Is Russia invading Ukraine?
this is a quite long post but I'm assuming if you are going around advocating for war and sanctions then you can put aside 10 minutes to look though these paragraphs.
The latest news:
Last month US media started publishing articles saying Russia was about to invade Ukraine. This intel allegedly came from "anonymous CIA sources". Headlines like these about invasion happen every year (just try to google and set the dates from 2013 to 2020), but this time they're keeping it up.
Ukrainian leaders urged western media to stop talking about imminent war since it was, you know, tanking their economy. And it had no basis. There has been russian troops movement, but so far they have stayed INSIDE Russia's borders.
(only 20% of Ukrainian people think an invasion will happen soon)
Feb 20: Ukrainian president called for an immediate ceasefire. Russian president reiterated the need for NATO to take Moscow’s demands for security guarantees seriously to avoid conflict.
Moscow's demands: that Nato remove any troops or weapons deployed to countries that entered the alliance after 1997.
Russia has also demanded that Nato rule out further expansion, including the accession of Ukraine into the alliance, and that it does not hold drills without previous agreement from Russia in Ukraine, eastern Europe.
Today, February 22nd Putin recognized the indipendence of the Ukraine separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. (aljazeera article)
The History:
summing up the following video briefly: (if you watch nothing else watch this)
- Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union.
- In 1954 Kruscev gave Crimea to Ukraine (while Russia and Ukraine were both part of the Soviet Union).
- After the Soviet Union was undemocratically disbanded, there was an agreement that Ukraine would keep the Crimean land while Russia would have control over the large military naval base there.
The US has been founding the NED in Ukraine, an american ngo that has a history of being used to bring about government changes to benefit the US.
- So in 2014 there was a coup in Ukraine, led by fascists, they overthrew what was the current government (which was mostly neutral, neither pro NATO nor pro Russia) and started to talk about banning the Russian language and joining NATO. Since a high percentage of people living in Crimea are ethnically Russian a referendum was held. 95% of the people living in Crimea voted to be reaffixed to Russia.
Now, technically they would still need a national vote to make that legal, but THIS is what the United States used to accuse Russia of "seizing Ukraine".
Nato's expansion eastward:
It needs to be pointed out that: "Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked." What does it mean for NATO and its military bases to be encroaching all around Russia? What would it mean if Ukraine were to become part of NATO?
If there is aggression towards one of its state members, the rest would 'come to the rescue' and France and Germany are nuclear powers. Of course Russia does not like being surrounded by military bases, and I'm reminding everyone there is also a military russian base right there in Crimea.
Ukrainian neonazis:
The gentlemen we saw at the top of the post, the ones with the swastikas, are the neonazi Azov Batallion. Their mission is to "place eastern European nations under the control of a white supremacist dictatorship modeled after the Nazi Reichskommisariat (that ruled Ukraine during WWII)."
There has of course been recent positive coverage of them by western outlets:
Finally:
The United States have been sending weapons and military to Ukraine, meanwhile the Russian troops have been staying inside the Russian borders. And as even the Ukrainian prime minister has reported there is no sign of an imminent invasion.
Only the US media and its lackey the EU media have been talking about invasions, initially citing anonymous sources. Here you can see the White House appointed official squirm like a worm when a journalist asks for his source on the claim of 'Russia is conducting a false flag operation':
If the United States cared at all about the Ukrainian people's wellbeing they would be conducting themselves much differently, trying for a diplomatic approach instead of trying to push for war.
What they US are trying to do is
Everyone should be very careful of what they read online, or they'll end up posting the "feel good story" of the Ukrainian granny who's "learning to shoot to defend her homeland" when she is actually being trained by neonazi batallions whose swastikas have been conveniently cropped out.
The media has in fact primed us all for this moment insisting for the past decade that Putin is nothing but a rabid dog and a cartoonishly villainous character (so of course he'd want to invade Ukraine we don't even need proof to believe them at this point right?). I'm not saying he's a nice dude I'm saying he's not a rabid dog uncapable of logical thought.
here an example of how common it is for US americans to turn real russian people into laughingstocks and caricatures:
What is funny is: Putin is in fact the handpicked successor of the man the US rigged post-soviet elections for. He is anti-communist. His latest speech indicated that he probably would like annexing Ukraine. But his demands so far are reasonable: Ukraine should not enter NATO.
And for all of you dumdums advocating for sanctions:
Sanctions harm the population.
Economic sanctions lead to an increase in the poverty gap and deprived sections of the population feel the most impact.
- For the most part sanctions fail to achieve their aims and elites manage to negotiate the adverse effects to a far greater level than poorer citizens.
- Sanctions have a damaging effect on income inequality and impact ordinary people more than the sanctioned country’s leaders.
Sanctions are not the answer. International diplomacy is. Stop reading the same two newspapers that are literally founded by arms dealing companies.
publications i relied on in this post, for further reading:
multipolarista
the grayzone
breakthroughnews
aljazeera
