Posted on 01/30/2023 12:37:10 PM PST by MarMema
Regarding Crimea, who actually knows since there certainly have not been anything like free and fair elections since Russia's takeover. As far as booting the Russian population out, it seems like fair play given Moscow's tradition of replacing the local populations in its empires with Russians.
“Putin’s alchemy has transmuted millions of Russian speakers into ardent Ukrainians.”
So very true.
I remember speaking to Ukrainians in Warsaw back in 2010-2012 and all were pretty meh about national identity.
But Putin’s invasion has made them ardent Ukrainians
Were they majority Russian before the war? NO. All these regions of Ukraine(Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson), except Crimea are MAJORITY Ukrainian. Language does not always correspond to national identity. Something Putin and fellow Russians cannot seem to understand.
Russian troops appear to open fire on Ukrainian protesters in occupied-Kherson
“Were they majority Russian before the war? NO.”
Actually they were.
What makes you think otherwise?
🇵🇱Megalomania and corruption have brought Ukraine to a deplorable state, the ex-Foreign Minister of Poland believes.
In an interview with Krytyka Polityczna, Radoslav Sikorsky noted that the Ukrainian elites hid their corruption behind stories about a big game with the USA, Russia, China and Europe and wasted time.
The former Foreign Minister recalled that after leaving the USSR, Ukraine was in a better condition than Poland due to fertile lands, nuclear power plants and the aircraft industry. And by the beginning of the special operation, its GDP was already four times less than the Polish one.
Ukrainians now have to pay dearly for the actions of the current government, Sikorsky summed up.
Earlier, he stated that in the early days of the special military operation, Poland was considering the option of dividing Ukraine.
Of course no American war has ever been about economics, WE fight for Principle only.
The Ukrainians also engaged in widespread ethnic cleansing in Odessa, Kharkov, etc. The neoliberal USA regime provided tacit approval- this are the same tactics that have been employed against Serbians in “Kosovo” and Bosnia.
🇮🇩 Anti-war rally in Poland.
They demand to stop dragging Poland into the war.
https://t.me/fr0m_Russia_with_L0ve/15331
Putin’s annexation of Eastern Ukrainian territories has put Crimea back on the table.
It demoted Crimea from the unique status of “voluntarily associated part of Russia” to just another territory in the list of Russian land grabs in violation of the treaties signed and acknowledged by Putin.
The West’s grudging acceptance of the fact from 2014 is now gone.
It was 44% pro Russian before Putin invaded in 2014.
Residents of Kupyansk await the return of the Russian army
The correspondent of The Economist visited the Kharkiv region and talked with people living there.
▪️The publication reports that people are filming the Ukrainian military on camera and tracking the movements of representatives of the administration.
▪️Residents of Kupyansk try to watch Russian channels that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are unable to drown out, the journalist says.
The Economist correspondent notes that the majority of the region’s residents have always been pro-Russian.
▪️ Of the 214 members of the local city council, 200 people left for Russia with Russian troops before the arrival of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Some of them maintain relations with local pro-Russian activists and provide news to the population.
https://t.me/fr0m_Russia_with_L0ve/15310
Actually they were.
What makes you think otherwise?
Perhaps the facts:
Share of ethnic ukrainians among the population of Ukraine, census 2001
Russian fake news.
Russians in Putin’s Russia are liars. No wonder honest Russians, 1 million of them, have fled Russia since march 2022
Why isn’t that young man protesting on the tank in the military fighting for The Zelenskyy?
🇮🇩 The Polish brothers are tired of friendship with Ukrainians and use their flag for the stove.
Great video.
https://t.me/fr0m_Russia_with_L0ve/15246
One would think the number of Ukrainian army volunteers and conscripts from Donbass would be much greater than the number of DPR/LHR militia…right
Fighting for liberation
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