Posted on 05/15/2023 10:00:12 AM PDT by Kazan
The NATO and U.S.-backed war against Russia began in 2000 when Clinton courted New York’s large Ukrainian American constituency in her run for the U.S. Senate. Hillary openly recognized the Holodomor [Stalin’s plan to starve millions of anti-Russian Ukrainian peasants to death in his 1932-33 communist collective farming disaster]. As a senator, she campaigned on admitting Ukraine to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and promised to set the legislative agenda to admit Ukraine to NATO.
In 2010, Secretary of State Clinton was warmly welcomed in Kyiv by Ukraine’s pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. During that visit, Clinton told Yanukovych that “NATO’s door remains open” despite Yanukovych’s evident retreat from pursuing NATO membership. The battlelines between Hillary and Trump trace back to 2004 when Paul Manafort agreed to become a paid advisor to Yanukovych. Manafort was a top-level Republican operative who had previously worked with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Yanukovych was a former governor of Donetsk, a Russian-speaking region of Ukraine close to the border with Russia.
The decisions that led Obama/Hillary/Biden to go to war against Russia in today’s proxy Ukraine-Russia war trace back to November 30, 2013, the day Yanukovych announced he was suspending preparations for signing an agreement to join NATO that had been scheduled to occur at an EU summit held that day in Vilnius, Lithuania. The State Department’s efforts to block Yanukovych from power in Ukraine began with the Soros-funded Orange Revolution in 2004. In December 2013, 300,00 Ukrainians took to the streets in the largest protests since the Orange Revolution, this time demanding Yanukovych resign. These protests developed into the State Department and Soros-funded Maidan Revolution, which ultimately led to Yanukovych fleeing to Russia in February 2014.
On September 21, 2019, investigative journalist Lee Stranahan reported in TGP that Soros funded the International Renaissance Foundation that worked closely with Hillary Clinton’s State Department in Ukraine and contributed at least $8 million to Hillary-affiliated super-PACs in her 2016 presidential campaign cycle. On March 19, 2015, the Wall Street Journalpublished a chart showing Ukrainian donors led the list of nations from which contributions by individuals of more than $50,000 went to the Clinton Foundation. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ukrainian individual donors contribute $10.0 million to the Clinton Foundation between 1999 and 2014.
In August 2016, the Associated Press (AP) broke the story that while she was secretary of state, Clinton hosted in June 2012, a private dinner for Clinton Foundation donors at her home, including Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian businessman whose Ukrainian-based foundation donated at least $8.6 million to the Clinton Foundation. During the period in which he attended Clinton’s private dinner, Pinchuk had retained Doug Schoen, a New York-based pollster who was a former advisor to President Bill Clinton, to set up meetings with State Department officials. On February 12, 2014, the New York Times reported that Pinchuk, whose father-in-law is Leonid Kuchma, president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005, “led a government criticized for corruption, nepotism, and the murder of dissident journalists.” As president, Kuchma privatized a giant state steel factory and sold it to Pinchuk’s consortium for the low price of approximately $800 million. The New York Timesarticle also reported that between 2006 and 2014, Pinchuk donated roughly $13.1 million to the Clinton Foundation. Pinchuk strongly advocated Ukraine joining the EU, a cause he championed with Secretary of State Clinton.
After Hillary left the State Department in 2014, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, took up the cause of getting Ukraine into NATO. On December 13, 2013, amid the Maidan Revolution, Nuland gave a speech to the U.S. Ukraine Foundation. In that speech, she said, “When Ukrainians say they are European, this is what they mean. And as one very prominent Ukrainian businessman said to me, ‘The Maidan Movement’s greatest achievement is that it has proven that the people of Ukraine will no longer support any president—this one [i.e., Yanukovych] or a future one—who does not take them to Europe.'” In February 2014, a leaked transcript of a telephone call between Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt, then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Nuland said, “F… the EU!” in apparent frustration the EU was not equally as strong as the State Department in supporting the Maidan Revolution’s push to for Ukraine to join NATO.
In March 2014, following the Maidan Revolution that ousted Yanukovych, Russian troops invaded and annexed Crimea while supporting Russian-backed separatists supported Russia-aligned Donbas and Luhansk republics as independent states in battles with the Ukrainian army. On February 18, 2023, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stepped in front of microphones for an impromptu press conference following a meeting of the NATO Defense Ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Stoltenberg openly admitted to the Western media that NATO has been at war with Russia since 2014. “Since 2014, NATO allies have provided support to Ukraine with training and equipment. Ukrainian forces were much stronger in 2022 than they were in 2014.”
We’ve had our differences but glad to help!
... ooohhh now the first grade namecaller tosses out “coward”. Happy to kick your A&& on any corner any day of the week, armchair warrior. I did my time serving with an MI Batt in FRG early 70’s and suspect you as a pussy never served anything except self... go piss up a rope chickenhawk
Must be your NewYork thinking coming through, but not too conservative, just a purile namecaller!Why is it that you post like you are not normal?suspect you as a pussy never served anything except self... go piss up a rope chickenhawk
Happy to kick your A&& on any corner any day of the week, armchair warrior. I did my time serving with an MI Batt in FRG early 70’sI didn't need the military to teach me how to slap down crazy fools.
Odd, I’ve seen videos of men in Ukraine being grabbed off the street. Should I believe my lying eyes?
Links to those?
Are you sure they aren’t of villagers in Russia?
Right, Russia builds more subservient to the Russian State Churches and closes independent ones, like Baptist or Protestant.
Russians ‘closing Protestant churches’ in Ukraine
Release International, which campaigns against the persecution of Christians, and a partner organization, Voice of the Martyrs Korea, report that three Evangelical Protestant churches in Melitopol have been shut down in the past month, together with a Baptist church in Mariupol in the south-east of the country.
In the village of Chkalovo, on the coast of the Azov Sea, witnesses report that Russian soldiers who entered a Baptist church during an evening service and ordered it to be closed said: “We have only one faith: Orthodoxy.”
True, true. Right before he died my uncle Irv, an international (communist) banker and dealer in the blood of Christian babies for use in secret Passover rituals, also confessed to killing Santa Claus on a dark night in Norway in 1963 as part of an anti-Arab plot having to do with the Moon “landings.”
You can always find a Jew, or a Christian, or a Muslim, or an Irishman to feed a stereotype...And you can find one who doesn’t.
“Arguing from the specific to the general” is a fallacy.
Fuel what you need to fuel, buddy, but if you really want to protest Jewry, rid yourself of every idea and product the Jews have produced.
Whether your start or end with Christianity is no business of mine.
Jews are always in the news and Jews publish the news, too, on all sides. Sides you agree with, and sides you don’t! But really, wouldn’t your particular interests be better served by a site such as Stomfront?
Ah, CaptainCarrollton, I ask that you join me in the Daniel Greenfield ping list. There, along with David Horowitz and many others you will find a Jew that you will like! Israel is much more than a redoubt for the “Master Race,” as you say, and it is after all largely comprised (+20%?) of Arabs. It is also, as you are probably aware, a very, very small country: smaller than the smallest US states except perhaps Rhode Island. It poses no threat to you, I am sure, and on the contrary, Israeli intelligence for instance consistently serves us in countering very real threats to Americans and U.S. Interests. The list of reasons to like and support Israel - even if you are not Jewish, and even if you are against Jews generally - is very, very long.
It’s already happened. Russia’s thumbprint is all over Mexico. Any open spot is filled by the Chinese
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