Comments by "Franceyne Ireland" (@franceyneireland1633) on "Russia Pushes HARD Before Western Aid Arrives" video.
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Instead of covering the negative of Ukrainian men of fighting age not returning to Ukraine. Is to cover the amazing men of an all volunteer unit of "over 60 year olds" Ukrainians, which also includes younger men who have been ruled unfit to fight that are fighting the Orcs, they are not part of the Ukrainian military therefore do not receive a salary. These seniors are incredibly fit. This has been covered with interviews and videos on various media outlets.
Taran's all-volunteer unit, the Steppe Wolves,which is comprised of dozens of Ukrainian men mostly over 60 years old, who are considered too old to be drafted but still want to fight.
Roving behind the front line with truck-mounted rocket launchers, they take orders from field commanders and work with other troops, contributing to the war effort despite lacking official support from the military.
The unit is funded by donations and stocked with faulty rounds they repair themselves as well as weapons captured from the enemy. Both are delivered to them by front-line troops.
In their base in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, they were preparing 122mm Grad rocket rounds that were later fired by troops from another unit.
Taran, the commander, whose call sign is "Grandpa", said his unit has been attempting to officially join Ukraine's armed forces to directly receive ammunition - and salaries - but has been unsuccessful.
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@kevinhemeon372 In January Tucker Carlson was calling on Americans to invade and “liberate” Canada from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Tucker Carlson said I'm gonna go liberate Canada.” The far-right darling's liberation mission features two sold-out events in Alberta, with 4,000 people attending in Calgary and 8,000 in Edmonton. Carlson and Alberta Preimer Conservative criticised the Liberal Federal Govt and the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau . Carlson called Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland a fascist midget, referring to Freeland, at multiple points, as “a fascist”. Since Carlson is supporting the Conservatives in Canada and referred to Freeland as fascist when she is the opposite. Carlson has convinced me to vote Liberal in the 2025 election, while I hadn't voted for the Liberal Trudeau government before.
Chrystia Freeland, a daughter of a Ukrainian mother. Chrystia Freeland and her sister co-own an apartment in Kiev, she is fluent in Ukrainian and also speaks English, Russian, Italian, and French. Chrystia Freeland while she was an exchange student at the University of Kyiv as she could speak fluent Ukrainian, in 1988-89 she worked with a journalist Bill Keller of the New York Times to document the Bykivina graves ( an unmarked mass grave site where the the Soviet secret police) disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents, Polish citizens and soldiers . She interviewed locals who had witnessed covered trucks and "puddles of blood in the road" that predated the Nazi invasion, adding evidence that the site was actually the result of Stalinist repression. While there she attracted the attention of the KGB, which tagged her with the code name "Frida", and Soviet newspapers, who attacked her as a foreigner meddling in their internal affairs over her contacts with Ukrainian activists. The KGB, who surveilled her, and tapped her phone calls, and documented her movements, she used a diplomat at the Canadian embassy in Moscow to send the material. On a return trip in 1989, Freeland was denied re-entry to the USSR. That is because she had disproved the official Soviet story that the graves were the result of Nazi atrocities. By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high-level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union; a 2021 Globe and Mail article quoted the report by a former officer of the KGB, which had described Freeland as "a remarkable individual", "erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals.
In 1993 she completed a master studies degree in Slavonic studies. She is the author of” Sale of the Century”: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism, “Plutocrats”: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else and 'Sale of the Century” is an account of privatization in Russia, where the "young reformers" championing capitalism getting control of Russian industry out of the hands of the communist (red baron) the compromises they made such as the loans for shares scheme, which allowed certain businessmen to seize control of the economy and install themselves as Russian oilgarchs.
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By placing the burden of war guilt entirely on Germany, imposing harsh reparations payments and creating an increasingly unstable collection of smaller nations in Europe, the treaty would ultimately fail to resolve the underlying issues that caused war to break out in 1914, and help pave the way for another massive global conflict 20 years later.
The Versailles Treaty forced Germany to give up territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland, return Alsace and Lorraine to France and cede all of its overseas colonies in China, Pacific and Africa to the Allied nations. In addition, it had to drastically reduce its armed forces and accept the demilitarization and Allied occupation of the region around the Rhine River. Most importantly, Article 231 of the treaty placed all blame for inciting the war squarely on Germany and forced it to pay several billion in reparations to the Allied nations.
Many people, even at the time, agreed with the British economist John Maynard Keynes that Germany could not possibly pay so much in reparations without severe risks to the entire European economy. In his later memoir, U.S. President Herbert Hoover went so far as to blame reparations for causing the
Great Depression.
Germany’s economic woes, exacerbated by the burden of reparations and general European inflation, destabilized the Weimar Republic, the government established at the end of the war. Due to lasting resentment of the Versailles Treaty, the National Socialist (Nazi) Party and other radical right-wing parties were able to gain support in the 1920s and early ‘30s by promising to overturn its harsh provisions and make Germany into a major European power once again. Which ultimately helped Hitler and the Nazi party gain power in Germany.
The war guilt clause was more problematic. “You have to go back to 1914, when most Germans believed they had entered the war because Russia had mobilized its army,” To most Germans in 1919, and not just those on the right, blaming Germany specifically for the war made no sense. Especially when they did not put a war guilt clause on Austria-Hungary, which you could reasonably argue were the people that actually started this.” Though the Versailles Treaty, signed with Germany in June 1919, was the most famous outcome of the Paris Peace Conference, the Allies also had separate treaties with Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey, and the formal peacemaking process wasn’t concluded until the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in July 1923.
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