Posted on 09/21/2022 7:56:03 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
A 2019 Rand Corporation study commissioned by the US Army laid out exactly what the plan to undermine and weaken Russia through military support would be. The study suggested arming Ukraine, imposing sanctions on Russia, ramping up economic warfare, and taking a more aggressive and militaristic posture toward the United States international rival - all while warning this could lead to a military invasion of Ukraine.
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Anyone with any higher level Military Staff experience knows we have (and constantly update) plans to attack literally anyone. I’d bet the farm that somewhere, on a dusty shelf at the Pentagon, there lays a plan to Nuke Canada.
So IOW's you've got nothing. Thanks for chiming in pops.
We can't say you don't have a grasp of the obvious. Now, how many more of these 'plans' do you think we should take action on? Have you neo's got a wider vision or is this just about Russia Russia Russia?
8 years, since Russia occupied it in 2014.
Before that it was Ukraine’s for the last 30 years, every since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Before that it was actually considered part of Ukraine for the last 60 years when Kruschnev declared it part of Ukraine in 1954.
So almost all of the people in Crimea have lived their lives and been part of Ukraine until the Russian occupation in 2014.
No link, but, it’s easy to guess what Putin has been up to when he consistently hinted that, he would reconstitute the Soviet Union. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that his plans included countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union.
BFD. It’s called contingency planning. There are plans for the unlikely event of a war with the UK, an invasion of Canadians (South Park was right!) and invading Canada. Every dumb thing has these plans. The Rand Corporation has contingency planning for a global nuclear Holocaust. It seems that New Zealand and Belize might survive.
Putin was not bored and started a war.
At some point Putin saw the big 70th birthday coming. He was alive beyond the 68-year-old Russian life span. Putin was still alive beyond his expiry date. Putin undoubtedly has some sort of potentially dangerous but managed health problems.
His ambition was to strengthen Mother Russia by returning her to past glory. The annexation of the self-governing separatist Ukranian territories was a fiat accompli. All of Ukraine should be retaken.
He is Russia. He has the best military in the world. Ukrainian military is but a trifle......... the takeover of Ukraine is now or never.
All the yes men, the super rich yes men nodded approval.
So, Putin began the invasion. It took weeks before he realized his fatal error.
“Which is why we initiated a Color Revolution to overthrow Ukraine’s democracy in 2014”
Not so simple, and very much absolutely the case.
Anyone who out of pride and arrogance, and defense of a politically underlying motive, who purposes to begin the crossover Ukrainian/Russian/European/and US history in 1921, 1991, or 2014 is well... either a highly indoctrinated pawn and slave from repeated exposure to another truly dominant and horrifically immoral and narcissistic reprobate mind, or they themselves are knowingly attempting to spread a leftist and impossible, less than elementary lie.
It is ultimately either one or the other, or possibly somewhere within this spectrum.
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Today, Ukraine is in fact Nationally both one of the most Evangelical (only possibly behind Norway) and religious practicing countries in all of Europe, AND is repeatedly landing at THE LEAST anti-Jewish/anti-Israel country in Europe.
A tiny bit more recent background —
Ukraine has repeatedly paid a heavy price to be free.
Ukraine lost a bloody war to keep from being taken over by Lenin’s godless Communist Soviet Union, which would go on to slaughter and rape Ukraine for decades.
Much later, probably by 1976, but more pronounced and known by 1981, Ukraine CCP jointly spearheaded what some in Soviet UA government quietly hoped would be the true demise of the CCCP/USSR. We may not know all of the efforts, but this was at least the third known effort since 1921, not counting WWII, when well before Ukraine was even taken by Nazi Germany, they very well may have lost roughly 20 to 26 million people due to atheistic humanist Bolshevic, Lenin, and Stalin revolutions (including the Soviet “White Revolution”), multiple mass deportations, forced famine and mass starvation including millions of women and children, all private family farms and property, and often surviving children taken by the state to be indoctrinated and serve in the Red Army, etc, etc, etc...
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Before going further, what were the Underlying Fundamentals and Beliefs Driving this Mass Death and Enslavement —
Fundamentally, the ideologies of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NAZI), and the Bolshevik’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were at their core centralized humanistic socialist states.
Fundamentally, while not the same in one key point, both were mere aligned political outward manifestations of what we know today from Humanist Manifesto’s I & II, and it’s political manifestation in Communist Manifesto’s I & II.
As to history, no one on FreeRepublic should need to discover the pre WWII genocidal atrocities of Lenin and Stalin and the death Marxist Communism brought and enabled through them.
Nor should most on FreeRepublic be devoid of knowledge regarding Stalin and Hitler’s joint plan to divide and subjugate Eastern Europe, even while they both had greater ideas.
The number of pre WWII dead in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union due to Communism and Communist thuggery, regardless of leftist revisionist low-ball figures is in the tens of millions of people.
The number of PRE WWII dead in Ukraine proper, including from both Lenin and Stalin revolutions (including the Russian “White Revolution”, ranges from near 20 million on the low end, to nearly 26 million on the high end (with substantive birth and edu records available, but death certificates and documentation largely wiped out to scale by Stalin directed CCCP and due to large scale Siberian deportation and intentional mass starvation.
As with other large scale nationalities deported (many to Central Asia and Siberia), the death records are often, and intentionally, almost non-existent.
Not all, but many millions of people deported were never seen or heard from again.
In a nutshell, beginning with Barbarossa, through the NAZI occupation and control of Ukraine (1941-1945), approximately 5.8 Million more Ukrainian’s died fighting for their lives against the Nazi’s.
Many millions more were put into German slave labor camps. These are big numbers, and the camps consisted largely of both Slavs and Jews.
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CN%5CA%5CNaziwarcrimesinUkraine.htm
However, while they were wrong on different levels, at the onset of the brutal Nazi takeover and occupation of Ukraine, some Ukrainians hoped the Germans would beat Stalins Red Army (as Ukraine had been absolutely brutalized, murdered by the millions, and demolished by Stalin), and chose to side with the NAZI’s. There is some real historical context.
Not for all, but for most Ukrainian’s it was superficial, as they were trying to save and preserve their children in a country where many millions of Ukrainian’s were already intentionally and horrifically wiped out before WWII.
This didn’t go well, as the NAZI’s (national socialists) saw Slavs as un-evolved and inferior, and only good for mass slave labor, as opposed to many of Putins inner circle today who see Slavs as the more evolved race today.
Millions of Ukrainian’s were made slaves while under Nazi rule and control. Some estimates are as high as 12 Million Ukrainian slave laborers. Many of those died to starvation and brutal treatment.
(Interestingly, some of the deadly large scale underground installation/facility projects begun by Stalin in the mid 1920’s, well before WWII, which were constructed by Slavic and Jewish slave labor, continued under Nazi rule in Ukraine, then continued again under Soviet re-occupation post WWII)
IT IS NUTS
Lots of national friendly revisionist/cover-up history exist out there, but Post WWII was one big ugly cluster —
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Later in time —
CCCP was ultimately forced to transition to the CIS by Reagan (with the real efforts and policy involved being absolutely incredible).
Reagan’s efforts had significant supported and que’d efforts playing out not just in Poland, but substantially within Ukraine CCP and Ukraine KGB.
Many of those involved died along with their entire families for supporting Poland and the eventual breakup of the Warsaw Pact. A breakup which included the East German KGB office where a young Putin had ascended to nearly the very top spot, and who had been working directly with Gorbachev’s leadership over the Supreme Soviet.
*******
In 1990 and 1991, behind the scenes Ukraine wanted badly to be free, and not to be subordinate to Moscow, and did not want it’s children and youth to be forced to serve in the Russian Army.
Many in UA government wanted religious freedom, a free market, and also greatly needed help in a long depressed and impoverished (and decreasing) standard of living.
In early 1991, a series of KGB and GRU efforts wiped out many of those in Ukrainian government who had been involved in recent and not so secretive support of Reagans efforts to end the CCCP.
The Russian KGB made sure to keep Ukraine as a subordinate within the transition from USSR to CIS (the false moniker referred to as Commonwealth of Independent States). The CIS is to this day, ultimately a subordinate organization under tbe Russian Federation, with CIS (former CCCP) Military Headquarters in Moscow.
Through the 1990’s, Bill Clinton repeatedly acted in decisive economic, finance, and military favor in behalf of Russia, (as he did with China over Taiwan). The Clinton administration saw and acted in overwhelming favor to support Russia over all CIS subordinate nations, which included Ukraine. It was the exact same with Communist China, as Clinton vastly supported Communist China over all others.
In the early 2000’s to the mid 2000’s, there were multiple ground based upheaval movements in Ukraine to try again to become free from Russian military, economic, and reciprocal social, religious, and trade laws which had by force ruled a subordinate Ukraine since 1991.
As well, Ukrainian soldiers were being and farmers were being forced to support Russian objectives throughout the Middle East, again in several countries in Africa, and Russian led anti-American efforts in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and not so quietly against the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the South China Sea. Yes, Ukrainian Army and Navy personnel had to support Russian anti-American efforts globally, as Ukraine was fully subordinate to the Russian controlled CIS.
In other words, Russia was using CIS subordinate member personnel as “cannon fodder”, often opposing US operations.
In the 1990’s Ukraine had multiple independent Ukraine government officers and political leaders either assassinated, nearly assassinated (but vegetabalized), or completely disappear from the face of the earth, including their entire families with children, due to Russian FSB (KGB).
In the.early to mid 2000’s Russia turned off Ukrainian gas multiple times during the Winter’s months, just to ring Ukraine to it’s knees.
While all of that was taking place, leftist American efforts were nearly mirroring the Russian efforts in Ukraine, by utilizing long known Russian strategies involved in “Demoralization by Corruptive Means and Methods”, often to manipulate Ukraine in favor of Putin energy and food objectives toward Europe and the Middle East, and often detrimental to our allies around the world.
As Germany for decades before, Ukraine was being used and abused by common Kremlin and DNC objectives.
All smoke and mirrors aside, 2014 was a marker, but in no way did any of this begin in 2014, and the Kremlin and Kremlin friendly DNC had long been working together.
But that is another substantial response... 🇺🇸🇮🇱🎚
“Which is why we initiated a Color Revolution to overthrow Ukraine’s democracy in 2014”
Not so simple, and very much absolutely NOT the case.
Anyone who out of pride and arrogance, and defense of a politically underlying motive, who purposes to begin the crossover Ukrainian/Russian/European/and US history in 1921, 1991, or 2014 is well... either a highly indoctrinated pawn and slave from repeated exposure to another truly dominant and horrifically immoral and narcissistic reprobate mind, or they themselves are knowingly attempting to spread a leftist and impossible, less than elementary lie.
It is ultimately either one or the other, or possibly somewhere within this spectrum.
*******
Today, Ukraine is in fact Nationally both one of the most Evangelical (only possibly behind Norway) and religious practicing countries in all of Europe, AND is repeatedly landing at THE LEAST anti-Jewish/anti-Israel country in Europe.
A tiny bit more recent background —
Ukraine has repeatedly paid a heavy price to be free.
Ukraine lost a bloody war to keep from being taken over by Lenin’s godless Communist Soviet Union, which would go on to slaughter and rape Ukraine for decades.
Much later, probably by 1976, but more pronounced and known by 1981, Ukraine CCP jointly spearheaded what some in Soviet UA government quietly hoped would be the true demise of the CCCP/USSR. We may not know all of the efforts, but this was at least the third known effort since 1921, not counting WWII, when well before Ukraine was even taken by Nazi Germany, they very well may have lost roughly 20 to 26 million people due to atheistic humanist Bolshevic, Lenin, and Stalin revolutions (including the Soviet “White Revolution”), multiple mass deportations, forced famine and mass starvation including millions of women and children, all private family farms and property, and often surviving children taken by the state to be indoctrinated and serve in the Red Army, etc, etc, etc...
*******
Before going further, what were the Underlying Fundamentals and Beliefs Driving this Mass Death and Enslavement —
Fundamentally, the ideologies of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NAZI), and the Bolshevik’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were at their core centralized humanistic socialist states.
Fundamentally, while not the same in one key point, both were mere aligned political outward manifestations of what we know today from Humanist Manifesto’s I & II, and it’s political manifestation in Communist Manifesto’s I & II.
As to history, no one on FreeRepublic should need to discover the pre WWII genocidal atrocities of Lenin and Stalin and the death Marxist Communism brought and enabled through them.
Nor should most on FreeRepublic be devoid of knowledge regarding Stalin and Hitler’s joint plan to divide and subjugate Eastern Europe, even while they both had greater ideas.
The number of pre WWII dead in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union due to Communism and Communist thuggery, regardless of leftist revisionist low-ball figures is in the tens of millions of people.
The number of PRE WWII dead in Ukraine proper, including from both Lenin and Stalin revolutions (including the Russian “White Revolution”, ranges from near 20 million on the low end, to nearly 26 million on the high end (with substantive birth and edu records available, but death certificates and documentation largely wiped out to scale by Stalin directed CCCP and due to large scale Siberian deportation and intentional mass starvation.
As with other large scale nationalities deported (many to Central Asia and Siberia), the death records are often, and intentionally, almost non-existent.
Not all, but many millions of people deported were never seen or heard from again.
In a nutshell, beginning with Barbarossa, through the NAZI occupation and control of Ukraine (1941-1945), approximately 5.8 Million more Ukrainian’s died fighting for their lives against the Nazi’s.
Many millions more were put into German slave labor camps. These are big numbers, and the camps consisted largely of both Slavs and Jews.
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CN%5CA%5CNaziwarcrimesinUkraine.htm
However, while they were wrong on different levels, at the onset of the brutal Nazi takeover and occupation of Ukraine, some Ukrainians hoped the Germans would beat Stalins Red Army (as Ukraine had been absolutely brutalized, murdered by the millions, and demolished by Stalin), and chose to side with the NAZI’s. There is some real historical context.
Not for all, but for most Ukrainian’s it was superficial, as they were trying to save and preserve their children in a country where many millions of Ukrainian’s were already intentionally and horrifically wiped out before WWII.
This didn’t go well, as the NAZI’s (national socialists) saw Slavs as un-evolved and inferior, and only good for mass slave labor, as opposed to many of Putins inner circle today who see Slavs as the more evolved race today.
Millions of Ukrainian’s were made slaves while under Nazi rule and control. Some estimates are as high as 12 Million Ukrainian slave laborers. Many of those died to starvation and brutal treatment.
(Interestingly, some of the deadly large scale underground installation/facility projects begun by Stalin in the mid 1920’s, well before WWII, which were constructed by Slavic and Jewish slave labor, continued under Nazi rule in Ukraine, then continued again under Soviet re-occupation post WWII)
IT IS NUTS
Lots of national friendly revisionist/cover-up history exist out there, but Post WWII was one big ugly cluster —
*******
Later in time —
CCCP was ultimately forced to transition to the CIS by Reagan (with the real efforts and policy involved being absolutely incredible).
Reagan’s efforts had significant supported and que’d efforts playing out not just in Poland, but substantially within Ukraine CCP and Ukraine KGB.
Many of those involved died along with their entire families for supporting Poland and the eventual breakup of the Warsaw Pact. A breakup which included the East German KGB office where a young Putin had ascended to nearly the very top spot, and who had been working directly with Gorbachev’s leadership over the Supreme Soviet.
*******
In 1990 and 1991, behind the scenes Ukraine wanted badly to be free, and not to be subordinate to Moscow, and did not want it’s children and youth to be forced to serve in the Russian Army.
Many in UA government wanted religious freedom, a free market, and also greatly needed help in a long depressed and impoverished (and decreasing) standard of living.
In early 1991, a series of KGB and GRU efforts wiped out many of those in Ukrainian government who had been involved in recent and not so secretive support of Reagans efforts to end the CCCP.
The Russian KGB made sure to keep Ukraine as a subordinate within the transition from USSR to CIS (the false moniker referred to as Commonwealth of Independent States). The CIS is to this day, ultimately a subordinate organization under tbe Russian Federation, with CIS (former CCCP) Military Headquarters in Moscow.
Through the 1990’s, Bill Clinton repeatedly acted in decisive economic, finance, and military favor in behalf of Russia, (as he did with China over Taiwan). The Clinton administration saw and acted in overwhelming favor to support Russia over all CIS subordinate nations, which included Ukraine. It was the exact same with Communist China, as Clinton vastly supported Communist China over all others.
In the early 2000’s to the mid 2000’s, there were multiple ground based upheaval movements in Ukraine to try again to become free from Russian military, economic, and reciprocal social, religious, and trade laws which had by force ruled a subordinate Ukraine since 1991.
As well, Ukrainian soldiers were being and farmers were being forced to support Russian objectives throughout the Middle East, again in several countries in Africa, and Russian led anti-American efforts in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and not so quietly against the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the South China Sea. Yes, Ukrainian Army and Navy personnel had to support Russian anti-American efforts globally, as Ukraine was fully subordinate to the Russian controlled CIS.
In other words, Russia was using CIS subordinate member personnel as “cannon fodder”, often opposing US operations.
In the 1990’s Ukraine had multiple independent Ukraine government officers and political leaders either assassinated, nearly assassinated (but vegetabalized), or completely disappear from the face of the earth, including their entire families with children, due to Russian FSB (KGB).
In the.early to mid 2000’s Russia turned off Ukrainian gas multiple times during the Winter’s months, just to ring Ukraine to it’s knees.
While all of that was taking place, leftist American efforts were nearly mirroring the Russian efforts in Ukraine, by utilizing long known Russian strategies involved in “Demoralization by Corruptive Means and Methods”, often to manipulate Ukraine in favor of Putin energy and food objectives toward Europe and the Middle East, and often detrimental to our allies around the world.
As Germany for decades before, Ukraine was being used and abused by common Kremlin and DNC objectives.
All smoke and mirrors aside, 2014 was a marker, but in no way did any of this begin in 2014, and the Kremlin and Kremlin friendly DNC had long been working together.
But that is another substantial response... 🇺🇸🇮🇱🎚
Russia has been selling guns and artillery shells to all those who will buy them. The fact they made the shells has nothing to do with the fact they still have them
Russian arms are the only manufactured export goods that are worth a damn
the Trump Presidency put them off schedule a bit
“warofthekeywords” indeed. Sheesh.
What gives you that idea??
“Putin was not bored and started a war.”
Progress, by you guys.
“No link, but, it’s easy to guess what Putin has been up to when he consistently hinted that, he would reconstitute the Soviet Union.”
Actually, he said the Soviet Union was horrible, but its breakup was also horrible, as it stranded 10s of millions of Russians outside of what became Russia, due to the artificial internal borders of the Soviet Union.
And Putin did say that he dreamed of a bringing all of the Russians back into an enlarged Russia, which is consistent with the Ukraine operation.
But that is still far different than bringing back Ukrainians and Poles, for example as they hate Russia (and Russians) and Putin knows it, and wants nothing to do with them.
Czarist Russia actually had more of Europe than under the Soviet Union.
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