Posted on 09/10/2022 3:00:25 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
In February, Russia invaded Ukraine as a response to almost eight years of killing and criminal destruction in the Russian-speaking region of Donbass on their border.
In 2014, the United States had sponsored a coup in Kyiv that got rid of Ukraine’s democratically elected, Russian-friendly president and installed a successor whom the Americans made clear was their man.
In recent years, American ‘defender’ missiles have been installed in eastern Europe, Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, almost certainly aimed at Russia, accompanied by false assurances all the way back to James Baker’s ‘promise’ to Gorbachev in February 1990 that Nato would never expand beyond Germany.
Ukraine is the frontline. Nato has effectively reached the very borderland through which Hitler’s army stormed in 1941, leaving more than 23 million dead in the Soviet Union.
Last December, Russia proposed a far-reaching security plan for Europe. This was dismissed, derided or suppressed in the Western media. Who read its step-by-step proposals? On 24 February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy threatened to develop nuclear weapons unless America armed and protected Ukraine. This was the final straw.
On the same day, Russia invaded – according to the Western media, an unprovoked act of congenital infamy. The history, the lies, the peace proposals, the solemn agreements on Donbass at Minsk counted for nothing.
On 25 April, the US Defence Secretary, General Lloyd Austin, flew into Kyiv and confirmed that America’s aim was to destroy the Russian Federation – the word he used was ‘weaken’. America had got the war it wanted, waged by an American bankrolled and armed proxy and expendable pawn.
>> Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is wanton and inexcusable. It is a crime to invade a sovereign country. There are no ‘buts’ – except one.
Not sure what value such ‘exculpatory’ statements provide.
Bkmk
Great article, thanks for sharing.
Interesting contrast to the plethora of pro-Uke articles littering the FR landscape lately.
Thank you for posting this.
We are the Bad Guys.
We have been for some time.
Certainly it is also right to point to Putin from the KGB and say that Russia is a Bad Guy too. China, also Bad. There are a lot of Bad Guys.
But once upon a time, we were The Good Guys. And that ended a long time ago. A lot of people just refuse to see it. I think the only fix is for us to become isolationists and embrace autarky. Stop messing with other people.
On FR,, Ukraine has taken over the forum. Nothing else is happening.
Esau and Jacob
https://www.torahthinking.org/post/weekly-hashkafa-87-the-world-in-turmoil
…One characteristic of Esav is that he is a bal gaiva—master of arrogance. As such, he is represented in the “west” by Russia, particularly under Soviet-communism which was atheistic...
…Europe is the second aspect of Esav, the fraud, the imposter, the deceiver, the mirma. Christianity is, in many ways, a religion that presents itself as ethical, moral but, meanwhile, more people have been killed by Christians throughout thousands of years of history than in all other wars combined…
…There is a good part of Esav, however, because he was very great in the mitzva of kibud av v’em—honor of father and mother. That good aspect is America but there is the bad aspect of Esav there too. This third negative part of Esav is called the “taiva”— pleasure-seeking, hedonistic aspect. It’s not evil—not good either—as we see today, but it doesn’t compare to the evil of Russia or Europe…
BTTT
Marxists, on the other hand, have killed hundreds of millions for merely disagreeing with them.
The part about China eradicating abject poverty and how no one gives them credit tipped me off.
An excellent post. bm
I found that I rapidly didn’t give a shif for his answer about, “how propaganda works.” It seems he writes it for a living.
What a wack job.
If you haven’t seeon it , Pilger’s documentary “ The Coming War With China “is highly recommended . It’s on Youtube .
Pilger is a long-time leftist and America-hater who makes things up. I don’t think he’s wrong about everything he says here, but he’s not to be trusted.
That was a really good read. Thanks for posting that.
“Having soaked for 82 years in a deep bath of righteousness that is the official version of the last World War, isn’t it time those who are meant to keep the record straight declared their independence and decoded the propaganda? The urgency is greater than ever.”
Sadly, every dope that makes it through ‘J-School’ these days is a brainwashed Socialist from BIRTH. Anyone that ‘reported’ on WWII is now of the same mental plane as Brandon. Or dead. :(
How do you THINK this generation is going to, ‘record’ things, let alone ‘set the record straight?’ They can’t even write in complete sentences for the most part!
Ugh!
However, since Trumps election and observing how our government institutions actually operate, I’m no longer very confident in our motivations in foreign affairs or anything else for that matter.
When you have people like Bernie Madoff, the Clintons, the Bidens, the Pelosi's, Jonathon Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Soros, and all the other depraved, self-indulgent, morally bankrupt people we have or have had in positions of influence and power it is inevitable that we cease to be the good guys.
Yes, we do need a 'great reset', but it's not the one that the small people who populate government and the media are pursuing.
Amazing how many here lap up this commie drivel. “Death to America” is your group’s mantra these days.
Yes, we have a sh_t ton of corruption in all levels of government- they ALL do. EVERY nation does. Our founding documents and ideals are still the best on this planet - but our internal enemies combined with our inherent laziness among the population to perform their duties as citizens has brought us to where we are.
And you’re cheering for our downfall essentially. If we want to fix what’s wrong, we have to work from the local level up at getting good people elected. The left has been installing their zealots in every office while we have slept.
Biden and his crew of miscreants are temporary. I’m not up for throwing away our nation just because the options available to us appear insurmountable. If you are, great. Just get out of the way and stop cheering our enemies with articles like this. Xi thanks you.
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