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The Author and Duran are both pro Russian, but at times they are spot on.
I looked at my scratch pad of articles and here is the first one that I wrote down (I posted it on FR):
Trump wiretap is the REAL scandal of the US election, bogus Russia story is the real cover-up
http://theduran.com/trump-wiretap-true-scandal/
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FR Comments: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3531592/posts
There is no doubt they were right on this subject. It took a long time before the US Media admitted any of it.
Then it's working on you, too. /s
Putin excels at murdering women and children.
Puff
Everything depends on how you define the word "win".
Ukraine wins by surviving.
Russia wins by taking more Ukraine territory.
Nobody wins with huge numbers of casualties and massive property destruction.
Since mid-2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a First World War style stalemate.
World War One took millions of lives and ended after four years of stalemate when, suddenly, the German economy and military machine collapsed.
Unfortunately, in 1918 the Western Allies were too exhausted to thoroughly defeat Germany, and so their peace treaty of 1919 helped set the stage for Round Two in 1939.
As for whose problem is it, Ukraine is bordered by four NATO countries, with three more nearby Baltic countries equally threatened by Russkiy Mir revanchism.
So, sure, Ukraine is Europe's problem, but Europe (NATO) is our alliance, and Russian threats to NATO are also threats to us.
Bottom line: no way to guess today how the war in Ukraine will end, though we can all pray God will bless Pres. Trump's efforts to find a lasting peace there.
No it is a side show and here is why... We have been intervening and addressing the drug cartel problems in Columbia since 1971, over half a century and billions of dollars with absolutely no positive end results. And that was WITH cooperation from their Government. It is just never going to happen unless we nuke it and THAT is never going to happen either. Why? Because it is not what the CIA wants. They talk the game, but in reality they are actually running the show and in control of it all.
Now in Venezuela they do not have control of it. So they are behind all of the psyops and effort to invade Venezuela so they can control that supply and market also. It is not going to stop, it is just going to be under new management. This stuff is easy to predict when you understand how the CIA actually works. They manipulate our own politicians and resources to fund coups that put them in control of the target countries resources.
And the justification for decades now? The psychological trigger keywords “Drugs” and “Terrorists”. When they say they are “going after the drugs” it is NOT what they actually mean. They are, but not to stop them, it is to gain control of them under their new management. I can’t believe no one studies history anymore... It is all right there in plain sight...
I think Zelensky has caused this with his ridiculous statement that he will cede nothing. Things were lined up for an end to the war but the fool had to posture again. Zelensky was just leading Trump on a dance one more time hoping to get tomahawks and US $.
I believe Putin has abandoned the idea that there is a future in negotiation. Zelensky does not fear the death of Ukrainians or destruction of infrastructure. He cares for his own skin, his wealth in bolt holes and keeping the game going as long as he can.
No one is winning. Everyone is losing in this game except maybe China.
Ukraine is devastated, but the alternative was - if they hadn’t fought back in March 2022, they would be assimilated into the Russian federation. If Putin had grabbed Kyiv in 2014, no one would have done anything and Ukraine would have no capability to push back then (it didn’t).
Russia has lost men, money and prestige AND they have created and boosted the Ukrainian sense of identity.
Prior to 2014, Ukrainian national identity was either non-existent or very weak. People felt more “local patriotic” i.e. they were “Tutajsi” (from here) - meaning Kharkiv, Donetsk etc. local patriots and they didn’t feel Ukrainian or Russian. That changed in 2014 and went supersonic in March 2022.
I know of 3 people who are from eastern Ukraine, are native Russian speakers and who have grandparents or parents who came from what is now the Russian federation. But they feel Ukrainian now and they have sworn off speaking Russian.
Putin created that. Putin destroyed any chances of Ukraine being assimilated into Russia by creating a national mythology of resistance to the Kremlin.
Napoleon did this to Germany and the Brits did it to the USA and to India.
So even if Russia grabs ALL of Ukraine, they have lost the battle - every single Ukraine feels “Ukrainian” now - thanks to Putin.
If, in Feb 2022, Putin hadn’t invaded, but just stood, then NATO would have whimpered and in a few years Z would have been voted out, and Ukraine would be slowly assimilated into the Rossiski mir. But hubris got the better of him
well, they will come to Poland, Romania etc.
As for Poland, though we have a number of misgivings, Poland will take in the women, children and old men. There will be grumbling, but we will.
That’s not to say things have been all rainbows - it hasn’t — in my own home we kept a woman and her two daughters for 4 months in 2022 before she headed back home. It wasn’t easy, but it was the right thing to do and the woman was very nice and not demanding and we still keep in touch. If she needs help again, she’s welcome.
There are Ukrainian enclaves in Poland and even to me who came as a foreigner to Poland in 2010, hearing Ukrainian or Russian in the streets feels weird.
If we get another influx of refugees, we should give them Polish classes and assimilate them more - the problem is that a Ukrainian could get by with broken Polish so some didn’t take the effort.
Anyway - the Ukrainian refugees are OUR (central Europe’s) problem. We are the neighbors, we should help them and we will
The thing about a war economy - unless “booty” is obtained, the economy will collapse when the money runs out.
So he is just stalling the inevitable
Kudsman “Putin has finally decided that this war will end with Ukraine’s unconditional surrender. “
That’s what he thought in Feb. And if Zelenskyy hadn’t stayed, it would have. Whatever we may think of him - his act of defiance in Feb 2022 gave the Ukrainians the heart to push back against the Muscowite invasion.
I can tell you that the Ukrainians I work with, even those living in trying circumstances do NOT want to surrender.
Why?
Because they say “Moscow got Crimea and the Donbas in 2014, then in 2022 they came back for more. If they get a surrender now, they will come back in a few more years and unleash hell again. We cannot live like slaves”
To ask you a question - what do you mean by “ethnic Russian” or “ethnic Ukrainian”?
Do you mean language?
As many patriotic Ukrainians are native Russian speakers - like Zelenskyy for example.
The majority of patriotic Irish, Scots, Americans speak English, but they are still patriotic Irish, Scots, Americans.
Or do you mean “blood” i.e. ancestry?
There are plenty of Patriotic Ukrainians whose parents or grandparents were born in what is now Russia. AND vice-versa.
In the same way, in Poland - Pilsudski, the great post WWI leader of Poland, was ethnically Lithuanian as well the great national poet - Mickiewicz. In fact one of the most famous books of Poland by Mickiewicz starts with “ Litwo, Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie; Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie, Kto cię stracił. Dziś piękność twą w całej ozdobie” i.e. “Lithuania, my homeland! You are like health; How much you should be valued, only he who has lost you will know. Today, your beauty in all its glory.”
And patriotic French, English etc. who have other ancestry.
So, what would you define as “ethnic Russian”? It’s not a gotcha, just asking
Bkmk
Williams - I need to amend your “Even if he wins, the Ukrainians (who already hated Russia) “
The Ukrainians I met (admittedly pre-2014 it was few), they didn’t hate Russia, leave alone Russian people.
That has changed — you are correct that even if he had, in April 2022, switched off and somehow stuck to his lines (I don’t think it would be possible), he could have gotten away with it. But I think after he lost Kharkiv and Kherson, it was lost in a stalemate.
If the inevitable is death, it’s worth stalling.
Unfortunately, most ‘news’ isn’t news - just ragebait, prejudice-porn, and blog/influencer pimps scratching for clicks.
The greatest tool to have in one’s intellectual arsenal is the self-awareness to know asap if some ‘news’ is causing an emotional reaction that asks for action/reaction without thought.
Thanks for sharing today’s edition of Putin’s propaganda.
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