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The Legitimacy of Russia's Actions in Ukraine
London School of Economics and Political Science ^ | 03/04/2015 | Dr Björn Alexander Düben

Posted on 05/07/2022 12:29:38 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick

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Russia's claim to Kyiv ended in 1240, when the Mongols sacked the city.

If you accept Putin's claim to Novorossiya, then we should give the US back to the people who occupied North America before 1300. If you accept Putin's right to combat "Nazis" in Ukraine, then why not welcome any Canadian or Mexican invasion to rid the US of "Nazis?"

Putin invaded a sovereign nation. True or False?

1 posted on 05/07/2022 12:29:38 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick
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To: CrazyCatChick

True, of course.


2 posted on 05/07/2022 12:30:48 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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We weren’t an independent nation until the 1780s. By this logic the Brits could invade the US and drag us back into the British Empire.

Oh wait, they tried that in 1812 and we kicked their asses again.

L


3 posted on 05/07/2022 12:33:28 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Oh good... one-sided blog-trash posing as objective analysis.


4 posted on 05/07/2022 12:36:59 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: CrazyCatChick

True. This will be a lively thread.


5 posted on 05/07/2022 12:37:08 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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I don’t think this had anything to do with Crimea.....it had everything to do with Nato Expnsion and filling Ukraine with military and military equipmnt, conducting military drills etc. in Ukraine with Ukrainians and Nato troops long before Putin went into Ukraine.


6 posted on 05/07/2022 12:37:42 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: AAABEST

Did Russia invade a sovereign nation in March of 2022?


7 posted on 05/07/2022 12:37:51 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick (DEATH POKE!)
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The Ukraine has been a sovereign nation since all the way back in 1991, with the breakup of the USSR.

Why was it called “The Ukraine?” Because it was for centuries just a region of Russia, and then the USSR. It’s why we call “The Midwest” The Midwest, not the sovereign nation of Midwest. The Midwest is a region of America, the way that The Ukraine was a region of Russia until 1991.

Tell me, who was the king or president of Ukraine in 1850? 1750? 1650? Please inform us.


8 posted on 05/07/2022 12:38:42 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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America invaded a sovereign nation. True or False?

Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq ....

The list goes on and on. Hell we fire missals at countries all over the world for no other reason then to create a diversion.


9 posted on 05/07/2022 12:38:48 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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Do you think it has anything to do with Putin’s ideas regarding Novorussiya?


10 posted on 05/07/2022 12:39:12 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick (DEATH POKE!)
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The other question would be was Nato preparing for war with Russia by conducting Nato exercises and filling Ukraine consistantly with military armament .....was Nato planning to go to war with Ukraine?


11 posted on 05/07/2022 12:39:47 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: AAABEST
True or false!! Choose!!

Monstrous lol!!

12 posted on 05/07/2022 12:39:53 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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Whataboutism. Did Russia invade a sovereign nation in March of 2022?


13 posted on 05/07/2022 12:39:57 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick (DEATH POKE!)
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“Did Russia invade a sovereign nation in March of 2022?”

It’s a bit more complicated. Parts of Ukraine were solidly Russian, (Crimea, the Donbass), parts were not.

Did America invade a sovereign nation in 1898, when we “annexed” Hawaii at USMC gunpoint? The Hawaiians had settled and ruled Hawaii for a thousand years before America stole it literally by armed force.

So, do you support the immediate return of Hawaii to the Hawaiians?


14 posted on 05/07/2022 12:41:49 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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If you mean Donbass etc. yes in part....why wouldn’t it? But It’s all the other drills and supplying planeloads of military equipment and Nato troops drills which would indicate a threat to Russia - particularly after Nato members refused to address Putins concerns which he raised consistently....

Rather like when Russia was putting heavy armament in Cuba that we wouldn’t stand for and didn’t.


15 posted on 05/07/2022 12:43:17 PM PDT by caww ( )
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Who was president of the US in 1850, 1750, 1650? Why does it matter now that the US is a sovereign nation, just as Ukraine is a sovereign nation? Does England maintain rights to coerce obedience because of a foothold in Jamestown in 1607?

Did Putin invade a sovereign nation in March of 2022?


16 posted on 05/07/2022 12:43:55 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick (DEATH POKE!)
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I await your declaration of total support for giving Hawaii back to the Hawaiians, who had discovered and ruled it for a thousand years before we showed up and “annexed” it at gunpoint due to “Muh Manifest Destiny.”

So, let us know when you are going to join the Free Hawaii League.

Otherwise, your crocodile tears about the ever-shifting borders of “THE” Ukraine (a region of Russia, never a country before 1991) are just a joke.


17 posted on 05/07/2022 12:44:05 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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“The Ukraine has been a sovereign nation since all the way back in 1991, with the breakup of the USSR.”

Same for the russian federation.

“Tell me, who was the king or president of Ukraine in 1850? 1750? 1650? Please inform us.”

Surely not the London kings and queens, that would be another country.


18 posted on 05/07/2022 12:45:19 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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Here is the true legacy, courtesy of patriotfury:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4061205/posts?page=29#29

It is really sad, but there is no question conservatives today really do not have direct and detailed enough knowledge, or accurate non-revisionist historical knowledge critical to Eastern European events (or globally), which “set the table” for what we see happening now in the mid 1980’s and into the 1990’s.

As well, the 1980’s and early 1990’s ultimately triggered what was really another high level cold war spat, and semi-kinetic proxy war between the US and Moscow in the former Yugoslavia going into the 2000’s.

It was a convenient and near universal and legendary conservative default belief, but the “blue dress” really was not behind our engagement in Yugoslavia. But that is for another time. (Albeit it should never ha e happened)

The fact that Ukraine was one of the single biggest causes (on multiple fronts, including the rise of Lech Walesa in Poland), in forcing the USSR/CCCP to transition into a Russian Federation with its subordinate CIS, (the plan of which was born no later than 1978-1979), began unfolding in the early 1980’s), helping to cause the USSR’s loss of totalitarian control over the Warsaw Pact, and ultimately resulted in nearly a 120 quiet US friendly ranking Ukrainian KGB and UA-CCP officials from Kiev (and their families being hunted down by RU KGB/FSB and GRU, and murdered.

Most were murdered in UA between 1987 to 1997. A few were murdered abroad (not in UA).

In a nutshell, those UA officials who opposed forced membership in the Kremlin controlled/subordinated CIS were eliminated - before CIS was created, during its formal formation in 1991, and within four to five years after UA had already been forced into the subordinate CIS.

While this was happening, Clinton was fully embracing and supporting all things Kremlin policy, like many “conservatives” across America today, no matter what the Kremlin does.

Early UA efforts to break free from Moscow -

There were actually two significant quiet attempts in UA, really spanning between 1987-1993, and one not so quiet, to try and break from subordination to the Kremlin and.to become independent. These too resulted in more bloodshed and polotocal assassinations, subsequent, and somewhat careful installation of at least quietly Kremlin aligned UA political figures.

Notably, until US President Trump, these have always included pro-Kremlin UA governance over UA resources and strategic materials.

As happened across the Warsaw Pact (and worse in UA) post WWII, from 1991 to 2012, UA was dominated by proactive FSB thuggery, coercion, threat of death, and “Destabilization by Corrupt Methods (DCM).

One of the single greatest problems UA faced through the 1990’s was the direct result of leftist, Pro Kremlin, US administration and politicians (Clinton.and predominantly the DNC).

UA knew the West would give almost anything to Moscow, including near full cooperation on RU domestic and foreign policy within its sphere, and beyond.

At the same time UA desperately needed and sought many relationships with “Western” political leaders, and large corporations, often in violation of its CIS subordination to Moscow.

It is well documented (from Russian sources and Russian documentary), just as they have been all.along across Latin America, the GRU and FSB have long been using well trained terror and assassination operatives (including GRU/FSB trained and funded RU neo-Nazi’s since at least 2007 in UA), as well as global psychological operations against UA. This has only increased in intensity from 1991 to the present.

I ha e seen many videos like this one, where almost none of the actual history, and most of the literal context of past and recent history are near completely missing, where the embrace of the narrative depends on the knowledge of western historical illiteracy, or of the targeted western viewership.

As it is a known variable that human pride does not allow for one to accept they are wrong, when through ignorance the proud embrace propaganda, they can only become arrogant robotic disciples and exponential purveyors of the author’s strategic goal.

Truly sad...


19 posted on 05/07/2022 12:45:26 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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Did NATO start arming Ukraine before or after Russia annexed sovereign Ukrainian territory?


20 posted on 05/07/2022 12:46:03 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick (DEATH POKE!)
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