Posted on 12/08/2022 8:20:58 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
I was fooled about Volodymyr Zelensky.
Yes, even I. When I'm wrong, I like to admit it. And I was horribly wrong.
How wrong was I and about the entire war in Ukraine?
Last March, I called Zelensky a courageous "Hebrew warrior." How's that? Worse yet, I jumped to conclusions about his war.
I apologize.
I even compared him to biblical heroes from the book of Judges. Sheesh! Was I ever wrong about him.
I was too quick to believe the media – something I rarely do. My whole career trained me against it.
But today, seeing is believing.
So what has he done wrong? It's legion. Zelensky has banned opposition parties. He's shut down critical media by force. He's arrested his political opponents. He has sent soldiers into churches. Zelensky's secret police have raided monasteries across Ukraine, even a convent full of nuns, and arrested dozens of priests for no justifiable reason whatsoever and in clear violation of the Ukrainian constitution, which apparently no longer matters. And in the face of this, the Biden administration has said nothing.
Last week, he announced his plan to ban an entire religion, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – more than a thousand years old – and to seize its property, all for being insufficiently loyal to his regime. A free country does not ban a major religion.
Nor is it permissible in time of war to place soldiers in churches. It's wrong to arrest dozens of priests. It's a war crime. And he's doing it to a Ukrainian church!
Joe Biden remains silent about all this – of course…
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Zero critical thinking skills from the public. Is it any wonder the deep state CIA cabal holds the general public in contempt? So easily manipulated and so dogmatic once the latest public headline tells them what to think.
I believe I can offer you some understanding on this point.
Bottom line, 80% of the people will believe something they think the majority believes, even if it is not true.
75% of the people will do something evil if they believe an authority is telling them to do it.
This is what: respect for the Constitution of the United States as intended by the Founders was irreparably damaged by those actions; and we have never recovered.
Not as restrictive as those in Russia, however.
Z is a fool and a coward, and I cannot believe how many people have fallen for this crap...
Destroyed his own country and had had countless die because he was too STUPID to understand the geopolitical reality of his nation. Played like the fool he is...
That’s been my position.
+ Throw Brandon in the mix.
Do you ever remember seeing two older kids playing a joke one one younger kid, that went like this?
One of the two older kids would say to the one younger kid, “Hey, you want to see a fight between me and (the other older kid)?”
Almost always the younger kid would excitedly say “YES!!!”
At that point the two older kids would get on either side of the younger kid, and both start punching him from opposite sides.
The younger would try to escape, but the bigger older boys would just keep swinging their blows on him in a way he couldn’t get out from between them.
Eventually the younger kid would start screaming “Please stop, what are you doing?!?!”
One of the older kids would just look at them and say “You said you wanted to see a fight between us.”
It doesn’t take much guessing as to who is who between Russia, the US, and Ukraine in that scenario.
Because the Ukrainians there do not want to go. I have family and friends who are Russian speakers in the Donbas and they are patriotic Ukrainians. You buy in to Putin’s propaganda. He spent the big bucks, used agents, Mafia tactics, and finally unmarked troops to start the separatist movement. You can’t get any more NWO than the Comintern-minded Putin. Russian atrocities in the Donbas have been greatly underreported.
What about people in Ukraine like my Grandmother’s family that voted for Yanukovich only to see him overthrown in a Revolution? They have no voice? Their vote doesn’t count? They should be killed by lawless Revolutionaries?
What about Americans who voted for Trump? Are we so “disenfranchised” that we split off county by county? Well maybe. But in Ukraine’s case, you’re just advocating that with Holodomor and other genocide, the Ukrainians can eventually be outnumbered in a few spots.
Your family were wrong to vote for Yanukovich. His private zoo and garages were over-the-top. Only Putin has nicer mega palaces.
If the United States had fallen and the British picked off States, they would be automatically slave free because the British had already abolished slavery.
“Sigh. Sad that a person may know the truth but cannot embrace it.”
Yep, the world would be a better place if people put the truth before personal gain, but we’re stuck here!
To some people here, the ends apparently justify the means, and coups against the 2014 Ukraine government seem justifiable to them (even after a free and fair election put that gov’t in power) if they just happen to dislike the person elected.
“And here I think I agree with you’’.
By Jupiter the heavens have shifted.
I don’t feel anything but empathy for the people of Russia and Ukraine. I just wish both governments would collapse.
By “Zeepers” I have to assume you mean Zelinsky backers. At this point we’ve seen he’s shut down nearly all rights in his fight against Putin who’s soldiers indulge in inhumane depravities I’d never think of. As this is a fight between who can be the worst villain we need to stay away and see which jerk comes out on top - then keep our distance from them.
An honest press would have exposed that detail instead of covering it up
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