Posted on 11/19/2024 8:06:46 AM PST by delta7
The claim that a victorious Ukraine would slaughter the Russians who live there is absurd in that in recent years many Russians fled to Ukraine rather than live under often brutal Russian rule. Nor is it accurate to say that "the ethnic hatred goes back centuries."
As it happens, during the 1930s, Stalin deliberately starved Ukraine in order to crush resistance to collectivization and sell their grain harvest abroad. This caused the death of millions of Ukrainians, whom Stalin then replaced by awarding their land to Russians who were resettled on highly productive lands in the east of the country.
This less than a century old grievance by Ukrainians against Russia and against Russians resettled on land stolen from Ukraine is the source of most of what Armstrong so broadly describes as "ethnic hatred."
Moreover, in order to ease that grievance, in the Soviet era Khrushchev ceded Russian Crimea to Ukraine. Putin, of course seized Crimea in 2014, which to many Ukrainians undid Khrushchev's award and diminished the legitimacy of Russian settlement in eastern Ukraine. In effect, Putin deliberately refreshed Ukraine's historic claims against Russia and compounded them with new injuries.
The almost three-quarters of a million dead or maimed Russian soldiers for what is still officially a "Special Military Operation" to "denazify" Ukraine show just how concerned Putin really is about "protecting Russians."
Regards,
Russia faces major shortages...of frozen tundra.
Lol.
Great article! Ethnic breakout of nations is wise
This is idiotic. Russia isn’t attacking Sweden or Finland.
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The US pushed them into joining NATO, further expanding NATO…..they will in the end pay a heavy price.
Sure, which is why Russia never invaded Finland in 1939 and seized 20% of it's land. Okay
1939?
Lol.
I wonder what circumstances may have been different then.
I consulted with the neighbor’s goats and they couldn’t figure it out—so I give up.
Lol.
No, Finland saw that it's neutrality treaties with Russia, were worthless, just as all the treaties Ukraine signed with Russia, with each promising to respect the others borders were worthless.
Sweden has always been Nazi sympathizers….think Ukie Neo- Nazis…birds of the same feather…
“As early as January 22, 1932, the Swedish Nazis had their first public meeting with Birger Furugård addressing an audience of 6000 at the Haymarket in Stockholm.[4]
Like their German counterparts, the Swedish Nazis were strongly anti-semitic and as early as May, 1945 became early adopters of Holocaust denial.[5] The Swedish Nazi groups persisted after the war until they were officially dissolved in 1950. During this post-war period, they were more or less completely inactive politically. In 1956, a new Swedish Nazi party, the Nordic Reich Party (NRP), was formed by Göran Assar Oredsson and Vera Oredsson (previously married to Nazi leader Sven-Olov Lindholm). This party brought together the heritage of the older Nazi generations in the 1980s when Swedish neo-Nazism began growing stronger, and they managed to gather some small groups of the new generation of Nazi skinheads. A Swedish white supremacist movement arose during this period, especially among some former criminal motorcycle gang members and younger white power skinhead youths.
Particularly in the 1990s, there was a plethora of neo-Nazi organizations, most infamous being the militant network Vitt Ariskt Motstånd (”VAM”) which translates to White Aryan Resistance but was not associated with the US organization bearing the same name. VAM promoted the idea about a race war and gathered young skinheads and neo-Nazi activists in several cities, and their members committed several serious crimes, including arsons, armed bank robberies, weapons and arms thefts against desolate Swedish army and police headquarters, and series of brutal assaults and beatings. Other groups such as the Riksfronten and the party National Socialist Front (NSF) was also founded…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_in_Sweden
Russia has had strong trade ties and a demilitarized border with Finland for decades...try again and this time make some sense.
Amazing, you cannot comprehend why a country like Finland attacked in 1939 by Russia who seized 20% of it's land might be worried that Putin, who invaded Ukraine and seized it's land may have wider ambitions. Okay
1939.
How many years ago?
How many Finns are even alive today that were old enough to throw stuffed animals out of their crib then?
Post war analysis will be shocking for senile Joe’s Ukie war cheerleaders.
Ukraine is by all accounts the most censored nation on the planet, fines and imprisonment for all social media blabbers, videos, anything that shows the state Ukraine is in.
Lol, here you have a perfect example how Russians can justify invading any neighbor and some FReepers cannot understand why Putin's neighbors all desperately wanted to join NATO.
So then the Holocaust doesn't matter because it happened how many years ago, and how many survivors are alive? Ridiculous argument
Many Finns were killed by the Russians and many lost their family homes when Russians seized their land.
The Biggest Lie by Biden and Associates is Russia wants to seize land all over Europe; and in the next sentence they tell us Russia cannot defeat Ukraine they sure as hell ain’t going to seize land throughout EUrope.
Only NEO-Cons (NATO-Cons) and Democrats want war with Russia. As long as our Congress or Senate does nothing about Biden’s Act of War against Russia in “gas-lighting” American supplied missiles into Russia, the World and the US deserves the consequences.
That a lame duck dementia patient can create the ocnditoins for WWIII, Trump will wash his hands of Ukraine regardless of the Globalist Warmonger’s best efforts.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
At some point, US neocons will realize -
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Trump is aware what senile Joe’s war has done. It should be wrapping up soon….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNBQBfr_NJo
Ukies preparing to withdraw from Kursk….they just got slammed ( totally surrounded ) in the north western sector of their Kursk front….the ATACAM’s needed to cover their withdrawal….or so a few sources state- one being Dima.
Extend your argument.
Should the Armenians declare war against Turkey because of the horrible genocide events of 1915-1916?
Should China declare war on Japan because of the Rape of Nanking of 1937 or the many Japanese atrocities in China during World War II?
etc etc etc....
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