Comments by "PNH 6000" (@PNH-sf4jz) on "Why Putin's ICC Arrest Warrant Changes Everything" video.
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No it is not (just) you. The majority of people who have made it to the top in the Russian government, I believe, are likely to have been members of that select and august body, the KGB and later the FSB. These members belong to a "club" where they provide each other with mutual and reciprocal, financial and physical support.
Unfortunately, I cannot say that I believe that all members of government in democratic countries are untainted by political nepotism, corruption and coercion, and are motivated by mostly altruistic ideals, however, there are more checks and balances in those systems to ensure, as far as is possible, that those governments serve the people and not the people used to serve those in government.
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Peregrine,
you have posed a reasonable, extremely pressing and concerning question that needs to be asked. I would not wish my comments to, in any way, be construed as condoning the behaviour of Maria Lvova-Belova, her husband or anyone else complicit in the removal of children from their homeland of Ukraine, following the deaths of one or both parents. However, it can hardly be imagined that the woman's husband, by virtue (ironic use intended) of his profession as a priest, would not have known of innumerable alternative and family oriented people with whom children could be placed, where those children could have been given more personalised attention and guidance.
At least being in one place, as a small community, the seventeen children in this couple's household, would be more easily located and returned to parents or members of their extended families in Ukraine, or from wherever else they may have been abducted. Presumably, during subsequent interviews and "debriefing" (soft) with the children, some of the answers to your questions may be revealed. We can only hope that the children were able to support each other and that the criminal activity connected with the children may have been restricted to their abduction, illegal deportation from their homeland, and illegal "adoption" by this couple. It is unfortunate to realise, statistically, that many of the children deported to Russia from Ukraine may not have been as fortunate.
Given the problems, and consequences, that so many children have growing up under far less challenging circumstances, it is not difficult to comprehend the psychological difficulties that many of these children will have in their future lives, even after being returned to Ukraine and reunited with other members of their extended families.
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Russia claimed that it waged its “operation” {WAR} for the following reasons:
1. to Protect the Russian speaking Ukrainians – whom the Russians have proceeded to kill, and make the survivors homeless, destitute and refugees. In addition to those people the Russians have attacked civilian infrastructure and property throughout the rest of Ukraine.
2. to de-Nazify Ukraine - Is there a greater percentage of "Nazis" in the Ukrainian population than in any other country, or even in Russia? I very much doubt that there would be such a significantly greater proportion of the Ukrainian population that could be identified as Nazis than in other countries.
3. demilitarise Ukraine - despite Russia knowing that Ukraine had been militarily neutered, or castrated, as a result of Ukraine's compliance with the Budapest Memorandum, signed by Russia, the UK and the US on the 5 December 1994, when all three countries promised to not attack Ukraine {Belarus or Kazakhstan} or exert economic, political or military pressure on Ukraine {Belarus or Kazakhstan}, and that they would come to the aid of Ukraine {Belarus or Kazakhstan} if they were attacked by any country. As we are aware, Russia attacked Ukraine and the UK, the US and more that 50 other countries are presently assisting and supporting Ukraine.
4. concern about the perceived or real encroachment of the NATO defensive alliance into areas where Russia has interests - despite Russia having nuclear weapons at Kaliningrad, virtually in the middle of Europe. Russia is also just over the North pole from Alaska, Canada and the US. Distance is no longer a barrier against attack, by any of the major "nuclear armed countries" on any other country of the world. Least of all Russia, China and the US;
and the greatest furphy of all:
5. the de-satinisation of Ukraine, added on the 22 October 2022 - Russia's WAR has become a holy WAR.
How, with the nebulous objectives that Russia has stated, can there be found any ground on which to discuss achievement or satisfaction of Russia's stated or unstated, perceived or real concerns, aims and objectives in such a way as would lead to an end to this WAR ?
It appeared, right from the start, that Russia had ulterior motives for beginning the WAR against Ukraine. Motives that they have not already stated or have stated in such ways that must be considered practically unachievable and therefore not obvious to people outside the inner circle of the Russian political and military establishment of Moscow.
Given these considerations, there appears to be no grounds on which any other country, most of all Ukraine, can propose conditions by which Russia's stated or unstated concerns may be alleviated and the WAR brought to an end. I believe this is exactly the way that Russia wants it. In this way, Russia can always bleat the lie that "Russia is ready to negotiate, but others do not wish to do so." Catch 22
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