Ukraine 5

"On the 28th April, as happens every year in Lviv, Ukraine, the'll hold a march to celebrate the forming of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician). Yes you read that correctly, this is 'in honor' of the Ukrainian Waffen SS division. Let that sink it."

https://twitter.com/DeanoBeano1/status/1386251067684438017

And let it also sink in that Canada knows.

"The Ukrainian army have attacked the suburbs of Gorlovka using 82mm mortars - Source: DPR representative office in the JCCC."

 

https://twitter.com/DeanoBeano1/status/1387796845401890820

 

NATO summit to discuss Ukraine's membership next month. Nuland accompanies Blinken to Kiev

https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/nato-summit-to-disc...

"...Although Ukraine is not officially a NATO country, it has attained NATO standards in the last five years thanks to support from Turkey, the US, the UK, [Canada,] and Poland. Ukraine enacted a strategy document in March to reclaim its occupied territories after realizing it had completed its military preparations.

The above, the author added, accounts for Ukraine's increasingly assertive if not abrasive approach toward the Donetsk and Lugansk republics in the Donbass and toward Russia in recent months. The unanimity and rapidity with which the US, NATO and the European Union fell into line with that new confrontational approach establishes without doubt the coordinated plan the parties had agreed on.

A statement by Polish President Andrzej Duda below hints at what may well be the larger plan. To add the final touch to plans for a united front against Russia and Belarus, it was announced that on his visit to Kiev starting today, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is accompanied by his recently confirmed Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, arguably the main architect of the 2014 violent overthrow of the government of President Viktor Yanukovych..."

Sure hope the Americans and their nasty little gang don't try anything stupid but history suggests they might be stupid enough to try.

Pepe Escobar - Pictures of a Ukrainian Dream: What really happened during Blinken's visit to Ukraine?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/56540.htm

"Leaked info on the closed-door meeting between Blinken and Comedian-in-Charge Zelensky is no less than incandescent. Blinken seems to have read a no holds barred riot act. Here are the guidelines: All Ukrainian state corporations must be controlled by the proverbial 'foreign interests.' So board majorities must be either foreign or 5th columnists. The entire anti-corruption vertical drive must also be foreign-controlled. Same for the judicial system.

Andriy Kobolyev - an American asset - must be reinstated as head of Naftogaz. Zelensky moved mountains to get rid of Kobolyev. Blinken demanded a massive push against every Ukrainian oligarch, so that huge chunks of the Ukrainian economy are transfered to - who else - foreigners. Same for land privatization. Blinken demanded that American assets should be untouchable by Ukrainian law, and named honored figures of civil society. Maidan cookie distributor Victoria 'F**k the EU' Nuland also in the room, drew up a list of The Untouchables, and Blinken met with them separately.

Finally, the giant ghost hanging over the whole trip to Kiev had to make itself known. In practice, Zelensky was invited to turn in everyone in Ukraine who helped bring information about Hunter Biden to the media via Rudolph Giuliani. According to the source who had access to the leak, Zelensky was left beyond speechless. That's not exactly what he was expecting. Especially when it comes to transferring valuable assets controlled by Ukrainian oligarchs to 'foreign interests.' Someone will inevitably whack him.

No one is touching this leak - as it it was radioactive poison. No one will confirm it. Its plausibility though cannot be denied. Contradicting the powerful, left unnamed 'foreign interests' is simply out of the question. They now seem to be guided by a 'take the money and run' logic, as in taking over the looting of Ukraine lock, stock and barrel before the whole thing - actually a failed state - blows up."

Sorry Ukraine, Uncle Sam won't be riding to your rescue...

https://on.rt.com/b9x2

"Biden delivers essential wake-up call to Keiv, ending years of delusion...'The fury coming out of Kiev this week suggests that Ukraine itself has suffered a dramatic and unexpected 'Bidensliv', being sold out by US President Joe Biden..."

Biden tells the Ukraine its a minnow with no clout at the beginning of June and by the beginning of July they are signed on to the Belt and Road initiative. US diplomacy is working well.

 

Unmasking  'Dark Foreigner': The [Canadian] Artist Who Fueled a Neo-Nazi Terror Movement

https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1413562409634123778

"One of the most striking brands he created... is for a Ukrainian wine company...apparently based in Lviv, Ukraine, a city known as a destination spot for far-right extremists who travel to the country on their way to participate in the war on Donbas..."

RF: Foreign Ministry Statement on the Interstate Claim brought by Russia against Ukraine with the European Court of Human Rights

https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw...

"On July 22, the Russian Federation filed an interstate complaint against Ukraine to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) invoking Article 33 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR).

This step is long overdue. We call on the international community to finally heed what is happening in Ukraine. Russia's appeal to the ECHR is aimed, among other things, at providing the Court with full information about the atrocities committed by the Ukrainian authorities or with their connivance, leading to numerous violations of human rights guaranteed by the ECHR..."

Canada's involvement in Ukraine as an accomplice, sponsor and funder is yet another foreign policy outrage which the Canadian left has failed to oppose or actively supported the western-backed malevolence and machinations on behalf of their proxy Ukraine.

NDPP wrote:

Ukraine's top two exports: 1. Food 2. People

https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1420760776655003654

"Kiev is facing a demographic disaster. The population was 52 million in 1991, and now could be only around 30 million. Incredibly no census has been conducted for 20 years, so it's hard to know for sure."

Life as a NATO 'enhanced opportunity partner'...

Like the Philippines, Ukraine's economy relies on people sending money home to help their families, who are destitute. Everything I have read says that Philippine workers are often mistreated and basically indentured in many countries. Even Canada's courts and tribunals deal with individual cases of this side effect of being a temporary foreign worker. When Chinese citizens move from Xinjiang to find work in other parts of China and that is move is facilitated by the government or even private businesses, it is proof of genocide, according to NATO news outlets. What a long strange trip its been.

Armed Forces of Ukraine have captured Staromaryevka

https://twitter.com/DeanoBeano1/status/1453004826208579584

"Armed Forces of Ukraine have captured the village of Staromaryevka, which is located in the so-called gray zone. 180 people live in this village, 37 of them are citizens of the Russian Federation. Shelling continues and the situation remains tense."

 

US-Backed Kiev Regime Uses Turkish Drones to Kill East Ukrainians

https://twitter.com/MarkSleboda1/status/1453091288232910849

"It's been confirmed that earlier today Ukrainian forces used the new Bayraktar TB2 attack drone in the Donbass region."

Proxy provocations ( from Ukraine to Taiwan)

https://babble.rabble.ca/comment/5700445#comment-5700445

 

Stupid personal attack above is stupid.

Another source on the use of Turkish drones:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/10/27/ukraine-destroys-pro-russian-a...

Media reports said Kiev plans to buy around 50 Bayraktar TB2 drones, a flagship model that has been used in conflicts against Russian proxies in Syria, Libya and the Nagorno-Karabakh region at the center of a decades-long dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Ukraine and Turkey signed a memorandum in late September to establish a joint training and maintenance center for the drones in Ukraine. This month, Ukraine’s foreign minister said it plans to build a factory to produce Bayraktar drones in the country.

The sale of drones to Kiev places Ankara in a delicate position, as Turkey also cooperates in the defense sector with Russia, Ukraine's rival."

Yes, Erdogan's Turkey is famous at trying to play all sides simultaneously. He has also riled NATO by his purchase of the state of the art Russian anti-missile S-400 system. US has refused to deliver the F-35s Turkey has already paid for in response.

But back to Ukraine. This may help in understanding the latest developments with this western proxy vis a vis Russia.

Divining Putin: What Russia is willing to do (or not) for its own interests

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/10/27/divining-putin-what-russia-...

"On the whole, President Vladimir Putin's remarks to the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi this year were conciliatory in tone towards the Biden administration, and he did not take up a number of opportunities to criticize the United States.

Putin and most of the Russian establishment appear to believe that Biden and his team are indeed anxious to avoid a new crisis with Russia (very understandably, given the state of US-China relations).

There was, however, one very important exception: Ukraine..."

What about Bolsonaro, Dutarte, Erdogan, Assad,Orban, Salvini, Modi and other right wing Putin allies?

Putin is a right wing homophobic autocrat and almost certainly a murderer.

it is astounding there is so much support for him a so-called progressive forum.

the Read Prince Kropotkin would have told Putin to fuck off.

Ukraine is a flawed democracy, but at least it is largely democratic. Putin's Russia is anything but.

In Ukraine the US is Risking War

https://t.co/k0VDLpFfUH

"There is fear in Russia that the US is egging the Ukraine into a renewed active conflict with its renegade eastern Donbass region ad thereby into a war with Russia. In his latest RF Sitrep [former Cdn CF analyst] Patrick Armstrong recollects the most recent developments.

The fear in Moscow is not that the US will attack Russia. But the high activity of US forces in the area and the incitement Kiev gets from Washington might make the Ukrainian leadership believe that Washington has its back and will come to help when it attacks the Donbass region and Russia hits back.

That belief would be false. Alistair Crooke notes a typical US behavior towards Taiwan, Israel and the Ukraine. It incites them towards conflict but when the backlash inevitably comes it will be unable or unwilling to help them.

I also see analogies to Hong Kong where the Trump administration incited a student revolt but did nothing when China finally intervened. That was seen as a success by Trump and Pompeo, but the opposition in HK lost out and HK is no longer the US' easy entry point into China.

The Biden administration's warmongering towards Russia may be seen to be free of cost. But it takes only one miscalculation by Kiev or some unforeseen incident in the Black Sea region, and the situation could seriously escalate."

Is Biden Looking to Reignite a Dirty War in Ukraine? Recent Visit by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Raises Concerns

https://t.co/wsO31kzDIP

"In Part one, Bentley provides an assessment of the current tensions in the Ukraine and the character of the regime. Ranked as one of the most corrupt governments in the world, it is a monstrous creation of the US empire guilty of large-scale war crimes..."

 

CAF in Ukraine

https://twitter.com/CAFinUkraine/status/1458384952303792132

"This week NGU special operations units demonstrated their skills in markmanship, helicopter egress and combat medicine during a demonstration day. #OPUNIFIER is proud to show its support of the world-class experience demonstrated by our Ukrainian partners."

CF Trains NATO-Nazis in Ukraine. Why?

https://twitter.com/mikolaswed/status/913468028741996545

'In the fight for liberal democracy, Ukraine is ground-zero." Chrystia Freeland

Prince, a hallmark of democracy is whether regime change can be effected at the ballot box.

in it's short history as an independent country, there has been at least four democratic regime changes in Ukraine, three where incumbent presidents have lost elections, something unimaginable in Putin's Russia.

So Prince, do you support Ukraine:

1. Coniuing to be an independent country.

2. Re-integrating with Putin's Russia into a single coutry,

3. being nominally independent but within Russia's sphere of influence?

Ukrainian President Zelensky Deepens Alliance with Far Right

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/01/ukr-m01.html

"...Zelensky, who came to power in 2019 due to widespread disillusionment and disgust with his right-wing nationalist predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, has in fact continued and increased the conspicuous alliance of Ukraine's oligarchy with neo-Nazi thugs..."

 

Neo-Nazis and the Far Right are On the March in Ukraine

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/

"By tolerating neo-Nazi gangs and battalions, state-led Holocaust distortions and attacks on LGBT and the Roma, the US is telling the rest of Europe: 'We're fine with this.' The implications - especially at a time of global far-right revival - are profoundly disturbing..."

"The Ukrainian people deserve a chance to figure it out themselves"

I certainly agree with you there, Prince. Unfortunately Putin does not.

US Stokes Tensions With Russia Over Claims of an Impending Invasion of Ukraine

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/24/5a8d-n24.html

"The US continues to fuel tensions with Russia, promoting unsubstantiated claims over an attempted planned invasion of Ukraine. As is always the case in the NATO war propaganda machine, these statements and reports are based virtually exclusively on sources in US and EU intelligence. Tensions have been running high throughout this year, stoked by NATO and the Kiev government..."

 

The High Stakes of the US-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/11/24/the-high-stakes-of-the-u-s-russi...

"The ratcheting up of US and NATO support for government forces in Ukraine's civil war is having ever-worsening consequences. But after Biden promised a new era of American diplomacy, his foreign policy team is new widely acknowledged to have instead brought US relations with Russia and China to all-time lows.

Three decades after declaring victory in the Cold War and after the self-inflicted chaos of the US 'Global War on Terror', US military planners have settled on a new Cold War as the most persuasive pretext to perpetuate their trillion-dollar war machine and their unattainable ambition to dominate the entire planet..."

 

Russia-NATO War over Ukraine is Becoming Increasingly Unavoidable

https://on.rt.com/blbp

"NATO and Russia certainly now appear to be heading towards war in Ukraine..."

War of Words: Blinken & Lavrov trade jobs over Ukraine (and vid)

https://youtu.be/xRL7Yu9UsII

"This is a very, very dangerous solution. We could be sleep-walking into war here."

 

CrossTalk: Ukraine in Play

https://youtu.be/o-Wa_9w-u1A

"Again there are rumors of war. There are rumors of invasion. And again the country is Ukraine. There are allegations of a Russian military build-up near its Ukrainian border. Though it is a fact that Kiev is receiving lethal aid from NATO countries, who benefits from this strategem?"

Putin's Plans for Ukraine

https://gordonhahn.com/2021/11/29/putins-plans-for-ukraine/

"...In reality there is virtually no scenario in which Putin would seek to incorporate into Russia by force all Ukraine, even all of Eastern Ukraine, or even 'Novorossiya' or southeastern Ukraine. Putin does not want to do anything to give the West motives or the pretext to halt NordStream 2.

Putin's [previous] 'moves' in Georgia and Ukraine were countermeasures, responses to aggressive actions by Russia's neighbors supported by the West and in both cases occurring in countries the West most wants to see in NATO and, less importantly, the EU.

In Georgia, the Georgians started the August 2008 war by killing 19 Russian peacekeepers and tens if not hundreds of South Ossetian civilians in indiscriminate missile attacks. In Ukraine, the West backed a nascent 'color-revolution' that was hijacked by Ukrainian ultra-nationalists and neo-fascists.

The myth that Putin is chomping at the bit to reincorporate all Ukraine into the Russian 'fold' is a manufactured crisis. The most Putin wants is a friendly Ukraine. Beyond that, any additional, partial or full reintegration will be undertaken only as a matter of necessity created by Western actions, as occurred in the case of Crimea's annexation and support for the Donbass separatists (but notably not for actual separation/separatism thus far).

Ignored in Western analyses of a 'Russian buildup' of forces near Ukraine, which is also a troop rotation, is that there has been no shortage of aggressive moves by the West over past months and years. NATO is building a miltary base for Ukraine on the Black Sea that could have a NATO contingent.

Neo-fascist battalions incorporated into the Ukrainian army claim they continue to receive training from Western, specifically Canadian forces. Thus, the Ukrainians could restart a war even without an official decision or policy from President Volodomyr Zelenskyi, especially as Kiev is being egged on by Western claims a Russian invasion of Ukraine is coming.

Oddly, just a little more than a week ago, General Sergei Shapital, Chairman of the Ukrainian armed forces' general staff denied Russia was moving troops on Ukraine's borders.

Simon Saradzhyan in an excellent analysis of Putin's Ukraine calculus that concurs almost precisely with my own writes: 'Should, however, Putin's [scheduled] meeting with Biden either get canceled or fail to produce progress-- then Putin may indeed conclude that he has exhausted the non-military options vis-a-vis Ukraine and that use of force is necessary to defend Russia's interest in a rational Ukraine.

Given the planned timing of Putin's planned meeting with Biden, it is likely that Putin will not finalize a decision on sending troops until next year (unless of course, Zelensky makes the first military move on the ground..."

NDPP wrote:

The US embassy in Moscow is the last operational US mission in the country, which has shrunk to 120 staff from 1,200 in early 2017, Washington says.

This seems very odd. It is a dramatic change, but I'd never heard of it until just now. When did these 90% of diplomatic staff leave Russia? The phrasing makes it seem as if it was mostly or totally during the Trump administration. Is that actually the case, or has a lot of it been in the last year? What official reasons were given for such a major move?