Posted on 03/20/2022 6:10:45 AM PDT by Travis McGee
I saw where Logan questioned the loyalty of Lt. Col Vindman and suggested they both were spies. A very distinct possibility that should be examined in detail.
IMHO this fiasco is about the playground that Ukraine has become. From Money Laundering to sex slavery and any other depravity you can imagine and the ability to keep it that way.
If you are using Wikipedia you get an automatic F grade. Not even in liberal colleges is Wikipedia allowed to be cited as a reference.
Looks like “Taken from Romania” and “Taken from Poland” refer to the same territory.
The district just north of that area in red was also taken from Poland and contains the formerly Austrian city of Lemberg (Polish Lwow, Russian Lvov). The sewer mains under the streets were made in Vienna.
Those people are the most passionate “Ukrainian nationalists”, and, after all, they have a point.
Area 2, taken from Romania/Poland, also contains the tail of Slovakia taken by Stalin after WW II.
It still doesn’t make it our business, much less an issue to potentially trade nukes over. I’m sure if US indian tribes were polled in the 1800s, they would have voted to keep the white man out. Popular votes mean nothing if you can’t win your own freedom outright.
Ukraine’s corruption killed them. They didn’t cherish freedom. Their national focus should have been on defense instead of bilking the system. That rings true for the United States today.
“Russia illegally annexed Crimea by force, as they created the Donbas independent areas by force of arms.”
Crimea, a Russian area, was given to Ukraine in 1954 by force. You lie when you don’t mention all the related facts.
Since we’re talking political/military history, and the fact that Russians know it very well while many Americans do not - it should be noted that the West burned Moscow to a crisp. Napoleon and the French, 1812.
I know you know that, but many do not, or need to look at what is going on from a Russian perspective. And that event very much affects that perspective.
Lara is the opitamy of ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’.
I saw that yesterday, it gets my voter for rant of the month.
People, if you haven’t taken the 5m to watch this, DO SO, it is worth it.
She is one of the few journalists out there worthy of the name.
Something to add in support of your materials is Russia’s stated six demands.
1. No NATO membership and a neutral position.
2. Russian should be the second official language of Ukraine, with laws prohibiting it abolished.
3. Recognise Crimea as Russian territory.
4. Recognise the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk.
5. Demilitarisation of Ukraine and abandonment of weapons that could be a threat to the Kremlin.
6. Banning of ultra-nationalist parties and organisations in Ukraine.
https://charliekirk.com/podcasts/?ep=08852422-5a69-47dd-86ea-ae56000ff31d
https://charliekirk.com/podcasts/?ep=6918f1fa-281e-4e7d-984f-ae5a015d3e09
“I saw that yesterday, it gets my voter for rant of the month.
People, if you haven’t taken the 5m to watch this, DO SO, it is worth it.
She is one of the few journalists out there worthy of the name”.
BINGO!
*bump for later*
thx... forwarded
Per the following map, it would be the eastern borders of Rivne and Ternopil Oblasts, which were originally Polish-Lithuanian. Volyn and Rivne were Russian for over a century, and then became part of Poland between WW I and II. They are somewhat less Catholic than the Southwest oblasts that were Austro-Hungarian.
There is also another political dimension in that Ukraine was one of the last areas where the White Army held out against the Red Army during the Revolution.
For those partaking in Russian propaganda, Crimea was taken by military force and coup. Russian was booted from the G8, making it the G7, due to their illegal annexation by force.
“In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine...
... On 23 February, pro-Russian demonstrations were held in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. On 27 February, masked Russian troops without insignia[41] took over the Supreme Council (parliament) of Crimea[42][43] and captured strategic sites across Crimea. This led to the installation of the pro-Russian Sergey Aksyonov government in Crimea, the conducting of the Crimean status referendum and the declaration of Crimea’s independence on 16 March 2014.[44][45] Russia formally incorporated Crimea as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol on 18 March 2014.[46][47][note 2] Following the annexation, Russia escalated military presence on the peninsula and leveraged nuclear threats to solidify the new status quo on the ground.[49]”
https://patriots.win/p/142AmxtQHv/ethnolinguistic-map-of-ukraine/c/,,,,,,
RE: For instance, how come you left this map out of your collection? The referendum results by region in 1991 when all of Ukraine voted to become independent:
If a woman who has lived with a man for say, 30 years now refuses to live with him anymore, for what ever reason (abuse, incompatibility, clash of values, etc. ), is it a moral right for the man to force the woman to continue to live with him and refuse to let her go at gunpoint by invoking their life together for 30 years?
In this analogy, the man is Russia. The woman us Ukraine.
Thanks for sharing this.
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