Controlling/suppressing the Ukrainian people is necessary to prevent them from showing that some East Slavs at least are capable of acting like civilized human beings and members of the European economic community. Putin's real objective from before 2014 has been cultural genocide.
Now, after the Moscophiles have put up all their "zeeper" shite-posts and insults, can we have some serious discussion please?
Do download the .PDF file of the entire report. What I've posted is just the introduction. Interesting reading. A great deal of detail about how Moscow subverts any territory it covets, not just Ukrainian territory in the Donbass and Crimea. The basic playbook isn't all that different from the one Stalin used in 1946/47/48 to subvert all of eastern Europe. (Which led to the necessary formation of NATO. "History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes".)
NY Times admits Ukraine regime is a US deep-state puppet, and that Ukrainians will continue to die as long as its in the interests of the US deep-state
“Moscophiles”. I hear that all the time in the grocery stores all over America…
You’re another foreign piece of trash or paid propagandist.
No American really cares about Russia or Ukraine.
RuZZZZia! RuZZZZia! RuZZZZia!
The PDF file:
https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/24-210-01%20ISW%20Occupation%20playbook.pdf
The war has somewhat exacerbated Russia’s demographic challenges because 800,000- 900,000 Russians fled the country after the start of the war, including up to 700,000 who ran after Putin ordered partial mobilization in September 2022.
It was Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis, after the illegal coup WE fomented that setoff a civil war, that persecuted and tried to ethnically cleanse the ethnic Russian population in eastern Ukraine.
The people of the regions annexed overwhelmingly voted for Yanukovych and were under no obligation to remain part of an illegal formed government that hated, persecuted and killed them.
The narrative you're pushing is brazen lie.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/06/12/a-case-study-in-american-propaganda/
The president and founder of the Institute for the Study of War is Kimberly Kagan, a military historian who is married to Frederick Kagan, who is also a military historian and does work for ISW. Frederick is a well-known neoconservative, though not as well-known as his brother Robert. In the 1990s, Robert Kagan, along with Bill Kristol (who is on ISW’s board), founded the Project for a New American Century, which in the view of some observers played an important role in convincing George W. Bush to invade Iraq.
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Robert Kagan’s wife, Victoria Nuland, is the state department official who very publicly supported Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan Revolution—the overthrow of pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych, which led Russia to seize Crimea and give military support to secessionist rebels in the Donbass. Nuland also played a behind-the-scenes role in this transition of power that, according to some of her detractors, amounted to orchestrating a coup.
And as long as we’re going down rabbit holes: The Kagan-Kristol Project for a New American Century was funded by arms makers, thanks largely to the work of Lockheed Martin executive Bruce P. Jackson, who became a director of PNAC. Jackson had earlier organized the US Committee to Expand NATO, which successfully lobbied for what its name suggests it lobbied for. Some people think NATO expansion—in particular George W. Bush’s 2008 addition of Ukraine to the list of future members—helped cause the Ukraine war, but in any event NATO expansion has over the past quarter century made lots and lots of money for Lockheed Martin and other arms makers.
Great article that explains a lot about Putin’s behavior. He is willing to burn Ukraine to the ground rather than to have to see it have a more prosperous existence by joining the West, because it would completely undermine his delusion, much like Hitler’s, that Russia is superior to all nations. And even better, its fact-based, well-reasoned argument is making the trolls’ heads here explode, judging from the unhinged screeching and baseless insults above.
Facts to Putinistas is like garlic to vampires.
Translation: denazification
I’m sure Russia doesn’t mind all the abundance of resources too.
About what the Allies did to defeated Nazi Germany after WWII.