From the start of this war with Russia, the Welfare and safety of the Ukrainian people has never been on Zelensky’s radar. As the most corrupt country in the world, it houses dangerous and evil bio-tech labs, the Biden family’s in-depth corruption, billions of money laundering…..Zelensky profits beyond one’s imagination from monstrous kickbacks. PLUS the billions of US funding and from Canada that enables he, his wife, and a select number of “Ukrainian elites and friends” to live a life of luxury most folks only dream of.
President Trump needs to reign in this despicable weasel….no more negotiations, no more listening to demands! Just simply, “you are done buddy and so are all the US dollars”!!!
If any leader other than Putin had been jerked around and threatened by this snivelling little brat, the world would be in War # III.
The current war in Ukraine started under Obama when he overthrew Ukraine’s president and started arming and training the Ukraine Nazis. The Maiden coup timeline is worth reading.
I think Trump is near to the point of walking away, but he's still angling to make a profit stealing whatever he can get from Ukraine first. We haven't heard anything about the rare minerals thing in awhile, at least since Zelensky deeded the minerals to Great Britain, so maybe Trump has given that up, but last week he was talking about taking the Zapororosia 5,700MW nuclear power plant, which is even crazier than the mineral thing.
Trump has to satisfy the constant nagging of neocons to remain bullish against Putin.. He says one thing to shut them up and then tiptoes around. Why would he think of stealing money??
He is anti war and that is the only reason I like him. And that is the most important reason.
Far predates 46. Global elites here and in Western Europe through their Uniparty CFR lackeys and their EU partners rebuilt UKR to serve as a catalyst for their hegemony, or depending on your point of view, as a bulwark against Putin’s hegemonic intentions.
You mistake my remark as support for that line of reasoning. It exists but I do not subscribe to it. If you have the stomach for it, it’s quite abundantly available on MSM. May I suggest NYT, WaPo or the Atlantic?
The Biden reign was carried out by people of the most evil “cloth” in US history……Dept of Defence by some of the worst. You are entitled to your overview. Common sense which seems to elude many folks these days does not reign on this “proxy” notion. Give thanks for the leadership of President Trump. The deep evil and corruption of the past four years will take some time and hard work on the part of this amazingly bright and astute new Trump administration!!
Can I just add, as a Britisher, that the British public have always been easy to whip into a frenzy about Russia whenever it suited the politicians (we had hysterics during the Crimean War with crinolined ladies fainting all over the place at the thought of all those Ivans). However, I reckon 9 out of 10 Brits couldn't put Ukraine on a map, or the Crimea, and until 2022 would have said that Kiev was probably in Russia.
I saw a poster today for the Daily Telegraph. It said "Have you heard of Riga, Tallinn or Vilnius? You will do if we lose Kyiv".
Well, what a load of propaganda! "We" don't own Kyiv and how dumb does the DT think it's readers are? Are we meant to quake with fear that Putin is going to march through Europe? Most people probably don't know where those cities are but...IT'S NOT OUR WAR! IT'S A POST SOVIET CIVIL WAR!!!!!
Exactly, It's taken Russia 3 years to get the upperhand in Ukraine, but the warmongering neo-cons would have you believe he could roll accross the rest of the EU in weeks, as if he would want to. This war will end up exactly where it would have been had the Brits and US not scuttled the Minsk I&II accords. autonomy for Russian speaking eastern Ukraine and no NATO membership. What a tragic waste.
No one knows what Russia could do in terms of war.
Only an idiot would have tried to conqueror all of Ukraine, and Putin is no idiot.
No, his best strategy was to prolong the war maximise Ukrainian casualties and minimise Russian casualties, and wait for western public opinion to question the war. If he had overrun Ukraine he would have quickly been in a war against all of NATO and everyone else as well.
Putin has given himself time to prepare for the conflict to come, Ukraine was ever only a proxy, a preliminary to weaken Russian and test its defences.
Wining this war would have led to complete defeat. Only an idiot or a paid troll could not see that Russia's only real defence is to prolong the war until those in the west can see the hand in the glove, the English and American alliance of left wing progressives and the ultra rich.
Well said! Putin is no fool. Russia is not going to be made the fool with blitzkrieg style war. Instead use this to test armorments, tactics and manpower. While at the same time finding out what the "west" has.
I'm not sure that the Russians ever intended having a "proper" war. They didn't start 2022 with a full army poised and ready. Which is surely how one starts a proper war? I think it's likely they thought they would go in, give their younger brother a damn good slap and leave with the message learnt by the Ukrainians to stop treating native Russian citizens as scum. I don't think enough people know that there has been fighting in the Donbas since at least 2014 because of the poor treatment by Kiev of people who identify as Russian. So I don't think the Russians have any interest in world domination and this would all have been over in a matter of months if NATO and Co hadn't interferred.
And of course Crimeans seem happy with Russia, the place is well kept and safe and not a war zone. Odessa would similarly no doubt prefer to be done with Z and his Nazi party as well.
They’re ethnic Russians and have been tormented by the Azov Nazis and marginalized by the Ukrainians. And the U.S./UK/Soros is behind the slaughterhouse. Putin banned Soros from Russia due to the chaos and interference. Putin is a nationalist . He’s not interested in rebuilding the Soviet Union ( that would be the EU/NATO/UN /WEF / China/IslamoFascists /US globalists competing to destroy every nation state and harken in a tyrannical Brave New World with a central government and the dissolution of cultures, independent will and freedom A Feudal Technocracy ruled by powerful elites over an enslaved , largely depopulated transhuman serfdom. Whether the Red/Green Marxist/Islamist/Nazi Alliance Caliphate conquistadors, another pandemic, more wars… it’s been a plan in the making since the early fifties. Russia is in the way. Ditto India under Modi, Israel under Bibi, Hungary under Orban, Slovakia under Fuca, Saudi Arabia under MBS, El Salvador under Bukele, Hungary under Orban,Argentina under Milei and thorns in the side like Meloni/Salvini, Geert Wilders , Farage , Panama the new Romanian contender and the most dangerous and unkillable- Donald Trump. They’ve taken out Shinzo Abe, Vidal-Quadras,Pavlopoulos,Medina,Bolsonaro, Zeman, Morales, Salvini,Barrow,Duque,Georgescu, Moise, Morales,LePen,AfD, Khan.. All were Nationalists who were democratically elected in 2016, inspired by Farage/ Brexit and Trump. All eschewed globalism, socialism, migration, Islamism, open borders, Climate Accords, multilateral trade deals, kleptocorporate multinational monopolistic overlords and corporate inversion, foreign interference, crime, intervention and coups. They wanted to put their people first. The newly elected European leaders of Greece, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, Romania, Italy and had she won, LePen of France , wanted to follow Brexit’s lead and leave the EU.
All were removed either by coup, rigged elections, assassination, assassination attempts, “ sudden death” from “ sudden medical ailments” and “ causes unknown” or prosecuted and imprisoned for made up crimes. Sound familiar? All were magically replaced by far leftists and socialists. The exact corrupt politicos and policies that were voted out. And each country is in shambles. Witness Peru, Dominican, Colombia, Belize, Honduras, Brazil, Romania, Austria, Greece, Spain,France, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Ireland, Wales, Belgium, Haiti, Syria, Pakistan, Libya, Bangladesh,Canada,Australia,Nigeria, Israel, Gaza, Egypt, Afghanistan, Yemen, Congo, Venezuela, Cuba, Ukraine,Macedonia,S Africa… to name a few..The Democrat Party
This is in no way accidental, coincidental, the result of “ free and fair” elections or in any way normal. It’s by design.
I recall studying the EU in its infancy in college, concluding that it would fail just because rational Germany would never debase its fiscal position to get in the same boat with less responsible EU countries like Spain and Italy; and that given that layering on more government would be extremely inefficient, business interests would not tolerate it. But I was wrong; it turns out that power seeking prevails, for sale politicians (Ursula, 360, Kallas) abound, and the EU has brought Germany to a fully nihilistic policy (energy, industry, immigration). Incredible.
Has Zelenskyy heard that Crimea is more than a peninsula? The PEOPLE of Crimea rejected Kiev’s authority by referendum. For good reasons. Kiev is a Nazi regime. Crimea under Kiev was abused and neglected economically. Who gives a rat’s ass about Ukraine’s Constitution? Has Zelenskyy ever read it? Is there an office pool on that? Was it Constitutional for the Kiev government to shell their own civilians in the Donbas? Hypocrisy and grift are poor investments. What was the Biden administration’s stake in the conflict? I mean, REALLY? Was it primarily stupidity? Just asking.
I better stop typing before I get on their hit list.
Fear not : We have enough malign lunatics here in Germany who are willing to support the comedian actor - whatever the cost ... bis zum Endsieg ...
Our presumably new chancellor (-wannabee) Merz told the media a couple of moths ago he is
not afraid of a nuclear war against Russia ... whatever that means...
and that he is prone to send Taurus cruise-missiles in oder to attack russian inrastructure...
But there are even bigger arseholes (there is simply no friedlier term for these criminals) that keep the warmongering in the talk shows alive : Second- and third-rate politician-thrash no one ever heard of outside of our sorry country : R. Kiesewetter, M.Strack-Zimmermann, M. Roth come to mind ... there's dozens of them...
Obviously not much different than in Keir Stalin's UK: "planes in the air and boots on the ground - Britain must do the heavy lifting..." and Macron's France who sees himself as a resurrection of Napoleon?
A nihilistic death-cult seems to have taken hold of WesternEurope - and so ridiculous on the other hand : Everyone knows that Russia can't be beaten - not even with US - support (without which a country like ours is a midget trying to fight the russian bear)
Russia is a nuclear power - it's as simple as that ...
From my understanding, the only reason that the Ukrainian Nikita Khrruschev transferred Crimea to the Ukraine was as a way to make amends for the brutal treatment Josef Stalin inflicted upon them in the Great Famine, as Soviet farms were being collectivized. That means that the amount of time Crimea was part of the Ukraine was a grand total of 60 years! All the rest of the history of Russia, Crimea was a part of Russia.
Sixty years out of one thousand five hundred years. Seems to me like Russia has history on its side.
Absolutely! It's past time to cut the UK off from all military weapons sales, and any intelligence support. Let every death of Ukrainian youth be burdened by the thespian fool pretending to be a leader. No more weapons to UKR and prohibition of any US weapons transfers from NATO.
Russia is taking back what they lost and wanted during the Crimean War in 1856 to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The Russians did not forget about the Crimean war anymore than we forget the Civil War. History has momentum and consequences. What claim did the Alliance have over Crimea?
There has been an ongoing Battle between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church and papal supremacy which led to a break between the Greek East and Latin West, giving rise to two separate churches — Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic — after 1054.
According to the census result the population of the Crimean Federal District is 2.2844 million people. The ethnic composition is as follows: Russians: 1.49 million (65.3%), Ukrainians: 0.35 million (15.1%), Crimean Tatars: 0.24 million (12.0%).
Colonized by the Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, the Byzantine Empire, the Crimean Goths, the Genoese and the Ottoman Empire, while at the same time its interior was occupied by a changing cast of invading steppe nomads and empires, such as the Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Goths, Alans, Bulgars, Huns, Khazars, Kipchaks, Mongols and the Golden Horde. Crimea and adjacent territories were united in the Crimean Khanate during the 15th to 18th century.
Buh-but I thought “ Israel” is the “ colonizer, oppressor, apartheid, imperialist, supremacist, Nazi occupier vying to take over the world!
Oh wait! That would be the UN/WEF/China/Islamist Caliphate invaders/US/EU/NATO/Trilaterals who is sowing chaos, provoking global wars, flooding nations with migrants who cannot assimilate and demand the host nations bend to their will.
Don’t look at the terrorist regimes the Biden regime w/ Turkey/Pakistan installed in Syria and Bangladesh . The slaughter and actual genocide of Christians, Hindus, Alawites, Druze,Yazidis and Kurds so Erdogan can rebuild the Ottoman Empire- don’t look at the neighboring nations that are soon to be conquered and the Hamas style bloodbaths. Don’t look at Afhghanistan. Don’t look at Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Malaysia, Congo, Mali, Rohingya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Ukraine, France, Germany, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Lebanon,Romania, Macedonia, Belgium,Spain,Yemen,Egypt,India, Rwanda, S.Africa,Niger,Kenya,Haiti,Ethiopia, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria,Dominican,Belize,Europe, Australia, Canada, NYC , Philadelphia, Michigan, NM, Minnesota,Houston, Paterson, Chicago, Ohio,Seattle, Portland,Colorado, Virginia, Boston, Connecticut, Vermont, San Fran, LA, Arizona, Orlando, Baltimore, Wisconsin… it’s very normal to see hordes of burka clad women walking behind hordes of black bearded men and imbecilic privileged white Ivy League Marxists garbed in jihadi gear and T-shirts emblazoned with “ Queers/Feminists/Drag Queens/Fatties/Jews For Palestine, faves wrapped in keffiyahs waving Hamas and Iranian flags , carrying placards with “ No Capitalism! America is an Occupier, America Is A Racist White Patriarchal Colonizer, Zionists are Nazis” chanting” From The River To The Sea”, Death To Israel, Death to America, Death To The West and Long Live The Intifada “.
And Islamic Cities that are under Sharia and are No-Go Zones.
The “ Maryland Man” with MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles who beats his wife, was scheduled for deportation in 2019, was deemed an MS-13 gang member and was stopped for a traffic violation with other MS-13 thugs in a car belonging to an MS-13 gang leader in prison for running a human trafficking ring and narcotics trafficking. When the “ Maryland Man “ was asked who the car belonged to, he replied, “ My boss”. Somehow, he’s a victim being denied his “ rights”. He’s here illegally, but he has “ rights”. Tell that to the J-6ers, Mike Flynn, Giuliani, Roger Stone, Manafort, Simone Gold, John Eastman, Papadapoulis, Carter Page, Denny Tarrio, Brandon Straka,John Paul Mac Isaac,Tina Peters, Jennifer Fleck, Harrison Fields, Ashli Babbit, Roseanne Boylan
My point is there are too many people devoid of any knowledge of history or current global affairs. They’re brainwashed, incurious, progandized have ceded the gift of critical thinking and are Stepfordized to the point of brain death. It’s very weird. If they’d read Brave New World, they’d see themselves. And “ be happy”.
There are many bloody histories in human history to be told... the information was about Crimea's Bloody History. What is your point? Can you be more precise so all can understand.
I'd always heard 1775 as the date for Russia's Sevastopol base...
Unlike Hawai'i, the people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted to be a part of Russia, after their legislative body had, previously.
The Hawaiian claims to independence and sovereignty are much stronger. The Russians also point to the precedent set by the de facto NATO annexation of Kosovo, against the lawful claims of Serbia... And in that case, there was never any votes taken.
I agree that Zelensky appears to be delusional, but more likely he is controlled by neocons who don't want the war to end. I agree with John's concluding statement about what Trump "should" do (and "should" have done the minute he set foot in the oval office), but those of "us" waiting for Trump to do the right thing in this or any situation are perhaps the delusional ones.
This is how both history and current affairs SHOULD be taught in our schools!
From the start of this war with Russia, the Welfare and safety of the Ukrainian people has never been on Zelensky’s radar. As the most corrupt country in the world, it houses dangerous and evil bio-tech labs, the Biden family’s in-depth corruption, billions of money laundering…..Zelensky profits beyond one’s imagination from monstrous kickbacks. PLUS the billions of US funding and from Canada that enables he, his wife, and a select number of “Ukrainian elites and friends” to live a life of luxury most folks only dream of.
President Trump needs to reign in this despicable weasel….no more negotiations, no more listening to demands! Just simply, “you are done buddy and so are all the US dollars”!!!
If any leader other than Putin had been jerked around and threatened by this snivelling little brat, the world would be in War # III.
And ALL the houses Zelensky bought, were came the money from?
Yet Putin can only wait so long, right?
🎯The bioweapon labs on UkraineRusdian border built by U.S. Dept of defense.
This is a war between the U.S. and Russia Ukraine being the proxy.
Who were the “brains” behind this? You can’t tell me Biden as he has dementia.
The current war in Ukraine started under Obama when he overthrew Ukraine’s president and started arming and training the Ukraine Nazis. The Maiden coup timeline is worth reading.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/20/ukraine-found-complicit-in-2014-massacre-by-european-court-of-human-rights/
Of course the CIA has been up to its neck involved in it.
Obama didn’t want the war. Who wanted it? Who forced Obama?
I think Trump is near to the point of walking away, but he's still angling to make a profit stealing whatever he can get from Ukraine first. We haven't heard anything about the rare minerals thing in awhile, at least since Zelensky deeded the minerals to Great Britain, so maybe Trump has given that up, but last week he was talking about taking the Zapororosia 5,700MW nuclear power plant, which is even crazier than the mineral thing.
Trump has to satisfy the constant nagging of neocons to remain bullish against Putin.. He says one thing to shut them up and then tiptoes around. Why would he think of stealing money??
He is anti war and that is the only reason I like him. And that is the most important reason.
My guts tell me Obama was sexually blackmailed into agreeing with this.
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Far predates 46. Global elites here and in Western Europe through their Uniparty CFR lackeys and their EU partners rebuilt UKR to serve as a catalyst for their hegemony, or depending on your point of view, as a bulwark against Putin’s hegemonic intentions.
Putins hegemonic Intentions? Please give examples, and your source
You mistake my remark as support for that line of reasoning. It exists but I do not subscribe to it. If you have the stomach for it, it’s quite abundantly available on MSM. May I suggest NYT, WaPo or the Atlantic?
lol. Got you. No thank you I don’t have the stomach for 100% lies.
Lately the WSJ has been showing its true colors as well. Disgusting
Gloria Newland and her deep state neo con Jewish ciansastate gang.
It's Victoria Nuland. Always best to get the name right when casting anti-semitic or other such aspersions.
Newland is more appropriate but good you're keeping watch on the details.Speaking of, got a list handy of her compatriots?
It’s OK. As long as he “gets it” and he does. So does the critical mass. “Antisemite”
just does’t cut it anymore.
The Biden reign was carried out by people of the most evil “cloth” in US history……Dept of Defence by some of the worst. You are entitled to your overview. Common sense which seems to elude many folks these days does not reign on this “proxy” notion. Give thanks for the leadership of President Trump. The deep evil and corruption of the past four years will take some time and hard work on the part of this amazingly bright and astute new Trump administration!!
Ok I got you. Yes it was the evildoers in the Biden cabinet,
the civilian members of DOD and of course the neocons. Those are the proxy against Russia.
When I say U.S. that’s who I mean.
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Can I just add, as a Britisher, that the British public have always been easy to whip into a frenzy about Russia whenever it suited the politicians (we had hysterics during the Crimean War with crinolined ladies fainting all over the place at the thought of all those Ivans). However, I reckon 9 out of 10 Brits couldn't put Ukraine on a map, or the Crimea, and until 2022 would have said that Kiev was probably in Russia.
I saw a poster today for the Daily Telegraph. It said "Have you heard of Riga, Tallinn or Vilnius? You will do if we lose Kyiv".
Well, what a load of propaganda! "We" don't own Kyiv and how dumb does the DT think it's readers are? Are we meant to quake with fear that Putin is going to march through Europe? Most people probably don't know where those cities are but...IT'S NOT OUR WAR! IT'S A POST SOVIET CIVIL WAR!!!!!
"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality." -Thomas Babington Macaulay
Regards, John Leake
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The media is worse than any war. BBC created by MI6 and CNN, also intelligence operated made their brains like jello. US too.
Exactly, It's taken Russia 3 years to get the upperhand in Ukraine, but the warmongering neo-cons would have you believe he could roll accross the rest of the EU in weeks, as if he would want to. This war will end up exactly where it would have been had the Brits and US not scuttled the Minsk I&II accords. autonomy for Russian speaking eastern Ukraine and no NATO membership. What a tragic waste.
Dick Minnis removingthecataract.substack.com
No one knows what Russia could do in terms of war.
Only an idiot would have tried to conqueror all of Ukraine, and Putin is no idiot.
No, his best strategy was to prolong the war maximise Ukrainian casualties and minimise Russian casualties, and wait for western public opinion to question the war. If he had overrun Ukraine he would have quickly been in a war against all of NATO and everyone else as well.
Putin has given himself time to prepare for the conflict to come, Ukraine was ever only a proxy, a preliminary to weaken Russian and test its defences.
Wining this war would have led to complete defeat. Only an idiot or a paid troll could not see that Russia's only real defence is to prolong the war until those in the west can see the hand in the glove, the English and American alliance of left wing progressives and the ultra rich.
Well said! Putin is no fool. Russia is not going to be made the fool with blitzkrieg style war. Instead use this to test armorments, tactics and manpower. While at the same time finding out what the "west" has.
I'm not sure that the Russians ever intended having a "proper" war. They didn't start 2022 with a full army poised and ready. Which is surely how one starts a proper war? I think it's likely they thought they would go in, give their younger brother a damn good slap and leave with the message learnt by the Ukrainians to stop treating native Russian citizens as scum. I don't think enough people know that there has been fighting in the Donbas since at least 2014 because of the poor treatment by Kiev of people who identify as Russian. So I don't think the Russians have any interest in world domination and this would all have been over in a matter of months if NATO and Co hadn't interferred.
Only one elected world leader is calling for an immediate end to the carnage. Trump. He’s reviled by ForeverWar Fabians the world over.
And of course Crimeans seem happy with Russia, the place is well kept and safe and not a war zone. Odessa would similarly no doubt prefer to be done with Z and his Nazi party as well.
They’re ethnic Russians and have been tormented by the Azov Nazis and marginalized by the Ukrainians. And the U.S./UK/Soros is behind the slaughterhouse. Putin banned Soros from Russia due to the chaos and interference. Putin is a nationalist . He’s not interested in rebuilding the Soviet Union ( that would be the EU/NATO/UN /WEF / China/IslamoFascists /US globalists competing to destroy every nation state and harken in a tyrannical Brave New World with a central government and the dissolution of cultures, independent will and freedom A Feudal Technocracy ruled by powerful elites over an enslaved , largely depopulated transhuman serfdom. Whether the Red/Green Marxist/Islamist/Nazi Alliance Caliphate conquistadors, another pandemic, more wars… it’s been a plan in the making since the early fifties. Russia is in the way. Ditto India under Modi, Israel under Bibi, Hungary under Orban, Slovakia under Fuca, Saudi Arabia under MBS, El Salvador under Bukele, Hungary under Orban,Argentina under Milei and thorns in the side like Meloni/Salvini, Geert Wilders , Farage , Panama the new Romanian contender and the most dangerous and unkillable- Donald Trump. They’ve taken out Shinzo Abe, Vidal-Quadras,Pavlopoulos,Medina,Bolsonaro, Zeman, Morales, Salvini,Barrow,Duque,Georgescu, Moise, Morales,LePen,AfD, Khan.. All were Nationalists who were democratically elected in 2016, inspired by Farage/ Brexit and Trump. All eschewed globalism, socialism, migration, Islamism, open borders, Climate Accords, multilateral trade deals, kleptocorporate multinational monopolistic overlords and corporate inversion, foreign interference, crime, intervention and coups. They wanted to put their people first. The newly elected European leaders of Greece, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, Romania, Italy and had she won, LePen of France , wanted to follow Brexit’s lead and leave the EU.
All were removed either by coup, rigged elections, assassination, assassination attempts, “ sudden death” from “ sudden medical ailments” and “ causes unknown” or prosecuted and imprisoned for made up crimes. Sound familiar? All were magically replaced by far leftists and socialists. The exact corrupt politicos and policies that were voted out. And each country is in shambles. Witness Peru, Dominican, Colombia, Belize, Honduras, Brazil, Romania, Austria, Greece, Spain,France, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Ireland, Wales, Belgium, Haiti, Syria, Pakistan, Libya, Bangladesh,Canada,Australia,Nigeria, Israel, Gaza, Egypt, Afghanistan, Yemen, Congo, Venezuela, Cuba, Ukraine,Macedonia,S Africa… to name a few..The Democrat Party
This is in no way accidental, coincidental, the result of “ free and fair” elections or in any way normal. It’s by design.
I recall studying the EU in its infancy in college, concluding that it would fail just because rational Germany would never debase its fiscal position to get in the same boat with less responsible EU countries like Spain and Italy; and that given that layering on more government would be extremely inefficient, business interests would not tolerate it. But I was wrong; it turns out that power seeking prevails, for sale politicians (Ursula, 360, Kallas) abound, and the EU has brought Germany to a fully nihilistic policy (energy, industry, immigration). Incredible.
Has Zelenskyy heard that Crimea is more than a peninsula? The PEOPLE of Crimea rejected Kiev’s authority by referendum. For good reasons. Kiev is a Nazi regime. Crimea under Kiev was abused and neglected economically. Who gives a rat’s ass about Ukraine’s Constitution? Has Zelenskyy ever read it? Is there an office pool on that? Was it Constitutional for the Kiev government to shell their own civilians in the Donbas? Hypocrisy and grift are poor investments. What was the Biden administration’s stake in the conflict? I mean, REALLY? Was it primarily stupidity? Just asking.
I better stop typing before I get on their hit list.
Fear not : We have enough malign lunatics here in Germany who are willing to support the comedian actor - whatever the cost ... bis zum Endsieg ...
Our presumably new chancellor (-wannabee) Merz told the media a couple of moths ago he is
not afraid of a nuclear war against Russia ... whatever that means...
and that he is prone to send Taurus cruise-missiles in oder to attack russian inrastructure...
But there are even bigger arseholes (there is simply no friedlier term for these criminals) that keep the warmongering in the talk shows alive : Second- and third-rate politician-thrash no one ever heard of outside of our sorry country : R. Kiesewetter, M.Strack-Zimmermann, M. Roth come to mind ... there's dozens of them...
Obviously not much different than in Keir Stalin's UK: "planes in the air and boots on the ground - Britain must do the heavy lifting..." and Macron's France who sees himself as a resurrection of Napoleon?
A nihilistic death-cult seems to have taken hold of WesternEurope - and so ridiculous on the other hand : Everyone knows that Russia can't be beaten - not even with US - support (without which a country like ours is a midget trying to fight the russian bear)
Russia is a nuclear power - it's as simple as that ...
From my understanding, the only reason that the Ukrainian Nikita Khrruschev transferred Crimea to the Ukraine was as a way to make amends for the brutal treatment Josef Stalin inflicted upon them in the Great Famine, as Soviet farms were being collectivized. That means that the amount of time Crimea was part of the Ukraine was a grand total of 60 years! All the rest of the history of Russia, Crimea was a part of Russia.
Sixty years out of one thousand five hundred years. Seems to me like Russia has history on its side.
Let’s not forget about that strange issue of ‘democracy’ where the residents of Crimea actually voted to be a part of the Russian Federation.
Absolutely! It's past time to cut the UK off from all military weapons sales, and any intelligence support. Let every death of Ukrainian youth be burdened by the thespian fool pretending to be a leader. No more weapons to UKR and prohibition of any US weapons transfers from NATO.
Catherine the Great wrested Crimea from the Ottomans. The Mongols did a genocide and left their heirs before that; always bloody.
Good farmland. Good location. Black "Krim" tomatoes.
;-/
Khrushchev allocated it to Ukraine SSR, when drunk, which did not matter so much at the time...
Most folks have a very short view of history.
Russia is taking back what they lost and wanted during the Crimean War in 1856 to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The Russians did not forget about the Crimean war anymore than we forget the Civil War. History has momentum and consequences. What claim did the Alliance have over Crimea?
There has been an ongoing Battle between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church and papal supremacy which led to a break between the Greek East and Latin West, giving rise to two separate churches — Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic — after 1054.
According to the census result the population of the Crimean Federal District is 2.2844 million people. The ethnic composition is as follows: Russians: 1.49 million (65.3%), Ukrainians: 0.35 million (15.1%), Crimean Tatars: 0.24 million (12.0%).
Part 2: Crimean:
Colonized by the Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, the Byzantine Empire, the Crimean Goths, the Genoese and the Ottoman Empire, while at the same time its interior was occupied by a changing cast of invading steppe nomads and empires, such as the Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Goths, Alans, Bulgars, Huns, Khazars, Kipchaks, Mongols and the Golden Horde. Crimea and adjacent territories were united in the Crimean Khanate during the 15th to 18th century.
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/after-nearly-1000-years-leaders-of-catholic-russian-orthodox-churches-to-meet/67-61614436
Buh-but I thought “ Israel” is the “ colonizer, oppressor, apartheid, imperialist, supremacist, Nazi occupier vying to take over the world!
Oh wait! That would be the UN/WEF/China/Islamist Caliphate invaders/US/EU/NATO/Trilaterals who is sowing chaos, provoking global wars, flooding nations with migrants who cannot assimilate and demand the host nations bend to their will.
Don’t look at the terrorist regimes the Biden regime w/ Turkey/Pakistan installed in Syria and Bangladesh . The slaughter and actual genocide of Christians, Hindus, Alawites, Druze,Yazidis and Kurds so Erdogan can rebuild the Ottoman Empire- don’t look at the neighboring nations that are soon to be conquered and the Hamas style bloodbaths. Don’t look at Afhghanistan. Don’t look at Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Malaysia, Congo, Mali, Rohingya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Ukraine, France, Germany, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Lebanon,Romania, Macedonia, Belgium,Spain,Yemen,Egypt,India, Rwanda, S.Africa,Niger,Kenya,Haiti,Ethiopia, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria,Dominican,Belize,Europe, Australia, Canada, NYC , Philadelphia, Michigan, NM, Minnesota,Houston, Paterson, Chicago, Ohio,Seattle, Portland,Colorado, Virginia, Boston, Connecticut, Vermont, San Fran, LA, Arizona, Orlando, Baltimore, Wisconsin… it’s very normal to see hordes of burka clad women walking behind hordes of black bearded men and imbecilic privileged white Ivy League Marxists garbed in jihadi gear and T-shirts emblazoned with “ Queers/Feminists/Drag Queens/Fatties/Jews For Palestine, faves wrapped in keffiyahs waving Hamas and Iranian flags , carrying placards with “ No Capitalism! America is an Occupier, America Is A Racist White Patriarchal Colonizer, Zionists are Nazis” chanting” From The River To The Sea”, Death To Israel, Death to America, Death To The West and Long Live The Intifada “.
And Islamic Cities that are under Sharia and are No-Go Zones.
The “ Maryland Man” with MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles who beats his wife, was scheduled for deportation in 2019, was deemed an MS-13 gang member and was stopped for a traffic violation with other MS-13 thugs in a car belonging to an MS-13 gang leader in prison for running a human trafficking ring and narcotics trafficking. When the “ Maryland Man “ was asked who the car belonged to, he replied, “ My boss”. Somehow, he’s a victim being denied his “ rights”. He’s here illegally, but he has “ rights”. Tell that to the J-6ers, Mike Flynn, Giuliani, Roger Stone, Manafort, Simone Gold, John Eastman, Papadapoulis, Carter Page, Denny Tarrio, Brandon Straka,John Paul Mac Isaac,Tina Peters, Jennifer Fleck, Harrison Fields, Ashli Babbit, Roseanne Boylan
My point is there are too many people devoid of any knowledge of history or current global affairs. They’re brainwashed, incurious, progandized have ceded the gift of critical thinking and are Stepfordized to the point of brain death. It’s very weird. If they’d read Brave New World, they’d see themselves. And “ be happy”.
There are many bloody histories in human history to be told... the information was about Crimea's Bloody History. What is your point? Can you be more precise so all can understand.
I'd always heard 1775 as the date for Russia's Sevastopol base...
Unlike Hawai'i, the people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted to be a part of Russia, after their legislative body had, previously.
The Hawaiian claims to independence and sovereignty are much stronger. The Russians also point to the precedent set by the de facto NATO annexation of Kosovo, against the lawful claims of Serbia... And in that case, there was never any votes taken.
Agree. Zelenskyy seems delusional to me at this point.
I agree that Zelensky appears to be delusional, but more likely he is controlled by neocons who don't want the war to end. I agree with John's concluding statement about what Trump "should" do (and "should" have done the minute he set foot in the oval office), but those of "us" waiting for Trump to do the right thing in this or any situation are perhaps the delusional ones.
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Can’t argue with historical facts unless you suffer from historical amnesia.