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  1. It might be useful to recap some of the reason why Russia is now an outcast : Russian interference in numerous elections and referendums in EU countries over the last decade; Russia's active disinformation campaigns across the EU; Russian-based cyber attacks targeting numerous EU countries; Provocative Russian military flights in and around EU and NATO airspace; Russia's interference with GPS navigation systems in Scandinavia; Russia's continued deployment of "peacekeepers" in Moldova despite that country's repeated requests that Russian troops be replaced with UN peacekeepers; Russia's 2008 war against Georgia and its continued occupation of some 20 percent of Georgian territory; Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region; Russia's intense involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine, which the ICC in November 2016 ruled "an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation"; Russia's obstructionism in implementation of the Minsk agreements to end the Ukraine conflict; Russia's role in acts of terrorism in the 2014 downing of a passenger airliner (Malaysia Airlines MH17) over Ukraine that killed 298 people; Russia's poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006; Russia's attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018; among lots of other things to much to even list up .. NONE OF THIS ABOVE WAS SOMETHING THE EU , THE USA OR EVEN NATO, FORCED OR TRICKED RUSSIA INTO DOING !!! RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE in 2014 VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW: 1. The Geneva Convention. 2. Charter of the United Nations 3. The Helsinki Accords 4. The Charter of the OSCE 5. Budapest Memorandum of 1994 6. Two Russia, Ukraine friendship treaties 7. International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination 8. European Court of Human Rights THE LEGAL FACTS WHY CRIMEA BELONGS TO UKRAINE . The earlier published documents, and materials that have emerged more recently make clear that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the UkrSSR was carried out in accordance with the 1936 Soviet constitution, which in Article 18 stipulated that “the territory of a Union Republic may not be altered without its consent.” The proceedings of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium meeting indicate that both the RSFSR and the UkrSSR had given their consent via their republic parliaments. One of the officials present at the 19 February session, Otto Kuusinen, even boasted that “only in our country [the USSR] is it possible that issues of the utmost importance such as the territorial transfer of individual oblasts to a particular republic can be decided without any difficulties.” One might argue that the process in 1954 would have been a lot better if it had been complicated and difficult, but no matter how one judges the expeditiousness of the territorial reconfiguration, the main point to stress here is that it is incorrect to say (as some Russian commentators and government officials recently have) that Crimea was transferred unconstitutionally or illegally. The legal system in the Soviet Union was mostly a fiction, but the transfer did occur in accordance with the rules in effect at the time. Moreover, regardless of how the transfer was carried out, the Russian Federation expressly accepted Ukraine’s 1991 borders both in the December 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords (the agreements that precipitated and codified the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum that finalized Ukraine’s status as a non-nuclear weapons state. Summary: former states of the USSRs are now full independent states and their borders are defined and recognized by not just the international community , the UN and intr. org. treaties and agreements but when it comes to UKRAINE Russia itself RECOGNIZED Ukraines borders and territory in the 1991 ( Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords ) and in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum and Russian back in 1991 recognized all the other internal borders of the USSR as international boards that now defines all the other different countries sovereign statehood . Those borders Russia recognized when it came to Ukraine clearly puts Crimea within Ukrainian territorial control . Period.
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  2. It might be useful to recap some of the reason why Russia is now an outcast : Russian interference in numerous elections and referendums in EU countries over the last decade; Russia's active disinformation campaigns across the EU; Russian-based cyber attacks targeting numerous EU countries; Provocative Russian military flights in and around EU and NATO airspace; Russia's interference with GPS navigation systems in Scandinavia; Russia's continued deployment of "peacekeepers" in Moldova despite that country's repeated requests that Russian troops be replaced with UN peacekeepers; Russia's 2008 war against Georgia and its continued occupation of some 20 percent of Georgian territory; Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region; Russia's intense involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine, which the ICC in November 2016 ruled "an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation"; Russia's obstructionism in implementation of the Minsk agreements to end the Ukraine conflict; Russia's role in acts of terrorism in the 2014 downing of a passenger airliner (Malaysia Airlines MH17) over Ukraine that killed 298 people; Russia's poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006; Russia's attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018; among lots of other things to much to even list up .. NONE OF THIS ABOVE WAS SOMETHING THE EU , THE USA OR EVEN NATO, FORCED OR TRICKED RUSSIA INTO DOING !!! RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE in 2014 VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW: 1. The Geneva Convention. 2. Charter of the United Nations 3. The Helsinki Accords 4. The Charter of the OSCE 5. Budapest Memorandum of 1994 6. Two Russia, Ukraine friendship treaties 7. International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination 8. European Court of Human Rights THE LEGAL FACTS WHY CRIMEA BELONGS TO UKRAINE . The earlier published documents, and materials that have emerged more recently make clear that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the UkrSSR was carried out in accordance with the 1936 Soviet constitution, which in Article 18 stipulated that “the territory of a Union Republic may not be altered without its consent.” The proceedings of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium meeting indicate that both the RSFSR and the UkrSSR had given their consent via their republic parliaments. One of the officials present at the 19 February session, Otto Kuusinen, even boasted that “only in our country [the USSR] is it possible that issues of the utmost importance such as the territorial transfer of individual oblasts to a particular republic can be decided without any difficulties.” One might argue that the process in 1954 would have been a lot better if it had been complicated and difficult, but no matter how one judges the expeditiousness of the territorial reconfiguration, the main point to stress here is that it is incorrect to say (as some Russian commentators and government officials recently have) that Crimea was transferred unconstitutionally or illegally. The legal system in the Soviet Union was mostly a fiction, but the transfer did occur in accordance with the rules in effect at the time. Moreover, regardless of how the transfer was carried out, the Russian Federation expressly accepted Ukraine’s 1991 borders both in the December 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords (the agreements that precipitated and codified the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum that finalized Ukraine’s status as a non-nuclear weapons state.
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  3. What really gets me is that some ppl. are now saying why does Ukraine not just let Russia have the areas /land it’s just a small part of Ukraine anyway..... A small part of Ukraine ...WE ARE taking about a land mass is almost 200,000 sq km In EU terms thats the size of Belgium, Holland, luxembourg and Greece all put together.. In UK terms that the size of all of Scotland , Wales and 80% of England all put together !! In US terms is the size of South Carolina, West Virginia and New Jersey all put together !! Why the f. should Ukraine give Russia all that land for what? TO ONLY be invaded some years later when Russia as had a brake and regrouped ,rebuilt its army and fortified positions !! I SAY RUSSIA GETS TO TAKE LAND AND DEMAND UKRAINE CAN NOT JOIN NATO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL !! Nobody wants to be a "buffer country".  NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom !!!! ; The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom  and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country; That is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept that Ukraine and its ppl. should become some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country to serve kremlins geopolitical agenda; so Kremlin, Putin and RuZZans can feel better about themselves ... Eastern European countries (ex soviet countries like Poland the baltic states ect ect ..) joined NATO because they are scared of Russia and want to be and stay independent. Nobody forced them to join NATO they was the ones running and knocking and begging to be able to join NATO and the EU ,,, . When Russia invaded Ukraine Russia then just showed why it was a good idea for those countries to join NATO, because if they didn't they might just have got invaded as well just like Ukraine and Georgia did . During Soviet times those Eastern European countries were nothing less than Russia puppet states. If they didn't join NATO after the fall of the USSR then they for sure couldn't guarantee their own independence from Russia. Nato did nothing wrong, the only mistake was Ukraine not joining NATO to ensure Ukraines independence; Remember former satellite states like Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and The Baltic states, Slovakia ect ect all came running by their own accord, knocking, kicking, screaming and banging at the front door of EU and NATO begging to come in, no one forced them into it . If Russia was not such a asshole country and stoped constantly bulling neighboring countries maybe other neighboring countries will not need to join NATO and by more open and welcoming to Russia .. Also these people who advocate this view that Ukraine shroud just give up land and appeasement to Russians wants wishes are also being very ignorant to the fact that there were already treaties in place between Russia and Ukraine where Russia respecting the integrity of Ukraine's borders plus other treaties relating to the seas around Ukraine. Putin has already broken those treaties. Why would Ukraine believe Putin would stick to a new treaty when he's just broken half a dozen of the previous Russia Ukraine treaties and agreements. Russia has demonstrated its treaties and agreements are worthless and you enter them at your great peril.
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  4. A small part of Ukraine ...WE ARE taking about a land mass is almost 200,000 sq km In EU terms thats the size of Belgium, Holland, luxembourg and Greece all put together.. In UK terms that the size of all of Scotland , Wales and 80% of England all put together !! In US terms is the size of South Carolina, West Virginia and New Jersey all put together !! Why the f. should Ukraine give Russia all that land for what? TO ONLY be invaded some years later when Russia as had a brake and regrouped ,rebuilt its army and fortified positions !! I SAY RUSSIA GETS TO TAKE LAND AND DEMAND UKRAINE CAN NOT JOIN NATO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL !! Nobody wants to be a "buffer country".  NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom !!!! ; The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom  and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country; That is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept that Ukraine and its ppl. should become some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country to serve kremlins geopolitical agenda; so Kremlin, Putin and RuZZans can feel better about themselves ... Eastern European countries (ex soviet countries like Poland the baltic states ect ect ..) joined NATO because they are scared of Russia and want to be and stay independent. Nobody forced them to join NATO they was the ones running and knocking and begging to be able to join NATO and the EU ,,, . When Russia invaded Ukraine Russia then just showed why it was a good idea for those countries to join NATO, because if they didn't they might just have got invaded as well just like Ukraine and Georgia did . During Soviet times those Eastern European countries were nothing less than Russia puppet states. If they didn't join NATO after the fall of the USSR then they for sure couldn't guarantee their own independence from Russia. Nato did nothing wrong, the only mistake was Ukraine not joining NATO to ensure Ukraines independence; Remember former satellite states like Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and The Baltic states, Slovakia ect ect all came running by their own accord, knocking, kicking, screaming and banging at the front door of EU and NATO begging to come in, no one forced them into it . If Russia was not such a asshole country and stoped constantly bulling neighboring countries maybe other neighboring countries will not need to join NATO and by more open and welcoming to Russia .. Also these people who advocate this view that Ukraine shroud just give up land and appeasement to Russians wants wishes are also being very ignorant to the fact that there were already treaties in place between Russia and Ukraine where Russia respecting the integrity of Ukraine's borders plus other treaties relating to the seas around Ukraine. Putin has already broken those treaties. Why would Ukraine believe Putin would stick to a new treaty when he's just broken half a dozen of the previous Russia Ukraine treaties and agreements. Russia has demonstrated its treaties and agreements are worthless and you enter them at your great peril.
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  7. Russian Colonialism and Imperialism from the end of the Russian Empire to 2022, including invasions, attacks, crushing of anti-colonial revolts, colonization campaigns, genocides, and military crimes. Russian colonialism dominated much of the world in the 19th century. The legacies of Russian colonial domination can be most felt during the 20th century, mostly during the Soviet period in occupied Europe, the Caucasus (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Georgia, Armenia, etc.), Central Asia, and Afghanistan. In 2022, the modern Russian government's practice of modern colonialism, which includes invasions, occupations, brutal crimes against indigenous peoples such as murders with knives, mass deportations, arrests and executions of indigenous leaders, installation of puppet authorities, and illegal land seizures, make reconciliation and healing with former Russian colonies difficult. Denial of colonial crimes of the past, particularly during WWII, were already major hurdles to reconciliation in the 21st century. The legacies of devastating and genocidal crimes of the Russian Empire before 1916 and the 19th century cannot be ignored, but this graphic focuses on the past century's profound legacy on Russian oppression in 2022. Certain nations suffered far worse under Russian oppression while others suffered on a much smaller scale from small Russian military operations. Colonialism includes not just direct Russian rule, but domination through puppet dictatorships that brought widespread death, starvation, destruction, and terror over lands they ruled or made war in, with North Korea and the Korean War as an example. Imperialism, which is a much broader term, can include limited military operations that lead to gross human rights abuses against civilians, with operations in Sub-Saharan Africa as examples. https://www.facebook.com/WorldHistoryAndBeauty/photos/a.112003324302114/382637517238692/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZUkrwv2IV_uyTxSA_AvyzOPsOGrTPf0b0PS1rr7E_pN5lRsAYbXgT0pXtmDlsnXvUz71efCkWYu-GlriDirqzEkwBcQX_wYvMnMyySvFLcWgrLKGPWEn9jzw_GwMquGXknoHv3NccbHq1rPGFjreQs9GCeQQUGUDMz0kU4vK76RZA&__tn__=-UK-R
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  8. PART ONE OF TWO Poland’s genocide myth There are three conundrum’s facing supporters of the genocide myth. First, Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide is more applicable to the murder of Poland’s military elite in the Katyń Forest in 1940 and the ethnic cleansing of Poles from Galicia and Volhynia by Soviet forces in 1944-1946. Lemkin supported the use of the term genocide to describe Joseph Stalin’s Holodomor (forced famine) in Soviet Ukraine in 1943 which led to the deaths of 4-4.5 million Ukrainians. Second, Polish historians have sought to find Ukrainian nationalist documents planning or calling for genocide against Poles in Volhynia, but they have failed. Indeed, there is no Polish equivalent of the two-volume, 1,400-page collection of 478 documents on Ukrainian-Polish relations edited by Viatrovych (volume 1 here; volume 2 here). Ukrainian historians believe the reason is because documents and archives would undercut Poland’s genocide myth. In other words, no known OUN (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists) instructions exist that ordered UPA units to kill Poles in Volhynia. Lemkin wrote that genocide requires a prior ideological propaganda campaign to mobilise people to commit the crime, as seen in Nazi Germany and Rwanda. In 1942-1943 there was no propaganda campaign by the OUN against the Polish population. Indeed, the opposite existed with OUN repeatedly seeking to negotiate alliances with the AK (Polish Home Army) but these efforts were being thwarted by the London-based Polish Government-in-Exile. Both Polish and Ukrainian partisan groups discussed the deportation of Ukrainian and Polish populations and those politically loyal and partisan groups affiliated to the pre-war National Democrats (Endecja) even laid out plans for deportations of Jews in the late 1930s and Ukrainians after World War II ended. The genocide myth is based on the exaggerated claim of a mass attack by UPA on July 11th and 12th, 1943 against 146 Polish settlements. Such a massive operation was impossible to undertake for the UPA units that existed at that time who did not yet dominate Volhynia because of a conflict with competing Taras Bulba-Borovets Ukrainian partisan units. Ukrainian historians do not deny that attacks and killings took place but limit these to an absolute maximum of 20-25 settlements. Polish settlements were not defenceless, as the genocide myth claims. Polish settlements had self-defence units who had been given weapons by the Nazi’s and the AK and they were often bases for the AK and Soviet partisans. Historian Timothy Snyder has written that the majority of Soviet partisans in Volhynia were Poles (numbering between 5,000 and 7,000) and Jews (numbering between 1,000 and 1,500). Poles in Volhynia viewed the Soviets as potential allies against the Ukrainians and Polish self-defence units co-operated with Soviet partisans and the Nazis in attacks against the UPA. In Volhynia and Polissya there were 100 Polish self-defence bases. A partisan in this conflict – similar to partisans and guerrillas in other wars – is a peasant who carries a weapon and the killing of a partisan could also therefore be described as that of a civilian (Polish Communists reported killing many more “UPA partisans” than existed in Zakerzone because they included murdered civilians). Indeed, Polish and Ukrainian civilians would often join partisan and Nazi (Ukrainian and Polish) police attacks on Ukrainian and Polish villages holding pitchforks and other agricultural implements with the hope of stealing goods from the civilians who had been killed. Third, how many civilians need to die before a crime is classified as a “genocide”? The genocide claim is discredited by only applying it to killings of Poles and by manipulating dates to begin the Polish-Ukrainian war in 1943. Historians in Ukraine and the West (including Viatrovych who has become a bogeyman to Polish nationalists and yet whom few have read in Poland) do not deny that Ukrainian nationalists and communists killed Poles or even that more Poles died than Ukrainians. What they do dispute though, is the inflated numbers of Polish victims which through the tabloidisation of history now reaches into the hundreds of thousands. Ukrainian historians cite the Polish Institute of National Remembrance as having collected the names of 23,000-31,000 Polish casualties in Volhynia and Galicia. Grzegorz Motyka (Od Rzezi Wołyńskiej do Akcji Wisła), one of Poland’s most well-known historians on the 1940s cites Władysław and Ewa Siemaszko estimate of 33,000 Polish deaths in Volhynia. Of these, 19, 000 names have been collected. Motyka expanded their estimate of 33,000 (without explaining how) to between 40,000-60,000 and reduced his earlier estimate of Ukrainian casualties to 1,000-2,000. Motyka’s estimates of Polish casualties in Volhynia are similar to those of Snyder (50, 000). Nevertheless, Motyka’s estimate of Ukrainian casualties in Volhynia is far lower than those estimated by Snyder (10,000-20,000) or other historians of Ukraine, such as Paul R. Magocsi (20,000), Myroslaw Shkandrij (15,000-20,000) and Serhii Plokhy (15,000-30,000). Widely different estimates of civilian casualties in the Polish-Ukrainian war in the 1940s can be found within Poland, between Polish and Western historians and especially between historians in Ukraine and Poland. Historians of Ukraine and objective historians of Poland, such as Timothy Snyder, place the 1943 killings in Volhynia in historical context that began in 1938-1942 and ended in 1947. The number of victims was dependent upon whether Poles or Ukrainians dominated a region. Poles were in a minority in Volhynia and therefore at a disadvantage. In Kholm, Hrubeshiv, Brest, Polissya and Zakerzone (south eastern Poland) Ukrainians were at a disadvantage and suffered proportionately more. Galicia was more evenly balanced and both populations suffered in similar numbers. In Kholm and Hrubeshiv (where Polish forces began the first round of killings of Ukrainian civilians in 1941-1942) and Zakerzone, for example, upwards of 10,000 in the former and 4,000-5,000 Ukrainian civilians in the latter were killed by Polish forces. In regions where Ukrainians were in a minority, such as these, the UPA acted as their only protective force. Although historians of Ukraine and Snyder present different numbers of Poles and Ukrainians who were killed, they roughly reach a similar conclusion that the overall proportion was two Polish to one Ukrainian killed. Ivan Patryliak, whose work on Ukrainian nationalist groups is regarded as the best in Ukraine, calculates that 39,000-40,000 Poles and 17,000-21,000 Ukrainians were killed. FOR part 2 of 2 see under
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  9. FOR PART TWO OF TWO LOOK HERE  Poland’s victimisation complex There are five factors that underlay Poland’s victimisation complex. The first is an unwillingness to accept that Poland was an imperialist power and thereby to only view Poland as a victim of attacks by its neighbours or treachery by its citizens (as in the case of Ukrainians in 1939). Polish historiography does not see a country or people to its immediate east but “wild fields” empty of anything resembling a real nation where Poland, defending the edge of Europe, had a civilising mission. The second, as discussed earlier, is an unwillingness – unlike Ukrainian historians and some historians of Poland such as Snyder – to accept that the killings in Volhynia were not a one-off historical event. They were in fact a part of a bitter war that germinated in the late 1930s and ended in 1947 with Akcja Wisla. The third is that extreme nationalists not only existed on the Ukrainian side. Polish and Russian nationalists have never viewed Ukrainians as a nation and in interwar Poland anti-Ukrainian policies (which included the burning of hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in Kholm and Pidlachia in 1938) meant that few Ukrainians mourned the destruction of the Polish state in 1939. In that same year, Ukrainian nationalists fought against Hungary (and its Nazi and Polish allies) in Carpatho-Ukraine after the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. In 1943-1944, Ukrainian and Polish nationalists believed the Nazi’s had lost the war and both wanted to take control of territory before the arrival of the Soviets. This was the logic of AK’s “Operation Tempest” throughout Poland. To Ukrainian nationalists, who always viewed the USSR (not Poles) as their main enemy, their memory of defeat in Lviv (Lwów) in 1918 was something they sought to prevent from happening a second time. The fourth is the pervasive view that only the UPA were criminals while the AK were not. There is abundant archival evidence that the AK, Peasant Battalion and NSZ (National Armed Forces loyal to the Endecja) committed crimes against Ukrainians. Sometimes this was in alliance with Soviet partisans. In March 1944, AK and peasant battalion units participated in the murder of 1,500 Ukrainians in what became called the “Hrubeshiv Revolution”. Former Volhynian AK partisans demobilised by Soviet forces were re-employed in Polish communist and KBW (Internal Security Corps) units that committed numerous killings of Ukrainians in Zakerzone. The fifth is the widespread myth that only Ukrainians collaborated with the Nazi’s. In fact, both Poles and Ukrainians served in the Nazi police and both these forces committed crimes. The Nazi’s arrested and murdered 80 per cent of OUN’s leaders in the second half of 1941. OUN and AK launched their anti-Nazi partisan struggles at the same time in early 1942. Ukrainian police defected from the Nazi’s in March 1943, nearly a year earlier than the Polish police. Therefore, Ukrainian and Polish police respectively joined the UPA and AK. In 1943-1944, Polish police and the Nazi’s killed numerous Ukrainian civilians in Volhynia. Polish police working for the Nazi’s and self-defence units armed by the Nazi’s contributed the largest number of volunteers to the AK’s largest unit, the 27th Wołyń Division. Conclusions Most countries in Europe have skeletons in their closets, especially connected to their imperialist pasts. Of the Axis powers, Germany alone has pursued a policy of rigorous de-Nazification while ignoring until recently its genocide of the Herero, Nama and San people in Namibia in 1904-1907. England celebrates Oliver Cromwell as the father of parliamentary government while Irish history views him as a butcher of Irish Catholics. There is evidence that nationalism is becoming a part of the mainstream in Poland and Russia, which I argue is not the case in Ukraine – where civic patriotism is dominant. The genocide myth and Poland’s victimisation complex is a product of two factors. The first is the current rise in nationalism throughout Europe and the US. The second draws on historical writing and deep-seated stereotypes and chauvinistic attitudes towards Ukrainians that existed in interwar and communist Poland. These were hidden from view in the 1980s and 1990s when the Jerzy Giedroyc, editor of Kultura journal and the architect of the policy of mutual forgiveness influenced the Solidarity generation and dominated Polish attitudes towards Ukrainians. A victimisation complex and search for enemies will remain in place as long as nationalism is part of the country’s mainstream. Unfortunately, this will distract from Poland’s strategic objectives of thwarting Russian aggression and supporting Ukraine’s integration into Europe.
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  10. IF POLISH LIKE TO ERECT MONUMENTS TO Władysław Raczkiewicz and the former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded Józef Biss that are both guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity then why cant Ukraine erect monumnets to Bandera ??? Bandera was no more a terrorist than Władysław Raczkiewicz or former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded Józef Biss was and his Polish army was when they was killing civilian ethnic Ukrainians and civilian ethnic jewish Ukrainians in Ukrainians lands back in the day... 
 Ukraine needs to take steps to recognize Pawłokoma massacre as a genocide !!!!!  
 Why is Poland not apologizing for the Genocide and forced deportations of Ukrainians done by Władysław Raczkiewicz and the former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded Józef Biss ..??  
 The Pawłokoma massacre is one of the better-known examples of Ukrainian civilians murdered by different Polish groups in February–April 1945. Similar massacres followed in other nearby villages, including Łubna, Małkowice Piskorowice ... On 2–3 March 1945, Ukrainians inhabitants of Pawłokoma were murdered, by a former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded by Józef Biss "Wacław" aided by Polish self-defense groups from nearby villages. The victims were held in a local church, interrogated and tortured and executed. among victims was small children (as young as 10 years old) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw%C5%82okoma_massacre 
 Bandera has personally done nothing wrong to Polish people Volhynia Bandera was in fact a P.O.W. from 1941 -1944 the Polish massacre in Volhynia was in 1943 so get over it, and start accusing those how infact did this evil and stop blaming the innocent that had nothing to do with it.... 
 I am not saying that Ukriane must not feel shame for Volhynia massacre as some ethnic Ukrainians tok part that is for sure BUT WHAT I AM SAYING IS that Bandera had nothing to do with it personly … 
 Also i am saying that.. The Polish Army is as guilty of Genocide done to Ukrainians at Pawłokoma know as the massacre of Pawłokoma..AND POLAND ALSO must feel shame and stop throwing stones in glass houses it comes across as hypocritical 
 Another thing is.... Why don’t the Polish apologize for genocide done by Poland to Ukrainians and apologize for this evil if you are saying the truth must out then YES let's get the truth out, BUT let's get ALL OF THE TRUTH OUT !!!  
 When it comes to self criticism or admittance of guilt to national faults within Polish society to outsiders it simply just doesn't exist, the polish nation has a history of turning away from and disregarding any facts that they find unappealing and critical of Poland ...  
 Polish Army is guilty of Genocide done to Ukrainians at Pawłokoma know as the massacre of Pawłokoma.. 
 On 2–3 March 1945, approximately 366 Ukrainians of Pawłokoma were murdered, by a former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded by Józef Biss "Wacław" aided by Polish self-defense groups from nearby villages.  
 And it is OK for Poland to call this scum Józef Biss hero of Poland ....why is it not OK for Ukraine to call Bandera a hero of Ukraine ???  
 Bandera never had anything to do with any genocide like the Polish hero Józef Biss !!! 
 Józef Biss Armia Krajowa unit, held their victims in a local church, interrogated some were tortured and then taken to a local cemetery where they were executed. Only some small children below 10 years old survived every one else killed by the heros Polish nationalist like you !!!
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  11. And her is another Genocide done by Poland to Ukrainians 
 The operation was carried out by Operational Group Vistula consisting of about 20,000 personnel commanded by General Stefan Mossor. This personnel included soldiers of the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps, as well as functionaries of the police Milicja Obywatelska and the Security Service Urząd Bezpieczeństwa. The operation commenced at 4 a.m., April 28, 1947. The expellees comprised about 140,000 to 150,000 Ukrainians and Lemkos still remaining after the 1944-1946 forcible repatriation of Ukrainians from Poland to the Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR and Siberia) 
 The ukrainians was forced by gunpoint and were transported in crowded boxcars for deportations they was told .. 
 The truth was something far worse than deportation train it was a torture train !! 
  The let mothers starved themselves to death in order to feed their children. The days, nights, weeks, months were filled with the agonizing cries of hungry children and babies, the moans of the sick and dying, and the sobs of the family members who lost them. 
 To make things even worse, dead bodies stayed in the closed boxcar until the next stop--which could be as long as a week. During the stop, the people would scurry to look for anything that might be edible or a drop of water. 
 Some Ukrainians tried to escape but were usually captured, beaten, or shot. In the end, a journey that might normally take four to five hours took up to three months. with extreme torture Imagine you are a child or a mother and three months locked up with all that  slowly dyeing for the amusement of the Polish evil  psychopathic murderers.. 
  I think a shoot in the head is better  don’t you !!!
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  12. LETS LOOK AT SOME HISTORY WHY THE VOLHYNIA MASSACRE HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PALCE ! 
 In the part of Western Volhynia, which today lies within the Volhynia, Rivne region and the north of the Ternopol regions of Ukraine, came under Polish rule after 150 years as part of the Russian Empire. It had no Catholics, either Greek or Roman. In 1939, after 20 years under Polish rule, Poles made up approximately 16% of the population. Part of them were settlers from the central districts of Poland, who had received large plots of land, to the dissatisfaction of the poor Ukrainian majority. 
 In late 20 and 30s Ukrainian organizations in Poland were disturbed by a wave of anti-Ukrainian actions that did erupted .. 
 Polonization was the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular the Polish language, as experienced in some historic periods by the non-Polish populations of territories controlled or substantially under the influence of Poland The Polish authorities renamed the eastern part of Austrian Galicia "Eastern Little Poland" and created administrative units (Palatinates) designed to include as many non-Ukrainians as possible. 
 In 1924 the Polish government under Władysław Grabski excluded the Ukrainian language from use in government institutions. It also avoided the official use of the word "Ukrainian", replacing it with the historical name "Ruthenian 
 The land reform designed in 1924 to favor the Poles  in mostly Ukrainian populated Volhynia, the agricultural territory where the land question was especially was taken over by the Polish state from  even the Orthodox Volhynian population who tended to be much less radical than the Greek Catholic Galicians. The fact they was part of the Ukrainian populated was grounds for the Polish state to take the land.. 
 The Polish government in exile, gave orders to the Armija Krajowa (AK), which operated in German occupiedwestern Ukraine, to constantly demonstrate their presence: to oppose the right of Ukrainians to build their ownindependent nation, to destroy any independent Ukrainian military formations in the region, and if necessary todestroy any peaceful Ukrainian villages, bases of support for the UPA. The victims of these barbarous attacks in1943-1944 became thousands of defenseless Ukrainian men, women and children.In 1944, Polish peasant battalions distinguished themselves as being extremely barbaric against Ukrainians inZakerzon. They conducted ethnic cleansing operations, by completely destroying and burning entire Ukrainian-villages, together with their inhabitants.In 1945, at the Potsdam conference of the Allied heads of state, Stalin traded Ukrainian ethnic lands in Zakerzonto Poland in exchange for its open port on the Baltic Sea (now Kalingrad). As a result, Poland had completefreedom to do as it wished with Ukrainians in Kholmschyna and Nadsyannya. Poland viewed these Ukrainians as potential rebels, and their crowning action was Operation “Wisla” in 1947, when over 150,000 Ukrainians wereforcibly removed from their villages by the Polish Army as ethnic cleansing continued
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  13. some ppl. are now saying why does Ukraine not just let Russia have the areas /land its just a small part of Ukriane anyway..... A small part of Ukraine ...WE ARE taking about a land mass over 200,000 sq km In EU terms thats the size of Belgium, Holland, and Greece all put together.. In UK terms that the size of all of Scotland , Wales and most of England In US terms is the size of South Carolina, West Virginia and New Jersey all put together !! Why the should Ukraine give up all that land for what to be invaded only some years later !! I SAY RUSSIA GETS TO TAKE LAND AND DEMAND UKRAINE CAN NOT JOIN NATO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL !! Nobody wants to be a "buffer country".  NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom  and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country; That is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept to be some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country to serve kremlins geopolitical agenda and so Kremlin, Putin and RuZZans can feel better about themselves ... Eastern European countries (ex soviet countries like Poland the baltic states ect ect ..) joined NATO because they are scared of Russia and want to be and stay independent. Nobody forced them to join NATO they was the ones running and knocking and begging to be able to join NATO and the EU ,,, . When Russia invaded Ukriane Russia then just showed why it was a good idea for those countries to join NATO, because if they didn't they might just have got invaded as well just like Ukraine and Georgia did . During Soviet times those Eastern European countries where nothing less than Russia puppet states. If they didn't join NATO after the fall of the USSR then they for sure couldn't guarantee their own independence from Russia. Nato did nothing wrong, the only mistake was Ukraine not joining NATO to ensure Ukraines independence; Remember former satellite states like Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and The Baltic states, Slovakia ect ect all came running by their own accord, knocking, kicking, screaming and banging at the front door of EU and NATO begging to come in, no one forced them into it . If Russia was not such a asshole country and stoped constantly bulling neighboring countries maybe other neighboring countries will not need to join NATO and by more open and welcoming to Russia ..
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  15. US. and UK., gave Ukraine a guarantee of protecting Ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity based on the 1991 borders that included Crimea and east Ukraine Luhansk and Donbass.. As of the result of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, US., gave Ukraine a guarantee that the US, stands now as a grantor of Ukraine sovereignty , becouse Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons and back then, Ukraine had the world's third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile !! This guarantee was reconfirmed by United States when in 2009 released a statement that the memorandum's security assurances would still be respected after the expiration of the START Treaty After the annexation of Crimea by in 2014, The US, Canada, the UK, France along with other countries, stated that Russian involvement was a breach of its obligations to Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum and in violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. Let me explain and give some Content !! According to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia and that they would: 1. Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders. 2. Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Ukraine. 3. Refrain from using economic pressure on Ukraine to influence their politics. 4. Seek immediate action to provide assistance Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". 5. Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Ukraine. 6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments We need to understand that EITHER the word/ deals and / or the grantees of the west are worth something or they are not !!
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  16. NATO, Nazis, Satanists: Putin is running out of excuses for his imperial war !! Why did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine? The answer to this question really depends on when you’re asking. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Russian dictator focused his ire on NATO and sought to blame rising tensions around Ukraine on the military alliance’s post-Cold War expansion. As his troops crossed the border on February 24, Putin changed tack and declared a crusade against “Ukrainian Nazis.” More recently, he has sought to portray Ukraine as a “terrorist state” while insisting that Russia is in fact fighting against “Satanism.” None of these arguments stands up to serious scrutiny. Instead, the various different narratives coming out of the Kremlin reflect Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts to justify what is in reality an old-fashioned colonial war of imperial conquest. Putin has long sought to use NATO expansion as an excuse for his own aggressive foreign policies. This plays well with the Russian public and also resonates among segments of the international community who believe the United States has become too dominant since the end of the Cold War. However, Putin’s attempts to position the invasion of Ukraine as a reasonable response to NATO encroachment have been comprehensively debunked by his own actions. According to Reuters, Ukraine informed Russia during the first days of the invasion that it was ready to meet Moscow’s demands and rule out the possibility of future NATO membership, only for this offer to be rejected by Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went public in the following weeks with similar proposals to abandon Ukraine’s NATO ambitions, but Russia chose to continue its invasion. The entire notion that Russia views NATO as a credible security threat was further undermined in summer 2022 when Moscow passively accepted neighboring Finland’s historic decision to join the military alliance. Putin has repeatedly cited Ukraine’s deepening NATO ties as justification for his invasion, but the prospect of imminent Finnish membership provoked no meaningful security response whatsoever from the Kremlin. If Putin genuinely believed a NATO invasion of Russia was even a remote possibility, he would surely have reinforced the Finnish border. On the contrary, in the months following Helsinki’s decision to join the alliance, Russia dramatically reduced its military presence close to Finland and the nearby NATO member Baltic states in order to bolster the invasion of Ukraine. Whatever Putin may say in public, he clearly understands that NATO poses no threat to Russia.
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  20. Some ppl. are now saying why does Ukraine not just let Russia have the areas /land its just a small part of Ukriane anyway..... A small part of Ukraine ...WE ARE taking about a land mass over 200,000 sq km In EU terms thats the size of Belgium, Holland, and Greece all put together.. In UK terms that the size of all of Scotland , Wales and most of England In US terms is the size of South Carolina, West Virginia and New Jersey all put together !! Why the should Ukraine give up all that land for what to be invaded only some years later !! I SAY RUSSIA GETS TO TAKE LAND AND DEMAND UKRAINE CAN NOT JOIN NATO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL !! Nobody wants to be a "buffer country".  NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom  and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country; That is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept to be some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country to serve kremlins geopolitical agenda and so Kremlin, Putin and RuZZans can feel better about themselves ... Eastern European countries (ex soviet countries like Poland the baltic states ect ect ..) joined NATO because they are scared of Russia and want to be and stay independent. Nobody forced them to join NATO they was the ones running and knocking and begging to be able to join NATO and the EU ,,, . When Russia invaded Ukriane Russia then just showed why it was a good idea for those countries to join NATO, because if they didn't they might just have got invaded as well just like Ukraine and Georgia did . During Soviet times those Eastern European countries where nothing less than Russia puppet states. If they didn't join NATO after the fall of the USSR then they for sure couldn't guarantee their own independence from Russia. Nato did nothing wrong, the only mistake was Ukraine not joining NATO to ensure Ukraines independence; Remember former satellite states like Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and The Baltic states, Slovakia ect ect all came running by their own accord, knocking, kicking, screaming and banging at the front door of EU and NATO begging to come in, no one forced them into it . If Russia was not such a asshole country and stoped constantly bulling neighboring countries maybe other neighboring countries will not need to join NATO and by more open and welcoming to Russia ..
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  21. A small part of Ukraine ...WE ARE taking about a land mass is almost 200,000 sq km In EU terms thats the size of Belgium, Holland, luxembourg and Greece all put together.. In UK terms that the size of all of Scotland , Wales and 80% of England all put together !! In US terms is the size of South Carolina, West Virginia and New Jersey all put together !! Why the f. should Ukraine give Russia all that land for what? TO ONLY be invaded some years later when Russia as had a brake and regrouped ,rebuilt its army and fortified positions !! I SAY RUSSIA GETS TO TAKE LAND AND DEMAND UKRAINE CAN NOT JOIN NATO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL !! Nobody wants to be a "buffer country".  NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom !!!! ; The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom  and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country; That is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept that Ukraine and its ppl. should become some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country to serve kremlins geopolitical agenda; so Kremlin, Putin and RuZZans can feel better about themselves ... Eastern European countries (ex soviet countries like Poland the baltic states ect ect ..) joined NATO because they are scared of Russia and want to be and stay independent. Nobody forced them to join NATO they was the ones running and knocking and begging to be able to join NATO and the EU ,,, . When Russia invaded Ukraine Russia then just showed why it was a good idea for those countries to join NATO, because if they didn't they might just have got invaded as well just like Ukraine and Georgia did . During Soviet times those Eastern European countries were nothing less than Russia puppet states. If they didn't join NATO after the fall of the USSR then they for sure couldn't guarantee their own independence from Russia. Nato did nothing wrong, the only mistake was Ukraine not joining NATO to ensure Ukraines independence; Remember former satellite states like Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and The Baltic states, Slovakia ect ect all came running by their own accord, knocking, kicking, screaming and banging at the front door of EU and NATO begging to come in, no one forced them into it . If Russia was not such a asshole country and stoped constantly bulling neighboring countries maybe other neighboring countries will not need to join NATO and by more open and welcoming to Russia .. Also these people who advocate this view that Ukraine shroud just give up land and appeasement to Russians wants wishes are also being very ignorant to the fact that there were already treaties in place between Russia and Ukraine where Russia respecting the integrity of Ukraine's borders plus other treaties relating to the seas around Ukraine. Putin has already broken those treaties. Why would Ukraine believe Putin would stick to a new treaty when he's just broken half a dozen of the previous Russia Ukraine treaties and agreements. Russia has demonstrated its treaties and agreements are worthless and you enter them at your great peril.
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  23.  @Gobadán-s7w  It is a part of Ukraine. The population is predominantly Ukrainian, but during the Soviet era there were russification campaigns, where Russians were sent there, while Ukrainians were sent away. This policy more or less forced the population to speak Russian instead of Ukrainian. Therefore, there still is a minority of people who calls themselves Russians, while most people are Russian speaking. However as a reaction to the Russian undesired invasion many have chosen to stress their Ukrainian identity and to distance themself to Russia, by speaking Ukrainian. The Donbas is part of Ukraine and has been recognized by the world as part of Ukraine at least since Ukraine was one of the original 51 founding members of the UN in 1945. In 2014 Russia invaded Donbas. The Russian invasion abrogated agreements in which the current Russian government respected the Donbas in the December 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords and in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum. After invading, Russia installed Russian rulers and perpetuated a fiction about a pair of “peoples republics” that fit the usual pattern of Russian invasion, - - - forced installation of Russian rulers over a fictional “independent people’s republic” supported by a fake referendum, 5 minutes after which the “independence” of the bogus “peoples republics” vanishes and they beg to become part of Russia. The same charade is being played out in the Kherson oblast and we also saw it in Crimea. . It is all Russian bullshit that properly earns Russia damnation.
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  27. Som republicans claim that the United States cannot foot the bill of a long, drawn-out war in Ukraine, a faction of Republican lawmakers is threatening to shut down the US government if further Ukraine funding is included in a continuing resolution. But this approach does not take into consideration the benefits to US strategic interests and the American economy. A large portion of the money if not nearly all of it is “designated for Ukraine” is being reinvested in American companies and other military industrial complex , bolstering the defense industry and sustaining American manufacturing jobs for American workers; in over 35 different states in the country all those states badly need those investments and jobs for their citizens. Despite claims to the contrary, the United States is not sending bags of unaccounted-for cash to Ukraine. Most US contributions go to military aid, including weapons and equipment made by American defense contractors who employ communities across the country. When the United States spends money to purchase military equipment as part of an international aid package, the materiel may go overseas, but the money and jobs stay in America. Similarly, appropriations for the US Foreign Military Financing program provide incentives for NATO allies and partners to secure US-made capabilities. This translates to more business for US companies and sustained employment for rural communities in which they operate. For instance, Lockheed Martin, maker of the HIMARS—which has been central to Ukraine’s counteroffensive—plans to increase its Camden, Arkansas facility’s workforce by 20%, and recently announced increased profit projections through the end of the year. Similarly, General Dynamics has committed to building new production facilities in Mesquite, Texas, bringing money and jobs to the region. Change like this takes place only when the Pentagon sends strong and stable market signals to the defense industry, giving it the confidence to expand and hire. In short, the numbers suggest that continued support for Ukraine is a win-win for Ukrainians and the American people. The United States can continue to defend stability and democratic governance across the globe, while at the same time boosting American industrial output and advancing US economic interests.
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  29.  @covahredro8370  Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  31. US. and UK., gave Ukraine a guarantee of protecting Ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity based on the 1991 borders that included Crimea and east Ukraine Luhansk and Donbass.. As of the result of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, US., gave Ukraine a guarantee that the US, stands now as a grantor of Ukraine sovereignty , becouse Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons and back then, Ukraine had the world's third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile !! This guarantee was reconfirmed by United States when in 2009 released a statement that the memorandum's security assurances would still be respected after the expiration of the START Treaty After the annexation of Crimea by in 2014, The US, Canada, the UK, France along with other countries, stated that Russian involvement was a breach of its obligations to Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum and in violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. Let me explain and give some Content !! According to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia and that they would: 1. Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders. 2. Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Ukraine. 3. Refrain from using economic pressure on Ukraine to influence their politics. 4. Seek immediate action to provide assistance Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". 5. Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Ukraine. 6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments We need to understand that EITHER the word/ deals and / or the grantees of the west are worth something or they are not !!
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  32. Tucker says "Free speech is fundamental to a free society" and he says " You can not have a democracy without free speech " and Tucker is absolutely right on both of those points !! But the hypocrite that is Tucker loves Putin he shills for PUTIN all the time !! Question Tucker Is there a lot of free speech in Russia ??? I think we all know the answer to that one now don't we ? !! So why are you promoting Russia and Putin as some sort of alternative society for the west , who do you really work for Tucker ? !! Looks like Tuckers hate and disdain for the wokeleft (and he and I both share this disdain and hate ) has forced him into the conner, where he has made (with himself) a type of Faustian-bargain to become a type of American quasi Benedict Arnold cheerleader-supporter of Putinsevil in Ukraine; in some sort of wired type of My Enemies Enemy is my Fiend logic .. (This type of Tucker logic is as weirded as when some feministsare supporting islamicc mass-imagination type of thing, it is totally un-logical and immensely counterproductive to your end goal; But i GUESS  My Enemies Enemy is my Fiend logic, was never any type of a  100% watertight idiotproof logic anyway ) What Mr Carlson is overlooking is that sometimes,(if not all the time ) its better to fight the evilsof the enemy you know, that is in your own home (WOKEISEM ) than to go into cahoots with the evilyou don't really know, (putinsRussia ) thinking that the evil that is PutinsRussia is some sort a fellow traveler in the fight against leftistswokeism and your Don Quixote quest of "fighting windmills" of the stupiditywokees back home on your farm .. I always say a good rule in life, is never overlook evil or invite it into your life (no matter how useful you think it is at the time ) thinking it will help you fight the demonicdemons in your mind , or in your house; It blinds your judgment !! Understand one thing IT IS YOUR JOB  to fight ALL EVIL!!!! so what TucktuckTucker is doing here on his show night after night, whitewashing Putins ongoing war and Putins warcrimes inside Ukriane, is NOT exactly what Jordan B Peterson will have called an antidote to Chaos now is it !! Russia has invaded a smaller, weaker country bombing their hospitals, andkilling Ukrainian civilians!! I must say i think the Ukrainians have been very well behaved by NOTbombing Russian bordercities and if calling president Zelenskyy (Zelenskyy is jewish) anazi and a clown among other lies and things, is all the Russian propagandamachine and Tucker can come up when trying to demonize Ukrainians and make Ukriane " look bad" and Russians look good, then that is what I call a big joke done by a even bigger clown called Putins Court Jester Mr TucktuckTucker Carlson ..!!.. . I wonder what Putins Court Jester  Mr. TucktuckTucker will have said and done if his childrens-kindergarten got bombed or his entire village got turned into rubble and his next-door neighbors wasshoot in the streets with their hands tied behind their backs, or what he will say if his 12 yearold sister or daughter or his mother gotRaped infront of his eyes ... I am sure the moral high and mighty TucktuckTucker will have invited the Russians for tea and a talk about how to accommodated them into taking over his country and negotiate a pace where Russia gets to take over land and territories for free and never be holden responsible for its illegal invasion and war crimes committed.. , lets just put a blanket over that for peace yes peace right Tucker
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  34. AND WAHT ABOUT ....POLISH ARMY KILLING Ukrainian and polish Jews know as  the Pinsk genocide it was the mass execution of Jewish residents of Pinsk on April 5, 1919 by the Polish Army.  
 The event occurred during the opening stages of the Polish-Soviet War, after the Polish Army had captured Pinsk 
  The Jews who were executed had been arrested whilst engaged in an illegal gathering presumably of a Bolshevik cell.  
 The Polish officer-in-charge ordered the summary execution of the meeting participants without trial in fear of a trap, and based on the information about the gathering's purpose that was founded on hearsay. The officer's decision was defended by high-ranking Polish military officers 
 
 The Polish Group Commander General Antoni Listowski claimed that the gathering was a Bolshevik meeting and that the Jewish population attacked the Polish troops. The overall tension of the military campaign was brought up as a justification for the crime. 
 The Polish military refused to give investigators access to documents, and the officers and soldiers were never punished. Major Łuczyński was not charged for any wrongdoing and was eventually transferred and promoted reaching the rank of colonel (1919) and general (1924) in the Polish army. 
 The events were criticized in the Sejm (Polish parliament), but representatives of the Polish army denied any wrongdoing 
 More than 9,500 Polish staff / civilian workers employed by the Germans to work for the-Nazi-German-death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in the service of the-Nazis-But the Polish and Russians today like to point at Bandera  as a collaborator when he was in-fact NOT he was in Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1941 -1945 as a POW a prisoner of war in other words not  collaborator but an enemy of Hitler and-the-nazis-not that that FACT will stop the Polish and Russians to give out disinformation about the man..  
 Jan Grabowski's  book paints a damning portrait of Polish citizens who betrayed and murdered their Jewish neighbors without German orders. 
 
 Ukraine was the only country that fought a 3-front war during WW II: against Poland, against Germany and against Russia. Hitler retaliated by killing 20 (later boosted up to 100) innocent Ukrainian citizens for every soldier he lost and then he ordered them to be strung up from balconies to rot, a reminder to those who would want to help the partisans. 
 The Polish historian Piotr Setkiewicz describes the Gestapo’s inspection regulations as follows: “A Polish worker employed at Buna who wanted to travel home from Monowitz had to get permission from both his boss... He could not buy a ticket on his own, but had to use a worker designated by the plant to do so. At the train station in Auschwitz, moreover, he was obligated to show the requisite documents during an inspection conducted by policemen, guards  even if he was working for the Germans at the time.. 
 By the way Bandera and OUN was no more Germannazis supporter than Finland was or even Poland Bandera was fighting soviet union when they invaded Ukrainian territory and city's like Lviv (then part of Poland ) and the Hitler when he invaded Ukrainian territory... and before ww2 UPA was fighting Polish occupation of west Ukraine aka Galizia 
 What Russian and Polish propaganda ALSO convivially overlooks is that Bandera was in a German KZ camp Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1941 until 1944 as a prisoner and so was all of UPA /OUN and that Stalin was the one that helped Hitler round up the Polish jews when he invaded Poland together with his good buddy Hilter  in 1939
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  35. In the part of Western Volhynia, which today lies within the Volhynia, Rivne region and the north of the Ternopol regions of Ukraine, came under Polish rule after 150 years as part of the Russian Empire. It had no Catholics, either Greek or Roman. In 1939, after 20 years under Polish rule, Poles made up approximately 16% of the population. Part of them were settlers from the central districts of Poland, who had received large plots of land, to the dissatisfaction of the poor Ukrainian majority. In late 20 and 30s Ukrainian organizations in Poland were disturbed by a wave of anti-Ukrainian actions that did erupted .. Polonization was the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular the Polish language, as experienced in some historic periods by the non-Polish populations of territories controlled or substantially under the influence of Poland The Polish authorities renamed the eastern part of Austrian Galicia "Eastern Little Poland" and created administrative units (Palatinates) designed to include as many non-Ukrainians as possible. In 1924 the Polish government under Władysław Grabski excluded the Ukrainian language from use in government institutions. It also avoided the official use of the word "Ukrainian", replacing it with the historical name "Ruthenian The land reform designed in 1924 to favour the Poles in mostly Ukrainian populated Volhynia, the agricultural territory where the land question was especially was taken over by the Polish state from even the Orthodox Volhynian population who tended to be much less radical than the Greek Catholic Galicians. The fact they was part of the Ukrainian populated was grounds for the Polish state to take the land.. The Polish government in exile, gave orders to the Armija Krajowa (AK), which operated in German occupiedwestern Ukraine, to constantly demonstrate their presence: to oppose the right of Ukrainians to build their ownindependent nation, to destroy any independent Ukrainian military formations in the region, and if necessary todestroy any peaceful Ukrainian villages, bases of support for the UPA. The victims of these barbarous attacks in1943-1944 became thousands of defenseless Ukrainian men, women and children.In 1944, Polish peasant battalions distinguished themselves as being extremely barbaric against Ukrainians inZakerzon. They conducted ethnic cleansing operations, by completely destroying and burning entire Ukrainianvillages, together with their inhabitants.In 1945, at the Potsdam conference of the Allied heads of state, Stalin traded Ukrainian ethnic lands in Zakerzonto Poland in exchange for its open port on the Baltic Sea (now Kalingrad). As a result, Poland had completefreedom to do as it wished with Ukrainians in Kholmschyna and Nadsyannya. Poland viewed these Ukrainians as potential rebels, and their crowning action was Operation “Wisla” in 1947, when over 150,000 Ukrainians wereforcibly removed from their villages by the Polish Army as ethnic cleansing continued
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  36. So based on this fact Bandera had nothing to do with the massacre in Volhynia, the notorious 1943-44 massacre during the time of conflict. On 15 September 1941 Bandera and leading OUN members were arrested by the Gestapo and was sent to German KZ camp Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1941 until 1944 as a prisoner and so was all of UPA /OUN until the end of 1944. The massacre in Volhynia was in 1943.. In fact new evidence has come to light saying that it was NKVD dressed up as UPA /OUN that did the massacre in Volhynia was in 1943.. But this is still not 100% proven yet,,,, But it will not surprise me at all as that was typical for the time the NKVD did blame the germans for the genocide of polish in Katyn forest genocide, so doing a genocide and then bleaming it on someone else is somtihng the NKVD did a lot back then... http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/83517526/katyn-forest-massacre-genocide-state-lies-secrecy The Soviet secret police murdered thousands of Poles near the Katyn Forest, just outside the Russian city of Smolensk, in the early spring of 1940. The Soviets targeted members of the Polish intelligentsia--military officers, doctors, engineers, police officers, and teachers--which Stalin, the Soviet leader, sought to eradicate preventively. At the start of World War II, the Soviet Union viewed Poland as attractive territory, to be conquered and potentially annexed after the war. The Katyn massacre was not discovered until 1943, by the Germans, who instantly blamed the Soviets. The latter, however, blamed the Germans, and the Western Allies begrudgingly accepted this untruthful claim. The Katyn Forest Massacre remained taboo for many years, and it has only attracted significant scholarly, historical and political interest in the last two decades, following the fall of the Iron Curtain. This Article seeks to decipher the Katyn myth, by describing in Part II, the events which led to the Katyn Forest Massacre, as well as the killings themselves. In Part III, this Article focuses on subsequent investigations into Katyn, including the U.S. congressional inquiry in 1952, as well as post-Cold War revelations about Katyn, permitting to officially inflict responsibility on the Soviet Union.
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  37. You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  38. Kremlin is sending Hamas weapons and funding !! And ppl. in the west that are pro Putin are infact all indirectly (but to stupid to understand ) supportive of all the western enemies enemies like Syria , Iran , North Korea, Hamas and even the Taliban by supporting Russia as Russia is backing them all up to the teeth !! Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  39. And Russia and Iran is behind all of this Russia is the one supporting Hamas, sending weapons and resources and have done for years Russia does this via Iran, using Iran as a puppet state a this way have possible deniability so Kremlin can send Hamas weapons and funding !! And ppl. in the west that are pro Putin are infact all indirectly (but to stupid to understand ) supportive of all the western enemies enemies like Syria , Iran , North Korea, Hamas and even the Taliban by supporting Russia as Russia is backing them all up to the teeth !! Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  41. And Russia and Iran is behind all of this Russia is the one supporting Hamas, sending weapons and resources and have done for years Russia does this via Iran, using Iran as a puppet state a this way have possible deniability so Kremlin can send Hamas weapons and funding !! And ppl. in the west that are pro Putin are infact all indirectly (but to stupid to understand ) supportive of all the western enemies enemies like Syria , Iran , North Korea, Hamas and even the Taliban by supporting Russia as Russia is backing them all up to the teeth !! Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  42. As Congress debates additional support for Ukraine, the anti-Ukraine swamp will fill their echo chamber by peddling myths and half-truths like PJW is doing right now shilling for Putin a true enemy that is backed up by North Korea, Iran , Syria and China and lets not forget Russia is good friends with Hamas !!! Why is PJW SHILLING FOR PUTIN and presenting himself as a patriot of the west !! Here are the facts about the support for Ukriane FACT: America is not writing “blank checks” to Ukraine: Every dollar spent in support of Ukraine is authorized by Congress and is used for a specific purpose. Approximately $70 billion of aid never leaves the U.S. Instead, it goes to support America world leading defense industry. FACT: For a modest sum of money, the US helps Ukraine dismantle Russia’s military w/out a single American in harm's way: +300k Russian troops KIA/WIA, 13,000 major pieces of equipment removed from battlefield The original Russian invasion force from Feb 2022 no longer exists! FACT: There is plenty of oversight for Ukraine aid: Ukraine Oversight Interagency Working Group has 160 officials across 20 agencies monitoring aid So far: “Investigations related to the Ukraine response have not yet substantiated significant waste, fraud, or abuse. FACT: Europeans have now overtaken the U.S. the largest donor to Ukraine: Russia is China’s partner. A weakened Russia means a weaker China Beijing is also watching how Western powers support Ukraine, so a strong and victorious Ukraine makes Taiwan stronger and deters Chinese aggression FACT: Europe’s stability matters to US economy: 45/50 states export more to Europe than China When Americans are building something to be exported, that is an American job European stability, which Russia threatens, brings untold benefits to the economy the American worker. FACT: Lessons from Ukraine make our military stronger: Shortcomings in defense industry are exposed & being addressed. Thankfully, these were uncovered when US not at war The performance of US made hardware gets a real-world combat test in a way not possible in a peacetime FACT: Lessons learned from arming Ukraine mean Taiwan is getting weapons faster: For the first time ever, Presidential Drawdown Authority is being used for Taiwan Taiwan’s order of HIMARS will now be arriving 1 year earlier than planned after U.S. re-prioritized the sale FACT: Iran and North Korea enable Russia to attack Ukraine. Russia supports Hamas: Iran giving thousands of drones for use against Ukraine North Korea giving +1 million artillery rounds for use against Ukraine Russia protects Hamas at the UN. Moscow recently hosted Hamas FACT: Ukraine is not “America's new forever war”: No US troops are fighting against Russia inside Ukraine Ukrainians are not asking for, nor do they want, US troops to help them fight Russia The US is not a belligerent in the conflict FACT: The US is not engaged in a proxy war against Russia: Definition of a "proxy war" is a war “fought by states acting at the instigation or on behalf of other states” The US has never instigated Ukraine to fight. The US is not forcing the Ukraine to fight on its behalf FACT: The US must provide both military & non-military to achieve the greatest affect: Russia’s invasion eliminated 30% of Ukraine’s economy Essential public services must function (e.g. law enforcement, utility workers, etc) for Ukraine to remain on a total war footing FACT: US aid to Ukraine does not cost “$900 per American household” as some suggest: Income tax is not levied evenly across households the top 1% of earners paid 42.3% of all federal income tax. The bottom 50% (those making $42,184 or less) paid only 2.3% of all income tax. FACT: US military aid to Ukraine is a boost to our defense industry: After seeing effectiveness of US military equipment in Ukraine, NATO countries alone have so far placed $90 billion in orders for US made hardware. This makes America safer while creating highly-paid jobs
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  46. Russian bot farms now routinely instruct their employees to drown Ukraine in reports about corruption. According to Ukraine’s Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security, before that, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration gave instructions to plant the narrative about Ukraine as “the most corrupt country in the world” in Western media. This narrative embeds itself among foreign audiences that watch Russian RT news Are the accusations of corruption against Ukraine fair? Certainly, there is corruption in Ukraine, as well as problems of mismanagement at various levels. But Reports about the exposure of corruption schemes is not proof of total corruption in Ukraine. On the contrary, they testify that Ukrainian society and the state are not tolerant of corruption. Deregulation, de-oligarchization, the adoption of anti-corruption legislation, the formation of anti-corruption bodies, the liquidation of discredited institutions (such as the State Automobile Inspectorate or the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate) are several examples of concrete steps aimed at reducing Ukraine’s level of corruption.  Ukraine’s anti-corruption measures span a number of activities as follows: 1. Specialized law enforcement agencies that investigate corruption offenses: The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) were established in 2015. The High Anti-Corruption Court was established in 2019. The Prosecutor General's Office, the State Bureau of Investigation, the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police are also involved in the fight against corruption. Their activities are actively covered in the media and are evidence that Ukraine does not tolerate corruption but fights against it. 2. System of mandatory electronic declaration of wealth, introduced for civil servants, MPs and local deputies, judges, law enforcers and other officials: 3. Information on budget expenditure that is open and available to everyone: Public procurement in Ukraine is carried out through the ProZorro electronic system. 4. Democratic statehood and political competition: This is also a safeguard against monopolization of power, which entails corruption and degradation of the state apparatus. 5. No caste of untouchables in Ukraine: MPs, mayors of large cities, heads of regional administrations, deputy ministers and judges are brought to criminal responsibility. In May 2023, the Chairman of the Supreme Court was detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe. 6. Policy of de-oligarchization: In 2021, a law was passed to limit the influence of oligarchs on political parties, the government and the media in Ukraine. 7. Freedom of speech and free media work, even under martial law: Journalists can investigate the lifestyle of politicians and top officials and inform citizens about the discovered facts. Journalistic materials often become the basis for opening proceedings by law enforcement agencies and can lead to political consequences. In particular, several MPs have given up power based on such cases arising. 8. A powerful civil society: Anti-corruption public organizations monitor public procurement, analyze budget spending, report questionable expenditure and corruption risk. 9. Zero tolerance of corruption among Ukrainian citizens: The Orange Revolution of 2004-2005 and the Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014 were, among other things, a protest against government corruption. This is a constant demand of society, which will not change in the years to come. 10. Widely implemented policy of deregulation, which reduces potential abuses by regulatory authorities: The Ukrainian parliament and the government are canceling outdated regulations, simplifying conditions for doing business and providing administrative services for citizens. Furthermore, the Ministry of Digital Transformation plans to launch 63 digital products (14 innovative solutions are to be implemented just the last year). The next step is an electronic court, digital registers and systems. Ukriane foreign partners also see Ukraine's success. U.S. Acting Deputy Secretary of State, welcomed the adoption of the law on improving the activities of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. It is said ; despite the war, Ukraine has continued to fight against corruption and taken decisive action to strengthen accountability, transparency and corporate governance. According to Transparency International, following the Revolution of Dignity, Ukraine demonstrated progress in the fight against corruption. For 10 years – from 2013 to 2022 – the country earned eight points in the Corruption Perceptions Index rating, showing its best result in 2022 – 33 points out of 100. In accordance with the indicator, Ukraine is lagging behind Turkey, Serbia and Albania, which have 36 points each, but ahead of Russia (29 points). The most corrupt states in the world are the Kremlin's friends: Syria (13), Venezuela (14), North Korea (17), Nicaragua (19), Sudan (22), and Eritrea (22). Why does Russia use the "most corrupt country" narrative? Speculating on the topic of corruption, exaggerating its scale and demonizing Ukrainian society, the Kremlin regime seeks to achieve the following goals: 1. To undermine the unity of partners providing Ukraine with military and macro-financial assistance 2. To convince the citizens of these countries that the aid provided will be stolen, Western weapons will end up on the "black market" and will fall into the hands of terrorists 3. To promote narratives about Ukrainians as ungrateful and villainous people 4. To convince Ukrainian citizens that “the real enemy is not in Moscow, but in Kyiv.” This is aimed at socio-political destabilization, undermining trust in the military-political leadership, generating hatred for civil servants, MPs, etc. Despite the Russian invasion, Ukraine has demonstrated that overcoming corruption is a constant trend that persists even in the most difficult of times. Russia's speculation about corruption in Ukraine is aimed at undermining trust in Ukraine on the part of foreign partners, weakening support, provoking artificial conflicts in Ukrainian society, reduce Ukraine’s ability to resist external aggression and defend its own state.
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  47. Kremlin routinely give out reports about corruption and repeat the lies of Ukraine as “the most corrupt country in the world”. This myth gets pushed into foreign audiences by Russian RT news Is this corruption claim against Ukraine fair? Certainly, there is corruption in Ukraine! But reports coming to light of exposed corruption schemes is not proof of total corruption in Ukraine. On the contrary It testifies that Ukraine state is fighting off corruption. There are several examples of concrete steps aimed at reducing Ukraine’s level of corruption.  Ukraine’s anti-corruption measures span a number of activities as follows: 1. Specialized law enforcement agencies that investigate corruption offenses: The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) were established in 2015. The High Anti-Corruption Court was established in 2019. The Prosecutor General's Office, the State Bureau of Investigation, the Security Service of Ukraine and the ..Their activities are actively covered in the media and are evidence that Ukraine does not tolerate corruption but fights against it. 2. System of mandatory electronic declaration of wealth, introduced for civil servants, MPs and local deputies, judges, law enforcers and other officials: 3. Democratic statehood and political competition: This is also a safeguard against monopolization. 4. No caste of untouchables in Ukraine: MPs, mayors of large cities, heads of regional administrations, deputy ministers and judges are brought to criminal responsibility. In May 2023, the Chairman of the Supreme Court was detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe. 5. Zero tolerance of corruption among Ukrainians The Revolution of Dignity of 2013-2014 were against Putins boys Mr. President Yankovich corruption schemes. I CAN GO ON AND ON REF. TO A ENDLESS LIST OF ANTI CORRUPTION MEASUERS BUT YOU GET MY POINT ! Also According to Transparency International Corruption Index rating Ukraine is lagging behind Turkey, which have 36 points each, but ahead of Russia (29) so Ukraine is less corrupted than Russia 🇷🇺
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  48. It might be useful to recap some of the reason why Russia is now an outcast : Russian interference in numerous elections and referendums in EU countries over the last decade; Russia's active disinformation campaigns across the EU; Russian-based cyber attacks targeting numerous EU countries; Provocative Russian military flights in and around EU and NATO airspace; Russia's interference with GPS navigation systems in Scandinavia; Russia's continued deployment of "peacekeepers" in Moldova despite that country's repeated requests that Russian troops be replaced with UN peacekeepers; Russia's 2008 war against Georgia and its continued occupation of some 20 percent of Georgian territory; Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region; Russia's intense involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine, which the ICC in November 2016 ruled "an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation"; Russia's obstructionism in implementation of the Minsk agreements to end the Ukraine conflict; Russia's role in acts of terrorism in the 2014 downing of a passenger airliner (Malaysia Airlines MH17) over Ukraine that killed 298 people; Russia's poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006; Russia's attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018; among lots of other things to much to even list up .. NONE OF THIS ABOVE WAS SOMETHING THE EU , THE USA OR EVEN NATO, FORCED OR TRICKED RUSSIA INTO DOING !!! RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE in 2014 VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW: 1. The Geneva Convention. 2. Charter of the United Nations 3. The Helsinki Accords 4. The Charter of the OSCE 5. Budapest Memorandum of 1994 6. Two Russia, Ukraine friendship treaties 7. International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination 8. European Court of Human Rights THE LEGAL FACTS WHY CRIMEA BELONGS TO UKRAINE . The earlier published documents, and materials that have emerged more recently make clear that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the UkrSSR was carried out in accordance with the 1936 Soviet constitution, which in Article 18 stipulated that “the territory of a Union Republic may not be altered without its consent.” The proceedings of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium meeting indicate that both the RSFSR and the UkrSSR had given their consent via their republic parliaments. One of the officials present at the 19 February session, Otto Kuusinen, even boasted that “only in our country [the USSR] is it possible that issues of the utmost importance such as the territorial transfer of individual oblasts to a particular republic can be decided without any difficulties.” One might argue that the process in 1954 would have been a lot better if it had been complicated and difficult, but no matter how one judges the expeditiousness of the territorial reconfiguration, the main point to stress here is that it is incorrect to say (as some Russian commentators and government officials recently have) that Crimea was transferred unconstitutionally or illegally. The legal system in the Soviet Union was mostly a fiction, but the transfer did occur in accordance with the rules in effect at the time. Moreover, regardless of how the transfer was carried out, the Russian Federation expressly accepted Ukraine’s 1991 borders both in the December 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords (the agreements that precipitated and codified the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum that finalized Ukraine’s status as a non-nuclear weapons state.
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  49. The idea that Ukraine is the aggressor in this situation in Crimea and east Ukraine is absurd. “It’s Russia that invaded Ukraine It’s Russia that is the military occupier of part of Ukraine, in Crimea. It’s Russia that, to this day, is fueling a war in eastern Ukraine. It’s Russia that has failed to implement any of its Minsk commitments… It’s Russia that’s taken aim repeatedly at Ukraine’s democracy. And it’s Russia that’s sending troops to Ukraine’s. All these actions are violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty and an immediate and urgent challenge to peace and stability in Europe, Let me ask you this ; Who gives Putin the right to have "a broader sphere of interest in Ukraine " we live in 2022 not 1822 ??? What about the people who live in "that so called sphere of interest" that is the sovereign country of Ukriane don't they (the Ukrainian ppl.) have an " sphere of interest in Ukriane itself " ? Shall the Ukrainians just bend their knee and behave as slaves, and become some sort of quasi 2nd class nation/ country, and have their society run under the heal and accept being kicked by Kremlin's boot of the " sphere of Russian interest " ; Should Ukriane just roll over and let Russia controlled Ukriane for the sole benefit of Putins klan agenda and the geo political intrs. of the Moscow Kremlin kleptocracy elites?: And let Ukraine become some sort of quasi geographical entity for political advantages of the Kremlin ? Or should Ukriane stand up and fight against such tyrannical thing as PUTINS "sphere of interest" as the independent European self governing state it is FIGHT for freedom, sovereignty and self-rule ?? FACT !!! Ukriane was forced into this war by Russia not Russia by Ukriane (or anyone else ) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has no choice he needs to now be the president of a country, that is in a war defending its country and ppl. against a brutal evilaggressor. And the authorities of the aggressor country do not want any peace. (If the Russia army stops fighting today and goes home back to Russia tomorrow there will be NO war If Ukraine stops fighting today there will be NO Ukraine !! ) It was Russia that broke the Minsk !! Russia, the state launched the pseudo-elections in the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk, the 'elections' that contradict the letter and spirit of the Minsk agreements, and after those pseudo-elections was done russia then issued a statement the mandate a war, (special operation ) which it had long in all practical teams declared against Ukraine since they invaded crimea and east Ukraine back in 2014 ,” Also lets not forget that the Russian pseudo-elections in the occupied part of eastern Ukraine had been condemned by the European Union, the U.S., and other G-7 states, as well as most of the UN Security Council members. "They are not recognized anywhere in the world, except for the organizing country, the Russian Federation. And, unfortunately, this adventure will entail serious questions regarding security and political consequences. An important note: OSCE Special Representative Martin Sajdik also has made an official statement in Minsk saying that the : pseudo-elections in the occupied Donbas categorically contradict the spirit and letter of the Minsk Agreements,. PUTINS CLAIM;; Putin said ; During these years, Kyiv authorities have ignored and sabotaged the implementation of the Minsk Package of Measures for a peaceful settlement of the crisis and ultimately late last year openly refused to implement it. THE TRUTH AND FACT ; “Minsk Package of Measures” The Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015 was to establish peace in eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin has been calling on Kyiv to concede the separatist area a special status via a constitutional reform (point 11) and to hold elections there (point 12). For there to be fair elections, the Ukrainian government has demanded that all armed groups leave the area (point 10), that all Russian heavy weapons be withdrawn (point 3) and for Kyiv to recover control of the Donbas border with Russia (point 9). so for the Minsk to even start it is in Russias ball park they must first remove and withdrawn Russian heavy weapons and armed groups leave the area ; then in accidence with Minsk agreement Ukraine will start hold elections there, but we are all waiting for Russia to remove its combatants first in accidence with Minsk agreement ..
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  52. PJW is just repeating Russian talking points he is shilling for putin !! You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  55. putin shills like PJW are saying why does Ukraine not just let Russia have the areas /land it’s just a small part of Ukraine anyway..... A small part of Ukraine ...WE ARE taking about a land mass is almost 200,000 sq km In EU terms thats the size of Belgium, Holland, luxembourg and Greece all put together.. In UK terms that the size of all of Scotland , Wales and 80% of England all put together !! In US terms is the size of South Carolina, West Virginia and New Jersey all put together !! Why the f. should Ukraine give Russia all that land for what? TO ONLY be invaded some years later when Russia as had a brake and regrouped ,rebuilt its army and fortified positions !! I SAY RUSSIA GETS TO TAKE LAND AND DEMAND UKRAINE CAN NOT JOIN NATO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL !! Nobody wants to be a "buffer country".  NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom !!!! ; The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom  and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country; That is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept that Ukraine and its ppl. should become some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country to serve kremlins geopolitical agenda; so Kremlin, Putin and RuZZans can feel better about themselves ... ---------It is embarrassing that the US and Europe do not support Ukraine more than they do , the US. were in Afghanistan for 20 years and achieved less than Ukraine in 2 years, and Ukraine is also a much stronger opponent with many more resources !! As a Norwegian I am ashamed of our policies in the west , the western nations governments use every opportunity to go on national TV and tell how much they support, but the truth is that we have only provided 94 Euros per inhabitant, it is ridiculous when we look at the size of Ukraine, the opponent and the way Russia has bombed cities in Ukraine back to the Stone Age, and that we (western nations ) have not lost a single person in the war , we are talking about Europe, democracy and freedom that Ukraine is defending , one can only be ashamed
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  57. What really gets me is that some ppl. are now saying why does Ukraine not just let Russia have the areas /land it’s just a small part of Ukriane anyway..... A small part of Ukraine ...WE ARE taking about a land mass over 200,000 sq km In EU terms thats the size of Belgium, Holland, and Greece all put together.. In UK terms that the size of all of Scotland , Wales and most of England In US terms is the size of South Carolina, West Virginia and New Jersey all put together !! Why the should Ukraine give up all that land for what to be invaded only some years later !! I SAY RUSSIA GETS TO TAKE LAND AND DEMAND UKRAINE CAN NOT JOIN NATO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL !! Nobody wants to be a "buffer country".  NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom  and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country; That is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept to be some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country to serve kremlins geopolitical agenda and so Kremlin, Putin and RuZZans can feel better about themselves ... Eastern European countries (ex soviet countries like Poland the baltic states ect ect ..) joined NATO because they are scared of Russia and want to be and stay independent. Nobody forced them to join NATO they was the ones running and knocking and begging to be able to join NATO and the EU ,,, . When Russia invaded Ukriane Russia then just showed why it was a good idea for those countries to join NATO, because if they didn't they might just have got invaded as well just like Ukraine and Georgia did . During Soviet times those Eastern European countries were nothing less than Russia puppet states. If they didn't join NATO after the fall of the USSR then they for sure couldn't guarantee their own independence from Russia. Nato did nothing wrong, the only mistake was Ukraine not joining NATO to ensure Ukraines independence; Remember former satellite states like Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and The Baltic states, Slovakia ect ect all came running by their own accord, knocking, kicking, screaming and banging at the front door of EU and NATO begging to come in, no one forced them into it . If Russia was not such a asshole country and stoped constantly bulling neighboring countries maybe other neighboring countries will not need to join NATO and by more open and welcoming to Russia ..
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  59. Appeasement & Armageddon: Giving in to Vladimir Putin’s nuclear blackmail will spark an unprecedented nuclear arms race and make a future nuclear war far more likely!! There is a reason why the Soviet Union, nor any nuclear power, never launched a first strike (nuclear attack) since Word War 2, despite all of the Cold War fears that the Soviets would. And it’s because you can't launch a first strike without being annihilated in the second strike. I remember in the 80s when The Day After aired, and everyone hoped the Soviets would see the movie and learn the lesson. Probably not realizing the Soviets can be trusted to act in the best self-interests...which mutually assured destruction is clearly against... and that the Soviets knew this since the 60s, if not the 50s. -- How is it any different today?  Even if Putin had the launch codes (he doesn't), or the ability to order a first strike by himself (he doesn't), even he would know the response is not going to be 'more sanctions'. -- The only way I could fathom Russia using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, or against any enemy country, is the FSB had a foolproof plan to blame am ISIS terror cell, or rogue Chechen element, or claim the Ukrainians did it in a false-flag conspiracy to frame the Russians. -- But that would require a convincing story on how such an element got the nuclear weapon 'elsewhere', and eliminating everyone involved in the planning and execution. Whatever the case, Russia would need absolute plausible deniability. -- Here's my two cents, if there was really a way to use a nuclear weapon against an enemy without equal repercussions, Russia and China (and the US) would have figured it out a long time ago and did it already. All NATO must do is take out Moscow and 5 -6 other city's to take out all of Russia.... But Russia must take out city's all over the planet from USA , CANADA ,FRANCE UK. ALL OF EUROPE and as far away as , AUSTRALIA and so on and so on ... United Kingdom 225 warheads (submarine delivery systems new and up to date systems ) France 300 warheads (submarine delivery systems new and up to date systems ) United States 7,315 warheads (Mixed delivery systems new and up to date systems ) Russia 8,000 warheads (Mixed delivery systems old mostly from the soviet union times NOT up to date systems ) RUSSIA IS AT DISADVANTAGE !!! and they know it Putin's regime knows its and that is why they will not use nukes they will hint and shout about nukes but that's it !!
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  60. Tulsi Gabbard  IS GOOD FRIENDS with Putins boy Syrian president Bashar al-Assad !!!  Tulsi Gabbard back in January 2017 had more then one unplanned meeting with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. and In April 2017, Gabbard expressed skepticism about claims that Assad used chemical weapons against civilians in Khan Shaykhun, and which were followed a military attack against Syria, to stop the genocide back up by Russia done by Putins boy Syrian president Bashar al-Assad-- Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to lead the US national intelligence, hailed as Russia's “comrade” by Kremlin's state media. Investigations have found that both the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and ISIL militants have used chemical weapons, with the majority of attacks being carried out by the Syrian government. In 2014, the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission in Syria concluded the use of chlorine was systematic and widespread. In a 2018 interview with The Nation, Gabbard said the United States had "been waging a regime change war in Syria since 2011 (like it was taking out of KREMLIN propganda handbook ) Gabbard criticized the U.S. military's 2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike (which killed high-level Iranian General Qasem Soleimani) as an act of war by President Trump and a violation of the U.S. Constitution, arguing that the president did not have congressional authorization for this act. IS THIS THE WOMAN TRUCKER AND FOX ARE KISSING UP TO !! A USFULL IDIOTTOOL OF RUSSIA AND ASSAD !!
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  61. And ppl. in the west that are pro Putin are infact all indirectly (but to stupid to understand ) supportive of all the western enemies enemies like Syria , Iran , North Korea, Hamas and even the Taliban by supporting Russia as Russia is backing them all up to the teeth !! Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  62. Republican lawmakers is threatening to shut down the US government if further Ukraine funding is included in a continuing resolution. But this approach does not take into consideration the benefits to US strategic interests and the American economy. A large portion of the money if not nearly all of it is “designated for Ukraine” is being reinvested in American companies and other military industrial complex , bolstering the defense industry and sustaining American manufacturing jobs for American workers; in over 35 different states in the country all those states badly need those investments and jobs for their citizens. Despite claims to the contrary !!!! The United States is NOT  sending bags of unaccounted-for cash to Ukraine. Most US contributions go to military aid, including weapons and equipment made by American defense contractors who employ communities across the country. When the United States spends money to purchase military equipment as part of an international aid package, the materiel may go overseas, but the money and jobs stay in America. Similarly, appropriations for the US Foreign Military Financing program provide incentives for NATO allies and partners to secure US-made capabilities. This translates to more business for US companies and sustained employment for rural communities in which they operate. For instance, Lockheed Martin, maker of the HIMARS—which has been central to Ukraine’s counteroffensive—plans to increase its Camden, Arkansas facility’s workforce by 20%, and recently announced increased profit projections through the end of the year. Similarly, General Dynamics has committed to building new production facilities in Mesquite, Texas, bringing money and jobs to the region. Change like this takes place only when the Pentagon sends strong and stable market signals to the defense industry, giving it the confidence to expand and hire. In short, the numbers suggest that continued support for Ukraine is a win-win for Ukrainians and the American people. The United States can continue to defend stability and democratic governance across the globe, while at the same time boosting American industrial output and advancing US economic interests.
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  70. Russia has broken the deployment agreement (Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty and the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 2010) that had with NATO and the USA when Russia deploys nuclear-capable missile system in Kaliningrad back in 2018 !!! LOOK UP Russia's deployment of nuclear-capable missiles to its Kaliningrad exclave is setting off warning bells in the Baltics and at Nato. NATO is already 500 km from Moscow via Latvia and 150 km from St, Petersburg via Estonia so the argument that NATO will get closer to Moscow if Ukraine joins NATO is BS .. And her is a thought .. if every neighbor you have is running to and begging and wanting to join NATO is it becouse you are such a nice neighbor to be besides or is it because you act like a bully and are aggressive and invade your neighbor lands and are not the good neighbor you claim to be ... Maybe if you act in a more nicer way you be liked by your neighbors in your neighborhood and some of them maybe will want to be around you as well .. The idea that Ukraine is the aggressor in this situation in Crimea and east Ukraine is absurd. “It’s Russia that invaded Ukraine years ago. It’s Russia that is the military occupier of part of Ukraine, in Crimea. It’s Russia that, to this day, is fueling a war in eastern Ukraine. It’s Russia that has failed to implement any of its Minsk commitments… It’s Russia that’s taken aim repeatedly at Ukraine’s democracy. And it’s Russia that’s sending troops to Ukraine’s border, once again. All these actions are violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty and an immediate and urgent challenge to peace and stability in Europe, And before someone comes with the Cuba nukes back in the 60s argument let me tell you this it was back in the cold war a drf. time all together and The main difference is that Castro invited Russia with their missiles to Cuba while Ukraine’s young democracy is trying to protect itself from Putin’s dictatorship! Russia has broken the deployment agreement (Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty and the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 2010) that had with NATO and the USA when Russia deploys nuclear-capable missile system in Kaliningrad back in 2018 !!! LOOK UP Russia's deployment of nuclear-capable missiles to its Kaliningrad exclave is setting off warning bells in the Baltics and at Nato. Kaliningrad BORDERS Poland and Lithuania (both NATO ) so who put Nuks on the NATO/ Russian borders first Mr Putin ???
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  73. @robfarrell9104 It might be useful to recap some of the reason why Russia is now an outcast : Russian interference in numerous elections and referendums in EU countries over the last decade; Russia's active disinformation campaigns across the EU; Russian-based cyber attacks targeting numerous EU countries; Provocative Russian military flights in and around EU and NATO airspace; Russia's interference with GPS navigation systems in Scandinavia; Russia's continued deployment of "peacekeepers" in Moldova despite that country's repeated requests that Russian troops be replaced with UN peacekeepers; Russia's 2008 war against Georgia and its continued occupation of some 20 percent of Georgian territory; Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region; Russia's intense involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine, which the ICC in November 2016 ruled "an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation"; Russia's obstructionism in implementation of the Minsk agreements to end the Ukraine conflict; Russia's role in acts of terrorism in the 2014 downing of a passenger airliner (Malaysia Airlines MH17) over Ukraine that killed 298 people; Russia's poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006; Russia's attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018; among lots of other things to much to even list up .. NONE OF THIS ABOVE WAS SOMETHING THE EU , THE USA OR EVEN NATO, FORCED OR TRICKED RUSSIA INTO DOING !!! RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE in 2014 VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW: 1. The Geneva Convention. 2. Charter of the United Nations 3. The Helsinki Accords 4. The Charter of the OSCE 5. Budapest Memorandum of 1994 6. Two Russia, Ukraine friendship treaties 7. International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination 8. European Court of Human Rights THE LEGAL FACTS WHY CRIMEA BELONGS TO UKRAINE . The earlier published documents, and materials that have emerged more recently make clear that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the UkrSSR was carried out in accordance with the 1936 Soviet constitution, which in Article 18 stipulated that “the territory of a Union Republic may not be altered without its consent.” The proceedings of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium meeting indicate that both the RSFSR and the UkrSSR had given their consent via their republic parliaments. One of the officials present at the 19 February session, Otto Kuusinen, even boasted that “only in our country [the USSR] is it possible that issues of the utmost importance such as the territorial transfer of individual oblasts to a particular republic can be decided without any difficulties.” One might argue that the process in 1954 would have been a lot better if it had been complicated and difficult, but no matter how one judges the expeditiousness of the territorial reconfiguration, the main point to stress here is that it is incorrect to say (as some Russian commentators and government officials recently have) that Crimea was transferred unconstitutionally or illegally. The legal system in the Soviet Union was mostly a fiction, but the transfer did occur in accordance with the rules in effect at the time. Moreover, regardless of how the transfer was carried out, the Russian Federation expressly accepted Ukraine’s 1991 borders both in the December 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords (the agreements that precipitated and codified the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum that finalized Ukraine’s status as a non-nuclear weapons state.
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  75.  @robfarrell9104  Let’s look at Ukraine’s disgraced former President, (Putins boy) Mr . Victor Yanukovych . After he fled to Putin with billions of stolen money the Kremlin-backed politician and his cronies (made away with $40 billion in state Ukrainian assets disappear ) the idea that he remained the legitimate head of the Ukrainian state, and therefore the manner in which he was replaced was automatically illegitimate, was commonplace. This line of thinking was heavily promulgated by his new host country for reasons that are self-evident. But was it right, or even logical, to claim this? The legitimacy of the Yanukovych regime indeed began with a somewhat fair election, albeit an election in which the Ukrainian people had no good other choices at the time (NOTE : Yanukovych was backed up by Moscow controlled media and corrupted elites that have dealings with the Kremlin and media inside Ukraine) . But could that legitimacy go on unquestioned despite the blatant grand scale theft of state resources? No. Of course it could not. Common hooligans and thugs were brought to Kyiv by the Yanukovych authorities to beat down on the students protesting Yanukovych authorities corruption (first recorded on Nov. 29, 2013when the protested was just a few days old) Yanukovych thugs mission was to terrorize the residents of the capital and beat down the students protesting Yanukovych . This act was completely in contradiction to Article 3 of the constitution that Yanukovych was elected to uphold. It was more than right to question Yanukovych’s legitimacy after this and the Ukrainian people did just that after seeing young  students getting beat up by Yanukovych imported thugs in the streets of Kyiv, this act of state terrors, enraged the people even more and other joined the students protesting Yanukovych , now demanding his removal of office. Lets take a closer look into legitimacy of Yanukovych Presidency.. Can the legitimacy of a ruling authority survive past the blatantly illegal adoption of laws designed to end democracy and create a dictatorship? No. Of course it cannot. Yet, this is what the Yanukovych controlled Party of Regions attempted to do on Jan. 16, 2014. Later analysis of images taken in parliament that while 235 MPs were declared to have voted for these “dictatorship” laws, only about half of this number of MPs were actually in the session hall when the vote was taken (by a show of hands – also illegal.) After such clearly anti-democratic and dishonest actions, can anyone consider that authority to be legitimate? The actions were a breach of Article 5 of Ukraine’s constitution – something that Yanukovych was under oath to protect and uphold. But he failed to keep his word. There were more violations of the constitution by Yanukovych, its supposed protector. Article 27 of Ukraine’s constitution says that “Every person shall have the inalienable right to life. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of life.” Yet Yuri Verbitsky, a 42 year old geologist from Lviv, was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by forces belonging to the Yanukovych regime between Jan. 22 and Jan. 25 of 2014. That Yanukovych had already lost any legitimacy by this point should be beyond question. Later, of course, came the deaths of many more people on Jan. 18 and then Jan. 20, after which Yanukovych fled to Russia, insisting his authority and position were still legitimate. Define legitimate. The idea that legitimacy carries on from appointment without further question is a complete fallacy. It is something that we should refuse to accept. An elected leader most certainly can lose their legitimacy through illegal and/or unconstitutional, actions. The most recent public attempt at increasing the fog blurring the distinction between legitimately elected and legitimate comes from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Bottom line, they are not the same, although it is easy to see why Russia’s ruling clan would seek to pretend that they are. Show less
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  77.  @robfarrell9104  WAS RUSSIA NOT UKRIANE THAT BROKE THE MINSK AGREEMENT !!! There is no chance that Russia would ever stick to any agreement negotiated in the name of peace. It ignored the Budapest Memorandum; the Helsinki Accords; the Minsk Agreement; the principles of the UN, its obligations under the UN Charter, its obligations as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, International Law, the Geneva Convention, the Nuremburg Principles, contract law, .... And further evidence of the fact that there is no chance that Russia would ever stick to any agreement negotiated in the name of peace. IS THAT IS WAS RUSSIA NOT UKRIANE THAT BROKE THE MINSK AGREEMENT !!! Ukraine signed the Minsk agreement in good faith, hoping it would stop the killing in Donbas, even though the authorities in Kyiv knew it was a very bad deal for them. Russia, on the other hand, viewed Minsk as a tool to pursue their war in Ukraine by other means, under the cover of an alleged ceasefire. The authorities in Kyiv have made honest efforts to fulfill their obligations under Minsk. But in a democracy, passing constitutional amendments and laws providing for elections in a warzone has -- not surprisingly -- proven to be politically challenging. Russia hasn't even tried to fulfil its end of the bargain. The Kremlin and its proxies in Donbas have violated the ceasefire practically from day one, starting with the siege of Debaltseve and continuing to this day. 
 It was Russia that broke the Minsk !! Russia, the state launched the pseudo-elections in the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk, the 'elections' that contradict the letter and spirit of the Minsk agreements, and after those pseudo-elections was done russia then issued a statement the mandate a war, (special operation ) which it had long in all practical teams declared against Ukraine since they invaded crimea and east Ukraine back in 2014 ,” Also lets not forget that the Russian pseudo-elections in the occupied part of eastern Ukraine had been condemned by the European Union, the U.S., and other G-7 states, as well as most of the UN Security Council members. "They are not recognized anywhere in the world, except for the organizing country, the Russian Federation. And, unfortunately, this adventure will entail serious questions regarding security and political consequences. An important note: OSCE Special Representative Martin Sajdik also has made an official statement in Minsk saying that the : pseudo-elections in the occupied Donbas categorically contradict the spirit and letter of the Minsk Agreements,. PUTINS CLAIM;; Putin said ; During these years, Kyiv authorities have ignored and sabotaged the implementation of the Minsk Package of Measures for a peaceful settlement of the crisis and ultimately late last year openly refused to implement it. THE TRUTH AND FACT ; “Minsk Package of Measures” The Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015 was to establish peace in eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin has been calling on Kyiv to concede the separatist area a special status via a constitutional reform (point 11) and to hold elections there (point 12). For there to be fair elections, the Ukrainian government has demanded that all armed groups leave the area (point 10), that all Russian heavy weapons be withdrawn (point 3) and for Kyiv to recover control of the Donbas border with Russia (point 9). so for the Minsk to even start it is in Russias ball park they must first remove and withdrawn Russian heavy weapons and armed groups leave the area ; then in accidence with Minsk agreement Ukraine will start hold elections there, but we are all waiting for Russia to remove its combatants first in accidence with Minsk agreement ..
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  79. ​ @robfarrell9104  and since when can a bot buy a plan ticket hahaah And no one is asking anyone from america to come an fight in Ukraine the Ukrainian boys are more than willing to do the fighting and the dying as well if necessary , but until now most of the dying has been Russians getting killed in Ukraine to the point where Putin has be forced to conscript criminals from prison to fill up the ranks and race the age for national service to 65 years of age hahah; So clearly they are losing this war ... Russia can not even hold what they had taken a year ago ever day Russian army is losing ground in Ukraine , so Ukraine doesn't need american boys coming over to help fight the Russians , Ukriane only needs USA and UK to houner its agreements that it made with Ukraine back in 1994 called the Budapest Memorandum !! To put things in perspective, Ukraine had 176 ICBMs and over 2000 tactical nukes along with bombers able to carry them. They gave it all up in exchange for security guarantees from USA, UK and Russia ( Budapest Memorandum 1994 ). One would say that assisting Ukraine now when its being invaded should be obvious thing to do when you signed up on their security and they gave up literally thousands nukes... US. and UK., gave Ukraine a guarantee of protecting Ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity based on the 1991 borders that included Crimea and east Ukraine Luhansk and Donbass.. As of the result of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, US., gave Ukraine a guarantee that the US, stands now as a grantor of Ukraine sovereignty , becouse Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons and back then, Ukraine had the world's third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile !! This guarantee was reconfirmed by United States when in 2009 released a statement that the memorandum's security assurances would still be respected after the expiration of the START Treaty After the annexation of Crimea by in 2014, The US, Canada, the UK, France along with other countries, stated that Russian involvement was a breach of its obligations to Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum and in violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. Let me explain and give some Content !! According to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia and that they would: 1. Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders. 2. Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Ukraine. 3. Refrain from using economic pressure on Ukraine to influence their politics. 4. Seek immediate action to provide assistance Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". 5. Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Ukraine. 6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments We need to understand that EITHER the word/ deals and / or the grantees of the west are worth something or they are not !!
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  80. THE MYTH OF RUSSIA IS A SUPERPOWER ON THE WORLD STAGE DEBUNKED ! For centuries, Russia has seen itself as one of the world's great powers. This superpower Russia status idea myth, seen by most of the world is now become a declining idea and the world is now seeing that Russia is not and has never been any super power; More and more ppl. now understand that Russia has only been masquerading as a "SUPER POWER " the Kremlin has been presenting itself as one and hiding behind the Myth of super power status; And even for some time the kremlin themself (one can argue) started to believe in their own lies, their own myth making and their own propaganda ! BUT AFTER UKRIANE THIS MYTH IS BUSTED !! Russia: has only $1.48 trillion annual GDP that makes Russia about the same size economically on the level of Spain if your economy is as small as Spain how can you think even for one min you are some sort of super power, that has some spacial right to be seen on the same level as UK, US , or even China ??? Let's look at some fact here: Russia is closer to Indonesia and Australia economically, than it is UK , Germany , France US or Japan .. !! And when it comes to having nukes dose that make you a super power, well UK and France has nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) as well and so does North Korea and even israel is claimed to have nuclear weapons, is North Korea or UK and France Super powers becouse they have nuclear weapons ??? 1. United States: $20.89 trillion 2. China: $14.72 trillion 3. Japan: $5.06 trillion 4. Germany: $3.85 trillion 5. United Kingdom: $2.67 trillion 6. India: $2.66 trillion 7. France: $2.63 trillion 8. Italy: $1.89 trillion 9. Canada: $1.64 trillion 10. South Korea: $1.63 trillion 11. Russia: $1.48 trillion 12. Brazil: $1.44 trillion 13. Australia: $1.32 trillion 14. Spain: $1.28 trillion 15. Indonesia: $1.05 trillion
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  81. Ukraine is not attacking anybody; they are protecting their land…They are on our their land…So that's why they are absolutely confident that they must win in the war.” Putin started it so it would end with the defeat of Ukraine and the Ukrainian peoples/ nations aspirations of true self-government true independence and democratic nation, that was fare away from the hegemony control and orbit of Russia … IN OTHER words with our collapse of Ukrainian society. It helps him keep Ukraine on the Kremlin hook and hegemony control and helps Putin feel himself as an influential leader negotiating with the West. So, why would he need peace? Let me ask you this ; Who gives Putin the right to have "a broader sphere of interest in Ukraine " we live in 2022 not 1822 ??? What about the people who live in "that so called sphere of interest" that is the sovereign country of Ukriane don't they (the Ukrainian ppl.) have an " sphere of interest in Ukriane itself " ? Shall the Ukrainians just bend their knee and behave as slaves, and become some sort of quasi 2nd class nation/ country, and have their society run under the heal and accept being kicked by Kremlin's boot of the " sphere of Russian interest " ; Should Ukriane just roll over and let Russia controlled Ukriane for the sole benefit of Putins klan agenda and the geo political intrs. of the Moscow Kremlin kleptocracy elites?: And let Ukraine become some sort of quasi geographical entity for political advantages of the Kremlin ? Or should Ukriane stand up and fight against such tyrannical thing as PUTINS "sphere of interest" as the independent European self governing state it is FIGHT for freedom, sovereignty and self-rule ?? FACT !!! Ukriane was forced into this war by Russia not Russia by Ukriane (or anyone else ) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has no choice he needs to now be the president of a country, that is in a war defending its country and ppl. against a brutal evilaggressor. And the authorities of the aggressor country do not want any peace. (If the Russia army stops fighting today and goes home back to Russia tomorrow there will be NO war If Ukraine stops fighting today there will be NO Ukraine !! )
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  84.  @ipc8255  Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  87.  @ipc8255  Claim: NATO refuses real dialogue with Russia Fact: NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia due to its aggressive actions in Ukraine. However, we continue to keep channels for political dialogue open. The NATO-Russia Council, an important platform for dialogue, has never been suspended. We have held six meetings since April 2016. NATO has made progress this year, by addressing both force posture and military exercises, including through reciprocal briefings. This dialogue contributes to the predictability of our relations. We would welcome more briefings and transparency, particularly on upcoming military exercises. NATO and Russia also maintain open military-to-military lines of communication, which aim to promote predictability and transparency in our military activities. We welcome the recent contacts between the Chairman of the Military Committee, General Petr Pavel; the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti, and the Russian Chief of Defence, General Valery Gerasimov. Claim: NATO enlargement threatens Russia Fact: Every country that joins NATO undertakes to uphold its principles and policies. This includes the commitment that "the Alliance does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia," as reaffirmed  at the Warsaw Summit. NATO enlargement is not directed against Russia. Every sovereign nation has the right to choose its own security arrangements. This is a fundamental principle of European security, one that Russia has also subscribed to and should respect. NATO's Open Door policy has been a historic success. Together with EU enlargement, it has spread stability and prosperity in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall Claim: Russia has the right to demand a "100% guarantee" that Ukraine will not join NATO Fact: According to Article I of the Helsinki Final Act which established the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1975, every country has the right "to belong or not to belong to international organizations, to be or not to be a party to bilateral or multilateral treaties including the right to be or not to be a party to treaties of alliance." All the OSCE member states, including Russia, have sworn to uphold those principles. In line with those principles, Ukraine has the right to choose for itself whether it joins any treaty of alliance, including NATO's founding treaty. Moreover, when Russia signed the Founding Act, it pledged to uphold "respect for sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all states and their inherent right to choose the means to ensure their own security". Thus Ukraine has the right to choose its own alliances, and Russia has, by its own repeated agreement, no right to dictate that choice. Claim: NATO provoked the "Maidan" protests in Ukraine Fact: The demonstrations which began in Kiev in November 2013 were born out of Ukrainians' desire for a closer relationship with the European Union, and their frustration when former President Yanukovych halted progress toward that goal as a result of Russian pressure. The protesters' demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for the parliament, the formation of a government of national unity, an end to the pervasive and endemic corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence. There was no mention of NATO. Ukraine began discussing the idea of abandoning its non-bloc status in September 2014, six months after the illegal and illegitimate Russian "annexation" of Crimea and the start of Russia's aggressive actions in Eastern Ukraine. The final decision by Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada to abandon the non bloc status was taken in December 2014, over a year after the pro-EU demonstrations began.
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  88. So you're telling me that JD Vance gave a fiery speech thrashing entire Europe over the lack of democracy and freedom of speech two days after the White House revoked the Associated Press’ accreditation for failing to obey and use “Gulf of America” in their reporting? JD Vance is actually right -- Russia is not the biggest threat to Europe. What's even bigger as a threat is irresponsible and infantile demagogues like JD himself, running for quick and easy-peasy solutions to matters of war and peace. Lets see it form this side ; See it from a different angle. If America was invaded by its neighboring country say Mexico or Canada or Russia that borders Alaska and Russia says for historical reasons (Alaska used to be Russian ) we are taking Alaska becouse it used to be part of Russia so we are taking back ; could you imagine what America would say? will Trump and Vance and the US just let Russia take Alaska in the ints. of world peace !!??? if the rest of the world said that Mexico can just walking in as an aggressor and can take back Texas to New Mexico and all land all the way to Nevada, will US agree to that in the ints. of world peace ?? Will America agree to not be part of any pace talks and be put on the side line and just let European Union or China deal with Putin over Alaska to make peace with Russia for taking Alaska .. becouse Russia has nuclear weapons ?.. The EU goes in and asked Putin for a pace talk to make a deal on how things will be regarding Putin getting Alaska back AND THE EU TELLS the US. you don't get to come to the "pace talks" I don't think Trump or the American people would agree to "make pace" so why would and should Ukraine agree to their country being carved up and given to Putin. Throughout this last year that's how American thought has been perceived in the West. This so called 'deal' is not a commodity to be bought or sold. Ukraine should just give Putin what he want Vance says its just a small part of Ukraine his says so whats the problem we need pace !!! A small part of Ukraine ...WE ARE taking about a land mass is 119,000 km2  In EU terms thats the size of Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg all put together.. In UK terms that the size of all of Scotland and 80% of England all put together !! In US terms is the size of South Carolina, West Virginia all put together !! Why the f. should Ukraine give Russia all that land for what? TO ONLY be invaded some years later when Russia as had a brake and regrouped ,rebuilt its army and fortified positions !! I SAY RUSSIA GETS TO TAKE LAND AND DEMAND UKRAINE CAN NOT JOIN NATO IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AT ALL !! Nobody wants to be a "buffer country".  NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom !!!! ; The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom  and self-determination, like some sort of 2nd class country; That is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept that Ukraine and its ppl. should become some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country to serve kremlins geopolitical agenda; so Kremlin, Putin and RuZZans can feel better about themselves ...
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  90. You imported dogs you get flees !!! Another thing is that the EU has not got anything to do with it all this immigration into the UK or Holland .. Geert Wilders wants to leave the EU and have a type of "Dutchex " But how has this Brexit thing worked out for the UK ??? As the UK. imported massive muslim populations in the millions from Pakistanis over the years and other muslims back in the late 60 , 70 and 80s . and those had 4 to 8 children the demographic change can not really be blamed on EU if we are to be honest ... This 1st generation of British Muslims when they became old enough to get married, started imported post order husbands and wives , from muslim nations, and those 1st generation of British Muslims also had 4 to 8 children themselves and the same was repeated by the 2nd generation of British Muslims NOW YOU GOT A PROBLEM .. The question her is what has this really got to do with the EU ???? DID THE EU FORCE THE UK to import muslims back in the day ???? Did the EU force Netherlands to import all immigrants in the 80s from former Dutch colonies ??? NO it did not !! So this dose NOT have very much really to do with the EU does it !! (but it is convenient to blame the EU right) ..?? This has to do more with The Labour Party in Briton and other Political parties in Holland and their socialist marxist agenda of importing from muslim nations to get more voters for Their political parties .. And before anyone in the UK says we needed to take back control of our borders form EU control .. Let me say this WTF are you talking about ?? The UK. had before and has always had full control over its borders and still has control of their borders before Brexit and after Brexit and NOW !!!! The UK was never part of Schengen zone and if UK was never part of the Schengen zone or Frontex (The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, also known as Frontex) the UK had full control and still dose have full control and sovereignty of its own borders .. SO ANY MUSLIM SCUM THAT has got into the UK. is down to The Home Office, The UK Border Agency (UKBA) and the UK Border Force and Immigration Enforcement office .. in sort down to the fuckers in government.... The only thing that UK had that was different when part of the EU was that you get some Polish workers and EU citizens coming and going (just like British cane and want to EU ) But what has that got to do with Muslim immigration?? Lets be honest was and is the EU citizens and the Polish real such a big problem ? (lets not forget all the British ex pats that are in Spain and other EU nations ) Ask yourself is it the EU citizens and the Polish that are running around the streets with grooming gangs, raping killing and committing crimes and inforcing no go zones in the UK. or is it muslims ??? I think we all know very well that it is NOT the EU citizens and the Polish ... So did the majority of those Muslins that now are running around creating mayhem and violence and Rap in the streets all over the UK, come to the UK in the last 10 years or so and because the UK was in the EU or was it because the UK imported massive muslim populations for cheep work forces back in the late 60 , 70 and 80s...
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  91. The western feminist females have been supporting (for their own ant male agenda) for years the transgender and Lgbtq ++ movement!!! and females have been using the Lgbtq ++ movement as a sledgehammer to hammer down on masculinity and demonize the heterosexual males and especially white heterosexual males and they have been doing it for year pushing masculinity into the abyss for years !!! But now those strong independent queens, those girl-bosses types of "I don't need a man" , Me woman strong hear my roar ! , Are getting all buhhhh cry baby about the situation, because their own Frankenstein monster is coming to eat its their own , taking-over female sports outsmarting females in feminist sphere The Frankenstein creation they have helped bring forwarded has now turned on them. But those females have been for years more than happy to using the transgender Lgbtq ++ Frankenstein monster, against white heterosexual males to demonize white heterosexual males what western females have been calling toxic masculinity (basically means anything male and manly that they dont like ) ... But now monster they was gladly unleashing unto others have come come full circle , the rooster have come home to roost , and it’s bitting them in their own backside!!!  And now they are SOooo upset why NO one is helping them fight this transgender Lgbtq ++ Frankenstein monster the monster they themselves helped to unleash on men !! ...  (where are all the white knights in shining armor to defend my innocent maiden honor thy cry ?) Well you made your bed now you sleep in it honey , after all you are a strong independent women you don't need a man , and anything a man can do a woman can do as good or even better at-least that what you have been saying all this time .. So now you have the chance to prove it!! You go girl !!!
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  92. And Russia and Iran is behind all of this Russia is the one supporting Hamas, sending weapons and resources and have done for years Russia does this via Iran, using Iran as a puppet state a this way have possible deniability so Kremlin can send Hamas weapons and funding !! And ppl. in the west that are pro Putin are infact all indirectly (but to stupid to understand ) supportive of all the western enemies enemies like Syria , Iran , North Korea, Hamas and even the Taliban by supporting Russia as Russia is backing them all up to the teeth !! Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  93. Claim: NATO refuses real dialogue with Russia Fact: NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia due to its aggressive actions in Ukraine. However, we continue to keep channels for political dialogue open. The NATO-Russia Council, an important platform for dialogue, has never been suspended. We have held six meetings since April 2016. NATO has made progress this year, by addressing both force posture and military exercises, including through reciprocal briefings. This dialogue contributes to the predictability of our relations. We would welcome more briefings and transparency, particularly on upcoming military exercises. NATO and Russia also maintain open military-to-military lines of communication, which aim to promote predictability and transparency in our military activities. We welcome the recent contacts between the Chairman of the Military Committee, General Petr Pavel; the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti, and the Russian Chief of Defence, General Valery Gerasimov. Claim: NATO enlargement threatens Russia Fact: Every country that joins NATO undertakes to uphold its principles and policies. This includes the commitment that "the Alliance does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia," as reaffirmed at the Warsaw Summit. NATO enlargement is not directed against Russia. Every sovereign nation has the right to choose its own security arrangements. This is a fundamental principle of European security, one that Russia has also subscribed to and should respect. NATO's Open Door policy has been a historic success. Together with EU enlargement, it has spread stability and prosperity in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall Claim: Russia has the right to demand a "100% guarantee" that Ukraine will not join NATO Fact: According to Article I of the Helsinki Final Act which established the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1975, every country has the right "to belong or not to belong to international organizations, to be or not to be a party to bilateral or multilateral treaties including the right to be or not to be a party to treaties of alliance." All the OSCE member states, including Russia, have sworn to uphold those principles. In line with those principles, Ukraine has the right to choose for itself whether it joins any treaty of alliance, including NATO's founding treaty. Moreover, when Russia signed the Founding Act, it pledged to uphold "respect for sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all states and their inherent right to choose the means to ensure their own security". Thus Ukraine has the right to choose its own alliances, and Russia has, by its own repeated agreement, no right to dictate that choice. Claim: NATO provoked the "Maidan" protests in Ukraine Fact: The demonstrations which began in Kiev in November 2013 were born out of Ukrainians' desire for a closer relationship with the European Union, and their frustration when former President Yanukovych halted progress toward that goal as a result of Russian pressure. The protesters' demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for the parliament, the formation of a government of national unity, an end to the pervasive and endemic corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence. There was no mention of NATO. Ukraine began discussing the idea of abandoning its non-bloc status in September 2014, six months after the illegal and illegitimate Russian "annexation" of Crimea and the start of Russia's aggressive actions in Eastern Ukraine. The final decision by Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada to abandon the non bloc status was taken in December 2014, over a year after the pro-EU demonstrations began.
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  94.  @Gobadán-s7w You say : Between nations there is no such thing as law, only power !! FACT ; There is somthing called international law !! Its a body of rules established by custom or treaty and recognized by nations as binding in their relations with one another; A law and legal system, including the constitution, legislation, regulations, decrees, case-law, customary rules and practice as well as rules deriving from binding international instruments. The main UN bodies and international law are 1. THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 2. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 3. GENERAL ASSEMBLY - SIXTH COMMITTEE (LEGAL) THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Some of the action of the Security Council have international law implications, such as those related to peacekeeping missions, ad hoc tribunals, sanctions, and resolutions adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter. In accordance with Article 13(b) of the Rome Statute, the Security Council can refer certain situations to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), if it appears international crimes (such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, the crime of aggression) have been committed. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW The UN Charter gives the General Assembly the power to initiate studies and make recommendations to promote the development and codification of international law. Many subsidiary bodies of the General Assembly consider specific areas of international law and report to the plenary. Most legal matters are referred the Sixth Committee, which then reports to the plenary. The International Law Commission and the UN Commission on International Trade Law report to the General Assembly. The General Assembly also considers topics related to the institutional law of the United Nations, such as the adoption of the Staff Regulations and the establishment of the system of internal justice GENERAL ASSEMBLY - SIXTH COMMITTEE (LEGAL) The General Assembly’s Sixth Committee is the primary forum for the consideration of legal questions in the General Assembly. All UN Member States are entitled to representation on the Sixth Committee as one of the main committees of the General Assembly.
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  95.  @Gobadán-s7w  It might be useful to recap some of the reason why Russia is now an outcast : Russian interference in numerous elections and referendums in EU countries over the last decade; Russia's active disinformation campaigns across the EU; Russian-based cyber attacks targeting numerous EU countries; Provocative Russian military flights in and around EU and NATO airspace; Russia's interference with GPS navigation systems in Scandinavia; Russia's continued deployment of "peacekeepers" in Moldova despite that country's repeated requests that Russian troops be replaced with UN peacekeepers; Russia's 2008 war against Georgia and its continued occupation of some 20 percent of Georgian territory; Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region; Russia's intense involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine, which the ICC in November 2016 ruled "an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation"; Russia's obstructionism in implementation of the Minsk agreements to end the Ukraine conflict; Russia's role in acts of terrorism in the 2014 downing of a passenger airliner (Malaysia Airlines MH17) over Ukraine that killed 298 people; Russia's poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006; Russia's attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018; among lots of other things to much to even list up .. NONE OF THIS ABOVE WAS SOMETHING THE EU , THE USA OR EVEN NATO, FORCED OR TRICKED RUSSIA INTO DOING !!! RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE in 2014 VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW: 1. The Geneva Convention. 2. Charter of the United Nations 3. The Helsinki Accords 4. The Charter of the OSCE 5. Budapest Memorandum of 1994 6. Two Russia, Ukraine friendship treaties 7. International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination 8. European Court of Human Rights THE LEGAL FACTS WHY CRIMEA BELONGS TO UKRAINE . The earlier published documents, and materials that have emerged more recently make clear that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the UkrSSR was carried out in accordance with the 1936 Soviet constitution, which in Article 18 stipulated that “the territory of a Union Republic may not be altered without its consent.” The proceedings of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium meeting indicate that both the RSFSR and the UkrSSR had given their consent via their republic parliaments. One of the officials present at the 19 February session, Otto Kuusinen, even boasted that “only in our country [the USSR] is it possible that issues of the utmost importance such as the territorial transfer of individual oblasts to a particular republic can be decided without any difficulties.” One might argue that the process in 1954 would have been a lot better if it had been complicated and difficult, but no matter how one judges the expeditiousness of the territorial reconfiguration, the main point to stress here is that it is incorrect to say (as some Russian commentators and government officials recently have) that Crimea was transferred unconstitutionally or illegally. The legal system in the Soviet Union was mostly a fiction, but the transfer did occur in accordance with the rules in effect at the time. Moreover, regardless of how the transfer was carried out, the Russian Federation expressly accepted Ukraine’s 1991 borders both in the December 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords (the agreements that precipitated and codified the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum that finalized Ukraine’s status as a non-nuclear weapons state. Summary: former states of the USSRs are now full independent states and their borders are defined and recognized by not just the international community , the UN and intr. org. treaties and agreements but when it comes to UKRAINE Russia itself RECOGNIZED Ukraines borders and territory in the 1991 ( Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords ) and in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum and Russian back in 1991 recognized all the other internal borders of the USSR as international boards that now defines all the other different countries sovereign statehood . Those borders Russia recognized when it came to Ukraine clearly puts Crimea within Ukrainian territorial control . Period.
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  96.  @Gobadán-s7w  Ukraine is not asking and not demanding that American farm-boys Ukrainian boys are more than willing to do the fighting and the dyeing ; Ukriane is just asking US to honor there agreements that the US made with Ukriane back in 1994 in accordance with the Budapest Memorandum !! Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994, in exchange for the security grantees from the USA and and the United Kingdom that they will protect the Ukrainian nation from invasion and grantee the Ukraine boarders based on the 1991 boards agreement that includes east Ukraine and crimea ... The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances is a political agreement signed in Budapest, Hungary on 5 December 1994, providing security assurances by its signatories relating to Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The Memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents. The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine as well as those of Belarus and Kazakhstan. As a result, Ukraine gave up the world's third largest nuclear weapons stockpile between 1994 and 1996, of which Ukraine had physical operational control. After the annexation of Crimea by in 2014, The US, Canada, the UK, France along with other countries, stated that Russian involvement was a breach of its obligations to Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum and in violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. Let me explain and give some Content !! According to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia and that they would: 1. Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders. 2. Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Ukraine. 3. Refrain from using economic pressure on Ukraine to influence their politics. 4. Seek immediate action to provide assistance Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". 5. Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Ukraine. 6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments
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  98. RUSSIA TUCKER CAN NOT EVEN TAKE UKRIANE HOW THE F... DO YOU GET THE IDEA IN A WAR WITH RUSSIA NATO WILL LOSE THAT WAR !!! RUSSIA IS A BIG NOTHING BURGER THERE IS NO REASON TO GO TO WAR WITH RUSSIA , THE UKRAINIANS ARE KICKING THE RUSSKIY ALL OVER ANYWAY DAY BY DAY YOUR PUTIN IS GETTING WEAKER !! Let me tell you a story about a military that was supposedly one of the best in the world. This military had some of the best equipment: the heaviest and most modern tanks, next-generation aircraft, and advanced naval vessels. It had invested in modernization, and made what were considered some of Europe’s most sophisticated plans for conflict. Moreover, it had planned and trained specifically for a war it was about to fight, a war it seemed extremely well prepared for and that many, perhaps most, people believed it would win. All of these descriptions could apply to the Russian army that invaded Ukraine .. AND HOW HAS THAT WORKED OUT FOR RUSSIA TUCKER ? Having good equipment and good doctrine reveals little about how an army will perform in a war. To predict that, you must analyze not only its equipment and doctrine but also its ability to undertake complex operations, its unglamorous but crucial logistical needs and structure, and the commitment of its soldiers to fight and die in the specific war being waged. Most important, you have to think about how it will perform when a competent enemy fires back. As Mike Tyson so eloquently put it, “Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth.” What we are seeing today in Ukraine is the result of a purportedly great military being punched in the mouth. The resilience of Ukrainian resistance is embarrassing for a Western think-tank and military community that had confidently predicted that the Russians would conquer Ukraine in a matter of days. For years, Western “experts” prattled on about the Russian military’s expensive, high-tech “modernization.” The Russians, we were told, had the better tanks and aircraft, including cutting-edge SU-34 fighter bombers and T-90 tanks, with some of the finest technical specifications in the world. The Russians had also ostensibly reorganized their army into a more professional, mostly voluntary force. They had rethought their offensive doctrine and created battalion tactical groups, flexible, heavily armored formations that were meant to be key to overwhelming the Ukrainians. Basically, many people had relied on the glamour of war, a sort of war pornography, to predict the outcome of Russia’s invasion of its neighbor. Those predictions, based on alluring but fundamentally flawed criteria, have now proved false. Western analysts and Russian lovers like YOU took basic metrics (such as numbers and types of tanks and aircraft), imagined those measured forces executing Russian military doctrine, then concluded that the Ukrainians had no chance. But counting tanks and planes and rhapsodizing over their technical specifications is not a useful way to analyze modern militaries. The systems that the West used to evaluate the Russian military have failed nearly as comprehensively as that RUSSIAN military has. FAILED IN UKRIANE !! its an embarrassment I MEAN IF YOU LOOK UP YOURSELF AS THE WORDS 2ND POWERFUL ARMY AND YOU CAN NOT EVEN TAKE UKRAINE !! WHAT HOPE DO YOU HAVE FOR TAKING OUT NATO !! ???
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  102.  @1258-Eckhart  The war in Ukraine will continue until the complete defeat of Russia,” Igor Girkin, a far-right nationalist, grumbled in a video address to his 430,000 followers on Telegram on Monday. “We have already lost, the rest is just a matter of time.” Girkin, a former Russian intelligence colonel who became a commander of the pro-Russian separatist forces in 2014, is arguably the most prominent voice within an increasingly loud and angry group of ultra-nationalist and pro-war bloggers who have taken to berating the Kremlin for its failure to achieve its tactical objectives as the fighting in Ukraine has entered its seventh month. Pointing to Russia’s non-reaction to the Ukrainian offensive, Aleksandr Kots, a pro-Kremlin war journalist, accused the authorities on Wednesday of hiding “bad news” about the situation on the ground. “We need to start doing something about the system where our leadership doesn’t like to talk about bad news, and their subordinates don’t want to upset their bosses,” he said. Ukraine’s latest offensive has also led to renewed calls from the far-right nationalist for a general mobilisation, a move Putin has so far opted against despite growing signs the Russian army is facing an acute lack of new soldiers. For now, Girkin and other military bloggers are likely to keep up their daily criticism as Putin’s bloody military offensive has stalled in Ukraine. “Don’t EXPECT ANY BIG WINS in the next 2–3 months,” he wrote in a post this week. “If our Kremlin elders do not change their tactics, we will be seeing catastrophic defeats by then.”
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  103. As Congress debates additional support for Ukraine, the anti-Ukraine swamp will fill their echo chamber by peddling myths and half-truths. Here are the facts FACT: America is not writing “blank checks” to Ukraine: Every dollar spent in support of Ukraine is authorized by Congress and is used for a specific purpose. Approximately $70 billion of aid never leaves the U.S. Instead, it goes to support America world leading defense industry. FACT: For a modest sum of money, the US helps Ukraine dismantle Russia’s military w/out a single American in harm's way: +300k Russian troops KIA/WIA, 13,000 major pieces of equipment removed from battlefield The original Russian invasion force from Feb 2022 no longer exists! FACT: There is plenty of oversight for Ukraine aid: Ukraine Oversight Interagency Working Group has 160 officials across 20 agencies monitoring aid So far: “Investigations related to the Ukraine response have not yet substantiated significant waste, fraud, or abuse. FACT: Europeans have now overtaken the U.S. the largest donor to Ukraine: Russia is China’s partner. A weakened Russia means a weaker China Beijing is also watching how Western powers support Ukraine, so a strong and victorious Ukraine makes Taiwan stronger and deters Chinese aggression FACT: Europe’s stability matters to US economy: 45/50 states export more to Europe than China When Americans are building something to be exported, that is an American job European stability, which Russia threatens, brings untold benefits to the economy the American worker. FACT: Lessons from Ukraine make our military stronger: Shortcomings in defense industry are exposed & being addressed. Thankfully, these were uncovered when US not at war The performance of US made hardware gets a real-world combat test in a way not possible in a peacetime FACT: Lessons learned from arming Ukraine mean Taiwan is getting weapons faster: For the first time ever, Presidential Drawdown Authority is being used for Taiwan Taiwan’s order of HIMARS will now be arriving 1 year earlier than planned after U.S. re-prioritized the sale FACT: Iran and North Korea enable Russia to attack Ukraine. Russia supports Hamas: Iran giving thousands of drones for use against Ukraine North Korea giving +1 million artillery rounds for use against Ukraine Russia protects Hamas at the UN. Moscow recently hosted Hamas FACT: Ukraine is not “America's new forever war”: No US troops are fighting against Russia inside Ukraine Ukrainians are not asking for, nor do they want, US troops to help them fight Russia The US is not a belligerent in the conflict FACT: The US is not engaged in a proxy war against Russia: Definition of a "proxy war" is a war “fought by states acting at the instigation or on behalf of other states” The US has never instigated Ukraine to fight. The US is not forcing the Ukraine to fight on its behalf FACT: The US must provide both military & non-military to achieve the greatest affect: Russia’s invasion eliminated 30% of Ukraine’s economy Essential public services must function (e.g. law enforcement, utility workers, etc) for Ukraine to remain on a total war footing FACT: US aid to Ukraine does not cost “$900 per American household” as some suggest: Income tax is not levied evenly across households the top 1% of earners paid 42.3% of all federal income tax. The bottom 50% (those making $42,184 or less) paid only 2.3% of all income tax. FACT: US military aid to Ukraine is a boost to our defense industry: After seeing effectiveness of US military equipment in Ukraine, NATO countries alone have so far placed $90 billion in orders for US made hardware. This makes America safer while creating highly-paid jobs
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  104. NATO, Nazis, Satanists: Putin is running out of excuses for his imperial war !! Why did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine? The answer to this question really depends on when you’re asking. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Russian dictator focused his ire on NATO and sought to blame rising tensions around Ukraine on the military alliance’s post-Cold War expansion. As his troops crossed the border on February 24, Putin changed tack and declared a crusade against “Ukrainian Nazis.” More recently, he has sought to portray Ukraine as a “terrorist state” while insisting that Russia is in fact fighting against “Satanism.” None of these arguments stands up to serious scrutiny. Instead, the various different narratives coming out of the Kremlin reflect Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts to justify what is in reality an old-fashioned colonial war of imperial conquest. Putin has long sought to use NATO expansion as an excuse for his own aggressive foreign policies. This plays well with the Russian public and also resonates among segments of the international community who believe the United States has become too dominant since the end of the Cold War. However, Putin’s attempts to position the invasion of Ukraine as a reasonable response to NATO encroachment have been comprehensively debunked by his own actions. According to Reuters, Ukraine informed Russia during the first days of the invasion that it was ready to meet Moscow’s demands and rule out the possibility of future NATO membership, only for this offer to be rejected by Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went public in the following weeks with similar proposals to abandon Ukraine’s NATO ambitions, but Russia chose to continue its invasion. The entire notion that Russia views NATO as a credible security threat was further undermined in summer 2022 when Moscow passively accepted neighboring Finland’s historic decision to join the military alliance. Putin has repeatedly cited Ukraine’s deepening NATO ties as justification for his invasion, but the prospect of imminent Finnish membership provoked no meaningful security response whatsoever from the Kremlin. If Putin genuinely believed a NATO invasion of Russia was even a remote possibility, he would surely have reinforced the Finnish border. On the contrary, in the months following Helsinki’s decision to join the alliance, Russia dramatically reduced its military presence close to Finland and the nearby NATO member Baltic states in order to bolster the invasion of Ukraine. Whatever Putin may say in public, he clearly understands that NATO poses no threat to Russia.
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  105. Russian myth-making about “Ukrainian Nazis” is even older than complaints over NATO expansion and dates all the way back to Soviet World War II propaganda. For decades, Moscow has exaggerated wartime cooperation between Ukrainian nationalist groups and the Third Reich while conveniently ignoring the far more consequential Nazi-Soviet Pact. By conflating Ukraine’s centuries-old liberation movement with Nazism, generations of Kremlin leaders have sought to render Ukrainian national identity toxic in the eyes of domestic and international audiences alike. Putin’s enthusiasm for the “Nazi Ukraine” trope is very much in line with his broader efforts to place the Soviet World War II experience at the heart of modern Russian identity. Over the past two decades, Putin has turned traditional Russian reverence for the generation who defeated Hitler into a quasi-religious victory cult complete with its own feast days, holy relics, and doctrinal dogmas. This has enabled him to whitewash the crimes of the Soviet era while attacking contemporary adversaries as the spiritual successors to the Nazis. In Putin’s Russia, accusations of Nazism are a routine feature of the public discourse and have been leveled against a dizzying array of individuals, organizations, and entire countries, but Ukraine remains by far the most popular target. The effectiveness of these tactics has always depended heavily on outside ignorance of Ukraine and Russia-centric reporting by Moscow-based international correspondents. Unfortunately for Putin, his invasion has shone an unprecedented media spotlight on Ukraine that has done much to debunk the whole “Nazi Ukraine” narrative. This was long overdue. Throughout the past 31 years of Ukrainian independence, the far-right has never come close to achieving power in Ukraine and remains significantly less influential than in many other European countries. While far-right candidate Marine Le Pen received 41.45% in France’s 2022 presidential election, the Ukrainian far-right typically struggles to secure low single digit support at the ballot box. During Ukraine’s last presidential election in 2019, the leading nationalist candidate garnered 1.6% of the vote. Months later in the country’s most recent parliamentary election, many of Ukraine’s far-right parties joined forces in a bid to improve their fortunes. This united nationalist platform failed miserably, winning a mere 2.15% of votes. Nothing highlights the absurdity of Russia’s “Nazi Ukraine” allegations better than the rise of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian President is both Jewish and a native Russian speaker. According to the Kremlin, this should make him deeply unappealing to Ukrainian voters. On the contrary, Zelenskyy was elected president by a record margin and subsequently secured a unique parliamentary majority for his newly formed political party. This success was all the more remarkable as it was achieved during wartime elections held amid an atmosphere of heightened patriotic fervor. Since the start of the invasion, Russia’s failing efforts to portray Ukraine as a Nazi state have forced Moscow into ever more implausible mental gymnastics. Unable to produce any actual Ukrainian Nazis, regime officials and propaganda proxies have attempted to argue that the very idea of an independent Ukraine is in itself a Nazi concept, while also acknowledging that Putin’s stated war aim of “de-Nazification” in practice means the “de-Ukrainization” of Ukraine. The Kremlin’s confusion was perhaps most immediately evident in the bizarre and disgraceful anti-Semitic comments made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a May appearance on Italian TV program Zona Bianca. When asked to address the obvious contradictions between Russia’s “Nazi Ukraine” claims and the fact that Ukraine has a Jewish president, Lavrov responded by declaring that Adolf Hitler also had “Jewish blood.” His statement sparked a wave of global condemnation, with Putin eventually forced to intervene and offer a personal apology to Israeli leaders. This embarrassing incident illustrated the remarkable recent degradation of Russian diplomacy, which has now reached the point where it is often indistinguishable from internet conspiracy theories. Forced by Putin’s invasion to defend the indefensible, Russia’s top diplomats have retreated into an alternative reality world of blanket denials and dark fantasies. While Lavrov rants about “Jewish Hitler,” Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya stuns his colleagues with fantastic tales of genetically engineered Ukrainian mosquitoes. No wonder exasperated British Ambassador Barbara Woodward recently felt moved to ask, “How much more of this nonsense do we have to endure?”
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  109. NATO, Nazis, Satanists: Putin is running out of excuses for his imperial war !! Why did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine? The answer to this question really depends on when you’re asking. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Russian dictator focused his ire on NATO and sought to blame rising tensions around Ukraine on the military alliance’s post-Cold War expansion. As his troops crossed the border on February 24, Putin changed tack and declared a crusade against “Ukrainian Nazis.” More recently, he has sought to portray Ukraine as a “terrorist state” while insisting that Russia is in fact fighting against “Satanism.” None of these arguments stands up to serious scrutiny. Instead, the various different narratives coming out of the Kremlin reflect Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts to justify what is in reality an old-fashioned colonial war of imperial conquest. Putin has long sought to use NATO expansion as an excuse for his own aggressive foreign policies. This plays well with the Russian public and also resonates among segments of the international community who believe the United States has become too dominant since the end of the Cold War. However, Putin’s attempts to position the invasion of Ukraine as a reasonable response to NATO encroachment have been comprehensively debunked by his own actions. According to Reuters, Ukraine informed Russia during the first days of the invasion that it was ready to meet Moscow’s demands and rule out the possibility of future NATO membership, only for this offer to be rejected by Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went public in the following weeks with similar proposals to abandon Ukraine’s NATO ambitions, but Russia chose to continue its invasion. The entire notion that Russia views NATO as a credible security threat was further undermined in summer 2022 when Moscow passively accepted neighboring Finland’s historic decision to join the military alliance. Putin has repeatedly cited Ukraine’s deepening NATO ties as justification for his invasion, but the prospect of imminent Finnish membership provoked no meaningful security response whatsoever from the Kremlin. If Putin genuinely believed a NATO invasion of Russia was even a remote possibility, he would surely have reinforced the Finnish border. On the contrary, in the months following Helsinki’s decision to join the alliance, Russia dramatically reduced its military presence close to Finland and the nearby NATO member Baltic states in order to bolster the invasion of Ukraine. Whatever Putin may say in public, he clearly understands that NATO poses no threat to Russia.
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  113. THE MYTH OF RUSSIA IS A SUPERPOWER ON THE WORLD STAGE DEBUNKED ! For centuries, Russia has seen itself as one of the world's great powers. This superpower Russia status idea myth, seen by most of the world is now become a declining idea and the world is now seeing that Russia is not and has never been any super power; More and more ppl. now understand that Russia has only been masquerading as a "SUPER POWER " the Kremlin has been presenting itself as one and hiding behind the Myth of super power status; And even for some time the kremlin themself (one can argue) started to believe in their own lies, their own myth making and their own propaganda ! BUT AFTER UKRAINE THIS MYTH IS BUSTED !! Russia: has only $1.48 trillion annual GDP that makes Russia about the same size economically on the level of Spain if your economy is as small as Spain how can you think even for one min you are some sort of super power, that has some spacial right to be seen on the same level as UK, US , or even China ??? Let's look at some fact here: Russia is closer to Indonesia and Australia economically, than it is UK , Germany , France US or Japan .. !! And when it comes to having nukes dose that make you a super power, well UK and France has nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) as well and so does North Korea and even israel is claimed to have nuclear weapons, is North Korea or UK and France Super powers becouse they have nuclear weapons ??? 1. United States: $20.89 trillion 2. China: $14.72 trillion 3. Japan: $5.06 trillion 4. Germany: $3.85 trillion 5. United Kingdom: $2.67 trillion 6. India: $2.66 trillion 7. France: $2.63 trillion 8. Italy: $1.89 trillion 9. Canada: $1.64 trillion 10. South Korea: $1.63 trillion 11. Russia: $1.48 trillion 12. Brazil: $1.44 trillion 13. Australia: $1.32 trillion 14. Spain: $1.28 trillion 15. Indonesia: $1.05 trillion
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  115. The western feminist females have been supporting (for their own ant male agenda) for years the transgender and Lgbtq ++ movement!!! and females have been using the Lgbtq ++ movement as a sledgehammer to hammer down on masculinity and demonize the heterosexual males and especially white heterosexual males and they have been doing it for year pushing masculinity into the abyss for years !!! But now those strong independent queens, those girl-bosses types of "I don't need a man" , Me woman strong hear my roar ! , Are getting all buhhhh cry baby about the situation, because their own Frankenstein monster is coming to eat its their own , taking-over female sports outsmarting females in feminist sphere The Frankenstein creation they have helped bring forwarded has now turned on them. But those females have been for years more than happy to using the transgender Lgbtq ++ Frankenstein monster, against white heterosexual males to demonize white heterosexual males what western females have been calling toxic masculinity (basically means anything male and manly that they dont like ) ... But now monster they was gladly unleashing unto others have come come full circle , the rooster have come home to roost , and it’s bitting them in their own backside!!!  And now they are SOooo upset why NO one is helping them fight this transgender Lgbtq ++ Frankenstein monster the monster they themselves helped to unleash on men !! ...  (where are all the white knights in shining armor to defend my innocent maiden honor thy cry ?) Well you made your bed now you sleep in it honey , after all you are a strong independent women you don't need a man , and anything a man can do a woman can do as good or even better at-least that what you have been saying all this time .. So now you have the chance to prove it!! You go girl !!!
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  117. And ppl. in the west that are pro Putin are infact all indirectly (but to stupid to understand ) supportive of all the western enemies enemies like Syria , Iran , North Korea, Hamas and even the Taliban by supporting Russia as Russia is backing them all up to the teeth !! Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  120.  @defectiveindustries  Ask yourself this question ; Who benefits from this destabilization right now who ??? You dont fine this strange that all this happened just right after Putin had all those massive meetings in the last months ; Putin in the last months has had personal meetings with all of the leaders of Iran , North Korea , China and even the Taliban and Hams in the last months !!! And now all we all of see that suddenly out of the blue, Hamas has all the resources it needs to go all out war with the strongest country in the middle east Hamas a little bankrupt terror org. can now go an all out attack full scale attack on Israel !!! Ask yourself HOW IS THE POSSIBLE how did they almost over night get those resources and who benefits from all this uproar and destabilization in the middle east WHO ??? NOT ISREAL NOT IRAN NOT AFGHANISTAN NOT SYRIA NOT THE EU NOT USA NOT UK NOT CHINA NOT EVEN PALESTINE INFACT NO COUNTRY BENEFITS FROM THIS, WITH THE ONE EXCEPTION THERE IS ONE COUNTRY THAT DOES BENEFITS AND ITS RUSSIA; YES RUSSIA BENEFITS FROM THIS AND THEY REALLY BENEFIT FORM IT BIG TIME !! RuZZia gets to have western media look another way form what RuZZia is doing inside Ukraine!!!!! Russia gets to defect the worlds attention way from the war crimes, genocide , the 10s of thousands of Ukrainian children Russian army has kidnapped in Ukriane !!! Russia gets the world media to look another way when it comes to the fact the Putin is a wanted man that the ICC International criminal court in The Hague as issued an arrest warrant ,for war crimes and crimes against humanity including but not limited to genocide and for kidnapping of Ukrainian children and forcibly deporting them to Russia !! Also Russia gets to make US , EU ect ect divert resources and weapons from UKRAINE to Israel; divert military intelligence resources , divert aid ect ect ect ect away from UKRAINE !!! SO ALL YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS WHO BENEFITS AND HOW THEY BENEFIT !! AND YES RUSSIAN AND ONLY RUSSIA BENEFITS HERE BIG TIME !!
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  122.  @canadianalien370  Every university has a biolab. What type of biolab? Why didn't the legislators ask specifics on the type of work being conducted? Or, do they already know the permanent bureaucracy has been breaking the law, again? Were they conducting research on unregulated viruses? Check Fauci's passport for trips to the Ukraine. BIOLABS do NOT equal biowarfare labs. The problem is a lot of DEFENSIVE biowarfare research can also be converted to offensive biowarfare weapons. Researching pathogens [example TB] for vaccines can be dual use [in other words the research can help a biowarfare program]. I want to SEE hard evidence of Ukrainian P4 or P5 containment labs [very expensive and complex labs to keep very dangerous pathogens from escape]. These labs are not trivial they are expensive and complex. RUSSIA HAS BIOLABS CHINA HAS BIOLABS FRANCE HAS BIOLABS UK. HAS BIOLABS AND SO DOES THE USA AND EVERY OTHER COUNTRY any country doing medical science at a high level has biolabs !! THIS IS TURLEY being disingenuous with twisting it as some sort of secret labs there is no secret labs bio research labs is not illegal it is in an industrial world normal to do medical research and bio labs are part of that !!! SHOULD WE DO A FULL SCALE INVASION OF RUSSIA THEY HAVE BIOLABS IN RUSSIA !!!! MAYBE FRANCE WE NEED TO INVADE FRANCE BECAUSE FRANCE HAS BIOLABS !!! BIOLABS do NOT equal biowarfare labs. biolabs researching pathogens for vaccines all countries the is doing high technical medical research has biolabs FRANCE has RUSSIA has and in the USA almost every medical university that has a medical research center has a biolab """ SHOULD WE INVADE RUSSIA BECAUSE THEY HAVE A BIOLABS IS THAT WHAT YOU SAYING ??
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  124. Everyone is a feminist and a leftist ideologist until the Titanic starts sinking and then at that moment; you will hear the same feminist and a leftists ideologist that women and children should get place in the lifeboat first. And you end up with a guitar and accordion on the deck playing music on your way soon to be fish food as they board the last lifeboat.. You will never see or hear a feminist and/or a leftists ideologist, say we need equally, inclusiveness and there is no such thing as the weaker sex or gender identity roles between a man and a woman , or hear a feminist say everyone is equal, when it comes to giving out the lifeboats seats when the ship is sinking in the dark night in the ice cold waters of the Atlantic ocean no no no then they are all for gender roles and your roll my friend is soon to be fish food ; will she gets the lifeboat on her way to find new understanding "equal man" to her queen boss babe feminist persona to pay her bills let her be "equal " (until of course the next Titanic starts sinking then she will demand the lifeboat is only for women ) .. Why IS IT LIKE THIS you ask ..... Well because the feminists LIKE TO PLAY THE SNEAKY GAME , because they are sly, disingenuous, shifty and self-serving hypocrites, that will use and take anything, everything they can and twist any argument to promote and benefit what they will call "equality and diversity" , but really it is never about real equality and diversity at all ; its about and has always been about promoting (in any situation then can ) better advantages, benefits , resources and roles, potions for themselves at the expense of men ; In other words they in the most disingenuous way make sure to receive the benefits and privileges, of any life situation/ ´social, scholarly and /or professional situation, without been expected to be holden to ( by others ) to the responsibility and standards of those benefits and privileges they claim and demand and believe to be inherently deserving and entitled to receive for free just because they are a female !!
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  127. Nobody wants to be a "buffer country". The whole concept is demeaning to an independent nation. NO nation wants to have a little bit of freedom and self-determination like a type of 2nd class country; that is not right, and Russia has no right to demand or bully Ukrainians or Ukraine to accept to be some sort of lap dog on a leash 2nd class country, that indirectly will serving the kremlins geopolitical agenda, and so Kremlin, the RuZZians and Putin can feel better about themselves ... All the Eastern European countries has more or less joined NATO because they was scared of Russia and want make sure they will stay independent, (and the same goes for the EU financial independence ) Nobody forced Eastern European countries to join , NATO or the EU all of them came running and begging and knocking on the door of NATO and EU by themselves, asking and begging to be let into The EU and NATO  !! Russia invading Ukriane back 2014 and Georgia back in 2008 and now all out war with Ukraine from 2022++ just showed, why it was and still is a good idea for those Eastern European countries to join NATO, and the EU  because if they didn't they might just have got invaded as well . During Soviet times those Eastern countries where nothing but quasi Russia puppet states and where totally exploited by Russia under under its heel and boot. If those eastern European countries didn't join NATO then they couldn't have guaranteed their own future continuous independence from Russia by themselves . Nato did nothing wrong, the only mistake was Ukraine not joining NATO to ensure their independence !!! The former satellite states like Poland,Romania,Czech Republic and The Baltic states, Slovakia ect ect was running to and knocking at the front door of EU and NATO begging to come inn and thats the truth !! . If Russia was not such a asshole country and stoped constantly bulling neighboring countries maybe other neighboring countries will not need to join NATO and by more open and welcoming to Russia ..
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  131. What happens if Ukraine loses this war ! ? 1 Russian bases will established in western Ukraine in the City of Lviv 40km away from EU and NATO country Poland , and in Uzhhorod at the border with EU NATO country Slovakia only 5km away ;and in the city of Chernivtsi 10km away from the NATO and EU Romanian border . 2 The US and NATO will have no other choice than to redeploy troops in mass scale at levels of Cold War strength ; a massive cost of resources, manpower, equipment, and money ; And the west will have a massive unstable Russian aggressive military presence on its borders . 3 The US will have to choose between where it can be sending aircraft patrols to protect EU and NATO countries this will weaken world security as US need aircraft to protect Israel from Iran and protecting Taiwan from China invasion witch US will at that point not have ; speeding it’s AirPower thin and weak ! 4 There will be a massive panic of civilians inside Ukraine 10s of millions of refugees will flood EU and the west seeking safety running away from Russian tyrannical rule and occupying forces ! A economy crises for Europa that can not survive or handle. 5 . Then Black Sea will be total under Russian control and Russia can block off and strangle all shipping triad going from east to west and west to east for EU Black Sea countries like , Bulgaria and Romania and and none EU but NATO country like Turkey and for EU and NATO friendly countries like Moldova and Georgia. 6. But if the west helps Ukrainians to defend themselves and Ukraine WINS, against Russia then EU and NATO gets a massive boost from a grateful capable military force on NATOs and EUs fare eastern borders defending them against any possible threat from Russia for the future!
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