Posted on 03/28/2022 6:36:52 AM PDT by DannyTN
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He discusses some polls on views as to whether Ukraine represents a vital US interest.
He then dissects many of the arguments made by the Putin supporters and non-interventionists.. Especially in light of the document from Putin above. Everything from past wars, to "it's Neocons" to "It's NATO".
Is Levin still a raving #NeverTrump
Levin is still out there Ranting for Ratings like the lunatic anti-Trumper that he is.
Putin published six key demands. Levin ignores them so he can rant.
Putin’s six key demands:
1. No NATO membership and a neutral position.
2. Russian should be the second official language of 3. Ukraine, with laws prohibiting it abolished.
3. Recognise Crimea as Russian territory.
4. Recognise the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk.
5. Demilitarisation of Ukraine and abandonment of weapons that could be a threat to the Kremlin.
6. Banning of ultra-nationalist parties and organisations in Ukraine.
Seems Putin’s intentions were published a few days after the Ukraine invasion began, and promptly retracted because it wasn’t the cakewalk expected.
Worth a read, as apparently it’s Putin’s gloating justification for annexation.
(I don’t know who Peter Akopov is, but this sure sounds like an official statement.)
The offensive of Russia and the new world
Peter Akopov
[published 26.02.2022, then soon retracted]
[automated translation from Russian to English]
A new world is born before our eyes. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine opened a new era - and in three dimensions at once. And of course, in the fourth, domestic. Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system - but it is worth talking about separately a little later.
Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe of our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a high price, yes, through the tragic events of the virtual civil war, because now brothers separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies are still shooting at each other - but Ukraine will no longer be like anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness by gathering the Russian world, the
Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had refused this, allowed the temporary division to consolidate for centuries, we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants - for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land.
Vladimir Putin assumed - without a drop of exaggeration - historical responsibility, deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian issue to future generations. After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia - for two key reasons. And the issue of national security, that is, the creation of anti-Russia from Ukraine and an outpost to put pressure on us in the West, is only the second most important among them.
The first would always be the complex of a divided people, a complex of national humiliation - when the Russian house first lost part of its foundation (Kiev), and then had to accept the existence of two states, not one, but two peoples. That is, either to give up your history, agreeing with the crazy versions that “only Ukraine is real Russia,” or powerlessly grind your teeth, remembering the times when “we lost Ukraine.” It would be more and more difficult to return Ukraine, that is, to turn it back to Russia, every decade - transcoding, derusification of Russians and setting up against Russian Little Russians-Ukrainians, would gain momentum. And if full geopolitical and military control of the West over Ukraine was consolidated, its return to Russia would be impossible at all - it would have to fight the Atlantic bloc for it.
Now there is no problem - Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be eliminated, but it will be rebuilt, re-established and returned to its natural state of part of the Russian world. Within what borders, in what form will the alliance with Russia be fixed (through the CSTO and the Eurasian Union or the Union State of Russia and Belarus)? This will be
solved after the end of the history of Ukraine as anti-Russia is put. In any case, the period of split of the Russian people is coming to an end.
And this is where the second dimension of the coming new era begins - it concerns Russia’s relations with the West. Not even Russia, but the Russian world, that is, three states, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, acting in geopolitical terms as a whole. These relations have entered a new stage - the West sees Russia’s return to its historical borders in Europe. And he is loudly indignant about it, although deep down he must confess to himself that it could not have been otherwise.
Did anyone in the old European capitals, Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would abandon Kiev? Is it that the Russians will always be a divided people? And at the same time when Europe unites, when the German and French elites are trying to seize control over European integration from the Anglo-Saxons and gather a united Europe? Forgetting that the unification of Europe became possible only thanks to the unification of Germany, which took place by Russian good (albeit not very clever) will. Swing at Russian lands after that is not even the height of ingratitude, but of geopolitical stupidity. The West as a whole, much less Europe alone, had no strength to keep in its sphere of influence, much less take Ukraine. In order not to understand this, you had to be just geopolitical fools.
More precisely, there was only one option: to bet on the further collapse of Russia, that is, the Russian Federation. But the fact that it didn’t work should have become clear twenty years ago. And fifteen years ago, after Putin’s Munich speech, even the deaf could hear that Russia is returning.
Now the West is trying to punish Russia for returning, for not justified its plans to profit at its expense, for not allowing it to expand the western space to the east. In an effort to punish us, the West thinks that relations with it are vital for us. But this has not been the case for a long time - the world has changed, and this is well understood not only by Europeans, but also by the Anglo-Saxons who govern the West. No Western pressure on Russia will lead to anything. Losses from the sublimation of confrontation will be on both sides, but Russia is ready for them morally and geopolitically. But for the West itself, increasing the degree of confrontation costs - and the main ones are not economic at all.
Europe, as part of the West, wanted autonomy - the German European integration project does not make strategic sense while maintaining Anglo-Saxon ideological, military and geopolitical control over the Old World. And it can’t be successful because the Anglo-Saxons need a controlled Europe. But obtaining autonomy is also necessary for Europe for another reason - in case the States moves to self-isolation (as a result of increasing internal conflicts and contradictions) or focuses on the Pacific region, where the geopolitical center of gravity is moving.
But the confrontation with Russia, in which the Anglo-Saxons draw Europe, deprives Europeans of even chances of independence - not to mention the fact that Europe is trying to impose a break with China in the same way. If now the Atlantists rejoice that the “Russian threat” will rally the Western bloc, then in Berlin and Paris they cannot help but understand that, having lost hope for autonomy, the European project will simply collapse in the medium term. That is why independent Europeans are now completely uninterested in building a new Iron Curtain on their eastern borders - realizing that it will turn into a pen for Europe. Whose century (or rather half a millennium) of global leadership is over anyway - but various options for its future are still possible.
Because the construction of a new world order - and this is the third dimension of current events - is accelerating, and its contours are increasingly emerging through the spreading cover of globalization in Anglo-Saxon. The multipolar world has finally become a reality - the operation in Ukraine is not able to rally against Russia except the West. Because the rest of the world sees and understands perfectly well - this is a conflict between Russia and the West, it is a response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlantists, it is Russia’s return to its historical space and its place in the world.
China and India, Latin America and Africa, the Islamic world and Southeast Asia- no one believes that the West is leading the world order, much less establishing the rules of the game. Russia has not just challenged the West - it has shown that the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally completed. The new world will be built by all civilizations and centers by forces, of course, together with the West (one or not) - but not on its terms and not according to its rules.
“Is Levin still a raving #NeverTrump”
Sounds like he’s siding with the Nazis in Ukraine (along with Hillary and every other Democrat). Good ole Mark!
Which would result in Ukraine becoming a vassal state under Putin.
Putin has been stating his views or geo-politics, interpretation of history and his intentions for 20 years
That should be good enough to get him back on Hannity’s guest list.
After Putin's bloody invasion, the whole country will be rabidly pro-Ukrainian. Putin has created animosity in Ukraine for Russians that will last generations
Both Hannity and Levin have lost it. They don't give a crap about our soldier's lives, although they both like to constantly virtue signal about the military. They don't give a crap about ordinary Americans that are hardest hit by US involvement. It is only a continuation of FoxNews war porn.
Europe needs to completely pay and take care of its own. It is not our problem and I don't want it to be our problem. I do not want to see any US military involvement anywhere in the world until at least two things happen: 1.) Our southern border is protected and every wetback invader is expelled. 2.) Our woke military leadership is completely replaced. Until that happens we are guaranteed to lose any major US military entanglement and the lives and limbs of our soldiers will be completely wasted in defeat.
Levin has lost my respect and I will not trust him on any issue. Same thing with on Hannity, but that happened long ago. He's nothing but an unoriginal, dry, repetitive, low-IQ talking head that has lost touch with common Americans.
Going to be honest here, ever since Mr. Levin seemingly backed RINO GrahmaIdiot’s call for the assassination of Putin, I am leery of some things concerning Mr. Levin especially concerning Russia-Ukraine war/conflict. Man ‘dissects’ Neocons and the “It’s NATO’ folks, all the while sounding like a neocon himself. But hey, that just my take.
There are aging but still influential Republicans who see Putin as a closet communist whose goal is to re-establish the old USSR. If he is not, we have no reason to get involved in the Ukraine. In addition to delving into evidence that bears on this, these Republicans should simply put this question to him and see how he responds.
I dumped Mark Levin when went never Trump.
Not sure, but he’s in left field on Ukraine.
Agreed.
You’re not wrong. I tuned in from time to time after the election, but Levin’s become intolerable since Putin kept his word.
Pure Conservative Inc, both of them.
I wouldn’t waste my time listening to this bloviating neocon windbag... anyone with a brain realizes that we don’t know Putin’s intentions with any certainty and neither Putin or MSM is going to tell us the truth..... One can infer that Putin’s offer of No NATO,acknowledge Crimea,independent Donbass tells us something about his intentions.That’s a better place to start
Maybe Levin ignored what Putin published for you because he believes Putin was lying thru his teeth. Which seems likely to me since you list his public propaganda points meant for the press.
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