Posted on 07/29/2022 11:10:46 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
When, during the Second World War, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer who had made it to the U.S., coined the word “genocide,” he intended that it should cover more than the Holocaust, which had consumed 49 members of his own family. Nazi-style annihilation was the ne plus ultra, but Lemkin argued that genocide could also be somewhat subtler. Genocidaires might want to destroy a national group as a distinct entity while being content to see many of those who had been a part of it survive, so long as they accepted the identity imposed upon them by their oppressors.
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I feel this article and many other are setups to get Americans comfortable with any war that breaks out involving US Troops, the citizens of the USA have been lied to and misled into wars for over 100 years I don’t want history repeated in Ukraine
This is getting silly... must be after even more of our money. Obviously if Putin wants a genocide in Ukraine, there would be one 5 minutes later.
Ignore all the ethnic Russians in Ukraine their government has been killing for years.
I stopped subscribing to NR when Bill Buckley died.
Its a squishy RINO, neocon crap rag now.
Yeah, was thinking the same thing myself.
Ukraine has been engaging in its own ‘genocide’ but you or we won’t hear about it, at all.
Personally, from my take, these type articles are nothing more than the West/NATO/US/EU media continuation of the narrative: Russia/Putin is bad. Not going to change anytime soon. Laos think this is setting stage for a US false flag to get directly involved, but again, that just my take.
Paywalls are a complete stop. Why bother posting articles ALL can’t read? Sheesh.
Yeah sure. The same Obama who told Mevedev “ Tell Vladimir I will.be more flexible after the election.” Yeah that Obama.
I think this is so serious that the National Review Officers and Employees should take point in an Expeditionary Force Company in Ukraine against Putin and said Russians.
Let their rifles do the talkin'!
So you think Obama is working with Putin to attack Ukraine?
” Genocidaires might want to destroy a national group as a distinct entity while being content to see many of those who had been a part of it survive, so long as they accepted the identity imposed upon them by their oppressors.”
This is precisely what the Ukes did in the Donbas for 8 klong years. Criminalizing the language, forbidding laying flowers at war memorials, pounding them with artillery, massing for an attack.
Yes... I will ignore your propagandist BS.
You have ZERO proof that Ukraine has been killing ethnic Russians for years. Stupidity and ignorance must be one of your strongest virtues.
You spread invented disinformation and propaganda created by the Russian state, hack journalists with their video edits, payed actors and anti-Kiev/pro-separatist news agencies and international activist/journalists that shill for the Kremlin and wear Che Guevara and Stalin t-shirts...
Do some research instead of parroting some other clowns opinions that have brainwashed you into believing there is ethic cleansing going on in Ukraine/Donbass. That’s a laugh.
You will find that your beliefs were formed from zero integrity journalist and political hacks that will say/print/do anything to support Putin and the Ukraine Russian separatists in support of a Ukraine breakaway republics. It’s all about creating a herd mentality of hate, lies disdain.
If invasion by Putin of Ukraine is OKAY with you to stop an alleged genocide scheme against ethnic Russians in Ukraine...
Tell me why Putin needed to invade Ukraine and crush dozens of Ukraine cities in order to save ‘Dunbass and Luhansk’ areas of Russian speaking separatists? He might as well use the same pretense to invade all of Europe! Instead of colluding with Putin for an invasion and conquest of Ukraine... the separatists could instead immigrate to Russia if they hate Kiev so much and would rather live under a KGB despot! Why doesn’t Putin provide them with passage to Russia?? Putin could have just given these whining separatist bozo’s a free pass to citizenship into Russia instead of invading Ukraine. Why invade when their was no real pretense or necessity to invade? Because it’s not about Nazi’s or liberation... it’s an invasion by choice to steal Ukraine territory. It’s about Putin’s Stalinist like genocide against ethnic Ukraine people, the annexing of Ukraine territory into the Russian Federation and his plan to subjugate ethnic Ukraine peoples under ‘Soviet’ style KGB rule and thin the herd. Donba/Luhansk is Ukraine land and Putin has no claim to it nor can he justify invading Ukraine on behalf of the separatists either! He invades Ukraine to steal its land, using the separatists as pawns and claiming he is liberating them as his excuse. That was his entire plan since 2014!
It was Putin’s 2014 meddling in Ukraine Donbas regions encouraging the separatist to create breakaway republics that Putin wanted as a catalyst for his ambitions/plans since he first became president in 2000 to conquer all of Ukraine. NATO had nothing to do with it!
The old Soviet regime is the embodiment and in the blood of Putin and his Kremlin KGB henchmen. It is Putin’s ambition and dream to steal ALL Ukraine territory and annex it under Russian federation. Ukraine is the cornerstone of Putin’s plan to return Russia back to an economic and financial power since the fall of Soviet Russia. Putin is bent on acquiring Ukraine by any means... be it by invasion and theft, by election interference, false-flag agitation, or meddling for regime change in its security and politics through assassinations. Putin is maniacal about getting Ukraine, even at the expense of civilians, cities and homes. Putin KGB mentality wants to rule over Ukraine or burn it to the ground, and to hell with what Ukraine people want. It’s that simple.
Putin is an opportunist and megalomaniac. He meddled in the affairs of Ukraine and the Dunbas; armed the separatists and pro-Russian insurgents creating/orchestrating misdirection giving him the opportunity/opening to invade Crimea, Ukraine. That was his goal from the beginning. He illegally invaded/occupied Crimea.
Putin’s occupation of Ukraine was planned prior to 2013 with the poisoning of Ukrainian politicians who opposed Putin’s meddling in Ukraine. Putin’s puppet president Viktor Yanukovych was thrown out by the Maidan Revolution in February 2014 for signing allegiance with the Kremlin in 2013! Putin wanted his Ukraine puppet governance and client state. He was totally pissed when his stooge Viktor was run out of Kiev in 2013/14!
The Kremlin lost control of its client/vassal state in 2014, and wants it back.
So did the US commit genocide against the Japanese?
BTW…Obama/Biden and the NWO turned against Russia in 2013 when Russia outlawed homosexual adoption of Russian Children
The Neocons have spoken.
Hint: Believe the opposite.
“You have ZERO proof that Ukraine has been killing ethnic Russians for years.”
Seriously? Azov and friends had been lobbing artillery rounds into Russian areas in the east for years.
In fact, one of the final triggers for this Russian action was the huge amassing of Ukrainian troops and hardware on the ethnic border between Ukraine held areas and Russians. They were about to go in for an all out slaughter.
There are all kinds of articles and videos of Ukrainians bombarding Russian civillians in the east for many years. It’s not a secret.
You get your news on facebook?
Redefining terms again. Just like a radical now is an average christian conservative, genocide will soon mean “I don’t like you.”
How much does the Ukrainian Ministry of Propaganda pay you?
It's the Ukrainians targeting civilians in Donetsk. They have used civilians as human shields in this war and shot them if they tried to escape. They have stolen from residents and burn down their homes. There are plenty of videos of civilians telling interviewers that on video on platforms like Rumble.
No sane person should trust the Ukrainians or the Biden regime to tell the truth on this war.
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