Note and "disclaimer" . I write this for sympathy for the Ukrainian people, hopefully
this conflict will be resolved peacefully . I am writing here to expose the
corrupt Washington D.C. politics that led
to Russia invading Ukraine .
The problem is we are trying to be the world's policeman. We can't afford it for one & Ukraine & Russia are the same type of Government. (1)>>Biden took bribes from Ukraine through his son and now you want to trust him ( along with other countries )?Is the life of our young worth it? (1.1)>>Ukraine is a huge American foreign policy blunder .U.S. war hawks and their mouthpieces in the media claim that Russia is on the verge of invading Ukraine. SO IT HAS ALREADY NOW WHAT??? (1.2)>>Ukraine has been like a fly on the shoulder of the American tax payer .The analysis of Nato’s weaknesses and Putin’s intentions was no doubt widely shared but Biden had said the quiet part loud, contradicting what his own officials had been saying. Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, had just been telling Foreign Policy that one of the great successes of the Biden administration was “the 30 allies of Nato [were] speaking with one voice in the Russia-Ukraine crisis”. The American taxpayers have provided roughly $1.7 billion in financial support to Ukraine over the last three years.For what?European countries were not pulling their weight in (2)>>supporting Ukraine and that he is merely trying to root out corruption. While some may scoff at these defenses, our tax dollars are actually being used to fund a variety of programs that are trying to stymie corruption in Ukraine. The mess right now in Ukraine is decades long , starting with the (3)>>2014 coup that many blame American sabotage to get rid of a pro Russian puppet , the American adventurism installed their puppet . Hard to say. I don't think the answer is a definitive no like everyone else is saying. The US backed a coup in 2014 which led to the overthrow of the existing government. The entire time before and after we were setting up our favorite guy to win the election that would be had following the coup. Though the USA does not currently have troops there, we have from time to time sent troops there to conduct military training and exercises with Ukrainian troops (with the intention of scaring Russia as many military leaders have attested to). NATO however does have troops there and NATO is essentially the USA's European arm.(3.1)>>Now PUTIN WANTS HIS PUPPET in. LET US GO BACK In the first month of the Obama presidency, Vice President Biden said the administration would work to reset relations with Russia. Initially, the US pushed for Russia to join the World Trade Organization. Antony Blinken, who advised Biden for almost two decades, suggested a new beginning. “We’re not trying to build our own sphere of influence,” he said in 2009 while visiting Ukraine with Biden. “The partnerships aren’t being built against anyone. They’re being built for the purpose of addressing common challenges that Russia also faces.”This fell apart for almost a decade after the overthrow Viktor Yanukovych, from then on Ukraine has been caught between the United Sates and Russia . One of the most disturbing factors first is that (4)>>Ukraine is a vary poor country that was not getting any kind of humanitarian aide from the US . The "aide" that the American government sent to Ukraine in the last decades was over 6 billion dollars worth of weapons that armed a regime that most considered as being corrupt . Weapons from the west to Ukraine are still going on with no avail . (5)>>The U.S. would lie its way into WWIII before admitting that its wars are fought for one reason alone: to make rich men richer. Russia’s vast mineral, oil and gas wealth is what the U.S. is really after. Here’s the truth: The U.S. has been on a steady march to push troops closer to Russia, despite assurances U.S./NATO forces would not move “one inch eastward,” in the words of U.S. Secretary of State James Baker in 1990. To raid resources, expand markets and exploit more workers, the U.S. and the EU want Russia under their boot, just like they’ve got Ukraine, Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe. While Big Business media has incessantly beat the drum for war with Russia, they bury the fact that in 2021 alone, the U.S. government pledged more than $400 million in taxpayer dollars to build up the military power of the fascist government of Ukraine — which the Obama/Biden administration installed after a violent coup in 2014. The coup accomplished two main goals for the U.S.: Ukraine was forced to submit to the control of U.S. and EU banks; and it became a major buyer of U.S. weapons, which are now aimed at neighboring Russia.Since 2014 the country has seen an explosion of terrorism against trade unionists and Roma, Jewish and LGBTQ people. (6)>>Fascist gangs like the C14 patrol the streets of Kiev with the official sanction of the government. Living standards have declined to the point that 22.9% of Ukrainian children suffer from chronic malnutrition, according to the U.N.U.S. strategists, war planners, corporate media and politicians are unanimous in demanding that the European Union must prepare to impose the most extreme economic sanctions, especially (6.1)>>the drastic step of blocking the new Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia. Why are U.S. officials so focused on blocking the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia into Germany and other EU countries? Why is the trade in other essential energy supplies also being threatened? (7)>>The Ukrainian military now has a force of 150,000 troops, armed with modern U.S. weapons and trained by U.S. “advisers,” along with fascist mercenary and Special Ops units near the Russian border and the independent regions in Donbass, which they have been shelling.Thousands of additional U.S. troops are arriving in the region. U.S.-commanded NATO bases in Poland and Romania are being expanded with advanced missile batteries, able to fire nuclear-capable missiles that can reach Russian cities within 30 minutes. For months U.S. and British naval operations have continued on the Black Sea off the Russian coast.Funny thing - Ukrainians are reluctant to commit a suicide by attacking Russia. USA with other puppets took “their people“ away, so those puppets do not wait for Afghanistanian scenario - they are not strong enough to keep airplanes wheels as puppets in AFG. Zelensky had even banned MPs and other puppets from leaving the country.USA with other puppets are going to open the air-blockade. No airplanes to and from Ukraine. (8)>>That Russia has provided a reliable energy source threatens U.S. economic domination of Europe. Washington perceives this trade as opening the door to further trade with Russia. Of even greater concern, it’s an opening to China’s Belt and Road trade and development initiatives. Tomorrow Russian people will be poorer and angrier than ever. Anger in Russia will never be truly visible until people have had enough of it. Then it will be quite something. He will for sure try to diverge that anger onto Ukraine.Yes he did this before with Crimea and other wars like Syria and such. All equally terrible. But now he is messing directly with NATO. And threatening to engage multiple countries. No matter what, I think Putin severely overplayed his hand here. And I am afraid at what will happen when you force one of the worlds most powerful leaders, who scares other rulers of the country, into a corner. BUT the blame for this is also at the door step of American failed policy toward Russia & Ukraine . RIGHT after writing this (9)>>I can only hope for PEACE between all sides , am against any further escalation of this war .
NOTES AND COMMENTS: (1)>>Biden took bribes from Ukraine . On April 16, 2014, Vice President Biden met with his son’s business partner, Devon
Archer, at the White House. Five days later, Vice President Biden visited Ukraine, and he soon
after was described in the press as the “public face of the administration’s handling of Ukraine.”
The day after his visit, on April 22, Archer joined the board of Burisma. Six days later, on April
28, British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma’s owner,
Mykola Zlochevsky. Fourteen days later, on May 12, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma,
and over the course of the next several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid
millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.United States Vice President Joe Biden has never been one to hold his tongue. He certainly didn’t in his recent trip to Kiev. In a speech before Ukraine’s Parliament, Biden told legislators that corruption was eating Ukraine “like a cancer,” and warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that Ukraine had “one more chance” to confront corruption before the United States cuts off aid. (1.1)>>Ukraine is a huge American foreign policy blunder .Let's talk about hypocrisy. Where were the protests when US/NATO was slaughtering millions of people in the Middle East? Where are the protests about the millions of starving people in Afghanistan caused by US/NATO occupation. No protests for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen? 😎A lot of people posting about their concern for people in Kyiv haven't ever tweeted about their concern for people in Damascus, Palestine, Yemen, Somalia, etc. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it isn't good whatever it is.The crisis exposes the intensifying competition to dominate all of Europe, especially Germany, the largest economic power in Europe and the dominant force in the European Union. NOW only thing US Gov cares about those conflicts is if they can take part it in, either actively with troops or by selling weapons. (1.2)>>Ukraine has been like a fly on the shoulder of the American tax payer . AS stated , the US Gov could not ignore a conflict to send billions of tax payer dollars overseas . The Biden administration wants Congress to provide $6.4 billion to pay for an initial U.S. response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, largely for military and humanitarian assistance in the region, three people familiar with the request . Lawmakers, returning from a recess, plan to focus next week on writing bipartisan legislation financing federal agencies for the rest of this year. Leaders hope to approve that roughly $1.5 trillion measure by March 11, when money temporarily financing government will run out.It was initially unclear whether the Ukraine money would be part of that broader budget legislation, if not how quickly The United States has given Ukraine $2.7 billion in military aid since 2014, including $650 million since President Biden took office, along with deployments of U.S. and NATO military trainers. it would move and whether lawmakers would attempt to attach additional U.S. sanctions against Russia. However the American tax payer is punished with a economy that is crashing under the Biden Administration .(2)>>supporting Ukraine and that he is merely trying to root out corruption. United States Vice President Joe Biden has never been one to hold his tongue. He certainly didn’t in his recent trip to Kiev. In a speech before Ukraine’s Parliament, Biden told legislators that corruption was eating Ukraine “like a cancer,” and warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that Ukraine had “one more chance” to confront corruption before the United States cuts off aid.We'd better focus on the levels of economic freedoms (Ukraine has one of the lowest), separation of the branches of power, independence of courts, robust mechanisms for implementing court decisions.Corrupt yes, dictatorship no. Why should you be concerned? Because if you let countries use false flag operations to steal pieces of a sovereign country without any repercussions then ANY country can use this as an excuse. It will cause more havoc and more casualties and even if you are not directly involved you will feel it anyway (economically for example). When it comes to Ukrainian corruption, the numbers speak for themselves. Over $12 billion per year disappears from the Ukrainian budget, according to an adviser to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau. And in its most recent review of global graft, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International ranked Ukraine 142 out of 174 countries on its Corruption Perceptions Index — below countries such as Uganda, Nicaragua and Nigeria. Ordinary Ukrainians also endure paying petty bribes in all areas of life. From vehicle registration, to getting their children into kindergarten, to obtaining needed medicine, everything connected to government has a price.(3)>>2014 coup that many blame American sabotage to get rid of a pro Russian puppet. The U.S. role in managing the coup was exposed by a leaked 2014 audio recording of Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt working on their plans, which included sidelining the European Union and shoehorning in U.S. protege Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister. Both of Nuland’s hand-picked puppets in Ukraine, Prime Minister Yatsenyuk and President Poroshenko, were soon mired in corruption scandals. Yatsenyuk was forced to resign after two years and Poroshenko was named in a tax evasion scandal revealed in the Panama Papers. Post-coup, war-torn Ukraine remains the poorest country in Europe, and one of the most corrupt. In 2015, the Minsk and Normandy negotiations led to a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from a buffer zone around the separatist-held areas. Ukraine agreed to grant greater autonomy to Donetsk, Luhansk, and other ethnically Russian areas of Ukraine, but it has failed to follow through on that agreement. But the U.S. and NATO’s interest in Ukraine is not really about resolving its regional differences, but about something else altogether. The U.S. coup was calculated to put Russia in an impossible position. If Russia did nothing, a post-coup Ukraine would sooner or later join NATO, as NATO members had already agreed to in principle in 2008. NATO forces would advance right up to Russia’s border, and Russia’s important naval base at Sevastopol in the Crimea would fall under NATO control. (3.1)>>Now PUTIN WANTS HIS PUPPET in . NOW PUTIN strikes back after a decade of US control of Ukraine, now he wants to put his puppet in . Putin is no fool , he sensed the danger of Ukraine joining NATO . I guess Putin picked up the idea of "regime change" from the American yahoo adventures of the last two decades . TIME TO INVADE !!!! Yevheniy Murayev seems almost thankful that British intelligence outed him as Vladimir Putin’s suspected choice to head a puppet government in case of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with The Daily Beast, the wealthy 45-year-old politician, who now finds himself at the center of a global media firestorm surrounding the report, said he is “amused” by the “name recognition” he has acquired over the past few weeks.Murayev is less than coy about his historically pro-Russia views. As the founder of a notorious pro-Russia TV channel—on which he is a regular guest—his loyalty to the Kremlin has been on public display for years.Adding to that, the politician is also open about his plans to run in Ukraine’s 2024 presidential elections. As a buildup of Russian troops surrounds Ukraine’s borders, and millions fear what seems to be inevitable war, Murayev says he is carefully—and ambitiously—plotting his path to the very top of Ukraine’s government.(4)>>Ukraine is a vary poor country . Ukraine is a middle-income country. Its GDP per capita (PPP) is somewhere around $13000, which is similar to Libya or Paraguay. That’s not terrible, but what is terrible is how Ukraine has stagnated since the fall of the Soviet Union. By the World Bank’s reckoning, Ukraine is about 20% poorer now than it was in 1990!So why did this happen? Why has Ukraine failed economically? One obvious culprit is the war itself, which since 2014 has chilled foreign investment and forced the government to divert resources toward the military.(5)>>The U.S. would lie its way into WWIII before admitting that its wars are fought for one reason alone: to make rich men richer. NO ONE WANTS A WAR ! I explained , but the Military Complex in the US, every American should FEAR a lot more .And you trust the Government & Media?The French told us not to go into South Vietnam but we did anyway. We were in for over 10 years supporting a corrupt government and lost 55 thousand men because the other side was communist. We found out years later the Government lied about the "Tonken affair" and pushed this lie to get us into a war. We found out the Generals knew we could not win the war. All this was discovered in the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s.We went to war in Iraq on a lie. Did we not learn from this? Why do you trust the information we are getting? Biden's family - (Through Family members} received bribe money from this corrupt country and this does not bother you?(6)>>Fascist gangs like the C14 patrol the streets of Kiev. Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators. These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity.(6.1)>>the drastic step of blocking the new Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline . The 745-mile natural gas pipeline called Nord Stream 2, a joint German-Russian energy project, undercuts the ability of giant U.S. energy corporations to sell their far more expensive natural gas extracted through hydraulic fracturing or fracking. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is now complete. It was awaiting final certification by German regulators, which the German government is withholding. The pipeline, which transmits Russian natural gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany, also bypasses Ukrainian transit infrastructure.Russia already provides around a third of Europe’s natural gas through other existing pipelines. While it is far cheaper, environmentally preferable and more direct to build pipelines from Russia to European customers than to export from North America, U.S. corporations are driven to offload liquefied natural gas (LNG) gas in Europe, Asia or elsewhere. Both Democrat and Republican politicians are united in their determination to stop Nord Stream 2. (7)>>The Ukrainian military now has a force of 150,000 troops. Ukraine's forces meanwhile amount to barely more than the number of troops Russia had amassed around its borders, with a standing army of 145,000, 45,000 in the air force and 11,000 in the navy, according to the IISS.It has some 100,000 other forces and 900,000 reserve soldiers.Analysts also note that the gulf in firepower is even wider in terms of military hardware, with Russia's almost 16,000 armoured fighting vehicles -- including tanks -- dwarfing the Ukrainian fleet of 3,300.Artillery numbers show a similar difference, while the Ukrainian air force is a tenth the size of its Russian counterpart.(8)>>That Russia has provided a reliable energy source threatens U.S. economic domination of Europe. The United States announced on Wednesday that the US would impose sanctions on the company in charge of building Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.The sanctions, which target the Nord Stream 2 AG company and its corporate officers, add to pressure on the Baltic Sea project that was designed to double the gas flow capacity from Russia to Germany.Europe relies on Russia for around 40 per cent of its natural gas. Most comes through pipelines including Yamal-Europe, which crosses Belarus and Poland to Germany, and Nord Stream 1, which goes directly to Germany, and via Ukraine.Europe's gas markets are linked by a network of pipelines. Most countries have cut reliance on Russian gas over the years and there are also more supply routes that bypass Ukraine. By last year Ukraine was a transit corridor largely for gas going into Slovakia, from where it continued to Austria and Italy.(9)>>I can only hope for PEACE. We can only hope for peace . Both sides have to find common ground . The West has to cease sending weapons to Ukraine for starters . I think it's possible to do better, but IMO a big part of it has to do with citizens of democracy caring more about their government, and then doing more to help other countries living under dictatorship. Right now the US is in retreat from the world mode. War is hell on Earth. And I know that humanity isn't perfect. But we should be better than this. We should TRY to be better than this.War is the politics of rich old men who are having a spat, and use their young men and women to go and kill each other so they can figure out who gets to be the bigger billionaire.I hope it does not come across as yet another hollow gesture, but maybe that is unavoidable, as we live at the whims and pressures of our "leaders".
