Posted on 03/04/2022 8:11:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Ukraine is not, and has never been an independent country. It was a Soviet State, then a Russian-controlled kleptocracy, which switched to a moderately western kleptocracy, switched back to a Russian one, and after 2014, the CIA and Soros put it back as a US controlled client. We chased out the Russian oligarchs, and sent in our own like Hunter Biden and Chris Kerry.
Ukraine is a strategic tool, and is being used as such.
It looks like Pat Buchanan’s article ( https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4043602/posts ) got appended to the end of this text as if Michael Barone wrote it.
You’ve got followers, looks like:
“On Monday, Biden walked across the White House lawn alone and in a mask. On Tuesday, he walked into a crowd of House members rejoicing that no more masks were needed.”
“This speech is going to be forgotten — if it’s not already forgotten — but the public will still see empty store shelves, high prices and the cost of filling up their cars.”
Election Day 2020, not 2029. Fat fingers.
The territory of the Ukraine was part of Russia for over 300 years before 1991.
If Serbia attacks Austria-Hungary, and Austria-Hungary responds, then Russia will attack Austria-Hungary. But then Germany has to war with Russia, so France and Great Britain stand up for Russia. Oh wait, that was another war, never mind.
Ukraine isn’t worth the risk of a huge war, Barone has always been a master of the obvious.
But he hates blue jeans, so he still needs a whippin’.
The Ukrainian people sought to be part of Russia after being invaded by the Mongols which eventually resulted in the Treaty of Pereyaslav in 1654. Even before that the Russian and Ukranian people share a common heritage. The Russian Empire considered Ukrainians to be ethnically Russian.
Ukraine has always worn their Russian association uneasily.
For example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenka_Razin
Soros, Clinton, Obama, and Klaus Schaub all support Zelenskyy.
64k question is where do you stopPitin should he decide to go after the next non-NATO country. Clearly, he wants to rebuild the USSR.
That is an interesting article. I am not sure if that I would characterize their association this way. The Ukraine has been a part of Russia for hundreds of years. The church that Ukrainians traditionally go to is Russian Orthodox.
But yes, many if not most Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis when they invaded in WWII until the Nazis began showing their true colors. So that would tend to support your characterization.
At this point what the Russians want is regime change. They have gotten away with this repeatedly whenever one of their former satellites countries started pushing things in a way that made them feel threatened.
After Biden muddied the waters by saying over a month ago that we would do basically nothing if Russia invaded, it was a foregone conclusion that Russia would invade.
The current regime is demonstrably one of the most corrupt in the world. Soros has claimed himself that he installed their current “president”. It is not worth the huge number of sacrifices and death that have already occurred to save the group of criminals that make up the current Ukranian regime. And risking billions being killed in a nuclear conflict by continuing to poke Putin and push him around is unthinkable. Putin is rumored not to be a well man, yet he still has the ability to launch an all-out strike from the world's largest nuclear arsenal. Biden, his idiotic advisers and our Soros dominated lefty media are playing with real fire, and they should knock it off. The real goal should be to get things back to a stable situation as quickly as possible.
Ukraine was also part of the Polish-Lithuanian Empire for centuries as well... so They could just as easily be claimed by Poland or Lithuania...
The point is, just like Kuwait didn’t belong to Iraq, Ukraine doesn’t belong to Russia.
Exactly
Biden is Neville chamberlain snd the rest of Europe are equally weak so putin can grab as much as he wants looks like.
Poland does have some claim to the Western Ukraine and if they want it they can fight Russia and/or the Ukraine for it. Again - not America's problem when we have a cold civil war here at home.
I wish more people understood this.
Zelensky is a media creation just like Obama. He is another Soros puppet.
People are swallowing the Ukrainian propaganda without thought or question.
Of course, Putin is no angel.
Taking sides in this war is like taking sides in a war between the Chicago Mafia and the New York Mafia, back in the forties and fifties.
Well said.
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