Armstrong’s forecasts are legend, I have been following his ECM for more than two decades.
Ukie crimes in WW2, well documented and acknowledged by the US and Polish governments.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/the-dark-side-of-ukraine/
The West is backing the dark horse.
We create the conditions for the next war usually by trying to avoid the last war.
People hate Armstrong because he stole $700,000,000.00 of their money…
How many nations has Russia invaded since 1991?
I have always liked Armstrong. He’s one of my favorite guests on Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
One must avoid immediate retaliation, escalation, ultimatums and be willing to call things off after a period of time.
Many people here would like to use lawfare against Democrats. Only obvious cases of illegality should be prosecuted. Things need to get toned down.
poorly written. difficult to follow the premise.
“The final death toll from these clashes in late February [2014] was 103 protesters and 13 police. According to Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleh Zalisko in February, 184 people sustained gunshot wounds in Kyiv and over 750 suffered bodily injury. On 20 February, the (then) opposition parties (Batkivshchyna, UDAR and Svoboda) stated ‘To hold talks with the regime, the policies of which led to the deaths of many people, is an extremely unpleasant thing but we must do everything possible and even the impossible to prevent further bloodshed’.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidan_casualties
My suggestions:
armistice
plebiscites for all disputed areas
(voting boundaries in Russian-held areas to be set by Ukraine)
(voting boundaries in Ukrainian-held areas to be set by Russia)
all boundary points of an area not of a front line to be at least two kilometers apart
all areas to end at a front line
front lines to be those of the ISW as of an agreed date (or those of say 14/06/2024) except in cases justly deemed by the UN General Assembly to be off by more than a kilometer
no foreign troops in what is left of Ukraine
no ex-foreign troops in what is left of Ukraine
no Ukrainian membership in NATO
Ukrainian missile warheads limited to 50kg. maximum
Ukrainian missiles limited to 50km. range maximum
International relations are sort of like marriage.
There’s a need to tone things down.
Most problems in the world including Gaza, household breakup & poverty and of refugees are due to a lack of relationship skills.
The thing is, in this case, the cause for hatred is not necessarily that old. The Holodomor was 90 years ago. The children of the victims of that are still alive and learned from their parents who survived and in turn passed it down to their children.
Yes, many Ukrainians welcomed the Wehrmacht as liberators and for a time enthusiastically supported them. And they were made to pay for this when Soviet troops retook Ukraine.
Ethnic Russians now living in the independent nation of Ukraine had nothing to do with either event, nor were present day Ukrainians the direct victims, but what happened to Ukraine hasn’t been forgotten.
“Besides, neither side is completely innocent for them to claim such an injustice.”
That’s far enough for me. The idea that someone cannot be entirely wrong or even evil is false and damnable. Anyone who starts with that premise should be ignored.
Soldiers will tell you that ultimately they fight for the guy in the foxhole next to them, which becomes hatred for the enemy. It subsumes politics, nationalism and even historic ethnic grudges. The only consistency that is predictable is human nature, and yet few seem to recognize it.
The hospital my wife works at has quite a few Ukrainian and Russian doctors. We know their wives/husbands, and have plugged into their network. This statement is FALSE
They are all "intermarried," born in Ukraine, went to medical school in Russia (or vice versa), parents from both countries, relatives spread across both places, all speak Russian. I've met Russians who hate Putin, and Ukrainians who admire him.
We can certainly say this statement is false among expats and educated elites in their late 30s or older, who have a global view and were able to leave Ukraine. It seems Ukraine elites were/are all russian-speaking, culturally Russian and accepting of the wider role of Russian culture in the post-soviet world.
Many times I have been told the distinctions between "Ukrainian" and "Russian" for the mass of people on both sides are false, recent, and a product of manufactured agitation.
My extended Family spilt apart over the 2016 election - we have never been back together for any family gatherings since then. Aunts, Uncles, Cousins have not talked to each other for 8 years and will probably never be together again.
The regular inhabitants of earth do not want conflict and violence. We various tribes are not the enemy. But when our parents and professors and pastors and politicians preach the evils of “different” and push us to violence, they are the enemy.
DELUSIONS OF DUALITY https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4199752/posts
When we meet someone who wants to fight we have to understand we’re not dealing with a person, we’re dealing with a program, a malware that has infected the original code.
We'll have a civil war here before that happens. But, hopefully, Trump will prevail and put an end to this nightmare.
Europeans are equally opposed to the elite starting WW III. The politicians pushing the proxy war in Ukraine there are dropping like flies.
People are just bags of emotions walking around.
FTA. Worth Repeating......
NATO should have been defunded and shut down in 1991. Its sole purpose was to defend Europe against Russian communism. When communism collapsed, so did the idea of expanding to defeat capitalism, as a good Marxist would advocate.