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T. Belman. I have taken a lot of heat for siding with Putin and not Biden. Yesterday I posted a video by Dr Turley with whom I often agree. But the comments totally rejected him. REDACTED totally agrees with Turley too. So does Alexander Mecouris whom I also follow as does TFIG.
It doesn’t matter whether the west recognizes the annexation of the Donbass. The West has to reconsider whether they will attack the Donbass when Russia claims it as their sovereign territory. I think the West will back off.
I highly recommend this video.
Things I think we know:
1. Ukraine is higher on the list of corrupt countries than Nigeria (the most corrupt country in Africa, which says a lot)
2. The CIA is corrupt; among numerous other things, they were heavily invested in trying to take down Trump and prior Ukrainian leaders and involved in many bioweapons programs in Ukraine which Putin has a legit grievance against.
3. Biden and son Hunter are both thoroughly corrupt, as is Pelosi and Clinton, all of whom have kids involved in shady deals in Ukraine.
4. USA has been ramping up LNG production and changed the law a few years ago to allow for export of it.
5. Ukraine been stealing from the Russian pipe line going through Ukraine to EU.
6. Russia spends $15 billion on building new pipeline to EU to bypass Ukraine, via Baltic seafloor and their 1st pipeline there NordStream 1 working well supplying EU.
7. It gets completed and Germany set to open but USA Jan. 2022 says, “no, don’t even think about it” Germany caves.
8. Russia says no NATO directly on border, (which USA had agreed to decades ago.) NATO been pushing, pushing, pushing ever since and promised in 2008 they could one day join.
9. Ukraine asks a week ago to join NATO as fast tracked application. Meanwhile, Sweden and Finland have applied.
10. ProRussian (likely puppet via voter fraud ) 2013: Yanukovich’s government suspends trade w/ EU and opts to revive economic ties with Moscow, triggering months of mass rallies in Kyiv. February – April 2014: Parliament votes to remove Yanukovich after bloodshed in the protests. Within days, armed men seize parliament in the Ukrainian region of Crimea and raise the Russian flag. Moscow later annexes the territory. Eastern separatists declare independence.
12. Many of the Russian speakers in E. Ukraine were imported during Soviet years while Ukrainians were forcibly exported from those areas.
13. Putin’s Russia is one of the world’s leaders in mining, oil and gas and their byproducts like fertilizer.
14. Putin has long has his eye on the 20% of the land in Eastern Ukraine that is worth 80% of Ukraines entire GDP. (mining, oil, gas, and port control for grain export.) This is a direct competition to Russian hegemony
15. Putin senses utter weakness on behalf of Biden and moves in, just like he did on Crimea under Obama who threw him a few sanctions..
16. Russian generals totally botch the attack and are unable to establish air power domination and have to retreat with heavy losses. Supply chains heavily dependent on railroads. Rampant corruption meant equipment often in woefully unprepared status. Putin in shock as further heavily centralized warfare fails so Putin responds with even more centralized warfare just like failing Hitler did and neither of them are/were generals furhter componding the problem. Western arms and intelligence make a huge difference and Western allies smell blood.
17. EU “nutters” go two sheets to the wind for last few years and have been rapidly divesting of oil and gas and nuclear in effort to go for solar and wind leaving themselves wide open for catostrophic economic collapse this winter after sanctioning their own gas supply from Russia.
This is beyond stupid green ideology; that is just the cover. It is planned self destruction.
18. Putin under tremendous duress as losses as many soldiers dead in a few months as USA did during entire Vietnam war (and we know the social upheaval from that). He could get overthrown as Russian billionaires dont like thier yacht’s stolen and businesses get sacntioned.
19. Putin is no dummy and is now setting up a separate payment system to bypass the dollar transaction system for trade including oil after USA freezes Russian reserves including those in US Dollars. The rest of the world thinks, why am I holding reserves in US dollars? This could cause dollar to crash as dollars come back into USA. Dollar hasnt crashed yet due to other currencies are in even worse shape (for now).
20. Only the USA has both the means and the incentive to destroy the NOrd Stream pipelines. USA now gets to sell LNG at vastly inflated prices to EU. (this oculd backfire on the streets of EU as clearly EU leaders were complicit. )
21. The saga continues….
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In any event, this was the setup for the Maidan Revolution that would take place after about 100 days of protests.
Many people were murdered during this revolution and it is no disrespect to them that I will not attempt a fair estimate of their murder. Suffice to say that it has been forensically proven that the shooters of these dead came from the buildings where the Nazi Svoboda party leaders where quartered, and that Svoboda and her Nazi/Nationalist allies were not found to have lost a single member during the mass executions which took place among the protesters and the police. The following day, a negotiated settlement was agreed upon which included the disarmament of the revolutionary radicals, the dispersement of the protest, the adoption of a new constitution by the end of the year at which time Yukanovych would be replaced. Unfortunately, the agreement was not 8hrs old before it was rendered null and void, as this is when the radicals, the Nazi’s and the Nationalists made their move.
Weeks before the murderous Revolution, an audio tape was released documenting Victoria Nuland of the US State Dept describing how Yukanovych would be removed and that Arseniy Yatsenyuk would govern from within the govt, leaving Klistchko(ultra Nationalist pro-German party leader) and Tyagnybok (leader of Nazi Svboda Party) outside the govt. The Radical elements of the Nazi’s and Nationalists did not appreciate that their efforts to seize the govt would leave them still standing powerless in the opposition, and therefore, when news of the settlement with Yukanovych was made public, they reacted with a threat of a second revolution if they were not offered a sizeable share of the state offices along with the immediate resignation of Yukanovych. This is how the Nazi’s came to control the Prosecutor General as well as the equivalent of the head of the NSC. Meanwhile the Nationalists took possession of the strategically important post of Interior Ministry, which ultimately supported the creation of the Nazi Azov and her sister Battalions which led to the war in Dombas. Between Svoboda and Right Sector, they controlled 5-8 primary positions (party affiliations were changing hence the range) within the govt out of 21 such positions. Additionally, Svoboda took 5 regional governorships. This Yukanovych’s party was left with no membership in the govt, despite being the largest party with 27% of the seats.
To finish the tale of the language law, it should be noted that the very first action following the illegal and comical ‘impeachment’ of Yukanovych was to be the passage of the bill repealing the language law which so fueled the enmity of the radicals, Nazi’s and nationalists now filling the new govt’s positions of power. Though passed, the repeal was never signed into law, likely under orders from Washington. In 2018, the language law was finally ruled as unconstitutional and struck from Ukrainian law. Hence, the people of Dombas did not secede because of the language law, but that is another story.
Forgive the delay on the answer to your well asked question, but I have been quite busy of late. Also, I regret the length, but as you can see, it was a long story and I confess it is still not fully told.
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Ukraine had many populations that coexisted within her borders, but these largely boiled down into the many ethnic minorities on one hand, and the the Ukrainian majority on the other. It wasn’t only about race, though it was about race too, but the larger issue was whether Ukraine was a nation of Ukrainian nationals or was Ukraine a mix of civilizations with a multi-ethnic population. The dividing lines were geographically complex, but a large division lay between the UR of the East and the Ukrainians of the West, but there were also smaller divisions present in the east and elsewhere. The mandatory Ukrainian language was the factor that both tied the nation together as a whole, but also acted as a wedge to leverage the youths to lean towards being more nationalist than their parents and far more so than their grandparents. Hence, every successive generation was melting towards the Nationalists and away from the Multi-ethnics irregardless of race.
Consequently, when Yukanovych passed his language law, he eliminated this advantage held quite dearly by the Nationalists and gave the Multi-ethnics a great boon by winch they could maintain their language and their culture in the years to come. The consequence of this was of course quite significantly felt by either side, and a generalized animosity which had always been present at some level, began to increasingly be expressed around the nation.
The language law was passed in Feb 2012, and in Oct 2012, Ukraine held parliamentary elections in which Yukanovych’s party suffered setbacks while the Nazi parties rose to record high numbers achieving some 8% of the vote.
The following year in 2013, the Ukrainians were considering signing a gas deal with the EU, which would have led to the EU requiring Ukraine to accept austerity measures, something no politician looks forward to having to explain to their voting population, especially after having faced the recent political setback from his losses in parliament. This would have led to Ukraine becoming more aligned with the EU and less so with Russia. Late in the year, Russia made a counter offer including an enormous subsidy to Ukraine if they would instead sign with Russia. The EU refused to match the Russian offer. The consequence of all of this was that Yukanovych announced an abrupt change of heart, indicating that he would sign with the Russians. Despite his explanations and the financial windfall for the Ukrainian people, strong suspicions arose that the motivating factor was not a better deal for the state, but for Yukanovych personally, after all, this was Ukraine.
To protest this perception of corruption, a large turnout of protesters gathered in the Maidan Square in the capital. Oddly enough, as if by magic, the protest did not disperse, not after a week nor a month nor three months. In fact, there was big money being spent to subsidize the presence of the protesters in the capital, providing them with food, shelter and heat. Next, armed paramilitary groups arrived and began ‘patrolling’ the square. Notably, a radical far right group patrolled the right side of the square and adopted the name Right Sector, a name we have all come to read about over the past few years with great disgust. Among the radicals, Nazi’s and ultra Nationalists which filled its ranks were the Patriots of Ukraine, a group led by Andriye Biletsky, which would later form the basis of his Azov Battalion. Hence, the nature of the protest turned from one of civic protest to one of an armed struggle.
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Of course it isn’t, but this is not what caused the difficulty in Dombas, nor the 2014 civil war, nor the 2022 Russian invasion. Yet, it is what led to the backdrop of the US led coup, overthrowing the legitimate govt in Kiev and it is also what led to the US losing control of the govt once the ‘revolution’ was under way.
The Ukrainian Russians (UR) would never have sacrificed their lives nor their liberties to go to war over the language issue. This is why from 1991 til 2013 their was no war while they were forced to use Ukrainian in all national documents, schools and elections. It was not just an inconvenience, as many had no idea what they were reading when looking at, for example, who was listed on the electoral ballot, or what was being taught at the local school, or what was being signed at the local DMV. For instance, they would ask the govt personnel, in Russian, and were told something, in Russian. Sometimes it was an honest answer and sometimes it was not.
This was the context of the language debate which was nothing new in Ukraine and was pulled out in every election to rally the minorities to support one candidate or another who would never follow thru on their election promises of language reform. Of course, the reason they did not follow thru on their promise of language reform was that it required 3/4 of the parliament to ratify it and this was never a realistic option. That is until Victor Yanukovych became president. He devised a way around amending the constitution (a long and complicated story best left for another day) and was able to change the language laws such that in any region, think of it as a county or state, that had more than 10% of a given minority which spoke some language other than Ukrainian, the govt would have to provide services to the people in this other language in addition to Ukrainian. It should be noted that this did not simply affect the Russians, as there were other minorities who would be affected by this law as well, but it was mainly the Russians who would benefit from the law, as they were overwhelmingly the largest minority by far. One more thing to note, everyone spoke Russian, so when going to the govt offices, they would converse in Russian and then the UR would have to sign a document written in Ukrainian. In a country which was well known for its easy corruption, such things could easily give someone unease and was particularly restricting against those who did not read Ukrainian. This was the controversy, but it presented a greater effect than just this, which is why it became an even greater issue than officially recognized languages.
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Both Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines were blown up under water on Monday in the same area.
Sikorski publicly thanks the US for this(!?):
Blinken says the sabotage was in no one’s interest but the US will supply the LNG to Europe:
Both Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines were blown up under water on Monday in the same area.
Sikorski publicly thanks the US for this(!?):
Blinken says the sabotage was in no one’s interest but the US will supply the LNG to Europe: