Comments by "bobby hans" (@user-oc7ll9sv5r) on "m o d e r n i t y"
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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