Posted on 09/15/2022 7:42:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
It started with Crimea and it will end with Crimea.
The grinding war of attrition is into its seventh month with no peace settlement on the horizon. Before the invasion, the issue of Crimea did not top the international agenda. It was not even included in the infamous Minsk Accords and the work of the Trilateral Contact Group, forcing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to look for new formats to voice the Crimea case loud and clear.
In turn, Putin legitimised the illegal annexation through false historical narratives, nurturing it with recognition from his authoritarian friends. International actors expressed their traditional concern and regularly condemned the illegal annexation of the peninsula, bearing in mind all explicit/implicit potential threats in the Black Sea region.
The policy of non-recognition, a set of sanctions and the Pompeo Crimea Declaration were not sufficient to change Putin’s stance on Crimea. However, the rules of the game dramatically changed after 24 February. What was thought to be ‘mission impossible’ seems to become a window of opportunity for Ukraine to restore its territorial integrity within the internationally recognised borders of 1991.
Will Ukrainians finally return what belongs to their country amid the vicious invasion? Are Ukrainian allies on board with this?
(Excerpt) Read more at visegradinsight.eu ...
Donbass and Kherson will be under Russian control longer than anyone reading this will be alive.
The war started in 2014 with the coup d’etat in Kiev.
Now we see what happens when “journalists” [fabulists] like Christine here get into the bottle of unicorn farts and start huffing to get high on Ukraine dreams...
Bkmk
Why don’t we borrow another $1 Trillion, add it to our $31 Trillion national debt, and send the borrowed money to Ukraine? It will show Putin how powerful we are!
A informative article. It shows whats going on politically in the region and how it is being played out beyond the battlefield.
US is running out of ammo to send. People act like there is a never ending supply. Is
There’s getting to be a strong WW1 redux with russia in this whole disaster. At least then you could say the krauts were equally involved.
Sure Crimea is going back. And they are going to make Sevastopol a US Navy base. And I’m gonna be a cowboy, or an astronaut! /s
Ukraine will never get Crimea back.
1.) Bush: Strong Support for Ukraine in NATO
2.) Obama Openly Admits ‘Brokering Power Transition’ in Ukraine
3.) Salon
3/10/22
“Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Svoboda Party and its founders, Oleh Tyahnybok and Andriy Parubiy, played leading roles in the U.S-backed coup in February 2014. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt mentioned Tyahnybok as one of the leaders they were working with in their infamous leaked phone call before the coup, even as they tried to exclude him from an official position in the post-coup government.
...it was Yarosh who took to the stage in the Maidan and rejected the Feb. 21, 2014 agreement negotiated by the French, German and Polish foreign ministers, under which President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition political leaders agreed to hold new elections later that year. Instead, Yarosh and Right Sector refused to disarm and led the climactic march on Parliament that overthrew the government.
... 2014, Nuland and the State Department got their favorite, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, installed as prime minister of the post-coup government.”
4.) WION
Gravitas Plus: Did NATO Push Ukraine Into War?
3/6/22
“...Palki Sharma tells you how western arrogance and NATO expansionism are also to blame, how their actions precipitated the crisis in Ukraine”
Yep.
Russia Advances in Bakhmut, Defends in North Donetsk; EU Leaders Split on Gas Crisis’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PGkz08hzSg
‘Russia ‘Encircling’ Bakhmut, Putin Sticks with SMO, Rebuffs Scholz, Macron’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RdTnaP5plk&t=5s
‘Russia Encirclement of Bakhmut, Parries Ukrainian Counterattacks; Putin, Modi & Xi Meet in Samarkand’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyqhulOaKQ
Would you rather be:
1. A super cool Russian citizen, heir of one of the world's great cultures, musical and literary traditions, with full rights of participation in a state and society which is basically free and has freed itself of the clutches of the Rothschilds and other major planetary villians,
or
2. A dookey4brains wanker-loser hoho speaking a dead language and a slave to Rothschilds, NATO, EU Pentagon and every other sort of planetary BS.
Guess what... That's right, choice 1 prevailed with something like 97% of the vote. The chances of Ukraine ever owning Crimea again are about like the chances of the sun coming up in the West tomorrow morning.
Crimea, then Georgia.
Ukraine will be partitioned between mother Russia and Poland.
It will cease to be.
In Russian History, the Russians are known for mounting counteroffensives after their disastrous start to their wars.
The Krouts are stepping up.
The EU just voted for 5 billion euros to support Ukraine.
And Germany just announced sending 50 armored vehicles and MLRS MARS II missiles. Range > 70km.
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