? 9. Yes there is another side to it. And it involves far right, cold hearted, selfish nationalism taking control in the US. This is the first time i have come across your chanel and it would appear that the same is happening to your channel. Thankfully you are a minority and our political system keeps extremes like you out of power. Unsurprisingly you wont be getting my subscription. Also dressing in all black suits your political stance perfectly.. 10. Bye. 11. Edit. You will always get 83% in a far right channel that makes a poll. Unfortunately there are far right nationalists like you in every country.
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  321.  @ah5836  There is an awful lot but here you go. You asked for it Just a bit of history about ukraine, pre maidan. 80 odd years of russification has to be taken into account. From stalin times through the soviet era up to 1991. Thats why russian culture/language etc was and still is to a degree, ingrained into ukranian culture. In 1991 ukraine voted 92% to leave the union with russia. All the oblasts and regions voted in favour including crimea and the donbas region. Ukraine then followed a similar route as yeltsins russia with attempts at fast tracking democracy and western style capitalism. The lack of legal accountability though ended up with oligarch corruption in both countries. Putin then took over around 2000 in russia. He, amongst many ex soviet hardliners, never recognised that 1991 vote and so set out to return a form of russian domination on all of its former soviet states that had left during the break up of the ussr. Putins attempts in ukraine began politically with yanukovych in the elections of 2004. His state funded tv media had begun its propaganda methods, not only in russia, but in all the border areas of its former soviet states, including ukraine. Pro russian olgarchs were also financing and involved in it all too. Yanukovych won the 2004 election but claims of corruption created a massive demonstration in kiev. The orange revolution as it became known then forced a rerun of the election after ukraines highest court ruled that there was indeed electoral corruption. His "poisoned" opponent victor yushchenko winning the rerun comfortably. He was pro west/democracy and in power for 5 years up till 2010. Attempted to join NATO along with georgia, but germany and france vetoed their application as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putin instead. He also began preliminary negotiations for ukraine to join the EU. In 2010 yanukovych won a close run election that was deemed fair by international observers. His 3 years saw the NATO bid scrapped altogether. Increasing oppression of his political opponents. The constitution changed to help that oppression. The jailing of his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. And the most fateful decision of all to scrap the proposed union with the EU for one with the very country the people voted 92% to leave in 1991. So not surprisingly the ukranian people werent having any of that so another revolution started late in 2013. This time called the revolution of dignity or maidan. It began peacefully at first but as the police became more hardline in their approach the numbers demonstrating and the violence grew. Yanukovych, as you would expect from a putin clone, sent in his special police berkut unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators. 120 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. He fled, and the folowing morning the duma reformed and voted to strip him of his power and arranged a new election which petro poroshenko later won. The constitution was reinstated and tymoshenko released. Evidence was also found of voting corruption in his abandoned palace casting doubt on his earlier election win. Since Maidan putin has adopted a much more extreme military approach to achieve that original objective. Culminating in february 22 last year. Minsk 2015....The 3 (of the 13) points in the minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deasl was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation. But of course he doesnt recognise them as a sovereign nation. Which is 100% the reason why he and his fascist/nationalist imperialist supporters want to kill democratic ukraine, especially the democratic bit. He wants to renew his love in again with his beloved ussr. Dictators in search of lost empires. Mussolini, hitler and now putin. Ukro nazis and azov......Just 2% voted far right in ukraines last election 2019 with no mps elected. Zelensky is jewish and his party is liberal left leaning. Poroshenkos party is pro eu and centrish. Both have won elections on anti corruption tickets. The private azov militia group were de politicised long ago and are now led and incorporated into the professional ukranian army. Their former leader/founder stood in that last election and got knowhere. A better description of them here... Commanders now are regular UAF Officers who were assigned to command after the SNP political leadership was removed. Out the 73 founders of Azov in Kharkhiv. Only 14 were from the SNP. The Myth of Nazi Azov was just that, a myth promulgated by the RuZZ Fascists & their Red Fascist Stalinist Allies. Most of Azov were originally formed by Football Ultras & grew from Kharkhiv to include Ultras from many of the FC's of east & south. Yes a large Minority of the Ultras had been affiliated to various Far Right outfits but not all. A large Minority also came from Far Left Outfits as well as Anarchists. All those Ultras used to fight each other ...now they fight side by in Azov. Azov grew beyond the Ultras too though as many non-Political & non-Ultra civilian volunteers joined Azov after invasion & it grew from Battalion size to Regiment. Also some existing regular soldiers were transferred in, new recruits to UAF also were added to build it to Brigade size. Azov now is nothing like Azov of 2014.
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  347. See youve been reading the putin troll propaganda handbook.....In fact youve printed it right here. Firstly there was no proof of biolabs creating any biological warfare. The project was to refocus former soviet biological weapon labs to more friendly purposes. The United States provides biosafety, disease surveillance, and biosecurity assistance to more than 30 countries in Africa; Eastern Europe; South, Central and Southeast Asia; and the Middle East. Reasons for maidan..... Ukraine voted 92% to be independant from a union with russia in 1991. With all the oblasts voting in favour including the donbas and crimea. In 2013 putin puppet yanukovych scrapped a potential union with the EU for one with the very country they voted to leave in 1991.. Whilst also jailing his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko.. In 2004 , another maidan had previously occured, with an orange revolution, against that same elected puppet yanukovych. Tho this time for "voting corruption", which was later proved true, as his "poisoned" opponent won the rerun comfortably.. Maidan began peacefully at first but then violence was used againt protestors and it escalated until yanukovych ordered snipers to shoot unarmed protestors. 120 died and thousands were injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. Evidence was later found in his abandoned palace of voting corruption casting doubt on his earlier close election win.......Another election was held and the very pro maidan supporter poroshenko won. The russian language was never banned. It was discouraged to encourage more people to learn ukranian. In public service ukranian was required to be used. Schools to designate it as the primary language. Ukraine could never gain access to the EU if it discriminated against a minority. The odessa tragedy is what happens when anarchy takes over. The police and fire services never intervened. Some even took sides. Ukranians on the outside did rescue many from inside the building. Shots were being fired from both sides. Some died from both sides in the preceding rioting before the building caught fire. Barricading themselves in didnt help either. Neither did lobbing molotovs at each other. There were private militias set up at the time as the ukranian army was too weak at that time to fight what was uin essence a shadow russian army.. Azov was one of them. They have since been depoliticised and brought under ukranian army control. From wiki...About 14,200–14,400 people were killed in the war, the vast majority of them in the first year. About 6,500 were pro-Russian separatist forces, 4,400 Ukrainian forces, and 3,404 were civilians. It has to be a proxy war as armageddon might be the alternative. There would be no war at all if putin abandoned his imperialist ambitions to recreate the USSR into a "greater russian world" again. The "belorussians", the "greater russians" and their so called "little russians" of ukraine all combininng together as a true superpower to rival the west..Thats what this is al about. Nothing to do with bio labs, the russian language or the supposed genocide of ethnic russians. If it was about ensuring their safety then all he needed to do was enter those regions after recognising them, which he did, and then create an exclusion zone along the disputed border. But he didnt. He invaded a sovereign nation, just like serbia is now, instead. "Russia today fights for the freedom of all people in the world".....Nah russia today fights for a fascist style dictator with imperial dreams. Dictators in search of lost empires. Hitler, mussolini and now putin. "14% of humanity, and 86% of humanity did not and will not impose sanctions on Russia" Only 5 countries voted against the UN resolution condemning the invasion. Russia, belorussia, syria, eritrea and north korea..Russia was also recently removed from the UNs human rights council......Think about that too....
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  362. NATO expansion is one of 3 excuses that putin uses to justify his special military disaster. The others being ukranian nazis and the donbass genocide during the 8 years after minsk 2014. Only 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Far less than other democracies. So much for ukranian nazis. If there was a genocide on ethnic russians in the donbass region occuting during those 8 years after minsk how come the UN monitors on the frontline those 8 years never noticed it? How come putin never raised this genocide at the UN during those 8 years either? He raised it for his own people tho to justify his illegal invasion. As for NATO expansion, i prefer to call it democracy expansion as thats one of the requirements to join. The crucial thing to remember with NATOs expansion is that not one inch of territory has been annexed in doing so. Unlike putin in ukraine. Why should putin fear NATO expansion anyway. As he has those nuclear weapons he keeps threatening us with. He does fear democracy tho and it then expanding into russia, and threatening his mafia like power base. Its also why far right politicians like farage and trump side with him on this as they seemingly dont care about democracy either. Maybe the corrupt capitalist authoritarian state that putin has built is more their style? As for the real reason. Imperialism. Plain and simple. To reunite the "greater russians", the "belorussians" and their so called "little russians" of ukraine back together again into his so named "greater russian world" empire that would once again rival the west. Just as ex kgb putins beloved ussr soviet empire used to do. The russians have even admitted it themselves since. Putin himself keeps trying to tell us that centuries old history matters most despite its total irrelevence to today.
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  384. Just googled this article which contradicts a lot in your version?. "His remarks came a day after the Byline Times outlet published a number of detailed and serious allegations against Mr Wootton, claiming that it had evidence he had pretended to be a man named Martin Branning. Byline Times claimed two victims made criminal complaints to the Metropolitan Police, based on Branning’s activities since 2019. Both News UK – by whom Mr Wootton was formerly employed – and the MailOnline’s publisher have said they are looking into the allegations. Contacted by The Independent following the publication of the Byline Times report, Scotland Yard said: “In June 2023, the Metropolitan Police was contacted with regards to allegations of sexual offences committed by a man. “Officers are assessing information to establish whether any criminal offence has taken place. There is no police investigation at this time.”....... So there is no police investigation at this time in mid july after recieving the complaint in june.......Multiple alleged victims as in 2. The report goes on..... Mr Wootton’s name has been trending on Twitter frequently in recent days, with posts on social media that make accusations against him gaining millions of views. Shortly before Mr Wootton’s Tuesday night show, The Guardian also published a report which made similar allegations against Branning. The paper reported that it had not been able to independently establish a link between Branning and Mr Wootton. So after 3 years they could find no link? Also just discovered that byline times is a left wing journalist group funded by activists who regularly go after prominent people with opposite political views to their own.
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  416.  @realdaybreaker8013  Reasons for maidan..... Ukraine voted 92% to be independant from a union with russia in 1991. With all the oblasts voting in favour including the donbas regions and crimea. In 2013 putin puppet yanukovych scrapped a potential union with the EU for one with the very country they voted to leave in 1991.. Whilst also jailing his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko.. In 2004 , another maidan had previously occured, with an orange revolution, against that same elected puppet yanukovych. Tho this time for "voting corruption", which was later proved true, as his "poisoned" opponent won the rerun comfortably.. Maidan began peacefully at first but then violence was used againt protestors and it escalated until yanukovych ordered snipers to shoot unarmed protestors. 120 died and thousands were injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. Evidence was later found in his abandoned palace of voting corruption casting doubt on his earlier close election win....... .Were the americans and john mccain involved back in 2004 as well?... I tell you who has been interfering all along in ukraine and thats your little dicktator putin as he never recognised that 1991 vote. Despite all the world nations recognising ukraine as an independant sovereign state, included russia. He has been bombarding ukraines ethnic russian border areas with his state tv propaganda since he came to power. No doubt creating the etnic and political division in ukraine to garner support for this whole "greater russian world" imperialist project of his.
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  465. In wars civilians are always the ones who suffer the most. Thats why most civilised countries try to avoid them at all cost. So i wonder who started this one? I wonder if one of the parties involved might have invaded the other and then mass murdered 1200+ civilians and took 200+ hostages. I wonder if that might have had something to do with it? Plus the ratio of colateral damage to both parties the hamas propagandist mentions here is due to israel having the iron dome otherwise they would be suffering just as many civilian casualties, if not more. As hamas has been indiscriminately firing thousands of its rockets at civilian targets as opposed to israel targetting the launch sites and other military targets. Tho unfortunately in densely populated urban areas colateral civilian losses are bound to be high. They have given warnings and are now sacrificing their own troops in a land invasion to try and limit the civilian casualties. Maybe if hamas had stopped firing its rockets then israel might just have stopped firing theirs. Then again do hamas want this to end? Those demonstrators banners call for muslim armies to liberate palestine. So this whole bloodbath seems to be hamas and its supporters way to try and draw other muslim/arab nations into this holy jihad of theirs. Which isnt a peaceful negotiated 2 state solution but the complate destruction of israel from the river to the sea. With seemingly the ethnic cleansing of all jews in the region as well judging by october 7th.
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  495. NATO is at peace. The only bullies to blame are those who invade a peaceful neighbour for imperial reasons..... It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. Evidence of this was given just a few days into the invasion, 28th february when a propaganda article was released early in error. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov...... "A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules."
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  596. Some facts about putins state funded propaganda. They spent 1.9 billion usd last year on it. Half goes on their state tv/radio. The other half on RTetc / social media in the west. So there is plenty of them to be found in this and other comment sections regarding ukraine. They are organised and prevent me and others from challenging their lies by mass reporting me and others as spammers. Which i believe, due to a you tube algorithm, means my replies to their lies and misinformation are continually being auto deleted. Hence my own comment here instead of individually replying. One of their basic lies i have seen here is. Ukraine bombing the donbas those 8 years after minsk. The reason given by putin for his special military disaster. Truth. If true then how come the UN monitors present on the frontline those 8 years never noticed it? If true how come putin never took it to the UN those 8 years? Bet he took it to the russian people tho, claiming it a genocide, to justify his imperialist ambitions. Which is to restore his beloved ussr again. Into a "greater russian world" that would once again rival the west. Another lie regarding minsk and how their propaganda states that zelensky and the west broke it. Truth. Minsk 2014.....The 3 (of the 13) points in the minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deasl was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation. Got loads of other examples.
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  677.  @HarunalRashide123 If the iron dome hadnt begun in 2009 then israels civilian casualties would have been just as high. Tho likely this war would have started some years earlier for it. The bottom line is that hamas could have stopped this never ending cycle of violence . Like maybe stopping the firing of the rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas which then brings the understandable miliary targetted response with all its colateral civilian damage. Or the continous suicide bombings that hamas organised from gaza causing all the checkpoints and security that has been put up since to prevent it happening again . Or the biggest close range mass murder of jews since the holocaust. Then maybe you take a look at their ideology as well. You know. No negotiation. Just destruction of israel and seemingly after oct 7th the ethnic cleansing of all jews in the region as well. Also dont forget what jihaddis like to tell us in the west. You may love life but we love death. So that means they dont give a toss about their own lives or the lives they are supposed to be representing in gaza They are all just other potential martyrs on their way to heaven in support of their holy jihad..People dont understand that hamas wants this war.They want all the other arab and muslim states and terror groups to join in with them and your just propagandising the anti israel narrative they want you to spread. Israel is not going to just disappear. They also have nuclear weapons. So there aint going to no region left over after, never mind a nation. As for the ceasefire hamas will not want one especially if it involves negotiation. They may agree to short pauses for humanitarian aid so they can reorganise and strengthen defences but a peaceful negotiated ceasefire i just dont see it. Sorry. .The only way i can see tthat might prevent the continual colateral from this bloodbath is for refugee camps to be set up in the sinai. The UN and egypt should already be organising this right now imho.
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  681.  @paulweber212  Oh you want some as well. OK here you go. Putins special military disaster has never been about NATO expansion or ukranian nazis committing genocide on ethnic russians. It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. Evidence of this was given just a few days into the invasion, 28th february when a propaganda article was released early in error. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
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  687. Disagree. I can remember listening to a muslim lady on UK tv in the 1990s saying that the biggest threat to world peace looking forward was the rise of islamic fundamentalism. I had no idea then what she was on about. Then the terror attacks began with one on the USS cove and then 9/11. Various sunni terror groups like al queda based in sunni led iraq and sunni afghanistan had to be dealt with as they had ultimately declared a terror war on western civilisastion. Even western countries that opposed the iraq invasion got targetted later as well. They eventually joined the 20 year "war on terror" too.The west would have had to intervene in iraq at some point. After 9/11, unsurprisingly. the US took leadership of that war. Which has been won, by the way, as no major terror attacks on the west since leaving afghanistan, fingers crossed. The mistakes we made in both countries was trying to impose democracy there. So instead of being liberators, as we were seen at first, we became occupiers instead and the insurgancy began in iraq with al queda morphing into IS there. In afghanistan the taliban/terrorists sided against the coalition/democracy tho a settlement was eventually agreed with the taliban and we pulled out. Now they fight the terrorists instead, tho project "impose democracy" failed disastrously. In iraq there is now a form of democracy which over time might improve. Tho it is sharia majority led now so is bound to lean towards sharia iran. Saddam was also a dictatorial tyrant who murdered thousands of his own people. He also had and used chemical weapons on his own people/kurds and in his war with iran. He also invaded another nation/kuwait. Justifiable reasons to regime change on its own.
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  702. Sorry jake. Disagree with you about the iraq war being total unnecessary. The iraq war was part of the 20 year "war on terror" after 9/11. No 9/11 then there would have been no regime change in iraq. Sunni iraq under saddam was supporting sunni al queda along along with many other terror groups. They eventually morphed into IS there. Sunni islamic fundamentalist terrorism had been on the rise since the 1990s. The attack on the USS cove was their declaration of war on western civilisation. 9/11 following after. The west would have had to intervene in iraq/afghanistan/middle east at some point. Even the western countries who opposed iraq came around to supporting the "war on terror" once their countries got targetted as well. Also the "war on terror" has been won as there has been no major terror attacks on the west since leaving afghanistan, fingers crossed. Obama said it would take 20 years to win it. The only thing we did wrong was trying to impose democracy into iraq and afghanistan. So instead of being liberators, which we were seen as in the beginning, we became occupiers instead so leading to insurgencies in both countries. Though iraq doesnt have a proper democracy right now. It might become better over time. It is a sharia majority country now tho, due to democratic voting taking place, so is always going to lean towards sharia iran. Saddam was also a dictatorial tyrant who murdered thousands of his own people. Including using chemical weapons against the kurds in his country and in his war with iran. Plus he invaded kuwait previously as well.
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  765.  @Mccormick2023  "that is propaganda, there is no indication that Putin seriously wants to annex every piece of Ukrainian territory. If he did than he wouldn’t be focusing on the Russian speaking or pro Russian areas of Ukraine" Never said he wanted to annex all the territory. He wanted a 3 day regime change. That was still going to control ukraine as his puppet yanukovych was in belorus ready to take over apparently. He started annexing after that failed. Now its all about saving face and territory. His ultimate aim is still there tho imho. Edit The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. It proves putins imperial ambitions in ukraine. It was written in the belief that the regime change was successful. The "little russians" by the way are the ukranians. Wheras the "greater russians" are just that it seems.. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
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  795. State funded putin propagandists continue to copy and paste propaganda to various channels. Sometimes the same propaganda from months ago. Sometimes i reply to it with this copy and paste job. One that this particular propagandist should consider when trying to criticise a truly democratically elected president. 1.Putin invades a sovereign independant state and annexes territory for no good reason. 2.Putin invades a sovereign independant state and is condemned by 141 nations of the world at the UN. 3.Putin facilitates his military to commit regular war crimes on civilians, buildings and infrastructure. 4.Putin has been charged at the hague for the ethnic cleansing/russification and abduction of ukranian children. 5.Putin facilitates assassinations at home and abroad. 6.Putin uses state funded propaganda to suppress his people and misinform the world. 7.Putin uses oppression to suppress his people. 8.Putin breaks negotiated peace deals regularly eg minsk 2015. 9.Putin jails/murders any political opponents. Nemtsov/navalny. 10.Putin promotes extreme far right nationalism and acts like extreme far right nationalists of the past like hitler and mussolini. 11.Putin is an imperial nationalist that wants to recreate a soviet/russian empire again. 12.Putin facilitates nationalist and military ideology/education for russian children. 13.Putin lives in a palace while many of his people live in squalor. 14.Putin treats his mobilised like cattle off to slaughter. 15.Putin faciltates "filtration" camps for ukranian refugees. 16.Putin facilitates the russification and torture of ukranian refugees and ukranians trapped in occupied territories. 17.Putin prevents osce election observers from observing russias supposed elections. 18.Putin rewards successful proxies/assassins places in his state duma. etc etc etc.
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  834. Get that from modis propaganda did you?. You do know he is a far right nationalist? Heres some stuff i bet they never mentioned about the bengal famine.. There was a war cabinet. Churchill wasnt making these decisions alone. Clem atlee became deputy pm. Bevin, Chamberlain, Eden, Halifax, Greenwood, Beaverbrook, Wood and Anderson who replaced chamberlain when he died. So to blame churchill alone is just nonsense.. Also the official 1945 enquiry found the national indian and local bengal governments foremostly responsible along with the viceroy at the time Linithglow. With the imperial government(war cabinet) also criticised. Tbf the local government and national officials had used their famine relief methods on previous famines and they had been successful. This famine though was far worse than previous and needed much firmer action. Confiscation of all grain/rice and rationing introduced in the country as a whole was required but not forthcoming. By the time the new viceroy wavell intervened with this policy 1 and a half million had starved to death. Even after rationing another 1 and a half million died after as people were too weak to fight off disease. Terrible tragedy. The uk government/cabinet has to take some share of the blame too. Way too slow in reacting or maybe not realising how bad the situation really was? No social media/world news in those days remember. Plus there was a war going on with japan invading neighbouring countries, which created the famine, and controlling the bay of bengal. Plus dday was fast approaching and any spare transports were probably kept back for that. Also putin has an arrest warrant out for him for facilitating the abduction of ukranian children not illegaly invading ukraine. As for george bush. That was all due to 9/11 and the war on terror. Chemical weapons was just a front for that war tho saddam did have them as he used them earlier against the kurds and in his war with iran. Plus al queda were present in iraq as they eventually morphed into IS and saddam was supporting arab terrorist groups against israel. So that was probably another reason.
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  835. 2nd attempt.....There was a war cabinet. Churchill wasnt making these decisions alone. Clem atlee became deputy pm. Bevin, Chamberlain, Eden, Halifax, Greenwood, Beaverbrook, Wood and Anderson who replaced chamberlain when he died. So to blame churchill alone is just nonsense. Also the official 1945 enquiry into the bengal famine found the national indian and local bengal governments foremostly responsible along with the viceroy at the time Linithglow. With the imperial government(war cabinet) also criticised. Tbf the local government and national officials had used their famine relief methods on previous famines and they had been successful. This famine though was far worse than previous and needed much firmer action. It needed the confiscation of all grain/rice in the country as a whole and rationing introduced. By the time the new viceroy wavell intervened with this policy 1 and a half million had starved to death. Even after rationing another 1 and a half million died after as people were too weak to fight off disease. Terrible tragedy. The uk government/cabinet has to take some share of the blame too. Way too slow in reacting or maybe not realising how bad the situation really was? No social media/world news in those days remember. Plus there was a war on. Japan had invaded the neighbouring countries, which created the famine. They also had control of the bay of bengal and were attempting to invade india through the bengal area. Plus d day was fast approaching so any spare transports were probably being kept back for that.
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  836. He has said from the very beginning that he will go after any politician or celebrity, whatever their politics, if they support putin . He has praised republicans when they support ukraine. This is not about the left or the right, republican or democrat, labour or conservative. Its above all that. Its about supporting democracy and all its associated freedoms including aiding fellow democratic nations. As for all the other things you mention dont you realise that there are other nations out here with those same problems. There is a worldwide recession on after a worldwide pandemic. Illegal immigration is not just happening in the states either. Most of africa is trying to get into europe as well. Also the people jake are going after are not just wanting a cut in overseas aid that you would prefer but a complete end to it. Finally i will say that i believe that your essay is way over the top in what is really happening in the states snd is more due to the usual nationalist mantra which is america first and F everyone else. If the US was so garbage then why do so many want to move there?You have elections soon so you can chose who you want to fix your problems, exaggerated by you or not. The thing is thats when it needs to be sorted for the american people and not embroiled into a foreign aid/immigration package now. Deliberately being used by trump and his supporters to block ukraine/israel aid as well as the immigration issue. As trump wants to keep the immigration issue unresolved before the election so he can campaign on it. Im from the UK and a conservative voter and in my opinion american politics is total bollox now and corrupt as hell judging by this shambles and as for the GOP i say beware far right nationalists posing as conservatives. Bring back ronnie reagan and john mccain
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  851. They arnt very good geopolitical analysts then are they? And are you being bought by russia? Putins special military disaster has never been about NATO expansion or ukranian nazis committing genocide on ethnic russians. It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. Evidence of this was given just a few days into the invasion, 28th february when a propaganda article was released early in error. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
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  870. Heres some facts for you to judge on then. The 3 (of the 13) points in the 2015 minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deasl was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation. But of course he doesnt recognise them as a sovereign nation. Which is 100% the reason why he and his fascist/nationalist imperialist supporters want to kill democratic ukraine, especially the democratic bit. He wants to renew his love in again with his beloved ussr. Dictators in search of lost empires. Mussolini, hitler and now putin. Just 2%voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Far less than other democracies. Zelenskys party is centrish and poroshenkos is to the left. The private azov militia has long been depoliticised and now incorporated into and led by the ukranian professional army. Their former founder/leader stood in that last election and got knowhere. Putins government funds a propaganda budget of 1.5billion usd a year. Been tripled since the invasion. Half of it goes on state funded tv/radio and the other half duping people like you with RT etc. Got loads more facts, logic and merit if you want it.
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  871.  @TN-ju4ro  Proxy war? Historical facts? History lesson required. Just a bit of history about ukraine, pre maidan. 80 odd years of russification has to be taken into account. From stalin times through the soviet era up to 1991. Thats why russian culture/language etc was and still is to a degree, ingrained into ukranian culture. In 1991 ukraine voted 92% to leave the union with russia. All the oblasts and regions voted in favour including crimea and the donbas region. Ukraine then followed a similar route as yeltsins russia with attempts at fast tracking democracy and western style capitalism. The lack of legal accountability though ended up with oligarch corruption in both countries. Putin then took over around 2000 in russia. He, amongst many ex soviet hardliners, never recognised that 1991 vote and so set out to return a form of russian domination on all of its former soviet states that had left during the break up of the ussr. Putins attempts in ukraine began politically with yanukovych in the elections of 2004. His state funded tv media had begun its propaganda methods, not only in russia, but in all the border areas of its former soviet states, including ukraine. Pro russian olgarchs were also financing and involved in it all too. Yanukovych won the 2004 election but claims of corruption created a massive demonstration in kiev. The orange revolution as it became known then forced a rerun of the election after ukraines highest court ruled that there was indeed electoral corruption. His "poisoned" opponent victor yushchenko winning the rerun comfortably. He was pro west/democracy and in power for 5 years up till 2010. Attempted to join NATO along with georgia, but germany and france vetoed their application as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putin instead. He also began preliminary negotiations for ukraine to join the EU. In 2010 yanukovych won a close run election that was deemed fair by international observers. His 3 years saw the NATO bid scrapped altogether. Increasing oppression of his political opponents. The constitution changed to help that oppression. The jailing of his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. And the most fateful decision of all to scrap the proposed union with the EU for one with the very country the people voted 92% to leave in 1991. So not surprisingly the ukranian people werent having any of that so another revolution started late in 2013. This time called the revolution of dignity or maidan. It began peacefully at first but as the police became more hardline in their approach the numbers demonstrating and the violence grew. Yanukovych, as you would expect from a putin clone, sent in his special police berkut unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators. 120 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. He fled, and the folowing morning the duma reformed and voted to strip him of his power and arranged a new election which petro poroshenko later won. The constitution was reinstated and tymoshenko released. Evidence was also found of voting corruption in his abandoned palace casting doubt on his earlier election win. Since Maidan putin has adopted a much more extreme military approach to achieve that original objective. Culminating in february 22 last year. .......As for the proxy war and victoria nuland. Was she involved in the 2004 orange revolution as well?
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  874.  @blackdiamond6077  Various european media archive websites. Ukraine is not the only country with neo nazi groups. Looking at you russia. Churchill has a statue and roads named after him and he is now a war criminal to some. From a website after googling russian propaganda spending. Site that debunks disinfo. The west doesnt annex territory tho does it. The "war on terror" after 9/11 and other terror attacks on western civilisation isnt meddlng. Its called national security or the protection of a countrys citizens. Bit like putin did to the chechnyan rebels after beslan and other attacks on his people. Although not as brutally. As for putin the imperialist. Here you go confirming it. Got this from your own propaganda cock up. Pity it got released early.....All available online. Putins special military disaster has never been about NATO expansion or ukranian nazis committing genocide on ethnic russians. It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. Evidence of this was given just a few days into the invasion, 28th february when a propaganda article was released early in error. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
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  896.  @thejoker2214  Instrumentalised by the USA? So the ukranian people had nothing to do with maidan then. Those same ukranians that voted 92% to be independant from a union with russia in 1991. With all the oblasts voting in favour including donbas and crimea. Nothing to do with putin puppet yanukovych scrapping a union with the EU for one with the very country they voted to leave in 1991.. Also jailing his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko.. Those same ukranians that rose up in 2004 in the orange revolution against that same puppet yanukovych. Were the americans involved then as well? I tell you who has been interfering all along in ukraine and thats your little dicktator putin as he never recognised that 1991 vote. Despite all the world nations recognising ukraine as an independant sovereign state, included russia. His aim is to recreate the old soviet empire again. And he is now doing what all fascist dicktators have done historically to achieve that aim and invade a peaceful neighbour. Beginning in 2014 supporting proxies militarily and now a a full on invasion. And just like hitler did he uses propaganda both at home and abroad to create and justify it all. Suffering of the serbs? NATO intervened to prevent the serbs ethnic cleansing policy its forces were committing and to bring milosevic to the negotiating table. Later both him and karadzic were convicted of approving and committing the policy of ethnic cleansing at the hague. Also many others, from all sides, were charged with similar offences.Some were convicted and some acquited. Nationalism is the real evil in all this. You can still love your country and its culture without being a militant nationalist like hitler, mussolini, putin, milosevic etc..
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  907. @Anthony Martin Youve been brainwashed by nationalist/fascist ideology. Keep on being a nobody amongst nobodies doing as your master bids. One day you might be allowed to think for yerself. Thats a lot of putin narrative bollox to try and counter. Thats probably why its been put together. To prevent the counter argument. But heres some i will answer. Firstly one of the main reasons putin gave for the invasion. The genocide happening in the donbas. Dont you think that the UN monitors present during those 8 years would have noticed this genocide occuring? Heres another one about lying western media. Thats the western media that are left, centre and right leaning politically. So there are checks and balances. Putins media is putins media. Thats why it has been sanctioned. Get back to being civilised again and it might be reinstated. The US has been the leader of the free world for sure thats why their always the ones being targetted for criticism by people like you with the opposite viewpoint. If democracy and all the freedoms associated with it are under threat then for sure the US and its western allies will counter that threat. Whether it be islamic fundamentalist groups declaring a terror war on the west after 9/11 or in supporting peaceful countries being invaded by imperialistic dictators. At times errors are made. Atrocities committed. But they are investigated and prosecuted as western military do have rules of engagement which are constantly being reviewed and strengthened. Unlike putins military which has shown its true colours recently in syria and now ukraine
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  998. Zelenskys country gets invaded and territory annexed. 500 odd kids within 10k civilians overall targetted and killed so far and you call him a war monger. Heres a little list of the real war monger in all this. 1.Putin invades a sovereign independant state and annexes territory for imperialist purposes just like a moustachioed dictator 84 years ago. 2.Putin invades a sovereign independant state and is condemned by 141 nations of the world at the UN. 3.Putin facilitates his military to commit regular war crimes on civilians, buildings and infrastructure. 4.Putin has been charged at the hague for the ethnic cleansing/russification and abduction of ukranian children. 5.Putin facilitates assassinations at home and abroad. 6.Putin uses state funded propaganda to suppress his people and misinform the world. 7.Putin uses oppression to suppress his people. 8.Putin breaks negotiated peace deals regularly eg minsk 2014. 9.Putin jails/murders any political opponents. Nemtsov/navalny/prighozin 10.Putin promotes extreme far right nationalism and acts like extreme far right nationalists of the past like hitler and mussolini. 11.Putin is an imperial nationalist that wants to recreate a soviet/russian empire again. 12.Putin facilitates nationalist and military ideology/education for russian children. 13.Putin lives in a palace while many of his people live in squalor. 14.Putin treats his mobilised like cattle off to slaughter. 15.Putin faciltates "filtration" camps for ukranian refugees. 16.Putin facilitates the russification and torture of ukranian refugees and ukranians trapped in occupied territories. 17.Putin prevents osce election observers from observing russias supposed elections. 18.Putin rewards successful proxies/assassins places in his state duma. etc etc etc.
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  1004. Reasons for maidan..... Ukraine voted 92% to be independant from a union with russia in 1991. With all the oblasts voting in favour including the donbas regions and crimea. In 2013 putin puppet yanukovych scrapped a potential union with the EU for one with the very country they voted to leave in 1991.. Whilst also jailing his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko.. In 2004 , another maidan had previously occured, with an orange revolution, against that same elected puppet yanukovych. This time for "voting corruption", which was later proved true, as his "poisoned" opponent victor yushchenko won the rerun comfortably.. Maidan began peacefully at first but then violence was used againt protestors and it escalated until yanukovych ordered snipers in to shoot unarmed protestors. 120 died and thousands were injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. Evidence was later found in his abandoned palace of voting corruption casting doubt on his earlier close election win....Was the US "warmongers" involved in 2004 as well?... I tell you who has been interfering all along in ukraine and thats your little dicktator putin as he never recognised that 1991 vote. Despite all the world nations recognising ukraine as an independant sovereign state, included russia. He has been bombarding ukraines ethnic russian border areas with his state tv propaganda since he came to power. No doubt creating the etnic and political division in ukraine to garner support for this whole "greater russian world" imperialist project of his. As well as creating the whole "nazi" warmongering .propaganda to justify "his" imperialist war.
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  1031. Just a bit of history about ukraine, pre maidan. 80 odd years of russification has to be taken into account. From stalin times through the soviet era up to 1991. Thats why russian culture/language etc was and still is to a degree, ingrained into ukranian culture. In 1991 ukraine voted 92% to leave the union with russia. All the oblasts and regions voted in favour including crimea and the donbas region. Ukraine then followed a similar route as yeltsins russia with attempts at fast tracking democracy and western style capitalism. The lack of legal accountability though ended up with oligarch corruption in both countries. Putin then took over around 2000 in russia. He, amongst many ex soviet hardliners, never recognised that 1991 vote and so set out to return a form of russian domination on all of its former soviet states that had left during the break up of the ussr. Putins attempts in ukraine began politically with yanukovych in the elections of 2004. His state funded tv media had begun its propaganda methods, not only in russia, but in all the border areas of its former soviet states, including ukraine. Pro russian olgarchs were also financing and involved in it all too. Yanukovych won the 2004 election but claims of corruption created a massive demonstration in kiev. The orange revolution as it became known then forced a rerun of the election after ukraines highest court ruled that there was indeed electoral corruption. His "poisoned" opponent victor yushchenko winning the rerun comfortably. He was pro west/democracy and in power for 5 years up till 2010. Attempted to join NATO along with georgia, but germany and france vetoed their application as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putin instead. He also began preliminary negotiations for ukraine to join the EU. In 2010 yanukovych won a close run election that was deemed fair by international observers. His 3 years saw the NATO bid scrapped altogether. Increasing oppression of his political opponents. The constitution changed to help that oppression. The jailing of his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. And the most fateful decision of all to scrap the proposed union with the EU for one with the very country the people voted 92% to leave in 1991. So not surprisingly the ukranian people werent having any of that so another revolution started late in 2013. This time called the revolution of dignity or maidan. It began peacefully at first but as the police became more hardline in their approach the numbers demonstrating and the violence grew. Yanukovych, as you would expect from a putin clone, sent in his special police berkut unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators. 120 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. He fled, and the folowing morning the duma reformed and voted to strip him of his power and arranged a new election which petro poroshenko later won. The constitution was reinstated and tymoshenko released. Evidence was also found of voting corruption in his abandoned palace casting doubt on his earlier election win. Since Maidan putin has adopted a much more extreme military approach to achieve that original objective. Culminating in february 22 last year.
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  1055. Just testing to see if this comment gets removed. Tis either you tube algorithm, block downvoting by putin trolls or a combination of both. This just got removed a few minutes ago. "The only referendum that matters here is the ukraine independance referendum of 1991. 92% voting in favour of independance from a union with russia. All the oblasts and regions voting in favour including crimea and the donbas. Ukraine were then recognised worldwide including by russia as a sovereign independant state. So when putin cloned puppet yanukovych scrapped plans to join the european union for one with the very country they voted 92% to leave in 1991 then no wonder a euromaidan occured. There was also the corruption and ever authoritarian methods used by yanukovychs government which led to the demonstration. Including changing the constitution and jailing his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. Authoritarian methods which eventually led him to ordering his special berkut police unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators killing 120 and injuring thousands at maidan. There had already been a similar demonstration against yanukovych in 2004 when the orange revolution overturned a yanukovych election victory by corruption. Which was proven as his poisoned opponent yuschenko won the rerun comfortably. Evidence of electoral corruption was also found in his abandoned palace when he fled after maidan casting doubt on his 2010 electoral victory. The only history that matters is the current history. Which is showing that imperial extreme far right nationalism didnt die out with the second world war. Putin seemingly wanting to create this "greater russian world" empire. Similar to the soviet empire he was brought up and served under. First he tried politically with yanukovych and through his state funded propaganda that was being broadcast to the russian speaking border areas of ukraine ever since he came to power. No doubt causing the political and later ethnic division required. After that failed he turned to his military and his failed 3 day regime change in kiev. Which has now turned into, not only a complete disaster for him, but a tragedy for the many ukranians and his own that have lost their lives through his dictatorial imperialist ambitions". Whatever happened to.........free speech.
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  1081. Yep i definately gonna tune into that bunch of lying left wing marxists and known putin sympathisers. Also you forgot to mention the reason for all of your supposed happenings occuring. You know october 7th, just like in 1948/67 and 1973 israel was invaded yet again, for the 4th time by arabs.This time it had 1200+ of its civilians along with many other nationalities mass murdered at close range. Plus another 250 odd hostages taken in true terrorist style.Just to make certain that israel would have to retaliate. So then the hamas propagaganda narrative of colateral civilian casualties could be used to draw in other arab/muslim nations and terror groups to join in with their holy jihad. Which is the total destruction of israel. From the river to the sea. And with it no negotiation. And you support no negotiation? Really! The same propaganda narrative that you are now being duped into supporting. Just like putins state funded propaganda duped a lot of those supposed independant journalists you mention above. So when are the ICC going to bring charges then? If the totally uncorruptable UN, the geneva convention(which is a treaty by the way, not a court ruling) and the pacifists at amnesty international have all decided that israel is guilty without trial. The stopping of water etc israel admitted was an attempt to try and use it to negotate the release of the hostages. As for the bloodbath now occuring in gaza that is exactly what hamas wanted and planned for. They are the ones ultimately responsible here. . The geneva convention states that parties in conflict are to try and prevent civilian losses as much as possible. Proportional response is allowed tho, especially when responding to any attack on its own civilians. Thousands of rockets were launched by hamas at civilian targets in israel after the war against hamas was declared. If it wasnt for the iron dome then israeli civilian casualties would have been just as high as in gaza. So hitting the command centres and rocket launch sites were the rockets were coming from had to be a priority to any country protecting its citizens . That has to be taken into consideration here. So too, where the geneva convention mentions about warning civilians to leave in advance of military strikes and actions. Which israel did for 3 weeks along with leaflets dropped advising civilians to move south of the wadi gaza. Plus they are sacrificing their own soldiers in a land invasion as well to try and limit the civilian losses. They could have done what putin did to grozny allepo and mariupol instead and simply flattened all of it . This was always going to be a bloodbath. Just as hamas intended it to be. The apartheid you mention. Maybe if hamas hadnt been organising suicide bombings against israeli civilians for many years then all the checkpoints, walls, fences and tight security wouldnt have been required. The balfour declaration didnt begin israel in 1948. That was earlier in the century. It was the UN in 1948 that decided on how the territory was divided up afer its previous owners, the british empire left. It also had the another empire controlling it before that. .The ottaman empire.
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  1168.  @wellardme  The 3 (of the 13) points in the minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deasl was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation. But of course he doesnt recognise them as a sovereign nation. Which is 100% the reason why he and his fascist/nationalist imperialist supporters want to kill democratic ukraine, especially the democratic bit. He wants to renew his love in again with his beloved ussr. Dictators in search of lost empires. Mussolini, hitler and now putin. Just a bit of history about ukraine, pre maidan. 80 odd years of russification has to be taken into account. From stalin times through the soviet era up to 1991. Thats why russian culture/language etc was and still is to a degree, ingrained into ukranian culture. In 1991 ukraine voted 92% to leave the union with russia. All the oblasts and regions voted in favour including crimea and the donbas region. Ukraine then followed a similar route as yeltsins russia with attempts at fast tracking democracy and western style capitalism. The lack of legal accountability though ended up with oligarch corruption in both countries. Putin then took over around 2000 in russia. He, amongst many ex soviet hardliners, never recognised that 1991 vote and so set out to return a form of russian domination on all of its former soviet states that had left during the break up of the ussr. Putins attempts in ukraine began politically with yanukovych in the elections of 2004. His state funded tv media had begun its propaganda methods, not only in russia, but in all the border areas of its former soviet states, including ukraine. Pro russian olgarchs were also financing and involved in it all too. Yanukovych won the 2004 election but claims of corruption created a massive demonstration in kiev. The orange revolution as it became known then forced a rerun of the election after ukraines highest court ruled that there was indeed electoral corruption. His "poisoned" opponent victor yushchenko winning the rerun comfortably. He was pro west/democracy and in power for 5 years up till 2010. Attempted to join NATO along with georgia, but germany and france vetoed their application as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putin instead. He also began preliminary negotiations for ukraine to join the EU. In 2010 yanukovych won a close run election that was deemed fair by international observers. His 3 years saw the NATO bid scrapped altogether. Increasing oppression of his political opponents. The constitution changed to help that oppression. The jailing of his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. And the most fateful decision of all to scrap the proposed union with the EU for one with the very country the people voted 92% to leave in 1991. So not surprisingly the ukranian people werent having any of that so another revolution started late in 2013. This time called the revolution of dignity or maidan. It began peacefully at first but as the police became more hardline in their approach the numbers demonstrating and the violence grew. Yanukovych, as you would expect from a putin clone, sent in his special police berkut unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators. 120 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. He fled, and the folowing morning the duma reformed and voted to strip him of his power and arranged a new election which petro poroshenko later won. The constitution was reinstated and tymoshenko released. Evidence was also found of voting corruption in his abandoned palace casting doubt on his earlier election win. Since Maidan putin has adopted a much more extreme military approach to achieve that original objective. Culminating in february 22 last year.
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  1215. The 3 (of the 13) points in the minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deasl was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation. But of course he doesnt recognise them as a sovereign nation. Which is 100% the reason why he and his fascist/nationalist imperialist supporters want to kill democratic ukraine, especially the democratic bit. He wants to renew his love in again with his beloved ussr. Dictators in search of lost empires. Mussolini, hitler and now putin. The 2014-22 genocide that this guy kept claiming was also the reason given by putin for the invasion. So its funny then that the UN monitors present on the frontline those 7 years after minsk never noticed any genocide. Its also funny how putin never raised this genocide at the UN during those 8 years either. It would have brought worldwide condemnation on ukraine. However he did broadcast it to his people through his propaganda to justify the invasion. Hiding from them his true purpose which was simple imperialism. Also nearly all the 14k that died, from both sides, happened during the violence that occured between maidan in early 2014 and the minsk agreement being signed in 2015. Just a bit of history about ukraine, pre maidan. 80 odd years of russification has to be taken into account. From stalin times through the soviet era up to 1991. Thats why russian culture/language etc was and still is to a degree, ingrained into ukranian culture. In 1991 ukraine voted 92% to leave the union with russia. All the oblasts and regions voted in favour including crimea and the donbas region. Ukraine then followed a similar route as yeltsins russia with attempts at fast tracking democracy and western style capitalism. The lack of legal accountability though ended up with oligarch corruption in both countries. Putin then took over around 2000 in russia. He, amongst many ex soviet hardliners, never recognised that 1991 vote and so set out to return a form of russian domination on all of its former soviet states that had left during the break up of the ussr. Putins attempts in ukraine began politically with yanukovych in the elections of 2004. His state funded tv media had begun its propaganda methods, not only in russia, but in all the border areas of its former soviet states, including ukraine. Pro russian olgarchs were also financing and involved in it all too. Yanukovych won the 2004 election but claims of corruption created a massive demonstration in kiev. The orange revolution as it became known then forced a rerun of the election after ukraines highest court ruled that there was indeed electoral corruption. His "poisoned" opponent victor yushchenko winning the rerun comfortably. He was pro west/democracy and in power for 5 years up till 2010. Attempted to join NATO along with georgia, but germany and france vetoed their application as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putin instead. He also began preliminary negotiations for ukraine to join the EU. In 2010 yanukovych won a close run election that was deemed fair by international observers. His 3 years saw the NATO bid scrapped altogether. Increasing oppression of his political opponents. The constitution changed to help that oppression. The jailing of his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. And the most fateful decision of all to scrap the proposed union with the EU for one with the very country the people voted 92% to leave in 1991. So not surprisingly the ukranian people werent having any of that so another revolution started late in 2013. This time called the revolution of dignity or maidan. It began peacefully at first but as the police became more hardline in their approach the numbers demonstrating and the violence grew. Yanukovych, as you would expect from a putin clone, sent in his special police berkut unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators. 120 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. He fled, and the folowing morning the duma reformed and voted to strip him of his power and arranged a new election which petro poroshenko later won. The constitution was reinstated and tymoshenko released. Evidence was also found of voting corruption in his abandoned palace casting doubt on his earlier election win. Since Maidan putin has adopted a much more extreme military approach to achieve that original objective. Culminating in february 22 last year.
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  1236.  @treefrog1956  NATO expansion is one of 3 excuses that putin uses to justify his special military disaster. The others being ukranian nazis and the donbass genocide during the 8 years after minsk 2014. Only 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Far less than other democracies. So much for ukranian nazis. If there was a genocide on ethnic russians in the donbass region occuting during those 8 years after minsk how come the UN monitors on the frontline those 8 years never noticed it? How come putin never raised this genocide at the UN during those 8 years either? He raised it for his own people tho to justify his illegal invasion. As for NATO expansion, i prefer to call it democracy expansion as thats one of the requirements to join. The crucial thing to remember with NATOs expansion is that not one inch of territory has been annexed in doing so. Unlike putin in ukraine. Putin doesnt fear NATO and its expansion. As he has those nuclear weapons he keeps threatening us with for starters. He does fear democracy tho and it expanding into russia, and threatening his mafia like power base. Its also why far right politicians like farage and trump side with him on this as they seemingly dont care about democracy either. Maybe the corrupt capitalist state that putin has built is more their style? As for the real reason. Imperialism. Plain and simple. To reunite the "greater russians", the "belorussians" and their so called "little russians" of ukraine back together again into his so named "greater russian world" empire that would once again rival the west. Just as putins beloved ussr soviet empire used to do.
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  1237.  @treefrog1956  NATO expansion is one of 3 excuses that putin uses to justify his special military disaster. The others being ukranian nazis and the donbass genocide during the 8 years after minsk 2014. Only 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Far less than other democracies. So much for ukranian nazis. If there was a genocide on ethnic russians in the donbass region occuting during those 8 years after minsk how come the UN monitors on the frontline those 8 years never noticed it? How come putin never raised this genocide at the UN during those 8 years either? He raised it for his own people tho to justify his illegal invasion. As for NATO expansion, i prefer to call it democracy expansion as thats one of the requirements to join. The crucial thing to remember with NATOs expansion is that not one inch of territory has been annexed in doing so. Unlike putin in ukraine. Putin doesnt fear NATO and its expansion. As he has those nuclear weapons he keeps threatening us with for starters. He does fear democracy tho and it expanding into russia, and threatening his mafia like power base. Its also why far right politicians like farage and trump side with him on this as they seemingly dont care about democracy either. Maybe the corrupt capitalist state that putin has built is more their style? As for the real reason. Imperialism. Plain and simple. To reunite the "greater russians", the "belorussians" and their so called "little russians" of ukraine back together again into his so named "greater russian world" empire that would once again rival the west. Just as putins beloved ussr soviet empire used to do.
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  1238.  @treefrog1956  NATO expansion is one of 3 excuses that putin uses to justify his special military disaster. The others being ukranian nazis and the donbass genocide during the 8 years after minsk 2014. Only 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Far less than other democracies. So much for ukranian nazis. If there was a genocide on ethnic russians in the donbass region occuting during those 8 years after minsk how come the UN monitors on the frontline those 8 years never noticed it? How come putin never raised this genocide at the UN during those 8 years either? He raised it for his own people tho to justify his illegal invasion. As for NATO expansion, i prefer to call it democracy expansion as thats one of the requirements to join. The crucial thing to remember with NATOs expansion is that not one inch of territory has been annexed in doing so. Unlike putin in ukraine. Putin doesnt fear NATO and its expansion. As he has those nuclear weapons he keeps threatening us with for starters. He does fear democracy tho and it expanding into russia, and threatening his mafia like power base. Its also why far right politicians like farage and trump side with him on this as they seemingly dont care about democracy either. Maybe the corrupt capitalist state that putin has built is more their style? As for the real reason. Imperialism. Plain and simple. To reunite the "greater russians", the "belorussians" and their so called "little russians" of ukraine back together again into his so named "greater russian world" empire that would once again rival the west. Just as putins beloved ussr soviet empire used to do.
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  1239.  @treefrog1956  NATO expansion is one of 3 excuses that putin uses to justify his special military disaster. The others being ukranian nazis and the donbass genocide during the 8 years after minsk 2014. Only 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Far less than other democracies. So much for ukranian nazis. If there was a genocide on ethnic russians in the donbass region occuting during those 8 years after minsk how come the UN monitors on the frontline those 8 years never noticed it? How come putin never raised this genocide at the UN during those 8 years either? He raised it for his own people tho to justify his illegal invasion. As for NATO expansion, i prefer to call it democracy expansion as thats one of the requirements to join. The crucial thing to remember with NATOs expansion is that not one inch of territory has been annexed in doing so. Unlike putin in ukraine. Putin doesnt fear NATO and its expansion. As he has those nuclear weapons he keeps threatening us with for starters. He does fear democracy tho and it expanding into russia, and threatening his mafia like power base. Its also why far right politicians like farage and trump side with him on this as they seemingly dont care about democracy either. Maybe the corrupt capitalist state that putin has built is more their style? As for the real reason. Imperialism. Plain and simple. To reunite the "greater russians", the "belorussians" and their so called "little russians" of ukraine back together again into his so named "greater russian world" empire that would once again rival the west. Just as putins beloved ussr soviet empire used to do.
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  1350. Hamas is just another islamic fundamentalist group imo. They formed in1987 apparently along with many others, both shia and sunni.. I remember watching a muslim lady on uk tv in the early 90s saying that the rise of islamic fundamentalism was going to be the biggest threat to world peace looking forward. The attack on the US cove warship and 9/11 followed soon after leading to the 20 year war on terror. That was the sunni version with al queda, isis and others. Now its the shia,s turn with hamas spending those same 20 odd years turning gaza into another isis like death cult camp it seems. I have also read about islamic fundamentalism being a form of religious marxism as it looks to attract the downtrodden and poverty stricken and utilise their anger and resentment into a form of violent revolution against their oppressors. Obviously with a strict islamic religious order to it all in this case. Like marxism they also go after the elite/colonial/rich etc both local/israel/jews and worldwide/US/west/globalism etc. Maybe a reason why so many on the far left buy into it all. So much so it seems that they completely overlook the vile terrorism involved and dont seem to be able to differentiate between civilised and uncivilised behaviour. And what was once a just cause represented by peaceful negotiation by the PLO pre 2006 into what it is represented by hamas today. Which is now a platform to commit their terrorism, end the israel state and kill jews in general. Unlike the sunni groups tho, tbf they dont seem to be targetting the west so far. Maybe iran has a level of influence in, that as they are apparently funding hamas and they were formed around that same time after irans islamic fundamentalist revolution when the shah was removed, they all hate israel far more than they do the west.
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  1415. Incorrect Putins special military disaster has never been about NATO expansion or ukranian nazis committing genocide on ethnic russians. It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. Evidence of this was given just a few days into the invasion, 28th february when a propaganda article was released early in error. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules. Imperialism. Plain and simple.
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  1440. incorrect. There was a war cabinet. Churchill wasnt making these decisions alone. Clem atlee became deputy pm. Bevin, Chamberlain, Eden, Halifax, Greenwood, Beaverbrook, Wood and Anderson who replaced chamberlain when he died. So to blame churchill alone is just nonsense. Also the official 1945 enquiry into the bengal famine found the national indian and local bengal governments foremostly responsible along with the viceroy at the time Linithglow. With the imperial government(war cabinet) also criticised. Tbf the local government and national officials had used their famine relief methods on previous famines and they had been successful. This famine though was far worse than previous and needed much firmer action. It needed the confiscation of all grain/rice in the country as a whole and rationing introduced. By the time the new viceroy wavell intervened with this policy 1 and a half million had starved to death. Even after rationing another 1 and a half million died after as people were too weak to fight off disease. Terrible tragedy. The uk government/cabinet has to take some share of the blame too. Way too slow in reacting or maybe not realising how bad the situation really was? No social media/world news in those days remember. Plus there was a war on. Japan had invaded the neighbouring countries, which created the famine. They also had control of the bay of bengal and were attempting to invade india through the bengal area. Plus d day was fast approaching so any spare transports were probably being kept back for that. Funny how this indian far right nationalist modi propaganda is now being used to denigrate one of the worlds most famous haters of far right nationalism and nazism isnt it?
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  1526. Those 120 that died and thousands injured at maidan were ukranians. Not nato. They had already done similar to yanukovych in 2004 when his election win was reversed due to voting corruption. Was the US/nuland involved then? The ukranians held another election soon after yanukovych had fled, which was not not surprising as he had ordered his special police berkut to open fire at maidan on unarmed demonstrators. Petro poroshenko won that election..He attempted to restore control of the donbas and crimean regions that had both ethnic ukranian and ethnic russian inhabitants. 14K people died from both sides during the violence that followed up to the 2015 minsk agreement. Civilians from both sides, as they always do in war, suffered the most. Putin backed, little green men were in evidence in both crimea and the donbas during this period. Causing the downing of flight MA17. After minsk no atrocities were noticed by the osce UN monitors present on the frontline those 7 years despite putins claim of genocide as the reason for his special miitary disaster. Putin then broke the minsk peace deal by invading. Zelensky is not only a jew his party is liberal left politically and poroshenkos centrish. Just 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected.Far less than other democracies. I actually agree with you for once. Every country do have far right nationalists/nazis in them including the US. Including many in this comment section it seems supporting putins imperialist ambitions, including the seriously misled mr hinkle. Thankfully like all extremists to the far right and the far left they are a small but very active and vocal minority. As for the UN vote it was proposed by russia. A country acting now just like the nazis of old. Invading and annexing territory. The only surprise to me is that not more of the 49 countries that abstained didnt vote against along with ukraine and the US. Though they abstained to a resolution like that says a lot about putins russia proposing it.
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  1571. NATO expansion is one of 3 excuses that putin uses to justify his special military disaster. The others being ukranian nazis and his supposed donbass genocide during the 8 years after minsk 2014. Only 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Far less than other democracies. So much for ukranian nazis. If there was a genocide on ethnic russians in the donbass region occuring during those 8 years after minsk how come the UN monitors on the frontline those 8 years never noticed it? How come putin never raised this genocide at the UN during those 8 years either? He raised it for his own people tho to justify to them his illegal invasion. As for NATO expansion, i prefer to call it democracy expansion as thats one of the requirements to join. The crucial thing to remember with NATOs expansion is that not one inch of territory has been invaded and annexed in doing so. Unlike putin in ukraine. Putin doesnt fear NATO and its expansion. Why would he? As he has those nuclear weapons he keeps threatening us with for starters. Its the spread of democracy he fears and it expanding into russia, and so threatening his power base. Its also why far right nationalist politicians like orban, farage and trump side with him on this as they seemingly dont care about democracy either. Maybe the corrupt capitalist state that putin has built is more their style? As for the real reason. Imperialism. Plain and simple. To reunite the "greater russians"which is how they describe themselves, the "belorussians" and their so called "little russians" of ukraine back together again. Into his new "greater russian world" empire that would once again rival the west. Just like putins beloved ussr soviet empire used to do. He first tried politically through his puppet yanukovych and when that failed at euro maidan he turned to his military. Using those 8 years after minsk to build up his military for the invasion. Proven by their ever increasing military spending during that period.
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  1573. Regarding the bengali famine. There was actually a war cabinet. Churchill wasnt making those decisions alone. Labours clem atlee became deputy pm in it. Bevin, Chamberlain, Eden, Halifax, Greenwood, Beaverbrook, Wood and Anderson who replaced chamberlain when he died also.. So to blame churchill alone is just nonsense imho. Also the official 1945 enquiry found the national indian and local bengal governments foremostly responsible along with the viceroy at the time Linithglow. With the imperial government(war cabinet) also criticised. Tbf the local indian government and national officials had used their famine relief methods on previous famines and they had been successful. This famine though was far worse than previous and needed much firmer action. Confiscation of all grain/rice and rationing needed to be introduced immediately which wasnt as they used the other economic style methods which had worked previously. By the time the newly appointed viceroy wavell intervened with help from the british army one and a half million had starved to death. Even after rationing another one and a half million died after as people were too weak to fight off disease. A terrible tragedy. The uk government/cabinet has to take some share of the blame too. Way too slow in reacting or maybe not realising how bad the situation really was? No social media/world news in those days remember. Plus you have to take into account that there "there was a war on". Bengal is where the japanese were coming through. The uk was preparing for d day. The japanese had occupied all the coastline and land to the east. Which previously supplied bengal with their grain and they were now bombing the bengal bay from where the aid had to come. Plus there was a huge storm on the western coast of india which destroyed a huge grain storage there which exasperated the problem.. The independants article is reliant on a book written by a modern day indian lady who understandably hates the british empire and wants to rubbish a major part of it. Just like a lot of modern day indian nationalists like modi, hate the uk and its past imperialism too. The independant is also anti conservative and is also more than happy to rubbish a conservative icon whenever it can.
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  1688.  @RC-tv7hi  Maidan is a long story but here you go. Putin for the last 20 odd years has been influencing, coercing and now finally invading ukraine. Trying to create a form of the old USSR. Or a "greater russian world". His state tv propaganda has been transmitting into ethnic russians homes in ukraines border areas for all of that time. No doubt influencing political views as well as creating ethnic division. The nazi stuff especially since 2014. He also had pro russian oligarchs owning ukranian tv media influencing as well during that pre maidan period. Yanukovych was his puppet during all this. During the earlier 2004 "orange revolution"putin was influencing and "poisoning" his opponent yuschenko. Yanukovychs victory was later annulled by the courts as voting corruption was discovered after his win. The rerun election was then won comfortably by yuschenko. Yanukovych then won the next election fairly promising to join the EU. He then cloned putins actions in russia and changed the constitution to become more oppressive. He made judicial changes to jail his main political rival yulia tymoshenko on false charges. The media oligarch was also given a job in his govt and was suppressing opposition media. Then yanukovych went back on his promise to join the EU to create what his master wanted all along. A union with russia. So this triggered another revolution. This time called maidan. Peaceful at first but then yanukovych, no doubt under pressure from putin, sent snipers in to shoot unarmed protesters. 122 died with thousands injured. No way could he carry on after that bloodbath. He fled and parliament reformed the next day and changed the constitution back to its 2006 state. Yulia tymoshenko was released. New elections were planned and held. Petro poroshenko was duly elected. Yanukovychs lavish palace was searched and polling stamps were found casting doubt on his election victory. Proof that this has been putins objective all along can be found by googling petr akopov a pro putin author who wrote a piece for russian state media 3 days after the invasion. It was put up in error and got taken down quickly but was up long enough to be archived. A link to his article "the new world order" is in the spectator piece. It talks about creating a "greater rusian world" of greater russians, belorussians and their so called "little russians" of ukraine. The overall plan was to challenge the west as a true superpower once again.
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  1690.  @ЭЮЯ-о3к  That would be the revolution of dignity where the ukranian people took to the streets of maidan to protest for the second time at putin cloned puppet yanukovych and his oppressive and corrupt regimes. First in the orange revolution where his alleged victory was annulled due to voting corruption. His poisoned opponent winning the rerun comfortably. When yanukovych was elected 4 years later in 2010 in a close election. He changed the constitution to allow for more oppression and immediately jailed his political opponent yulia tymoshenko. As well as oppressing opposition views. The final straw being to withdraw from a plan to join the EU for an alliance with putin instead. Not surprisingly the people took to the streets as 92|% of them had voted to be independant from russia in 1991. Protests began peacefully but then escalated as police become more brutal. Eventually yanukovych sent in snipers to shoot unarmed demonstrators. 110 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive after that bloodbath. He fled and the rada initiated new elections from which poroshenko was elected. In yanukovychs abandoned palace evidence was found of voting corruption casting doubt on his earlier election victory. As for the supposed "genocide" in donbas over the last 8 years dont you think that the UN monitors present during that time would have noticed this "genocide". Also only 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Far less than most western countries. Zelenskys party is centrist and poroshenkos to the left. The only nazi style behaviour is coming from putin and his propaganda which has been broadcasting his state tv to the ethnic rusian border areas of ukraine since he came to power. No doubt creating the ethnic division required to bring about his ultimate goal. The reunification of the old USSR into a "greater russian world" so as to challenge the west once again as a true superpower.
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  1714. Correct about putin wrong about NATO.. The NATO narrative is just one of the excuse he uses to justify his special military disaster. Ukranian nazis, genocide in the donbass are the 2 others. The real reason is simple. Imperialism. It was known just a few days into the invasion when....... The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. Its long but it describes exactly why putin is invading ukraine. The "little russians" are the ukranians and the "greater russians" not surprisingly are describing themselves. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules. Imperialism. Plain and simple.
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  1767.  @a5cent  Sorry mate your wrong on ukraines nato membership. They did apply to join NATO under victor yuschenko who was pro western and came to power after the orange revolution in 2004. He defeated putin cloned puppet yanukovych after a rerun of the election which was proven corrupt. They officially applied along with georgia but france and germany vetoed it as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putin instead. No NATO for them being putins proviso. Yanukovych then came to power in 2010 and he immediately scrapped the NATO plans and later the EU accession which led to "euro" maidan. Just to add that 92% voted to leave a union with russia in 1991 with their ukranian independance vote. All the regions and oblasts voted to leave including crimea and the donbas. Yanukovych/putin wanted to replace the proposed EU deal for one with the very same country that 92% voted to leave in 1991. So not surprisingly there was another orange revolution in kiev this time called the revolution of dignity/maidan. Not surprisingly, yanukovych acted like putin in using violence to end the protest, eventually ending up sending his special berkut police unit in to shoot unarmed demonstrators. 120 died with thousands injured. He fled the next day ending putins plan to politically bring ukraine back under his control. Putin then turned to his military ethnic russian proxies and now after building up his military after minsk its a full on invasion. Tho originally the special military disaster was supposed to be a 3 day regime change. Yanukovych was apparently ready to be flown in from belorus.
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  1848. Incorrect. Sorry to copy and paste but i dont have time to keep answering these far right attempts to target and humiliate true conservative individuals who opposed nazi and far right ideology and imperialism. There was a war cabinet. Churchill wasnt making these decisions alone. Clem atlee became deputy pm. Bevin, Chamberlain, Eden, Halifax, Greenwood, Beaverbrook, Wood and Anderson who replaced chamberlain when he died. So to blame churchill alone is just nonsense. Also the official 1945 enquiry on the bengal famine found the national indian and local bengal governments foremostly responsible along with the viceroy at the time Linithglow. With the imperial government(war cabinet) also criticised. Tbf the local government and national officials had used their famine relief methods on previous famines and they had been successful. This famine though was far worse than previous and needed much firmer action. It needed the confiscation of all grain/rice in the country as a whole and rationing introduced. By the time the new viceroy wavell intervened with this policy 1 and a half million had starved to death. Even after rationing another 1 and a half million died after as people were too weak to fight off disease. Terrible tragedy. The uk government/cabinet has to take some share of the blame too. Way too slow in reacting or maybe not realising how bad the situation really was? No social media/world news in those days remember. Plus there was a war on. Japan had invaded the neighbouring countries, which created the famine. They also had control of the bay of bengal and were attempting to invade india through the bengal area. Plus d day was fast approaching so any spare transports were probably being kept back for that.
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  1857. "Dont have a clear picture of october 7th" He needs to watch some of the videos ive seen. From videos shot by hamas terrorists themselves. To use mandela and his struggles against apatheid as a comparison is stupid. Did mandela do suicide bombings, rocket attacks and organise mass extermination squads on south african whites. No because he sought a peaceful negotiated resolution instead. Thats also the reason why the gaza population is being secured behind its border. Because of the previous suicide bombings, indiscriminate rocket attacks and now the recent close range execution squads organised by hamas since 2006. Has he ever wondered why egypt has also closed its border to gaza too? Egypt dont want hamas and terrorism in their country either. Also why isnt the fatah run west bank rising up as well if this is a palestine uprising. Because fatah dont like hamas either. Abbas isnt too keen on them either tho he tries to stay nuetral. Nothing will change here until the palestinians as a whole return to the negotating table as they did pre 2004 when arrafat/fatah was in control. 2 state negotiated settlement is still the only solution. Violence only breeds more violence. I also have an opinion that far left western palestinian sympathisers seem to be identifying the terror attacks on october 7th as some kind of marxist uprising. Where the downtrodden rise up against their evil overlords. When it was terrorism. In its purest and ugliest form against innocent civilians. Tho some military targets were hit as well tbf. Some like this gentleman just dont seem to be able to accept that his side could commit evil atrocities as well.
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  1885.  @tancdiscovery9432  Genocide is what happened on 7th october. The deliberate close range targetting of civilians. Israel is allowed under international law to defend itself and respond to that atttack. The military strikes on hamas are not genocidal by themselves. The geneva convention mentions proportionality. As hamas continues to fire its rockets indiscriminately at civilian targets, which in itself is a war crime, then the need to knock out command centres and those rocket launch sites are paramount to the safety of its own civilians and would need to be taken into consideration. The convention also mentions that the parties involved in the conflict must try to warn civilians and attempt to prevent civilian casualties as best they can. Israel has been leafletting, warning and telling palestinians to head south of the wadi gaza for 3/4 weeks now.. They are also sacrificing their own soldiers in a land invasion to try and limit civilian casualties..Its still a bloodbath as wars always are. Its always the civilians that suffer the most. Thats why civilised people will do their utmost to avoid them. This is now the 4th time israel has been invaded by its neighbours in the last 75 odd years. So there is going to be resentment on their side as well as the palestinians. Thats why negotiation is crucial to any kind of peaceful solution here. And that is never going to happen with hamas on the scene. Not even a ceasefire that so many seem to crave. Israel dont want it and neither does hamas. They want this to drag on as long as possible to draw in other arab/muslim nations and terror groups into this conflict with them.
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  1902.  @larrysherk  You need to reread history then. Putin been interfering in ukraine since he came to power. He has never recognised the independance vote of 92% in 1991 were all the oblasts voted in favour including crimea and the donbas. Despite the vote being recognised worldwide and by russia. He created this war to bring his long term strategy to fruition. To create a new form of his beloved USSR in a "greater russian world". He has tried through politics with yanukovych, his cloned puppet president, and now hes using his military. Hes also been using his most potent weapon. Propaganda. Putin state tv for all the ethnic russians in ukraines border areas to create division and make political gain. Pro russian oligarchs did the rest by financin it all, one even owning some ukranian tv media. So putin been involved since day one of him coming to power in 2000. Twice, the ukranian people took to the streets in protest about the corruption and the oppression that followed yanukovychs 2 election wins. The orange revolution in 2004 where voting corruption was proven. His "poisoned" opponent easily winning the rerun. Then 10 years later at maidan after 4 years of oppression. Changing the constitution first to gain more power. Then jailing his political opponent yulia tymoshenko. Appointing that media oligarch in his govt who then started sanctioning opposition tv channels. Generally cracking down on all opposition views. Then he went back on a promise to join the EU. From which maidan began. It began peacefully at first but as he started to used more violent force the demo grew in size and numbers and became more resistant to the violent measures. He then sent snipers in to shoot unarmed protestors. 122 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. He fled the next day with the rada reforming and voting yanukovych from office. The previous constitution was restored and tymoshenko released. New elections were organised and petro poroshenko became the new president. Also evidence was found of voting corruption in yanukovychs palace casting doubt on his close but fair win in 2010. So putin been attempting regime change since 2000. Even attempting to do it in 3 days in february. Utterly pitiful.
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  1924. Putins special military disaster has never been about NATO expansion or ukranian nazis committing genocide on ethnic russians. It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. Evidence of this was given just a few days into the invasion, 28th february when a propaganda article was released early in error. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
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  1939. I might have respected him if he had asked why 1.Putin invades a sovereign independant state and annexes territory for no good reason. 2.Putin invades a sovereign independant state and why he is then condemned by 141 nations of the world at the UN. 3.Putin facilitates his military to commit regular war crimes on civilians, buildings and infrastructure. 4.Putin has been charged at the hague for the ethnic cleansing/russification and abduction of ukranian children. 5.Putin facilitates assassinations at home and abroad. 6.Putin uses state funded propaganda to suppress his people and misinform the world. 7.Putin uses oppression to suppress his people. 8.Putin breaks negotiated peace deals regularly eg minsk 2015. 9.Putin jails/murders any political opponents. Nemtsov/navalny. 10.Putin promotes abroad extreme far right nationalism and acts like extreme far right nationalists of the past like hitler and mussolini. 11.Putin acts like an imperial nationalist and wants to recreate the soviet/russian empire again. 12.Putin facilitates nationalist and military ideology/education for russian children. 13.Putin lives in a palace while many of his people live in squalor. 14.Putin treats his mobilised soldiers like cattle off to slaughter. 15.Putin faciltates "filtration" camps for ukranian refugees. 16.Putin facilitates the russification and torture of ukranian refugees and ukranians trapped in occupied territories. 17.Putin prevents osce election observers from observing russias supposed elections. 18.Putin rewards successful proxies/assassins places in his state duma. etc etc etc. Then again he never has been critical of putin hence the interview being allowed by putin.
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  2022.  @cave__troll  He is part of their past. Some see him as a freedom fighter first. There are far right nationalist and neo nazis minority groups in every country. Ukranians need peace to build and educate all its people to reject nationalism and question the past. That takes time. Especially in wartime were nationalism thrives.There is no chance of EU/NATO access for them if they dont change. They know that. As for nazi azov they were depoliticised long ago. Heres a better description of azov. Their commanders now are regular UAF Officers who were assigned to command after the SNP political leadership was removed. Out the 73 founders of Azov in Kharkhiv. Only 14 were from the SNP. The Myth of Nazi Azov was just that, a myth promulgated by the RuZZ Fascists & their Red Fascist Stalinist Allies. Most of Azov were originally formed by Football Ultras & grew from Kharkhiv to include Ultras from many of the FC's of east & south. Yes a large Minority of the Ultras had been affiliated to various Far Right outfits but not all. A large Minority also came from Far Left Outfits as well as Anarchists. All those Ultras used to fight each other ...now they fight side by in Azov. Azov grew beyond the Ultras too though as many non-Political & non-Ultra civilian volunteers joined Azov after invasion & it grew from Battalion size to Regiment. Also some existing regular soldiers were transferred in, new recruits to UAF also were added to build it to Brigade size. Azov now is nothing like Azov of 2014.
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  2024.  @fortnitepros8025  You forgot warsaw i notice. Plus german bombers bombed london in error from which then churchill retaliated with a bombing on berlin. Navigational errors, British counter-measures, and air-crew exhaustion prompted the bombers to overshoot their targets and mistakenly fly on towards blacked-out London in the early morning hours of 25 August. While most of the bombers dropped their explosives around the docks of East Ham and West Ham, justified military targets, there were a scattering of others that mistakenly bracketed central London with their bombs – 16 miles west in Staines, 12 miles south-west in Esher, and 8 miles north in north London. Additionally, there was one lone Heinkel that just so happened to drop its payload of approximately eight bombs, totalling two tons, directly on the financial heart of London: Fore Street in the Barbican. For the first time since the Zeppelin raids in World War I, in addition to factories and other military targets, the night sky of London glowed red from the flames of hundreds of burning homes. Interpreting the attack as deliberate rather than accidental, Churchill immediately and forcefully responded to the London bombing with a ‘massive’ retaliatory strike against the Nazi capital. This massive attack resulted in 2 injured and one zoo elephant killed. The result did have the effect of hitler changing their srategy from attacking airfields to carpet bombing civilians and flattening cities including my own of plymouth.
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  2025.  @dalu_  Why did nato expand? Maybe all the ex soviet states were shit scared of being invaded and rerussified again?. Its not like putin invades ex soviet states like georgia and ukraine is it. The "war on terror" happened after 9/11 when sunni islamic fundamentalist groups declared a terror war on west civilisation. Iraq and afghanistan was part of that war. Obama said it would take 20 years to win it and now 20 odd years later the war has been won as no major terror attacks on the west since afghan. Its called national security or the protection of its citizens. Putin did the same to the chechnyan rebels after beslan and other terror attacks on his civilians. Although more brutally. Zelenskys country is being invaded by a superior power for made up reasons so of course his country is the victim. Ukranian nazis?.Just 2% voted far right in ukraines last elections with no mps elected. Way less than other western democracies. Genocide of ethnic russians in donbas? The genocide that none of the UN monitors present those 8 years noticed. Or that putin never raised the issue at the UN during those 8 years either. Tho no doubt he was raising it with his state funded propagand tv etc to justify the invasion to his people. Imperialists invade and annex. Putin has done that in ukraine. Name one country that the US has annexed territory to enhance its "empire" . Mexico and texas. 1850s maybe but in an era of empires. Serbia has its own issues and must face the fact that convicted war criminal milosevic and others facilitated and acted out ethnic cleansing. They were bombed by NATO to end it and bringmilosevic to the negotiating table. Serbs died. So did other ethnicities. It did bring peace to the region which is what NATO was originally formed to do. Preventing militant nationalism from raising its ugly head again in europe after hitler in WW2 when eventually 52 million died worldwide. Atrocities were being committed on both sides, tho serbia having the largest military were targetted. Hopefully serbia can move on from all its troubled past and thrive peacefully whilst integrating into a more settled europe I noticed the other day somebody high up from kosavo is also to appear at the hague to answer war crime charges. Hopefully time will heal as it usually does eventually in all cases.
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  2062.  @frankiehunter.  I could write a novel too about how putins state funded tv and media lied to its people and to the ethnic russian speaking border regions of ukraine ever since he came to power 25 years ago. The russian language issue was one of many used to create the ethnic division required. Yanukovych was deposed by his people as he tried to reverse the decision made by the ukranian people in 1991. When they voted 92% to leave a union with russia. Yanukovych scrapped the plan to join the EU for one with the very nation they voted to leave in 1991. Thats why it was called "euromaidan". He also changed the constitution so he could jail his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. He also ordered his special berkut police unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators at maidan. 120 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. The odessa fire was an accident that followed a day of anarchy when both sides lost people shot beforehand. The police and fire services failed to intervene and in some cases took sides. The smaller group of ethnic russians barricaded themselves inside the building and one of the many molotovs being thrown from both sides set it on fire so there was no exit. There are pictures online of ukranians outside erecting scaffolding to try and save people inside. 50 died but many others were saved. 400 odd were inside when the fire started. The official investigation is still open i believe. Many of those criticised or charged so far have left the country. Also regarding nazis just 2% voted far right in ukraines last election with no mps elected. Much lower than other democracies. The former leader and founder of the private militia azov stood in that election and got knowhere. Azov, another target of putins propaganda has long been depoliticised and brought under the control of the professional ukranian army.
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  2070. If those tunnels have been there since the 80s then why havnt hamas used all that extra spare time and cash building bomb shelters for all the civilians they supposedly represent? So there are far left marxist/trotskyist jews or even pacifist jews. So what. Religion is no barrier to misguidedness. Israels government is a unity govt now with political opponents from the left ,of netanyahu, within it. Hamas was created in 1987 along with many other islamic funamentalist terror groups like al queda. They are also affiliated to the muslim brotherhood. Another terrorist group. Because they have no other choice and hamas knows this. They want a colateral bloodbath to draw other muslim/arab states and terror groups into the conflict with them.The israelis have been giving warnings for 3/4 weeks for civilians to head south. They are using special ops as well as a land invasion which will cost them lives as well. They have saved one hostage. The rest i would assume are being kept well safe as there are nationals from other countries aswell and hamas dont want bad publicity. I would say yes as they dont seem to me, to give a damn about any of them, as they fire off their rockets knowing darn well that a retaliatory strike is going to be coming straight back at where that rocket was fired from and so endangering all the civilians around them. The food and water stoppage was an attempt to use in exchange for the release of the hostages. Your hypocrisy i would argue is also on fire and you need to call the fire brigade..
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  2103. Petr akopov revealed it all in an article he wrote just a few days into the special military disaster.. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but not sure if it will let me use a link. The "little russians" are the ukranians. They are the "greater russians" apparently. Not surprisingly... "A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules". It was never about ukranian nazis, nato expansion or the supposed donbas genocide. It was imperialism. Plain and simple. A return to the soviet empire of which putin was a part of in the kgb. He has been trying since he came to power. Politically at first with his puppet yanukovych and then militarily after maidan removed him.
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  2115. It should be the ukranians who decide to negotiate. It is their country that is being invaded and annexed. It is their people that are fighting and dying for their independance from russian control. Therefore it should be them that decide. We should be supporting them as much as we can until that decision is made. As for the west using ukraine go and ask ukranians if they are being used as proxies. The NATO expansion is nothing to do with the invasion. It has been proved hence the history lesson by putin that this invasion is imperialist in nature. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article on 26th february 2022 that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules. Imperialism ...plain and simple.
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  2152. 17% per cent of ukranians were ethnic russians the last time a census was undertaken. So there are bound to be some collaborators. Most ethnic russian ukranians lived in the eastern regions. Donetsk, crimea and luhansk for example. Thats also the areas were putins, russian speaking, state tv propaganda were being broadcast too. For 14 years leading up to maidan. No doubt causing the ethnic and political division required for all this shit happening now. A large % of ordinary ukranians use russian as their first language too. A result of 80 odd years of the russification of ukraine by stalin, through the soviet era up to 1991. Then 92% voted in favour to leave a union with russia to become an independant sovereign state. All the regions including the donbas and crimea voted in favour. So many ethnic russians voted in favour too. Putins propaganda seems to have changed that as his puppet yanukovych was elected in 2010. 3 years later he scrapped a proposed union with the EU for one with the very country they voted 92% to leave in 1991. As well as becoming more authoritarian like his master. Not surprisingly the ukranian people rose up against this at maidan. From there this conflict started. A lot of ethnic russian ukranians have remained loyal though as putin has bombed a lot of the cities they are prominent in, like kharkiv, as well as relatives from both states falling out with each other. All this is due to putins most potent weapon imho. Which for me is his propaganda.. So many have been duped by it in russia, ukraine and even worldwide.
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  2169.  @gaborjuracsik4847  I think you should give up trying to explain as your making no sense at all to me. "My problem is that you use the word democracy while living in a monarchy". As others have said were not a monarchy. Our monarchy doesnt have any power anymore. Its purely symbolic and basically just good for our tourism industry and doing charity stuff. It also promotes the country abroad in a way too tbf. "Manipulating the opinion of the people, which is what propaganda is about, so the power elite can determine what is good". In our democracy you get the news/opinions from loads of different media platforms all with different political perspectives. So the people can make their own mind up on the truth and act/vote accordingly. Thats not propaganda. You need to look to the extreme far right and far left of political ideology for that. Usually one party states but there are exceptions where strong political leaders become dictators in essence even tho they have "supposed" democratic elections. Putins russia for example. Modi in india seems on his way there. Maybe even in hungary? Democracy cannot be taken for granted tho as there are plenty out there like putin and china who will always be trying to undermind and rubbish it. Whilst promoting the opposite.Which is what i think your trying to do here but like i said at the start i dont at all get where your coming from. Edited to add that ive just read some of your other historical irrelevence. The year is 2023 not the middle ages. Im not going to waste anymore of my precious time with you. Good luck with yer potential nationalist/dictator/monarch in hungary. Orban the diminutive.
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  2180.  @StephenDavies43  Nah. 28th february 2022. Putins propaganda gave it away in error. Imperialism. Recreating the soviet/russian empire was the aim. Probably still is. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
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  2197. A million battle casualties he says. What about mentioning the 500+ ukranian kids killed so far. Out of the 10k+ civilians overall. With another 30k+ civilians injured. He also said ukraine is corrupt. Most of the corruption left with yanukovych and his pro putin oligarch friends in 2014. Both poroshenko and then zelenskyy have run on anti corruption tickets as they both knew that the EU would not accept them otherwise. Also about zelenskyy not wearing a suit. Another nations leader turned up in washington during wartime in a uniform seeking aid. His name. Winston churchill. How was zelenskyy rude when he was simply answering vance about trusting diplomacy with putin. Which he then explained why it was difficult for ukraine to trust diplomacy again. I am sure, If he had been allowed to get a word in edgeways, he would have explained the importance to ukraine of security guarantees this time. This was when vance came out with a putin propaganda narrative about conscripts. This, unsurprisingly, riled zelensky and the conversation between them went downhill fast. With vance then accusing him of aiding the democrats during the election campaign by visiting a munitions factory. Again vance never mentioned that zelenskyy also met trump during that visit as well so as not to be seen as partisan. Then he accused him of being ungrateful and not thanking the US when zelenskyy has thanked them numerous times including this very visit. Even when trump finally went off on one of his rants it was barely an insult to warrant trumps over aggressive reply. All zelenskyy was trying to say. Remember english is not his native language either. Is that the war expanding beyond ukraines borders was bound to influence the US. Not militarily but economically. Another global recession with higher inflation worldwide. With world trade affected. I voted conservative last election and i voted for brexit but will not be switching to reform, as to me it leans too far to the right and nationalism. Similar to maga and trump. Even putins mafia government has similar traits to them of corrupted capitalism and far right nationalism. I also have seen plenty of reform people online, and magas, spouting the same lying putin propaganda that his state funded trolls have been using since he invaded ukraine. So no populism for me thank you. Its just a more friendly term for something more extreme to hide behind.
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  2201. You lost all credibility for me as soon as i started reading. All of the former far right militias including azov have long been brought under the control of their professsional army. The far right in ukraine polled less then 2% in their last election with no mps elected. Far less than other democracies. Zelenskys party is centre left and poroshenkos is in the centre. You obviously need a history lesson on ukraine and why putin wants to control it. Just a bit of history about ukraine, pre maidan. 80 odd years of russification has to be taken into account. From stalin times through the soviet era up to 1991. Thats why russian culture/language etc was and still is to a degree, ingrained into ukranian culture. In 1991 ukraine voted 92% to leave the union with russia. All the oblasts and regions voted in favour including crimea and the donbas region. Ukraine then followed a similar route as yeltsins russia with attempts at fast tracking democracy and western style capitalism. The lack of legal accountability though ended up with oligarch corruption in both countries. Putin then took over around 2000 in russia. He, amongst many ex soviet hardliners, never recognised that 1991 vote and so set out to return a form of russian domination on all of its former soviet states that had left during the break up of the ussr. Putins attempts in ukraine began politically with yanukovych in the elections of 2004. His state funded tv media had begun its propaganda methods, not only in russia, but in all the border areas of its former soviet states, including ukraine. Pro russian olgarchs were also financing and involved in it all too. Yanukovych won the 2004 election but claims of corruption created a massive demonstration in kiev. The orange revolution as it became known then forced a rerun of the election after ukraines highest court ruled that there was indeed electoral corruption. His "poisoned" opponent victor yushchenko winning the rerun comfortably. He was pro west/democracy and in power for 5 years up till 2010. Attempted to join NATO along with georgia, but germany and france vetoed their application as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putin instead. He also began preliminary negotiations for ukraine to join the EU. In 2010 yanukovych won a close run election that was deemed fair by international observers. His 3 years saw the NATO bid scrapped altogether. Increasing oppression of his political opponents. The constitution changed to help that oppression. The jailing of his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. And the most fateful decision of all to scrap the proposed union with the EU for one with the very country the people voted 92% to leave in 1991. So not surprisingly the ukranian people werent having any of that so another revolution started late in 2013. This time called the revolution of dignity or maidan. It began peacefully at first but as the police became more hardline in their approach the numbers demonstrating and the violence grew. Yanukovych, as you would expect from a putin clone, sent in his special police berkut unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators. 120 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. He fled, and the folowing morning the duma reformed and voted to strip him of his power and arranged a new election which petro poroshenko later won. The constitution was reinstated and tymoshenko released. Evidence was also found of voting corruption in his abandoned palace casting doubt on his earlier election win. Since Maidan putin has adopted a much more extreme military approach to achieve that original objective. Culminating in february 22 last year.
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  2221. Just a bit of history about ukraine, pre maidan. 80 odd years of russification has to be taken into account. From stalin times through the soviet era up to 1991. Thats why russian culture/language etc was and still is to a degree, ingrained into ukranian culture. In 1991 ukraine voted 92% to leave the union with russia. All the oblasts and regions voted in favour including crimea and the donbas region. Ukraine then followed a similar route as yeltsins russia with attempts at fast tracking democracy and western style capitalism. The lack of legal accountability though ended up with oligarch corruption in both countries. Putin then took over around 2000 in russia. He, amongst many ex soviet hardliners, never recognised that 1991 vote and so set out to return a form of russian domination on all of its former soviet states that had left during the break up of the ussr. Putins attempts in ukraine began politically with yanukovych in the elections of 2004. His state funded tv media had begun its propaganda methods, not only in russia, but in all the border areas of its former soviet states, including ukraine. Pro russian olgarchs were also financing and involved in it all too. Yanukovych won the 2004 election but claims of corruption created a massive demonstration in kiev. The orange revolution as it became known then forced a rerun of the election after ukraines highest court ruled that there was indeed electoral corruption. His "poisoned" opponent victor yushchenko winning the rerun comfortably. He was pro west/democracy and in power for 5 years up till 2010. Attempted to join NATO along with georgia, but germany and france vetoed their application as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putin instead. He also began preliminary negotiations for ukraine to join the EU. In 2010 yanukovych won a close run election that was deemed fair by international observers. His 3 years saw the NATO bid scrapped altogether. Increasing oppression of his political opponents. The constitution changed to help that oppression. The jailing of his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko. And the most fateful decision of all to scrap the proposed union with the EU for one with the very country the people voted 92% to leave in 1991. So not surprisingly the ukranian people werent having any of that so another revolution started late in 2013. This time called the revolution of dignity or maidan. It began peacefully at first but as the police became more hardline in their approach the numbers demonstrating and the violence grew. Yanukovych, as you would expect from a putin clone, sent in his special police berkut unit to open fire on unarmed demonstrators. 120 died with thousands injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. He fled, and the folowing morning the duma reformed and voted to strip him of his power and arranged a new election which petro poroshenko later won. The constitution was reinstated and tymoshenko released. Evidence was also found of voting corruption in his abandoned palace casting doubt on his earlier election win. Since Maidan putin has adopted a much more extreme military approach to achieve that original objective. Culminating in february 22 last year. Putin is 100% at fault for this conflict! Period! Heres putin in action again with the minsk 2015 peace agreement. The 3 (of the 13) points in the minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deasl was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation. But of course he doesnt recognise them as a sovereign nation. Which is 100% the reason why he and his fascist/nationalist imperialist supporters want to kill democratic ukraine, especially the democratic bit. He wants to renew his love in again with his beloved ussr. Dictators in search of lost empires. Mussolini, hitler and now putin.
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  2299. Ritter is a well known putin propagandist so i dont know how you can be unaware? I would say that definately discredits his views on foreign policy or even on civilised behaviuor. I had no idea who RFK was tbh. I heard enough here that discredits him tho. Anybody supporting or parroting putins narrative is either being paid or has the same political mindset. Ukraine suspended their election as there is a war going on in their country. The russian orthadox church is supporting putin in russia. So same was happening in ukraine. There are conspirators in ukraine not critics. You know the type that give info on pizza restuarant locations so putins military can then commit war crimes on civilians and kids. The only people that use the word hegemony in a comment are usually putin trolls. No i do not agree with those positions and as they, just like you, utter the same identical propaganda bollox that comes from putins state funded trolls, i reckon you are all on the same page. So you agree they are being used as pawns? So guilty of complicity charges then. How anybody anti war supports putin is beyond me. Only one country is being invaded here, its people being killed and its villages, towns and cities flattened. The only person who wants a diplomatic solution at the moment is putin. Yet more putin narrative. So whats it like being a nobody in a land of nobodies just doing as your master pleases? Does he pay you well? Or are you just another cold hearted, selfish nationalist in the world supporting your fellow nationalist nobodies. Dont bother replying as i dont debate people i dont respect.
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  2334. I have no idea what this is all about as i dont use twatter. So i just did a quick google and this is what i found........... "His remarks came a day after the Byline Times outlet published a number of detailed and serious allegations against Mr Wootton, claiming that it had evidence he had pretended to be a man named Martin Branning. Byline Times claimed two victims made criminal complaints to the Metropolitan Police, based on Branning’s activities since 2019. Both News UK – by whom Mr Wootton was formerly employed – and the MailOnline’s publisher have said they are looking into the allegations. Contacted by The Independent following the publication of the Byline Times report, Scotland Yard said: “In June 2023, the Metropolitan Police was contacted with regards to allegations of sexual offences committed by a man. “Officers are assessing information to establish whether any criminal offence has taken place. There is no police investigation at this time.”....... So there is no police investigation at this time in mid july after recieving the complaint in june....... The report goes on..... Mr Wootton’s name has been trending on Twitter frequently in recent days, with posts on social media that make accusations against him gaining millions of views. Shortly before Mr Wootton’s Tuesday night show, The Guardian also published a report which made similar allegations against Branning. The paper reported that it had not been able to independently establish a link between Branning and Mr Wootton. So the guardian has not been able to provide any hard evidence but still published the article anyway. Nice fact based journalism there guardian. Or was the chance of a political kicking too much of an opportunity to miss? As for millions on social media acting as judge, jury and then convicting on political opinion. That sounds exactly like the cesspit that is twatter and why i left it long ago. Twatterites need to leave criminal investigations to the police. You know. The people we pay to investigate crime.
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  2336. Regarding the bengali famine. There was actually a war cabinet. Churchill wasnt making those decisions alone. Labours clem atlee became deputy pm in it. Bevin, Chamberlain, Eden, Halifax, Greenwood, Beaverbrook, Wood and Anderson who replaced chamberlain when he died also.. So to blame churchill alone is just nonsense imho. Also the official 1945 enquiry found the national indian and local bengal governments foremostly responsible along with the viceroy at the time Linithglow. With the imperial government(war cabinet) also criticised. Tbf the local indian government and national officials had used their famine relief methods on previous famines and they had been successful. This famine though was far worse than previous and needed much firmer action. Confiscation of all grain/rice and rationing needed to be introduced immediately which wasnt as they used the other economic style methods which had worked previously. By the time the newly appointed viceroy wavell intervened with help from the british army one and a half million had starved to death. Even after rationing another one and a half million died after as people were too weak to fight off disease. A terrible tragedy. The uk government/cabinet has to take some share of the blame too. Way too slow in reacting or maybe not realising how bad the situation really was? No social media/world news in those days remember. Plus you have to take into account that there "there was a war on". Bengal is where the japanese were coming through. The uk was preparing for d day. The japanese had occupied all the coastline and land to the east. Which previously supplied bengal with their grain and they were now bombing the bengal bay from where the aid had to come. Plus there was a huge storm on the western coast of india which destroyed a huge grain storage there which exasperated the problem.. This lady,s views on the bengal famine are reliant on a book written by a modern day indian lady who understandably hated the british empire and wanted to rubbish a major part of it. Just like a lot of modern day indian nationalists like modi, now hate the uk along with its past imperialism too. This lady has obviously done her research in the left leaning media only. As the independant did an article 10 odd years ago which was heavily reliant on that book. And of course the independant would never rubbish a conservative icon would they?
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  2416.  @sombra1111  Maybe if hamas hadnt suicide bombed israeli civilians for several years then the need for checkpoints, walls, fences and tight security might have been averted. So hamas turned to continually firing rockets indiscriminately instead. Israel then responded to that with the iron dome. So then hamas upped their terror to full on invasion with ethnic cleansing. So thats suicide bombings, indiscriminately fired rockets and ethnic cleansing. All targetting civilians. All despicable war cimes/crimes against humanity. So not surprisingly israel responded to all of the above, as they are allowed to by international law,.Its called national security or the protection of its own citizens. Proportionality of the targetted military response is the only thing that israel has to answer for. And that is very debatable as has been seen in the past with fallujah and putin with grozny, aleppo and mariupol. Plus the NATO bombing in former yugoslavia. The geneva convention also mentions the parties involved must attempt to warn and prevent civilian casualties as much as possible. Israel has been warning and leafletting palestinians in gaza for 3 weeks now to move south of the wadi gaza. Plus israel are sacrificing their own soldiers in a ground invasion to prevent civilian losses. None of this was done in the earier conflict resolutions i mentioned above. The thing that i really want to know though, is what is the palestinian end game here supposed to be? When hamas charter clearly states this....Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea” — i.e., the annihilation of Israel. The charter says: “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them.” So no negotiation and 2 state solution. So please describe to me your alternative? Also please describe to me why i, who supports a 2 state solution, should support that end game method?
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  2458.  @DonpsnNetdundon  Thats typical of the putin propaganda narrative that carlson parroted. Real reasons for maidan..... Ukraine voted 92% to be independant from a union with russia in 1991. With all the oblasts voting in favour including the donbas and crimea. In 2013 putin puppet yanukovych scrapped a potential union with the EU for one with the very country they voted to leave in 1991.. Whilst also jailing his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko.. In 2004 , another maidan had previously occured, with an orange revolution, against that same elected puppet yanukovych. Tho this time for "voting corruption", which was later proved true, as his "poisoned" opponent won the rerun comfortably.. Maidan began peacefully at first but then violence was used againt protestors and it escalated until yanukovych ordered his berkut special police unit to shoot unarmed protestors. 120 died and thousands were injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. Evidence was later found in his abandoned palace of voting corruption casting doubt on his earlier close election win in 2010....... .Were biden, mccain and america involved back in 2004 as well?... I tell you who has been interfering all along in ukraine and thats the little dicktator putin as he never recognised that 1991 vote. Despite all the world nations recognising ukraine as an independant sovereign state, included russia. He had been bombarding ukraines ethnic russian border areas with his state tv propaganda since he came to power. No doubt creating the ethnic and political division in ukraine to garner support for this whole "greater russian world" imperialist project of his. Now culminating in an actual military invasion and annexationof territory.
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  2460. Putins russia spent 1.9 bilion usd on propaganda last year. Half on their "one view only or else" state tv/radio and the other half on spreading propaganda abroad. Some of that is spent on troll farms where english taught russians try to convince people from the west that they are from the US etc. The give away is usually poor spelling. So either you are ivan from st petersburg or just maybe you are a jay from georgia or wherever who has been duped by the putin/maga propaganda. In the small chance you might be jay from georgia. Reasons for euro maidan..... Ukraine voted 92% to be independant from a union with russia in 1991. With all the oblasts voting in favour including the donbas regions and crimea. In 2013 putin puppet yanukovych scrapped a potential union with the EU for one with the very country they voted to leave in 1991.. Whilst also jailing his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko..No wonder they rose up. In 2004 , another maidan had previously occured, with an orange revolution, against that same elected puppet yanukovych. Tho this time for "voting corruption", which was later proved true, as his "poisoned" opponent won the rerun comfortably.. Maidan began peacefully at first but then violence was used againt protestors and it escalated until yanukovych ordered his berkut special police unit to shoot unarmed protestors. 120 died and thousands were injured. No way could he survive that bloodbath. Evidence was later found in his abandoned palace of voting corruption casting doubt on his earlier close election win....... .Were the americans involved back in 2004 as well?... I tell you who has been interfering all along in ukraine and thats putin as he never recognised that 1991 vote. Despite all the world nations recognising ukraine as an independant sovereign state, included russia. He has been bombarding ukraines ethnic russian border areas with his state tv propaganda since he came to power. No doubt creating the etnic and political division in ukraine to garner support for this whole "greater russian world" imperialist project of his.
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  2544. Dude this propaganda is 2 years out of date. Everybody knows putin did it for imperialist purposes. We knew it feb 28th 2022. Putins special military disaster has never been about NATO expansion or ukranian nazis committing genocide on ethnic russians. It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. Evidence of this was given just a few days into the invasion, 28th february when a propaganda article was released early in error. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
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  2581. Putins special military disaster has never been about NATO expansion or ukranian nazis committing genocide on ethnic russians. It has always been about russian expansion/imperialism. Evidence of this was given just a few days into the invasion, 28th february when a propaganda article was released early in error. The Kremlin’s propaganda publication RIA-Novosti accidentally published an article that was to be published after the rapid regime change in Ukraine. It was quickly removed, but the Internet Archive web service managed to save it. It was written by kremlin propagandist petr akopov......Sorry about the length but it wont let me use a link. The little russians he describes are the ukranians and unsurprisingly they describe themselves as the greater russians. "A new world is being born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has ushered in a new era – in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, internal Russian. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system – but this is worth talking about separately a little later. Russia is restoring its unity; the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia – for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia out of Ukraine and an outpost for the West to put pressure on us, is only the second most important among them. The first would always be the complex of a divided people, the complex of national humiliation – when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kyiv), and then was forced to come to terms with the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to abandon their history, agreeing with the insane versions that “only Ukraine is the real Rus,” or to gnash one’s teeth helplessly, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” Returning Ukraine, that is, turning it back to Russia, would be more and more difficult with every decade – recoding, de-Russification of Russians and inciting Ukrainian Little Russians against Russians would gain momentum. And in the event of the consolidation of the full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine, its return to Russia would become completely impossible – we would have to fight for it with the Atlantic bloc. Now this problem is gone – Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state as a part of the Russian world. Within what boundaries, in what form will the alliance with Russia be consolidated (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be decided after the end is put in the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia. In any case, the period of the split of the Russian people is coming to an end. Here begins the second dimension of the coming new era – it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in the geopolitical dimension as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage – the West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe. And it is loudly indignant at this, although in the depths of his soul it must admit that it could not be otherwise. Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kyiv? That the Russians will forever be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe is uniting, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control of European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and assemble a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place according to the good Russian (albeit not very smart) will. To swipe after that also on Russian lands is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, and even more so Europe in particular, did not have the strength to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so to take Ukraine for itself. In order not to understand this, they had to be just geopolitical fools. More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. However, the fact that it did not work should have been clear twenty years ago. Moreover, already fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear – Russia is returning. Now the West is trying to punish Russia for the fact that it returned, for not justifying its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing the expansion of the western space to the east. Seeking to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are of vital importance to us. However, this has not been the case for a long time already – the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who rule the West. No amount of Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. Nevertheless, for the West itself, an increase in the degree of confrontation incurs huge costs – and the main ones are not at all economic. Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy – the German project of European integration does not make strategic sense while maintaining the Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. Moreover, it cannot be successful, because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. However, Europe needs autonomy for another reason as well — in case the States go into self-isolation (as a result of growing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focus on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving. The confrontation with Russia, into which the Anglo-Saxons are dragging Europe, deprives the Europeans of even the chances of independence – not to mention the fact that in the same way Europe is trying to impose a break with China. If now the Atlanticists are happy that the “Russian threat” will unite the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot fail to understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent-minded Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new iron curtain on their eastern borders – realizing that it will turn into a corral for Europe. Whose age (more precisely, half a millennium) of global leadership is over in any case – but various options for its future are still possible. Because the construction of a new world order – and this is the third dimension of current events – is accelerating, and its contours are more and more clearly visible through the spreading cover of Anglo-Saxon globalization. The multipolar world has finally become a reality – the operation in Ukraine is not capable of rallying anyone but the West against Russia. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well – this is a conflict between Russia and the West, this is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world. China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia – no one believes that the West leads the world order, much less sets the rules of the game. Russia has not only challenged the West, it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers of power, naturally, together with the West (united or not) – but not on its terms and not according to its rules." Imperialism. Plain and simple.
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  2597. I. How is supporting ukraine supporting wars if ukraine is the country invaded. If he supported the country that started the war, putins russia. then you would be right so in this case you are wrong. Peace talks are up to the ukranian people to decide as it is their territory being annexed and their people being killed. There was a peace deal in place that putin broke. Again its up to ukraine to decide when talks should take place as putin breaks peace deals. Minsk 2014. The 3 (of the 13) points in the minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deal was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation. 2.Not all the people here are americans. Im a brit.Which coalition against america are you talking about? The iran/north korea duo? The US scared of rocketman now are they? Nuclear hollocaust? We got nukes as well. It keeps the peace and why putin hasnt gone after other ex soviet baltic states as they are protected within NATO. Ukraine unfortunately not in NATO yet and no nukes to counter putins. WTF has pedophilia got to do with anything unless your referring to another american buddy of putin. Mr ritter. Mr carlson has good company at being putin friendly it seems. Not forgetting of course in litvinenkos inquest that he wrote that putin had certain tendancies before he got murdered in extremely painful circumstances. I wonder why?
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  2599.  @vonmajor  Well do you want him to be a putin mouthpiece instead then? Its ukraine/democracy v putins imperial nationalism, fascism, communism, whatever this evil shit is that he fronts. So you take sides. Jake has taken his side of the fence. Pity some like carlson chose to sit on the other side or more lately sit on the fence which is exactly what putin wants from the west. To not be involved.. For example go to fox news content and find any content on ukraine. Never mind condemning putins actions. It seems to me as an outsider looking in that some republicans hate democrats so much that no way they can agree with anything the democrats say or do. Even if its just to support the principle of democracy As for corruption in ukraine. You do realise that ukraine has been russified by russia since stalins time and throughout the soviet era. Its whole culture has been taken over. Including the oligarch culture that thrived in russia and is now like a mafia around putin. It will take time for ukraine to de russify itself. Both poroshenko and zelensky were elected on anti corruption ticklets. It takes decades for democracies to evolve for the better. Joining the EU with its rules and laws should help with that. A lot of the conflicts and regime changes over the last 20 years have been the "war on terror" after 9/11. Sunni islamic fundamentalist terror groups declaring a war on western civilisation. The west responded not just the states. That war has been won now as no major terror attacks on the west since afghan. Obama said it would take 20 years to win it.
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  2602.  @shaunpatrick8345  The OSCE reports were critical of atrocities from both sides when the conflict was in its first year or so until the minsk peace agreements came into force.. Remembering that un professional militias were operating on both sides at the time. No genocide, which putin claimed, was reported.The minsk peace agreement was broken by putin. .The 3 (of the 13) points in the minsk agreement putin refused to recognise. 4. To start a dialogue on interim self-government for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in accordance with Ukrainian law, and acknowledge their special status by parliamentary resolution. 9. Restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment and mercenaries. Plus the biggest peace deal game breaker of course......invading the very nation the peace deasl was with, and with it a UN recognised sovereign nation. Foreign US backed coup in 2014... So the ukranian people had nothing to do with maidan then. Those same ukranians that voted 92% to be independant from a union with russia in 1991. With all the oblasts voting in favour including donbas and crimea. Nothing to do with putin puppet yanukovych scrapping a union with the EU for one with the very country they voted to leave in 1991.. Also jailing his main political opponent yulia tymoshenko.. Those same ukranians that rose up in 2004 in the orange revolution against that same puppet yanukovych. Were the US involved then as well? I tell you who has been interfering all along in ukraine and thats the little dictator putin as he never recognised that 1991 vote. Despite all the world nations recognising ukraine as an independant sovereign state, included russia. His aim is to recreate the old soviet empire again. And he is now doing what all fascist dicktators have done historically to achieve that aim and invade a peaceful neighbour. Beginning in 2014 supporting proxies militarily and now a a full on invasion. Proof of imperialist aims was given early in this conflict when tass released an article early in error it got captured before being removed from their website. https://mil.in.ua/en/news/brave-new-world-of-putin-an-article-by-the-propaganda-publication-ria-novosti-which-was-to-be-published-after-the-occupation-of-ukraine/
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