Showing posts with label Zelensky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zelensky. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

August 2, 2022: Scott Ritter/Judge Napolitano: The Latest in Ukraine



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EU, UK Delay Cutting Off Russia from Oil Insurance Market 
Silly buggers just realised that obstructing the export of Russian oil and gas is gonna raise the price of petrol, which is already high enough to cause unrest, and which will cause said silly buggers to be even more loathed and despised than they are already. 

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Friday, July 15, 2022

Jordan Peterson on Ukraine: A Slick Presentation of Simple-Minded Misconceptions and Imaginative Nonsense

Jordan Peterson, in pin-striped suit, waistcoat, and gray silk tie, so reminiscent of the style of Britain's 1960's Prime Minister, Harold MacMillan, presents his view on the current Russo-Ukraine war in this slick video.

 As one has come to expect of Peterson, the presentation is (a) immensely popular, with well over a million views on U-Tube in just four days, and the number still climbing rapidly, and (b) a mix of unreasonable judgements and imaginative ideas amounting to nonsense.

Thus, Peterson begins by describing "what Putin has done" in Ukraine as "unconscionable." But in fact, what Putin has done is simply what any Russian leader was bound to do if they were to avoid being removed from office and replaced by someone with a stronger stomach. 

To understand why Putin had no choice, one must understand the circumstances leading to his "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was a direct response to the decision of the Kyiv government to dispatch a hundred thousand troops to Eastern Ukraine, an army including multiple overtly Nazi formations. This action by the, according to Western media, heroic Zelensky -- who now rules Ukraine as a dictator without parliamentary opposition -- had only one conceivable objective; namely, the conquest of the breakaway Donbas Republics that have been under constant Ukrainian shelling for eight years resulting in 13,000 civilian deaths.

Without Russian intervention, Putin was faced with the near certainty of a massacre of ethnic Russians who are characterized by Ukrainian Nazis as Orcs and cockroaches. And there is nothing fake about these Nazis. They are adherents of the ideology of Stepan Bandera, Ukraine's World War II nationalist leader whose followers aided Hitler's Nazis slaughter 30,000 Kyiv Jews, and who traversed the country burning villages and slaughtering hundreds of thousand of Ukrainian Poles. These massacres, Canadians might note, were promoted by Michail Chomiac, a Ukrainian newspaper editor and the grandfather of Justin Trudeau's deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland. 

And if anyone doubts that the anti-Russian genocidal impulse lives on in Ukraine, they should not forget the tapped phone conversation in which former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Julia Tymoshenko not only said it was time to "grab guns and kill damn Russians" but urged that eight million Donbas Russians be nuked*. 

In a further bizarre judgement, Peterson condemns the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, for supporting Putin's military operation in Ukraine. But the Russian Orthodox Church is effectively a part of the Russian state apparatus. Patriarch Kirill can no more survive as a critic of Russia at war than the Archbishop of Canterbury could have survived had he condemned Britain's fire bombing of German cities during World War II.

In addition, though it is but a minor point, Peterson confuses the Black Sea, or possibly the Sea of Azov, with the Caspian Sea when speaking of Ukraine's offshore oil reserves, notwithstanding that Ukraine more than five hundred kilometers from the the Caspian Sea. 

What may seem interesting, at first sight, is Peterson's notion that the Russo-Ukrainian war is a culturally determined European civil war between a re-Christianized Russia and a woke West, the latter having, as it must seem to the Russians, gone insane. 

But if momentarily diverting, the idea is obviously wrong. While the woke West is undoubtedly insane, the conflict in Ukraine has nothing to do with culture. For Russia it is a purely defensive war against US imperialism, forced upon Russia by the genocidal actions of the Nazified Kyiv regime toward Ukraine's ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking population. As Putin stated recently: "we have no interest in what Zelensky wants. The decisions are made in Washington." 

The American objective upon which the US has invested more than $53 billion thus far, and on which other NATO states have invested billions more, is to weaken and then break Russia into a collection of corrupt stans ruled by the likes Poroshenko and Zelensky: states that can be readily looted by Western oligarchs, and occupied by NATO, which could then advance to the border of China, the real threat to American global hegemony. 

But to grant him his due, Peterson has one thing right. Russia's attitude to foreign military bases in Ukraine is the exact counterpart to America's Monro Doctrine, which gives warning to the world that the United States will tolerate no foreign military bases in Latin America.

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* And those hated Donbas Russians, the target of Zelensky's US-backed genocidal war, are not newcomers. Some are surely descendants of Russians who settled on the East bank of the Dnieper River in the seventeenth Century, a hundred and more years before the United States even existed.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

How Will the Ukraine War End?

 Jens Stoltenberg, head of NATO, spoke earlier this month of the Ukraine war lasting years during which he presumably looked forward to having NATO's Ukrainian proxy test out all kinds of military stuff on Russians. But now, damn it, the stinking Ruskies are winning. What to do? Well, you'd  better negotiate a peace deal and his territory while you can, Stoltenberg tells cokehead porn actor, Ze. 

Trouble is, it takes two to make a deal and Russians, as the're winning this war, will have the major say as to how things turn out. For example, they may just propose a referendum across Eastern and Southern Ukraine, where the resources are and where the Russian speakers are in the great majority. 

The choice? One imagines there'd be three options. (1) Rule by Kyiv, (2) Rule by Moscow, or (3) Independence. Who could object. It'd be democratic, just as all the simpletons in Canada flying the Ukrainian flag surely want.

As for the outcome? Option One, Rule by Kyiv, seems a non-starter. So whatever else happens? Ze will be seen to have trashed his own country, which will be reduced to a poor, land-locked rump, with a fractious multiracial society, most of which seems destined to be absorbed by Poland with some particularly non-Polish ethnic bits going to other adjoining states.

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"It’s possible that there are still people in the State Department trying to push this thing all the way to the end, but if the head of NATO is saying it’s time to concede to Russia, the show is over and it’s just a matter of how long it is going to take for the gears to move."

The thing is, Ze better surrender now before Russia takes more territory, or worse, before the Ukraine Armed Forces revoit, or even worse, change sides. 

Yep, hurry up Ze, go pay your respects to Putin before his guys take you away and deposit you in Moscow's Lublanka jail, pending a war crimes trial. 

Friday, May 27, 2022

Volodymr Zelinksy, the Man who Murdered the Ukraine

Zelinsky sent the Ukrainian Army, including the Nazi Azov battalion, to Eastern Ukraine to subjugate the rebel Donbas republics and to murder the Russian "cockroach" defenders. In response, Putin sent the Russian army to The Ukraine, not evidently, to pursue a lightning war of conquest, but to engage in a slow grinding down of the Ukrainian army, and the gradual occupation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizkia and Kherson. In the process, many of Ukraine's Nazi warriors must have died, while many more, more than 2500 according to this Russian source,  have become prisoners of war following the surrender of the Nazis holed up in the Azovstal bastion. 

How much further Russia will advance, and for how long Russia intends to hold the territory it has conquered, remains to be seen. It is likely, however, that Russia will hold indefinitely all occupied territory East of the Dneiper River, territory, that is, which Russia won, previously, in the Russo-Polish war that ended with the Treaty of Andrusovo in 1667. Under the terms of that treaty -- signed more than one hundred years before the founding of the United States of America -- Russia gained title to all of what is now the Ukraine on the right bank of the river. 

In addition, however, Russia will likely cross the river and occupy the rest of Ukraine's Black Sea coast, including the city of Odessa, which was founded in 1794 as a Russian naval fortress on territory annexed from Turkey in 1792.

Meantime, Zelinsky has agreed to what is atantamount to a merger of Ukraine -- that part of it which the government in Kyiv still controls -- with Poland. Under the terms of this remarkable agreement, Polish citizens will be free both to stand for election to the Ukrainian Parliament, and to serve as judges in Ukrainian courts. 

Thus, entirely through his own actions, Zelinksy has effectively abolished The Ukraine: the East and likely also the South going to Russia, the West going to Poland. In this way, Poland regains the lands, including the Polish City of Lvov, annexed to The Ukraine by Stalin following World War II. At the same time, Ukrainians will presumably be free to migrate into Poland. For Ukrainian Jews, this freedom is of immense significance, since it allows them to restore the a Jewish population to what, before the Nazi genocide, had long been the home of the majority of Europe's Jews.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

The Incurable Foolishness of Justin Trudeau and the Existential Threat He Poses for Canada

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has provoked outrage by asserting that Adolf Hitler had “Jewish origins.” The statement was made in an interview on Italian television when Lavrov was asked how  Ukraine could have a pro-Nazi government when the Ukrainian President, Zelensky, is a Jew.

Lavrov's statement prompted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to denounce the Russian Foreign Minister’s comments. They are, he told reporters during a media availability in Windsor, Ontario “ridiculous and unacceptable.”

In fact, Lavrov acknowledged that concerning his claim about Hitler's ancestry, "I may be wrong." 

But his point remains: Being a Jew is no bar to being a Nazi. There were thousands of Nazi Jews in Hitler's Germany. Furthermore, there were thousands of German Jews who served in Hitler's armed forces

But the most obvious validation of Lavrov's point, namely that being a Jew is no bar to being a Nazi, is the Jewish state of Israel. Israel proclaims itself to be "The Jewish State." It is an avowedly racist state which has consistently treated the non-Jewish indigenous inhabitants of Palestine brutally. 

As Moshe Dayan, head of the Israeli Defense Forces stated in 1970:
"We have no solution… You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads."

Israelis are the ultimate Nazi's, although they differ from Hitler's Nazis in being, thus far, rather more successful in occupying the land of others and adopting a policy of ethnic cleansing.  

So, no Justin, you are a simple-minded twit. There's no conflict between Judaism and Nazism. They are essentially the same thing, although different groups may pursue the policy of national supremacism with greater or lesser success. 

In fact, until the Western nations adopted fools and traitors to lead them, all were nationalist and proud of it. And indeed any other policy constitutes a policy of national suicide. 

The process of state imposed national suicide is evident in the transformation of Britain under the traitor Edward Health and every one of his successors, from the homeland of the British People to a nation where the capital city,  London, and other great urban centers have majority ethnic populations. 

The same process of national suicide is the Trudeau family policy. 

Pierre Trudeau effectively legalized abortion while facilitating divorce, causing by the end of his reign, the national fertility rate to fall below the replacement rate for the first time in Canada's more than 400-year history. Under Justin Trudeau the decline in Canada's fertility continues to fall and stands now at barely two-thirds of the replacement rate.

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But not to worry. Justin Trudeau is aiming for 450,000 immigrants this year, almost 100,000 more than the number of live births.

True, that means Canada is destroying its own posterity, but who cares? 

Yeah, Long Live Canada. The Replacement Nation, that is, not your old stock, white, racist, misogynistic, Trucker-Loving Europeans. 

But Canadians old-stock or new, should watch out for payback for Justin Trudeau's contemptuous treatment of Russia. The Russians, it seems, don't like countries that help Ukrainians kill Russians. 

True, we've only supplied some old field guns, dating from World War 1 perhaps and presumably deemed surplus to requirement. Still, to the Russians it's an ugly gesture. And the Russians are especially touchy right now. 

Just this week Russia threatened to annihilate the British Isles with a robot sub armed with a nuke warhead capable of generating a 500-foot tsunami somewhere inside British territorial waters:

So should Canada care about possible Russian push back?

Why not? Russia, after all, is Canada's nearest neighbor after the United States, and we have 162,000 km of undefended Arctic coastline confronting Russia's highly militarized Arctic Coast of similar extent.

So might Russia not make a lighting incursion into the Canadian North, perhaps to let off some giant firecracker to elicit greater respect from the fount of  imbecility in Ottawa, or even, perhaps, to declare the Sovereign Democratic Republic of Greater Inuvik a Russian protectorate.  

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Sunday, March 20, 2022

How Zelensky Could End the War in Ukraine Now

Ukrainian Premier Zelensky is threatening World War III if his non-negotiable conditions for a settlement in Ukraine's ongoing war with Russia are not met.

So what are his conditions?

That Kyiv should rule over a culturally unified Ukraine. 

That means the suppression of the Russian language and culture of Eastern Ukraine, whatever the people there want. 

Specifically, it means enforcement of existing legislation denying Russian-language Government services, including education, throughout Russian-speaking Ukraine. 

That's a policy that Canada calls Cultural Genocide. It's what Zelensky's besty, Justin Trudeau, tearfully apologized for when addressing Canada's residential school system, a system designed to take the Indian out of the Indian and adapt him to Euro-Canadian life. 

But if Zelensky's Western Ukraine-dominated government is denied the right to take the Russian out of the Russians in Ukraine -- the people former Ukrainian Premier Julia Tymoshenko wanted to exterminate -- then Zelensky intends to bring down the entire world.

Thanks Zel, but no thanks. Here's a better idea: an oblast by oblast referendum on how Ukrainians wish to be governed. Here are the options:

A government of: 

A bilingual (Ukrainian/Russian) Ukraine;

A Ukrainian-speaking Ukraine;

A Ukrainian-speaking Western Ukraine;

A Russian-speaking Eastern Ukraine;

A neighboring state -- Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, or Romania.

Whatever the outcome, such a referendum would end Ukraine's borderland status. The whole would either be ruled by a single government to which the majority of Ukrainians, in all regions, whatever their cultural heritage, bore allegiance, or the country would be divided between two or more states, each having the allegiance of the majority of its citizens. 

This, the most humane and reasonable solution, clearly would not suit the megalomaniacal Zelensky. But there is no reason why the world should back the head of the genocidal regime currently holding power in Kyiv. 


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Friday, March 18, 2022

Has Russia Already Won in Ukraine?

 As we all know, having listened to the CBC, National Public Radio, the BBC, etc. and having read the trusty Daily Mail, The New York Times, etc.,  that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is going disastrously, proving that Vladimir Putin really is insane, and that the totally rotten Russian state is about to disintegrate, giving rise to a collection of corruptostans run by globalist puppets the better to be looted by the rightful owners of the World.

But then what is one to make of the testimony of US Lt. Colonel Douglas McGregor, a soldier of demonstrated courage, decision, imagination, judgement and success on the field of battle. In particular, what is one to make of his claim that the war in Ukraine is, in fact, already over and Vlad's Army, not the forces of Ghengis Zelensky won?

You can hear Colonel McGregor's give his assessment of the war in this discussion with Max Blumenthal:

This conversation is important not only for McGregor's assessment of the outcome of the war, but also his explanation for its cause, an explanation totally at odds with everything you've likely heard until now, which he states after the 43 minute mark. 

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

The invasion of Ukraine has exposed the West’s impotence

I stole the following article from the Spectator because it is excellent and should be read as widely as possible. But if you read it, and you can afford to, by all means buy a subscription to the Spectator, the best written English-language publication in the World. 

There is one point, though, on which the author is clearly wrong. He talks about debt, massive state debt, as if it is a bad thing because it has to be paid back. But it is never is paid back, most of it, anyway. State debt is mainly printed money — ink money as it is known to the bankers. It is paid back only in devalued currency that is itself printed thereby ensuring further devaluation. Government debt is thus a tax on the most innocent. The young couple saving to buy a home in a market with house price inflation of 20%, or middle-aged folk saving for their old age. Of course not all savers lose. Those who invest with wisdom or good luck may do well out inflation. But, overall, the cost of inflation is covered by the devaluation of the currency in your pocket or in your savings account. Put simply, inflation is theft.  


By Rod Liddle

The Spectator, March 19, 2022: When the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, addressed the House of Commons recently, he was afforded two standing ovations from MPs, both lasting about 40 seconds, before and after he spoke. He was probably used to it, having received a similar reception when addressing the European Parliament a week before. On both occasions, then, he was engulfed by warm, moist waves of adulation and respect. On both occasions he also asked for important, difficult stuff from the people he was addressing and didn’t get any of it – just lots of applause and legislators delicately dabbing their eyes before quickly averting them. 

If Le Creuset saucepans had been allowed into the House of Commons, I dare say our MPs would have carefully banged them together, making sure not to chip the edges. Zelensky may have mused to himself that these western politicians who have courted his country for so long and meddled in its affairs are second to none in their mastery of grandstanding and virtue signalling, of expressing vacuous emotion while saying, in essence: ‘Nice speech, sunshine. But you’re on your own. Good luck.’ 

I cannot think of a moment which more encapsulated the West’s utter impotence than those fulsome and painless ovations. But more than that, they also signalled a comprehensive defeat for an ideology which its proponents once thought would be irresistible to the rest of the world and that we were, therefore, approaching the ‘end of history’. You will remember the phrase with a degree of irony, I suspect – a phrase which in its blithe arrogance also recalls the Marxist notion of ‘historical inevitability’. The term sprang from an essay written by Francis Fukuyama in 1989 in which the author, calling upon Hegel to help him, expounded upon the ‘total exhaustion’ of all those ideologies which were not western liberalism. What we saw in the House of Commons chamber, however, was the total exhaustion of western liberalism, its ineffectuality, its abject failure and capitulation on so many crucial fronts. It was an epic and dangerous delusion. 

For Fukuyama and many similar thinkers, globalisation was the mechanism by which western liberalism would spread, ineluctably, into every corner of the world. It could not but do so, given its obvious attractiveness. For the western liberals, globalisation wasn’t simply a commercial or economic process, but an ideological development which could but serve to diminish that thing they most hated, the nation state (and concomitantly nationalism) through the exchange of labour, multiculturalism and mutual interdependency. It would also serve to reduce inequality. These were all Good Things. But that’s not how it turned out, as the invasion of Ukraine reveals only too acutely.

The countries which have benefited most (for different reasons) from globalisation are Russia and China and neither felt remotely attracted by western liberal democracy. Russia is now exacting its ton of flesh for our naive dependence on its oil and gas, while remaining itself essentially self-sufficient. China meanwhile has used globalisation as a means of building up a network of dependent client states in Africa and beyond. Both countries have the West in hock and in China’s case that includes more than one trillion dollars of US securities.

Far from lending itself to western liberalism, globalisation has been a boon for the most tyrannical countries on the planet and they have exploited it cleverly. We have not. Meanwhile, although absolute poverty may have reduced over the past 30 years, income differentials have widened: according to the World Inequality Database, global inequalities are now ‘about as great today as they were at the peak of western imperialism in the early 20th century’. 

Multiculturalism? Well, yes, we’ve had plenty of that. But it hasn’t noticeably made western Europe a happier continent. The UK’s commitment to that creed ensured we did little or nothing to inculcate in the in-comers a fondness for our way of life and so, reasonably enough, many failed to develop one. Nor have the supra-national organisations, in which the liberals place such faith, done much to advance the cause of liberal democracy. The United Nations abides by a creed of cultural relativism and spends the majority of its time railing against the very countries which pay for its existence – because of their affluence, penchant for welfare capitalism and imperialist past – and the rest laying down resolutions castigating the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel. It is worth noting too that while 141 countries signed a UN resolution condemning the Russian invasion, five countries voted against and 35 abstained. It is still the case that when the superpowers line up, it’s the US and Europe vs the rest. 

That wasn’t supposed to happen. Far from lending itself to western liberalism, globalisation has been a boon for the most tyrannical countries Globalisation is just one example of the way in which the flawed and arguably deluded western liberal view of the world has led directly to our impotence. Money is another. It was affluence which, put crudely, enabled us to win the Cold War, by forcing the Soviet Union into ever more unsustainable levels of spending on weaponry and technology. But that affluence has all but gone. If we were forced to fight a war against Russia now, we couldn’t do it, such have been the cuts to our armed forces, gradually over the past 60 years. In the late 1950s we spent 8 per cent of our GDP on defence; now it is a little over 2 per cent and much lower in the likes of Spain, Italy, Germany and France. Most popular Robert Ginzburg Russian cities are returning to their Cold War state Russian cities are returning to their Cold War state

Globalisation is just one example of the way in which the flawed and arguably deluded western liberal view of the world has led directly to our impotence. Money is another. It was affluence which, put crudely, enabled us to win the Cold War, by forcing the Soviet Union into ever more unsustainable levels of spending on weaponry and technology. But that affluence has all but gone. If we were forced to fight a war against Russia now, we couldn’t do it, such have been the cuts to our armed forces, gradually over the past 60 years. In the late 1950s we spent 8 per cent of our GDP on defence; now it is a little over 2 per cent and much lower in the likes of Spain, Italy, Germany and France.

It is still true that the US and western Europe’s GDP per capita outstrips that of almost all of the rest of the world; the problem, though, is that we spend it all lavishly on ourselves, on our comfort and our sensibilities, and then borrow to spend even more on ourselves again. The National Health Service, for example, has expanded way beyond what was originally envisaged and what was once expected of it and now easily takes up every penny we once spent on defence and then some. There is no end to its ravenous appetite, nor our expectation of it. At the same time we are heavily in debt: UK debt is now 103 per cent of GDP, Japan’s double that amount. The US’s national debt has quadrupled since the 1990s and is now at more than 130 per cent of GDP.

Nothing wrong with debt, the liberals always averred, and so the debt grows and grows… until someone calls time. The US dollar is already resting, increasingly precariously, on its laurels as a reserve currency. Debt cannot continue infinitely. Right now, we have nothing to reach for if we wish to fight a war: not a pot to piss in. But then why would we ever need to fight a war? That was the mindset of western liberalism, the mindset of a credulous 13-year-old, when we decided that – as John and Yoko put it so memorably – ‘War is over if you want it’. And the peace dividend? Spend it. Spend it now. Then borrow some more.

If we could find the money, who would fight? And why would they bother? Here is the real crux of the matter. The same ideology which predicted the end of history is the one which has set about, with great industry, besmirching or literally destroying every-thing about our culture and our history: for the western hip and with-it neoliberal, our culture and our history are not merely Bad, they are Uniquely Bad. Rip it all down and start again. Those things which Europeans and Americans once took as reasons for a certain proxied pride – our contributions to classical music, science, literature, fine art, philosophy, innovation, statesmanship, economics, discovery – are now seen simply as expressions of hideous, privileged, white supremacism: throw them in the river. 

Our past, you see, is one of untrammelled wickedness, a wickedness unmatched by any other civilisation which existed. Everything about us is wretched – our present culture, our past. That these are wholly spurious and indeed stupid allegations does not matter: it is the viewpoint to which our liberal elite cleaves and so it is the view which we are supposed to have of our country, much as the liberals cleave to patent, obvious denials of reality. When nobody in the Labour party can tell you for sure what a ‘woman’ is, you know you are at the end time for a civilisation, a state of utter derangement in which western society is in danger of disappearing, with a shallow ppphutt, way up beyond its own sphincter muscle.

It is not so much that the centre cannot hold, it is that there is no centre at all. Nothing around which we can coalesce, nothing to unite us except for a weird all-consuming self-loathing. That has been western liberalism’s final gift: the creation of a society in which we are enjoined to hate everything we have ever done. The rest of the world looks on quite askance at our Year Zero self-flagellation. Political leaders beyond the Elbe still have a little respect for Shakespeare and Captain Cook – and they know what a woman is, too. If you were asked to fight for your country, what would you be fighting for, now? There is nothing left worth bothering about. They have done away with religion, with our history and with our present and left nothing to put in its place. 

 Western neoliberalism was an undoubtedly well-intentioned creed. But it involved a denial of realities. It is still doing it today. All we have been left with is the ability to emote, to sob, to emote, to whine, to emote, to clap and to clap and to bang saucepans together.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

What Does Zelensky Want?

Russia has made its war objectives in Ukraine clear:

1. Ukraine to acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory.

2. Ukraine to end the sniping and shelling of the breakaway Donbas republics of  Donetsk and Luhansk that is reported to have claimed 14,000 lives over the last seven years.

3. Ukraine to commit to remaining outside the anti-Russian NATO military alliance.

That Ukraine will not accept these terms, reveals what Zelensky wants. Specifically, Zelensky wants:

A. To continue painting the 2014 Russian occupation of Crimea as illegitimate, notwithstanding that:

i. Ukraine, including Crimea, has been Russian territory for much of the last one thousand years.

 ii. The Russian state was founded in Kyiv where, following the baptism, in Crimea, of Vladimir I prince of Kiev, in 988, Orthodox Christianity became the Russian state church headed by the metropolitan of Kiev.

ii. Russia has ruled Crimea continuously from the time of Catherine the Great until the 1950's, when a Ukrainian General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khruschev, gifted Russian Crimea to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine. At the time of the transfer, it made no great difference to anyone since both Russia and Ukraine were subordinate to the Soviet Communist Party. On the breakup of the Soviet Union, however, Kruschev's action resulted in the Russian-populated, former-Russian territory coming under the rule of an, at times, genocidally anti-Russian Ukrainian government.

iii. In the 1850's, Russia defended the Crimean peninsula against an assault by British, French and Turkish forces in a war estimated to have cost 650,000 lives. Leo Tolstoy served in the defense of Sevastapol, winning a medal for bravery and, for his dispatches from the front, his first recognition as a writer.

iv. In early 2014, following a referendum in which over 90% of the mainly Russian-speaking population of Crimea voted for union with Russia, the Crimean Parliament requested to join the Russian Federation, which request was accepted, resulting in an essentially peaceful transfer of sovereignty. Among Ukrainian troops stationed in Crimea, many switched loyalties, becoming members of the Russian armed forces.

v. The validity of the Crimean referendum was confirmed by the US-based Pew Trust, which conducted its own opinion survey in Crimea.

B. To destroy the breakaway Donbas republics and eliminate official use of the Russian language, including in education, throughout Ukraine, notwithstanding that the majority of citizens in Eastern Ukraine are Russian speakers.

C. To join the anti-Russian NATO alliance and thus obtain the military backing of the Western nations, while wiping out Russian culture and Russian language-use across Ukraine. 

As Canada's Prime Minister, dictator-wannabe Justin Trudeau, shuttles around Europe lobbying for NATO membership of Ukraine, Canadians might reflect on the consequences of Zelenskyism were it to be applied in Canada. Specifically, they should think of the consequences of a Ukrainian-style, one-language, one-culture policy as it would affect Canadian unity: except there would be no Canadian unity. Quebec would be gone, and if restrained, Quebec would fight.

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The Killing in Ukraine Won't End As Long As It Hurts Russia Max Blumenthal with Colonel Doug McGregor:

Sending NATO troops to Ukraine is ‘red line’ – German official If the Germans, who have some experience with World Wars, are against another one, maybe it would be wise to consider their advice.


30% Of "Ukrainian Refugees" Are Actually From Other Countries That's OK. Canada will have them. We need them. As the fertility of the Canadian nation collapses, thanks to Trudeau I's policies on divorce and abortion, we will replace the historic Canadian nation with people from elsewhere. 

More Than One-Third Of Americans Would Risk Nuclear War Over Ukraine Do these damn-fool dupes of the globalist media propaganda not realize that in a nuclear war not only will they most likely be incinerated, but that civilization as they understand it could be entirely destroyed. 

On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss: Edward Curtin

Poland Tells Zelensky It's Seeking Armed NATO 'Peace Mission' For Ukraine Poles have form when it comes to stupidity in the run up to a World War. 

US Mulls Sending New "Switchblade" Kamikaze Robot Drone To Ukraine Wonder what the process of "mulling" amounts to when you have a demented president and crackpot VP.

NATO Moves Ahead With Military Drills In Europe, Deploys 30,000 Troops Oh not to worry. It's just a drill, they said.