Recently I have been receiving long videos on my cell phone from NIT International, a .com site. Today was a long video on Ukraine bombing in Crimea and potential good results against Putin. The date Oct. 24 was mentioned, but since I have seen nothing at FR I Googled. There is no listing for this site or their video on Crimea on the first Google page. So I looked on the FR Search box for that name, nothing, and then I entered Crimea and found this posting with an Oct. 9 date. Actually the very first FR Crimea post is a 2022 date and no further comments since that date. Why is this the first item on the FR Crimea Search list?
At any rate, if anyone can tell me something about this NIT International I would be grateful. The videos I have listened to have been interesting. I will now go back to Google and see if it is on the second or other Google page. I have never seen anything from them listed here at FR. Are we missing something good?
I went back to Google and looked for anything by NIT International.com in the first 10 pages. There were many potentially interesting articles listed from the MSM and places like Brookings and Carnegie Inst. I chose to read an article by Al Jazeera, linked below as a source not representing either side in the Ukraine/Russia conflict.
This 2019 article gives considerable details on Putin’s motives and political action leading up to the 2014 annexation of Crimea, and the state of corruption in Ukraine prior to election of Zelenskyy. In 2019 the article refers to Putin’s “mild dictatorship”, I imagine the author’s opinions have changed since Feb. 2022. See quote below for Putin’s key motive for action:
“SELLING YHE ANNEXATION AS AN ACT OF SALVATION
The political cycle that led to Russia’s invasion of Crimea began in the fall of 2011, when Vladimir Putin announced his decision to run in presidential elections instead of allowing his ally, Dmitry Medvedev, to stay in the role for another term.
Their swap, followed by a rigged Duma election, sparked the Bolotnaya protests in Moscow, which caught Russian leadership off guard. These anti-government protests, which continued intermittently months, sent the Kremlin in a state of panic, triggering its deep-rooted fears of a coloured revolution. The Russian president eventually got his act together and unleashed a campaign of repression against the opposition, bringing an end to the protest movement. However, Putin’s anxieties about alleged revolution plots by Russia’s opposition were soon replaced with a more urgent sense of fear as a real revolution broke out in neighbouring Ukraine.”
I have never heard of the Bolotnaya Protests. They sound like something interesting to look into.