There’s a significant Ukrainian community here in northern England been here for years. The eldest are all Russian speakers only because they grew up when the Ukrainian language was being forcibly suppressed, yet they are the “ethnic Russians” that Putin and Denisov lie about constantly.
Most of them are from the Donbas.
They’re not here to get away from Nazis. They’re here to get away from a tiny minority within a minority of delusional Russian Ukrainians who hijacked power in Donetsk thinking that they’d get very rich and powerful very quickly if they sided with Putin to drag south Ukraine into Russia’s borders.
Donbas hasn’t once seen democracy and the rule of law under the DPR. The DPR doesn’t have any democratic legitimacy. It never had popular support even in Donetsk.
It’s an armed takeover by the worst kind of gangsters.... The ones who are fully brainwashed members of the cult of Revanchism, making the rules up as they go and spouting complete lies in their defense.
They jumped the gun in 2014 by taking over Donetsk and Lugansk thinking they’d have as easy a ride as the Russian hijackers operating in Crimea. They were met with 80% apathy and passive resistance, but increased the membership of the Ukrainian far right nationalists.
At one point the klepto Vranyo merchants whined to Moscow that they needed boots on the ground because they couldn’t even rally 500 citizens into a public square for a demonstration.
They were that unpopular even in the cities under their control, they feared imminent revolt. Denisov was so desperate to hang on that he manufactured an “imminent genocide” against Russian Ukrainians that was never going to happen, and “evacuated” thousands into Russia, to convince the Kremlin to finally put boots on the ground.
Mark my words. When this war ends, Denisov and the other separatists will join Stremousov in the pile of scapegoats meeting unfortunate accidents, and Putin will put them all in the frame for exaggerating their case
Free Republic Resolution for a Happy New Year
Use the Grey rocking on FR.
The grey rock method: a tactic to deal with conflict and abuse, manipulative behavior to support invasion of Ukraine and stand against Freedom for Ukraine.
The idea is abusive people, especially those with NPD, enjoy getting reactions from their victims.
THEREFORE, by Grey rocking just skimming over their “foolishness” of their comments refuses to reward their behavior!
Emotional abuse from these individuals include a range of tactics to either deliberately harm or exploit a person to benefit themselves.
NOTE: some examples used on thread:
• intentionally humiliating a person
• calling them names
• deliberately attempting to make a person feel worthless or unsafe [I know where you live]
• attempting to control the opinion or POV of another Freeper
Practical application for the Gray Rock method on Free Republic: we all can recognize the insulting, name-calling Freepers using “Garbage truck behavior.”
“The Law of the Garbage Truck Poem”
by Restless Warrior:
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.
We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.
So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.
Don’t take it personally.
Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.
Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,
so … Love the people who treat you right.
Pray for the ones who don’t
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
Have a garbage-free day!
– Restless Warrior-