Comments by "TaichiStraightlife" (@TaichiStraightlife) on "1420 by Daniil Orain"
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@akayo815 "No, because Russia didn't accept Ukraine's borders before that" that's so not true; Russia GUARANTEED Ukraine's borders and promised to PROTECT those borders:
"The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.[1]
The memorandum prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States FROM THREATENING OR USING MILITARY FORCE OR ECONOMIC COERCION AGAINST UKRAINE, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, "except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations." As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons..." -from Wikipedia; google Budapest Memorandum.
akayo; I'm not saying you agree with Putin but you're right; that IS what putin believes, WRONGLY; he makes it up as he goes along; facts have nothing to do with what lies endlessly flow from his lips... much like his dog, trump.
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An off-topic remark: these are thoughtful, good-looking, well-dressed people questioned in an immaculately well-kept park (Moscow? St. Petersburg?). It's a shame where their leadership has taken them, with their national policies of brutal and unprovoked warfare on a neighbor's civilian population; it's horrible how they are making the Ukrainians suffer, but also how the Lebanese, Africans, & the Afghans etc. will suffer hunger due to the lack of Ukrainian wheat this year and in the future as farmers and their fields die; the hunger and even starvation of the innocents. The Europeans will suffer due to rising fuel costs as a result of this, also the rising military budgets, money no longer available to start new businesses, educate the young or house the homeless, will make people poorer in the USA, Europe, Russia; & everywhere, really... and the free-flow of information is dying, travel & tourism will die
Truly a crying shame & a huge backward step for the entire world. Only the rats and other parasites will benefit from the largess provided by so many artillery shells & missiles creating so many bloody fresh corpses for them to feast upon...
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@The_Naughty_Kitten Yes putin did lie; that's what he does, he lies and he murders Russian dissidents, members of the Russian press, anybody who gets in his way, Ukrainian women, children, hospitals, Chechnyan civilians, Syrian women & children and other civilians & you'd realize it if you looked at actual facts, the chronological history:
In February 2014, Russian forces seized or blockaded various airports and other strategic sites throughout Crimea. The troops were attached to the Russian Black Sea Fleet stationed in Crimea, which placed Russia in violation of the Budapest Memorandum.
The Russian Foreign Ministry had confirmed the movement of armored units attached to the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea but asserted that they were acting within the scope of the various agreements between the two countries. Russia responded by supporting a referendum on whether the Crimea should join it. Crimea parliament announces referendum on Ukrainian region’s future in accordance with the law "On the Autonomous Republic of Crimea". On 16 March, Crimea was incorporated into the Russian Federation in accordance with the results of the referendum and Ukraine vigorously protested the action as a violation of Article 1 of the Budapest Memorandum.
In response to the crisis, the Ukrainian parliament requested the Memorandum's signatories to reaffirm their commitment to the principles enshrined in the political agreement and asked for them to hold consultations with Ukraine to ease tensions.
On 24 March 2014, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper led the G7 partners in an ad hoc meeting during the Nuclear Security Summit, at The Hague, for a partial suspension of Russian membership from the G8 due to Russia's breach of the Budapest Memorandum. He said that Ukraine had given up its nuclear weapons "on the basis of an explicit Russian assurance of its territorial integrity. By breaching that assurance, President Putin has provided a rationale for those elsewhere who needed little more than that already furnished by pride or grievance to arm themselves to the teeth." Harper also indicated support for Ukraine by saying he would work with the new Ukrainian government towards a free trade agreement.
In February 2016, Sergey Lavrov claimed, "Russia never violated Budapest memorandum. It contained only one obligation, not to attack Ukraine with nukes."[37] However, Canadian journalist Michael Colborne pointed out that "there are actually six obligations in the Budapest Memorandum, and the first of them is 'to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine'". Colborne also pointed out that a broadcast of Lavrov's claim on the Twitter account of Russia's embassy in the United Kingdom actually "provided a link to the text of the Budapest Memorandum itself with all six obligations, including the ones Russia has clearly violated – right there for everyone to see." Steven Pifer, an American diplomat who was involved in drafting the Budapest Memorandum, later commented on "the mendacity of Russian diplomacy and its contempt for international opinion when the foreign minister says something that can be proven wrong with less than 30 seconds of Google fact-checking?" Russia argued that the United States broke the third point of the agreement by introducing and threatening further sanctions against the Yanukovych government.
On 20 April 2016, Ukraine established the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, to manage occupied parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea regions, which are affected by Russian military intervention of 2014.
That was Feb. 2014. The Minsk agreement came later; AFTER putin invaded: Russia was guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity right up to the very moment they invaded Ukraine & stole huge chunks of that country. Once they invaded fighting broke out and they came up with Minsk to contain that fighting:
The Minsk agreements were a series of international agreements which sought to end the war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. The first, known as the Minsk Protocol, was drafted in 2014 by the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, consisting of Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), with mediation by the leaders of France and Germany in the so-called Normandy Format. After extensive talks in Minsk, Belarus, the agreement was signed on 5 September 2014 by representatives of the Trilateral Contact Group and, without recognition of their status, by the then-leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). This agreement followed multiple previous attempts to stop the fighting in the region and aimed to implement an immediate ceasefire.
The agreement failed to stop fighting,[4] and was thus followed with a revised and updated agreement, Minsk II, which was signed on 12 February 2015.[5] This agreement consisted of a package of measures, including a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line, release of prisoners of war, constitutional reform in Ukraine granting self-government to certain areas of Donbas and restoring control of the state border to the Ukrainian government. While fighting subsided following the agreement's signing, it never ended completely, and the agreement's provisions were never fully implemented.[6] The Normandy Format parties agreed that the Minsk II remains the basis for any future resolution to the conflict.
Amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine in early 2022, Russia officially recognized the Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics on 21 February 2022.
Following that decision, on 22 February 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin declared that the Minsk agreements "no longer existed", and that Ukraine, not Russia, was to blame for their collapse.[8] Russia then invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
So you see, Champagne? He breaches the Budapest treaty by invading with his "little green men" (Russian army units sans any identifying marks so they could deny being Russian army- so in essence, a lie). Then there's Minsk, Minsk ll etc. and then there's no Minsk ("putin declared that the Minsk agreements "no longer existed")
So he lies and lies and lies; he makes things up and then declare they don't exist anymore: "putin declared that the Minsk agreements "no longer existed"
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@ViktorAl-o9z What I said about your antisemitic country you may consider vile, but it is a vile truth that perhaps you've closed your mind to, that you evidently don't want to see; that's understandable but sad, because it's impossible to even attempt correct a problem you won't even acknowledge.
During the 1990s antisemitism in Russia was an enduring undercurrent and source of anxiety, its presence affirmed by easily accessible antisemitic newspapers and other publications, street or popular antisemitism. The number of antisemitic incidents rose sharply after the 1998 Russian financial crisis, the devaluation of the ruble, and the ensuing economic hardships affecting a broad segment of the general population.
High-profile antisemitic voices have included several Russian Communist public figures such as Nikolai Kondratenko, a former governor of Krasnodar Krai. He claimed the Kremlin was controlled by Jews and Zionists, to blame for the demise of the Communist Party, the Chechen conflict and other problems. He formed an alliance with local Cossacks and was said to believe that an international Jewish conspiracy rules the world.
Other high-profile figures have included deputies of the State Duma from the CPRF such as Albert Makashov and Viktor Ilyukhin. In November 1998 the State Duma considered and rejected a measure to denounce Makashov. In late December 1998 Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Russian Communist Party, was under pressure to publicly censure the bigoted statements of his comrades and did indeed denounce antisemitism, but at the same time labeled Zionism "a blood relative of fascism".
Since the mid-2000s incorporation of antisemitic discourse into the platforms and speeches of nationalist political movements in Russia has been reported by human rights monitors in Russia as well as in the press. Antisemitic slogans and rhetoric in public demonstrations are frequently reported, most of them attributed to nationalist parties and political groups such as "Rusoslav Orthodox". Member of Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky is known for antisemitic speeches.
In 2001, 98 United States Senators penned a letter to President Putin, expressing concern about popular antisemitism, radical extremists (such as former Klansman and Grand Wizard David Duke) in the Russian Federation.
In January 2005 a group of twenty members of the Duma published a statement accusing Jews of being anti-Christian, inhumane, committing ritual murder and that "the entire democratic world today is under the financial and political control of international Jewry".
On June 9, 2005, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II addressed the international conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Cordoba, Spain, to declare that the Russian Orthodox Church shares concerns over "incidents of antisemitism, xenophobia and other forms of racism". He described antisemitism, as "one of the more radical expression of misanthropy and racism", and said its perpetrators included “public figures, publicists, and the leaders of radical organizations".
For example, the February 23, 2006 rally celebrating “Defenders of the Fatherland Day”, a yearly tribute to war veterans, according to the newspaper Kommersant, marchers flourished signs with messages including "Zhids! Stop drinking Russian blood!", “White State!", and "Russian Government for Russia".
In 2019, Ilya Yablogov wrote that many Russians were keen on antisemitic conspiracy theories in 1990s but it declined after 2000 and many high-ranking officials were forced to apologize for the antisemitic behavior.[10]
The 2019 Pew Research poll found that 18% of Russians held unfavorable views of Jews, the number has dropped from 34% in 2009.
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