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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Thank you, Don, for the recommendation! I keep recommending your writing, it is the best and most comprehensive, but I have under 200 readers! The EU Elite need to shut up and learn to cooperate with Russia, without cheap energy, they are sheep that have gone astray. Japan should smarten up and join BRICS, it's failing economy has no means to do an end-run around Russia or anyone else. NATO, before its recent period of uselessness, should have been traded for a UN Security Council re-wired to do the task of preventing wars of aggression. Therefore, no USA on the UNSC. If you soon see Evil-bibi visit USA, then you know the attack on Iran is imminent. A sad state of affairs for the Christmas season.

Mark terrell's avatar

Why you think Putin is not part of the clan of grotesque human beings is beyond me. Much of his country lives in virtual poverty while he and his cronies are wealthy beyond measure and are now creating a war economy simply because the war in Ukraine is not going as planned. If he was really interested in peace, he would promote a real independently verifiable vote in the some of the eastern Ukraine areas and see whether they really do want to be part of Russia. But nobody is even talking about that, are they?

Occam's avatar

Wow, that's a lot of water carrying for the establishment talking points.

Mark terrell's avatar

I see...so my perspective is misaligned according to you because it doesn't line up with yours. Fuck off.

Occam's avatar

No. Because it's misaligned with reality.

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Well, yes they have. And for the Russian-speaking peoples of Donbas and other oblasts, regardless of the “quality” of the vote, the situation on the ground looks like they would “rather be Red than Dead,” following the attempted genocide by the Kyiv regime. Certainly the people of Ukraine deserve self-determination. So why did the U.S. [plus UK and Israel] lead the Euromaidan revolution chasing out a democratically-elected president because he was a Russian “sympathizer”? Is it an anathema for the West to have a Ukrainian leader be on good terms with its neighbour? For cooperation between the three Slavic Sisters? This regime-change was necessary to finally prepare for implementation of Brzeziński’s “Grand Chessboard” - a plan to attack Russia through Ukraine, divide Russia into smaller units and move on to surround China for the final triumph of American unipolar hegemony.

*** But how to make Russia look like the aggressor? ***

The new Ukrainian government, led by the MI6-trained actor Zelenskyy and his Banderite neo-Nazi supporters, began attacking the Russian-speaking peoples of the eastern Oblasts including Donbas. This was an ethnic-cleansing operation by outlawing the Orthodox Church and bombing villages, followed by shelling, from 2013/2014 onward. Bombing houses is bad enough, but the shells were fragmentary, each landing in a yard blowing shrapnel everywhere. This was the bait to entice Russia to respond. At the same time, over about 8 years construction, the NATO-supplied Ukrainian forces heavily fortified the “Horseshoe” area near the western end of these Oblasts with reinforced concrete embattlements, forming a trap so that when Russian forces entered this area, they couldn’t swoop down into the Dnieper Valley and cut off a Ukrainian thrust into the Russia’s Kursk Oblast, of course dismissing the memory of Kursk-1943. So the stage was set and the Russians began their SMO in February 2022. The West, particularly the UK, rejected the peace offers of late-2021 and the Istanbul Protocol of March 2022, because they really wanted to proceed with using Ukrainians as cannon-fodder in their proxy war against Russia. Enough of regime-changes already! These activities have no place on this small blue globe. The West (NATO) could easily end this drive for constant unipolar hegemony - or does it really need to face total strategic defeat? Choose wisely.

PS- the Kiev regime labelled the Russian-speaking residents as terrorists allowing attack without guilt. See one of the videos here - https://youtu.be/ZzrOtk3NniQ

Mark terrell's avatar

All of that makes no difference to anything. It is just brain candy. What matters now is how the situation gets resolved peaceably for everyone. Prosecuting history endlessly just causes more prosecution until it all blows up.