Posted on 10/16/2022 6:25:42 PM PDT by delta7
State Department ‘Human Rights Report’ reveals what our government really thought of pre-war Ukraine.
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (a branch within the US State Department) releases annual ‘Human Rights Reports’ on 194 different countries around the globe. Their 2021 report for Ukraine was released in April of this year. Despite its relevance to whether US intervention in the RU-UA war is merited, the report received zero media coverage.
The report highlights “serious abuses” in the Donbas region citing multiple sources: “International organizations and NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the HRMMU, issued periodic reports documenting abuses committed in the Donbas region on both sides of the line of contact.”
Here are major examples of ‘significant human rights issues’ listed by the bureau:
unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings by the government or its agents torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of detainees by law enforcement personnel harsh and life-threatening prison conditions arbitrary arrest or detention serious problems with the independence of the judiciary serious restrictions on free expression and media, including violence or threats of violence against journalists, unjustified arrests or prosecutions of journalists, and censorship serious restrictions on internet freedom refoulement of refugees to a country where they would face a threat to their life or freedom serious acts of government corruption lack of investigation of and accountability for gender-based violence crimes, violence, or threats of violence motivated by anti-Semitism crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting persons with disabilities, members of ethnic minority groups, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex persons the existence of the worst forms of child labor……
Really? So when the US government buys weapons from a US manufacturer, like Lockheed or BAE or Raytheon, and those companies pay their American employees how does that money get laundered through the Ukraine?
Nobody I know who works for a US defense contractor has their paycheck sent to Ukraine.
The Biden family is just the most obvious and visible part of that corrupt mess in Ukraine. The full picture must really be staggering.
And to help Zelensky who was a homo-erotic dancer?
For Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine !!
(Actually for Biden’s 10% of everything, other’s money laundering, bio labs, weapon sales and just because they damn well want to)
Ukrain has been a hellhole cleptocracy since it emerged from the USSR.
It is far from a white dove. In this conflict I am rooting for both to lose. Looks like that is what is happening.
“The West did not threaten to nuke Russia or its forces.”
And neither did Putin, so let’s put that one to bed. Putin did say, however, that if Russia is attacked, they would respond with whatever they have available. I would hope Biden would do the same, if we were invaded.
“Gosh…I guess I am guilty along side Putin. I don’t like drag queens or Homos propagandizing my kids. I guess Nukes are in my future too…”
Count me in too, and I was on SoCal’s Hit List before he got zotted (finally). For the Democrats, not supporting the cutting off of ‘parts’ of kids is a HUGE red line. For inside-DC Republicans, likely the same. And, apparently, that even infects some here.
Putin never had a chance once he chose to protect Russian kids from predators.
Risking it for the rainbow flag.
Zelensky is queerdom crusader.
Are you assuming that the US that is behind Zelenski is not corrup?
A gay nuclear war...words fail.
“... back off to the international border with the Ukraine “
Ummm, which long term international border would that be ?
Seems to me that Catherine the Great visited Crimea as part of her realm in the 1700’s. Not good enough for you? So within the last 100 years Khrushchev, who was Ukrainian, designated the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic which he thought would be permanent.
Ukraine, which has always been an area rather than a nation and historically land locked, (you inadvertently let that slip by noting it as “the Ukraine”) is a recent creation, as much a product of the West and US as any other reason.
For you to deny that the West/US/NATO has not been prodding, poking and antagonizing Russia since their engineered election takeover in 2014 is akin to being an election fraud denier.
Its to help ukraine not z. Any hoo whats worse..helping a politician guy who did a ribald comedy skit. Or one who is a serial adulteter?
Don't be shy. Say it out loud.
Just pointing out more political hypocrisy
Don't be shy. Say it out loud.
Just pointing out more political hypocrisy
You haven't pointed out anything. You're hiding from it because you don't have the courage of your convictions. Be loud. Be proud. Say the name.
When I was younger I didnt support Clinton in part because he was a serial adulterer.
Now that I am wiser I have learned. The Clinton supporters where right: A persons moral failings has nothing to do with their ability to do the job. So now I support the serial adulterer Trump and Z who did morally questionable comedy skits.
So now I am consistent and not a hypocrite. I have grown. How about you?
I believe man has failings. You will run it to some pretty stiff resistance by claiming you are no longer a hypocrite. Now, say the name because we both know you aren't talking about Billy Jeff Clinton.
“So now I support the serial adulterer Trump and Z who did morally questionable comedy skits.”
What part of TRUMP didnt you understand?
So my point stands....some here hate Z because of supposed moral failings yet support Trump. I’m not a hypocrite. I do not endorse one becasue he is “immoral” and support the other even though he is “immoral” too
I think it is likely that the wef/ klaus schwab team is on both sides of the Russia - Ukraine war.
They care not about the people, war, of any kind favors their goals.
You can’t have a “great reset” if it is not in the aftermath of destruction or it is sold as the one way to prevent destruction.
Putin did pal around with Schwab, no?
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