Comments by "PNH 6000" (@PNH-sf4jz) on "Russia Has a New INSANE Idea" video.
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From 1991, until the Revolution of Dignity in 2013, it appeared that Ukraine was just another controlled puppet-of-Russia as we now see Belarus. Yanukovych was in much the same position as Lukaschenko is now.
Yanokovych refused to sign the free trade agreement that had been arranged and approved by the the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) the previous year (2012). Russia had put pressure on Yanukovych not to sign the agreement, but instead to lean toward Russia. That was in part the precipitating reason for the "Revolution of Dignity" though there were certainly other important reasons.
The pro-Russian and pro-Putin shills, trolls, sympathisers and supporters conveniently overlook these details and try to ram the “Victoria Nuland” , “the big bad USA” and “NATO” conspiracy theories into our ears and eyes.
Other reasons for the "Revolution of Dignity" were that protesters opposed what they saw as:
a) widespread government corruption and
b) abuse of power,
c) The influence of oligarchs,
d) police brutality, and
d) human rights violations.
Repressive anti-protest laws fuelled further anger. A large, barricaded protest camp occupied Independence Square in central Kyiv throughout the 'Maidan Uprising'.
Now many of us are saying that Russians should be coming out in protest against the WAR, mobilisation, Putin and all the rest ...... Well the Ukrainians did just that, and the current WAR, waged by Russia against Ukraine, is the product of that action.
Not Russian speakers, NATO, de-militarisation, de-Natzification, or de-Satan-ization. It was simply that Ukraine was moving politically and economically away from Russia. And Putin and the Russian political and military establishment were having none of that insubordination against their wishes. Presumably Putin had thought that he had a live bird in the cage with Yanukovych - just like Lukaschenko. Hence the reason for the rapid departure of Yanukovych following the successful Maidan Revolution.
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Had the nuclear weapons remained on Ukrainian territory, the imperative for Russia to have assumed control of Ukraine sooner would have been even greater. In that circumstance, the Russians would have retained control of the nuclear weapons anyway and they may not have been de-commisioned. Consequently, when some people are saying that Ukraine should have retained the nuclear weapons, I would suggest that the outcome may have been of even greater concern, for Ukraine and the "free world". If Ukraine had retained the Nuclear weapons, it may also have been likely that Belarus and even Kazakhstan may have retained their nuclear arsenals. And possibly still under the control of the Russians.
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It might also be noted that Russia is increasing its control over Belarus at the present time.
https://tass.com/politics/1582461
"MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. The Union State of Russia and Belarus is a modern form of integration and 'not' an attempt to revive the Soviet Union, Kremlin Spokesman, Dmitry Peskov told Izvestia."
A rose by any other name is still a rose. It seems that the new words for the USSR are to be referred to by the new modern form that may be called, "Integrated States of Socialist Russia.".{or something similar} And Belarus is intended to be the first of those states that are "integrated" into the Russian "sphere of influence."
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Also to be considered, is Putin's stance and, presumably, that of the Russian political and military establishment, toward the third country to which the Budapest Memorandum referred, that being Kazakhstan {Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan} where statements refuting the statehood of Kazakhstan have been made that are very similar to those refuting the statehood and existence of Ukraine {and very likely Belarus, though I believe that Lukaschenko is probably tamed for Russia}:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan%E2%80%93Russia_relations Putin's 2013 comments on Kazakh statehood
"In 2013, President Vladimir Putin raised controversy when he claimed that “Kazakhs had never had statehood”, in what seemed to be an apparent response to growing nationalism among Kazakhstanis. Putin's remarks on the matter led to a severe response from President Nazarbayev, who announced that the country would celebrate the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate, which effectively refutes Putin's claim that a Kazakh nation has never existed. He also threatened to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union, saying that the independence of the country is his "most precious treasure" and that Kazakhs "will never surrender" their independence.
"In December 2020, Putin's derogatory comments were repeated by at least two Russian lawmakers.
"Kazakhstan–Russia relations deteriorated greatly upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kazakh leadership including Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi condemned the invasion and refused to recognize the Russian states of Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic.
"In addition to sending aid to Ukraine, the Kazakh military increased spending and training, in anticipation of possible Russian aggressive invasions."
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