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Also a UK subject, if any famous Brits come to mind.
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Subjectivity rules. Reality: Putin was not for a second going to be defeated in the war (for the oblasts--not for "Ukraine" as the alarmists/warmongers propounded). Despite a setback in one region, he has all but won presently. From the wishful thinkers, the irrational experts, Russia would be heroically beaten - their hubris and machismo, and propaganda did the rest. A truly heroic and courageous Ukrainian leader would have seen all that coming at the start and resorted to diplomacy: immediate peace talks - and conceded the (agreed upon) autonomy to the Donbas and promised Ukraine's neutrality. If Zelensky were a great and rational leader, only concerned with the interests of his countrymen, he would have told the snake-oil salesmen Johnson/Biden (et al) to "F - off. I am taking the peaceful path. Why should we Ukrainians fight and die for you and the West on our land to punish Russia? At best, this will become a drawn-out battle 'weakening' us more than them, or we lose half the country. Go do your own heroic fighting against Russia elsewhere with your British Army, Boris". And the nuke threat is more dangerous by somebody, probably committed by some minor functionary or group without orders, from the West. Growing desperation of western leaders makes a false flag attack a real possibility. Their nuke rhetoric is ratcheting up the tension, deliberately so. They need a maximum escalation of warfare to get out of the mess they made - Plan A didn't work and they have no Plan B. The winning Russian side, by contrast, doesn't need to resort to nukes. Which is in the warning Putin sends. "We won't start it".
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GW's stress is clearly on "permanent". When it (the crisis, threat, etc. ) is over and done with, your country reclaims its independence and ends the temporarily valuable, cooperative alliance. ("Isolationism", never! "Interventionism", nope ... independence.
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How did that come to this stage? "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world..." G. Washington, 1796 Now, that's genius. Obviously GW understood how few men can give up power and prestige willingly. And first must come national self-interest.
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That came up on RT today: https://www.rt.com/news/563090-fbi-knew-russiagate-was-fraud/ Michael, I think "punishment" is coming from different groups for a range of 'feelings' (somewhat differing in Britain and Europe) and this one - from the rabid US Left concerning Trump - could easily be overlooked as a childish joke. Since anyone sane and human can't take in the levels of unforgiving malice by tiny men and women, an "enormity". (Similarly, I am pretty sure Putin was under-prepared and -manned for his invasion, I think believed he only had to shock Kyiv into negotiations with a show of force (I mean it!) and although familiar with average Russophobia, was likely startled to find out the heights of punishing malice against him and the RF - and how low (self-sacrificially) his opposition would go and have gone to escalate matters.)
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Money aside, this war would not have been possible, would have stalled at the outset in a negotiated settlement, without the masses of people's adoration of their sacrificial martyrs. (Accepting sacrificing themselves also - only up to a point). Still to get my head around the enormity, people would rather see Putin "punished" - as long as it takes, and no matter what lives lost and economies tattered - than have demanded that war be diplomatically averted early. "The greater value for a lesser or non"? Omnicide would be the last stage.
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"Zelensky said in his inaugural speech that he was ready to lose ratings, popularity, position... No, he would lose his life. He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk - if he betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the War". (Yarosh) . [On May 27 2019, a week after Zelensky's inauguration as president, the Ukrainian internet news site Obozrevatel published a long interview with Dmytro Anatoliyovych Yarosh, a co-founder of the Right Sector who was then the commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army]. ------- Follows, maps and editorial comment from Moon of Alabama webpage: "The division is consistent with ethnic and linguistic differences between those parts of Ukraine". bigger "In 2014, after the violent fascist coup in Kiev, one of the first laws implemented by the new government removed the Russian language from official use. Instead of overcoming the differences between its people it only sealed the predominant split in Ukraine. The election promise of the current Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenski to make peace with the Russia aligned rebellious Donbas region by adhering to the Minsk 2 agreements was rewarded with a large share of southeastern votes for his presidency. However, after having been threatened with death by fascists, Zelenski has made a 180 degree turn and has since posed as Ukrainian nationalist. In consequence he has lost all support in southeastern Ukraine. The southeastern parts of today's Ukraine have for centuries been part of the central Russian empire. They were only attached to the Soviet Republic of Ukraine under Lenin's rule in 1922 and, in the case of Crimea, in 1954 under Nikita Khrushchev who himself had grown up in the Donbas region".
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A compelling listen by the 'realists' Mearsheimer and Walt. A few months old and prescient.
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The movie scripts are being written already... reality when it dawns, will be harsh.
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Dr Paul Alexander who was on the White House Covid task force: "Their goal on a day to day basis was to undercut President Trump". (at about 1hr in) What I Heard and Saw: Dr. Paul Alexander Speaks ⋆ Brownstone Institute BROWNSTONE.ORG Paul Elias Alexander is the author of many literature reviews on Brownstone. His story of all his encounters is nothing short of...
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Responses from Moon of Alabama MoA - Ukraine - Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Items WWW.MOONOFALABAMA.ORG
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Just when you think Reuters journalists, Kyiv (et al) couldn't stoop lower, more anti-Russkie 'atrocity porn' to prepare the public for what will, regretfully, need to be done eventually by the West. "Mass grave" - singular, and what that is associated with. Even respectfully burying the dead - of any nationality - will be of indoctrination use. Mass grave of more than 440 bodies found in Izium, Ukraine, police say WWW.REUTERS.COM Ukrainian authorities have found a mass grave of more than 440 bodies in the eastern city of Izium that was recaptured from Russian forces, a...
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Ritter.
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What would the media reaction be to Russian assassins taking out Ukrainian "civilian officials"? One supposes Yelensky might realize he is also "a civilian official" and an "absolutely legitimate military target". Ukraine admits killing civilians — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM Attacks that Moscow has described as terrorism went after legitimate military targets, President Zelensky’s aide Podoliak insisted
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I'd been somewhat skeptical re: Putin's possible hyperbole of the "neo" Nazi power in Ukrainian politics and military, citing (in self-justification?) the brutal treatment of Donbas separatists by them, an aspect hardly covered or "debunked" by the Ukraine-fawning media. I'm more convinced now, learning that the racist/Nazi/Stepan Bandera legacy is being handed down to next generations. From nurseries to Nazis: Ukraine’s terrorist radicalization of children | MR Online MRONLINE.ORG At the Azovets camp outside Kiev, anywhere from 400 to 500 children are given Nazi paramilitary training during the summer. These camps have been run every summer, and even during the spring, fall and winter, in every year since Maidan. The camps are free to the children and are financed by western grants and state funding from the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine. The focus of the training is to kill “Moskals” and “Separatists.” Kids are taught to kill with assault rifles, carbines, pistols, knives and fists. Then they learn tactics, hand-to-hand combat, assembly and disassembly of submachine guns. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. — Proverbs 22:6, New King James Version...
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When reasonable discourse stops working, (profane) satire might get through.
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A fellow I think gets things about right. Sorting Out Ukrainian and Russian Red Herrings - A Son of the New American Revolution SONAR21.COM There are a couple of articles that may have come up on your radar and merit some discussion with regards to the war in Ukraine, the...
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The Ukraine's latest breakthrough is all to the good, since now's the opportunity for Zelensky to begin cease-fire and negotiation talks. While Ukraine has gained the (temporary) upper hand and has a stronger bargaining position, BUT we all know he won't, nor will his backers allow it. The true believers hold on to the fantasy that Putin's army will be chased out in disgrace. Never going to happen. But then they also believed Russia was after a total occupation of Ukraine. Russia's "SMO" at 190,000 was undermanned and out numbered for a full war, leave alone, occupation. It is fairly definite that Putin believed he could earlier intimidate Kyiv into giving in to his demands and to a negotiation, Donbass autonomy, neutral Ukraine, etc.., by first camping his troops on the border last year, and then by invading and feinting at Kyiv. Nearly worked, but that didn't bring about the talks, (sabotaged by Johnson) so the troops were deployed for the assault and the occupation of East and South Ukraine, the Plan B. To take this latest counter-offensive to signify a Russian rout, is insane. Front lines move, towns get lost and retaken, while holding the territory won back will be the difficult part for Ukraine. But the Russians won't lose Donbas and Crimea, bet on it. Putin can keep increasing the military strength as the resistance dictates. The Russian army has 1.9 million+ men in reserve, ten times the invading force. Something people find hard to accept, from the day of invasion it was inevitable, Russia can NOT lose this limited war, under any circumstances, which is to "liberate" the Donbas and secure that border and get Putin's conditions met. So somebody had better start thinking of making peace with him. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi7prKshI76AhWzQEEAHYoqDJkQFnoECCEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fputin-signs-decree-increase-size-russian-armed-forces-2022-08-25%2F&usg=AOvVaw0KcB9uZD8Ug9SODmt7rZiY
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Puzzling how much of the normally anti-war Left has gone militaristic, joined up with neocons... Insights by Caitlin Johnstone Ukraine and the Triumph of Militarism – scheerpost.com SCHEERPOST.COM "What [Tierney] is saying about liberals who once protested the Iraq invasion now supporting U.S. proxy warfare in Ukraine is broadly...
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Well, keep up escalating the arms shipments, more precision and longer range, that would work wonders to save the children. And avoid negotiations. https://www.rt.com/news/562245-us-aggressive-ukraine-support/
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Journalism got "owned" by activists. In the old style of Leftist war correspondents, on the ground, with guts dedicated to unearthing facts independently. Hedges and Lawrence. I miss their type. As for the others, subservient careerists who "have to write things that don't make any goddam sense". Such as, as has been fed to the believing public, it is the Russians, not Ukraine, who are shelling the nuclear power plant they've occupied for months, and kept operating. The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the Crisis of Media Censorship – scheerpost.com SCHEERPOST.COM Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse...
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"Mirotvorets": Roger Waters added to Ukrainian hit list | MR Online MRONLINE.ORG “Pink Floyd” star declared “Enemy of Ukraine”
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MSK, I've always had the greatest respect for Hanson. That's how to take apart the fake news - dry mockery. Is one expected to really believe THIS happened? ("Don't examine a folly, ask only what it accomplishes.") When even the fakers believe their own fakery, here's a sample of the concocted narrative, or - how Putin deliberately set out destroying the world, by a once esteemed British writer in The Telegraph. Anyone would think, reading most journalists and any politician, it is Russia to blame for imposing sanctions on every other country. Excuse me. But I'm quite sure all our global woes were self-inflicted (like Smollet's), the blowback from collective measures directed AT punishing Russia... Answer: we must redouble our "moral" efforts, tighten our belts more... "Putin's shock win could destroy the free world". By Allister Heath. "Britain is now in grave danger of falling into Vladimir Putin’s trap. His kamikaze economic war on the West will eventually take down his disgusting coterie of war criminals, but in the meantime it is beginning to inflict immense, permanent damage on the Western way of life, to the great delight of Moscow’s siloviki hard men. We risk ending up with calamitous poverty, civil disobedience, a new socialist government by next year, a break-up of the UK, nationalisations, price and incomes policies, punitive wealth taxes and eventually a complete economic and financial meltdown and IMF bailout. The situation in the EU is, if anything, worse. This is not a plea for pacifism, for looking away when Ukraine is being illegally invaded by a savage regime. Britain was – and remains – morally right to back Ukraine in a carefully calibrated way. Instead, this is a plea for an economic counter-offensive, for Liz Truss, the next PM, to tackle Putin’s economic and energy war head-on. Mass, immediate intervention is inevitable, but must be designed to avoid hastening Britain’s shift into demagoguery, welfarism and socialist central planning, all steps down Hayek’s “road to serfdom” that the Leftist and green elites are longing us to take. The wrong response – because too little is done, or because the wrong solutions are chosen – would merely advance Putin’s masterplan to cripple the West. [...] AH
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"Not self, but the absence of self, is closer to being the root of all evil. Self-alienation impoverishes our capacity for empathy; and in dehumanizing ourselves, we inevitably dehumanize others. In failing to develop an independent and strong ego, to evolve to moral sovereignty, we become capable of unspeakable atrocities, since we do not experience ourselves as responsible for our actions". N Branden, Honoring the Self.
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Up there with the most immoral actions in this war, was Boris Johnson discouraging Yelensky from negotiation with Russia in Istanbul, way back in March/April. His meddling in a (non - Nato) country's government amounted to blackmail: If you petition for peace you'll get no more money and arms, he has been quoted as saying, roughly. Why - because he believed Russia would be beaten by supposedly superior Ukraine forces - advantaging the West's agenda (following and tricked by the Russian withdrawal from Kyiv, turned into "a victory" by the msm). It seems from other reports Russia was genuinely prepared to negotiate, to avoid further conflict, expecting no greater concessions than was already agreed by Minsk, with the "security guarantees": a neutral Ukraine. I trust Johnson's personal responsibility for the subsequent sacrifices of lives that could have been averted, will be remembered. Report: Russia, Ukraine Tentatively Agreed on Peace Deal in April – scheerpost.com SCHEERPOST.COM Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv not long after the talks and told Zelensky not to negotiate with Russia, saying the West wasn’t ready to sign a...
