President Putin is the greatest leader of the 21st century. Nobody else comes even close. It is a tragedy for the West that he has been so maligned and misunderstood, on purpose. Notice that I said, for the West. The rest of the world, the global supermajority, gets it. As time passes we will realize that what the West thinks is insignificant, as is the West itself. The West is really just the US, and the US sits on an isolated continent as the real world passes it by. Geography is fate. It should be obvious now that the US cannot effectively project either military or economic power. Thank you Donald Trump!
You really didn’t understand a thing of what was said. Apparently you have more trust to the ridiculous propaganda put out but the neocons & warmongers who see Russia as a country ripe for looting if only they can get rid of the Russian patriots. Very sad but oh so “American”
St Petersburg is the neo Nazi capital of Europe, where they hold international neonazi forums and paramilitary training at the Partizan neonazi camp, which is blessed by Russian patriarch Kirill because they promote the revival of the Holy Russian Empire. Putin is a Russian imperialist in the line of the Czars and Stalin. Not far from Nazism though it is its own brand of Russian imperialism. They deny how Stalin got into bed with the Nazis. On 15 August 1939 Stalin was smiling ear to ear cosying up to hideous Nazi Joachim von Ribbentrop, a month before they invaded Poland together from East and West with a pre arranged demarcation line. It was not Stalin's initiative to part ways with the Nazis in 1941 either.
Of course none of that is true, even n a fever dream. Kiev is the nazi capital of Europe, and Kirill does not bless neonazis. Maybe don't say stuff that can be looked up in 5 seconds you degenerate.
Check out Antony Sutton's Wallstreet and the Bolsheviks and Wallstreet and the Rise of Hitler. See nazi grandchildren in power today in europe UK Canada. See zionists in Israel (their Haavara agreement with hitler triggered the holding camps that became death camps). The soviet union is history but they did defeat and continue to defeat nazis and ukranian nazis like the Azov and banderites and in general any genocidal ukranians (because forbidding the language, religion and culture if 2/3 of ukrainians is a genocide just like moving populations or killing them by doing the unrecognizable wests dirty work).
Putin has killed as many Ukrainians as Netanyahu has killed Palestinians in Gaza. Zionist Israel also calls its victims "Nazis". That's not a good enough excuse for killing tens of thousands of people for your imperialist expansionism.
The Soviet Union was full blown Nazi ally until Hitler kicked them out of bed. They invaded Poland together and Hitler helped Stalin invade Finland by blocking British French assistance to Finland at the Baltic straits between Sweden and Denmark. Stalin even sent Hitler congratulations on the conquest of Paris.
It's a bit puzzling… History shows how the US has lied about almost everything… Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Iran, Iran-Contra, Libya, Israel, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Philippines, fishing boats in the Pacific, (the list just goes on and on) and damn near everything domestic. All lies and propaganda, year after year, with the mainstream media serving up stenographic services for the deep state. Lies and propaganda… and yet we accept and believe every word the government spews about Russia and Putin. Lies about everything else, but on Russia, nothing but the truth. Puzzling, indeed!
There is nothing puzzling, people obfuscate and lie about their own flaws and wrongdoing while pointing out the flaws and wrongdoing of others very clearly. If we are being honest, Russia and the West are both bloody imperialist villains who analyse each other's crimes very well but mince their words quite predictably about their own misdeeds.
Reading down the list of comments. Pack of Russiaphobes. Considering the actions of the west these last 50 years I have to wionder will they ever take their blinders off.
You know the old saying: never believe anything until it's been officially swarmed by trolls. Evidently the Duran has become sufficiently effective (or feared) to be worth targeting.
Personally I like the CIA's declassified history chapter on its support for the Ukrainian Nazis, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/STUDIES%20IN%20INTELLIGENCE%20NAZI%20-%20RELATED%20ARTICLES_0015.pdf. Especially on p22, talking of the CIA's predecessor the SSU and its director Colonel Quinn: even in 1946 'Quinn considered the Ukrainians "adroit political intriguers and past masters in the art of propaganda" who would not hesitate to use the United States for their own ends.'
Don't forget Putin is the guy Blair helped kill a quarter of a million people in Chechnya. Blair invited Putin on a state visit complete with a golden carriage ride with the Queen.
When he visited Bush in the White House they proclaimed their Afghanistan-Chechnya-Iraq common front in their “war on terror”.
Thank you Mr. Kurpis, you are surely a voice of reason. In 2001 during his visit to Germany, his speech to the German parliament, the Bundestag, held in perfect German, had been met with standing ovation. After the Munich Security (!) Conference in 2007, where he complained about the lack of will in the West to accept Russia as an equal partner, he got silence from the audience in response. This was precisely the moment when NATO propaganda outlets started producing the image of Putin, the autocrat, Putin the butcher of Tchechnya and so on. Only one year later POTUS Bush jr. insisted on inviting Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO which was - according to Ambassador William Burns - the brightest of all red lines for Russia. long story made short for people who are not familiar with the facts and spread propaganda lies instead.
It is interesting to suggest diplomatic initiatives were undermined by Zelensky, when Zelensky offered to hold high level negotiations in Istanbul and Putin sent Vladimir Medinsky, a fringe figure at best, a former culture minister who had fallen out of favour in 2020, with no real mandate to negotiate anything. This was the definition of a diplomatic snub.
Let’s see, Putin 1.0 was focused on diplomacy and negotiations. With the US. So when the US offered him an offramp to prevent him attacking Ukraine, he chose what? War. That was Putin 2.0. Back in 2022. The thing that has changed is that Ukraine has shed its reliance on the United States and NATO, and has developed its own organic capabilities to stand up to the naked aggression that began in 2014 with the takeover of Crimea. And guess what? Ukraine is methodically isolating Crimea from Russia. Crimea is unsustainable, and we are weeks or months away from Crimea transitioning to new government. It is a horse race between Putin and Trump as to which is the worst leader of the 21st-century.
I truly do not understand men like you (not that I understand Americans, in general, either, a very peculiar species of humans). Do you, like, have too much time on your hands? Why not commit yourself to reading the cia-scripted western press releases but instead come here, read a considerably long article, and even comment? Who cares about what you think? You just rehash the main points of the dead-end, irredeemably Russophobic western press. I sincerely hope you live long enough to see all your geopolitical mental constructs trashed. By History. . . .
Fair enough! In which case I take the view the most enjoyable approach is not to bother defending - history will do that - but to attack: identify who benefits from the troll activity, and then skewer the beneficiary with unexpected and authoritative (never media) sources. In this matter the beneficiary seems to be Ukraine, for which my favorite sources are the US Army and the CIA. Here's an example taken from the latter, used already in this thread:
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Personally I like the CIA's declassified history chapter on its support for the Ukrainian Nazis, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/STUDIES%20IN%20INTELLIGENCE%20NAZI%20-%20RELATED%20ARTICLES_0015.pdf. Especially on p22, talking of the CIA's predecessor the SSU and its director Colonel Quinn: even in 1946 'Quinn considered the Ukrainians "adroit political intriguers and past masters in the art of propaganda" who would not hesitate to use the United States for their own ends.'
Whoa! Ukrainians are the "masters in the art of propaganda"? Between the shots of vodka? See, you have just proven how asinine and incompetent the Americans are, even their best intelligence dudes. Actually, it is so painful to watch the west destroy Ukraine and its people. Anglo-Germans are so racists towards the Slavs. I hate them.
[edited] You may well be right. Just like any other quote in a similar context, it doesn't establish anything beyond what somebody thought someone else thought...
That source is from 28 years ago and references none of today’s players. In fact, the Soviet Union made a deal with the Nazis and partitioned Poland and it was the Nazis who ended that deal, the Soviets supported the Nazis until the surprise attack. In case you forgot, Russia abrogated three signed treaties with Ukraine and invaded Crimea in 2014. And Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022. Ukraine is defending its sovereignty. Go home Russia!
Thanks Ed, but it's an ancient troll trick to put in an initial vanilla response (in your case just *four* words!), and then massively edit it without flagging the edit. In your next identity, feel free to play nice. Cheers!
"Soviet Union made a deal with the Nazis and partitioned Poland. . ." blah blah blah. Just repeat this ad nauseum and feel smug and smart about it. Without a modicum of understanding of any real history, especially of the USSR.
Russian ARE home in Crimea (Krym, an old Turkic name actually). They did not invade Krym as one cannot invade one's own land, besides there were nuclear subs stored there, about to be appropriated by the NATO nazis.
There WAS a referendum there, you brainwashed ass. It has been Russian since the Turks left, and even before.
Ukraine does not have any sovereignty!! It is an invented country. Ukrainian is not a real language, it has been recently invented from the mixture of the local Russian dialects and the Polish brought over by the western Ukrainian fascists (a compounded language, like the Israeli “Hebrew”). It is paiful to hear them.
Have you ever been in Krym? If yes—which is doubtful—did you EVER meet ANY natives in Krym who actually spoke anything but Russian and very occasionally Tatar, Greek or Armenian? How can a man who thinks of himself as intelligent go on actually REPEATING word-for-word the official propaganda? For a Russian, it is an unforgivable stupidity. Back in the USSR, we excommunicated ppl like you, we felt nothing but pity and contempt toward the folks who repeated the Party slogans.
Remeber, Ed Ellis, the Internet never forgets. All your Russophobic lies here might as well have been printed in stone. It is the same as being pro war in Iraq a few decades ago. You will be shamed and be ashamed.
Europe's complicity in fuelling the Ukrainian crisis is undeniable. Together with the United States, European countries orchestrated the Orange Revolution in Kiev in 2004. To create an anti-Russian bridgehead in Ukraine, they spent years buying off politicians and entire parties, rewriting history and educational curricula, cultivating and nurturing Ukrainian nationalism, and went to great lengths to pull away Ukraine away from Russia.
In 2013, the European Union rejected outright our proposal for a compromise on the association agreement – a deal Brussels had long been pressing Viktor Yanukovich to sign. It is worth recalling: Ukraine was offered unilateral market opening, without reciprocal commitments – terms that would have proved incompatible with Kiev's continued membership in the CIS free-trade zone. When Viktor Yanukovich requested a deferral, the Europeans incited street riots which swiftly escalated into a coup d'état in Kiev in February 2014.
Germany, France and Poland then proved themselves to be equally treacherous. Having guaranteed that the agreement struck between the opposition and Viktor Yanukovich would be honoured, they washed their hands of it the instant that same opposition, their own handiwork, took power. "Democracy," they shrugged, "takes unexpected turns."
Europe thereafter lent its backing to the new authorities. In Odessa on 2 May 2014, the burning alive of dozens of innocent supporters of closer ties with Russia did not draw a single word of condemnation from European capitals.
As co-guarantors of the 2015 Minsk Agreements, France and Germany effectively encouraged the Ukrainian regime to sabotage its own commitments. As Angela Merkel and François Hollande later conceded – after the special military operation had already begun – the implementation by Kiev of the Minsk Agreements, unanimously approved by the UN Security Council, was never genuinely intended. The objective, they admitted, was merely to buy time: to shore up the Armed Forces of Ukraine and flood them with Western weaponry.
Thank you Kurpis for one of the very few objective & informed analysis of Putin & Russian reasoning. If only people would question Western propaganda & motives
Thank you Kurpis for one of the very few objective & informed analysis of Putin & Russian reasoning. If only people would question Western propaganda & motives before regurgitating the same old worn out lies that masquerade as US foreign policy
Putin is the guy Blair helped kill a quarter of a million people in Chechnya. When he visited Bush in the White House they proclaimed their Afghanistan-Chechnya-Iraq common front in their “war on terror”.
Do you make light of the trans Atlantic slave trade, because at the end of the day the 10th cavalry “proudly” helped with the genocide of Native Americans.
Who did the slave trading? Who killed the native americans and why? Why then? Fomenkos chronology will provide answers if you get over the "pseudoscientific" deterrant placed on his mathematical and statistical evidence. Beliwve me if you are on this thread you are not one of the liars but are bedazzled by their stories. You do not profit from war or conquest. You most likely provide the blood. There are two sets of people in each country and they keep things churning.
The 10th Cavalry were recently freed black slaves. They turned up in the nick of time to save the white man and help win crucial battles the Native Americans were about to win before the 10th Cavalry turned up.
You pretend you don't see the analogy with the Akhmat militia and you try to change the subject. Like a Zionist would do, they "argue" like that too. Russia apologists and Zionist apologists say so many of the same things these days I sometimes wonder who copied it from whom.
Anna Politkovskaya documented and exposed Putin's atrocities in Chechnya and she was executed for Putin on his birthday in the entrance of her Moscow home.
Former Russia-1 editor-in-chief Dmitry Skorobutov recently claimed that, following the Bolotnaya Square protests of 2011–2012, special news broadcasts began to be prepared specifically for Putin, while those around him gradually started filtering and sanitizing the information he received.
What makes the claim noteworthy is that it is consistent with statements Skorobutov has made in the past. As early as 2017, he described Russian state media as operating under extensive censorship, with lists of forbidden topics and a newsroom culture in which journalists understood which stories were to be promoted and which were to be ignored. He has also previously identified the 2011–2012 protests as a turning point, after which the Kremlin became significantly more focused on information control.
If accurate, the claim would fit a pattern often observed in highly centralized authoritarian systems: leaders become increasingly isolated from unwelcome information as subordinates learn to tell them what they want to hear rather than what they need to know.
Sounds like the UK completely cancelling Graham Phillips and his videos of Ukranian soldiers participating in a parade opening fire on the May 9 antinazi parade goers, guts everywhere, then burning a police station with cops inside Find him on substack. Apparently the judge said there is NO freedom of speech in UK but the king DOES allow you to express some things. Accounts frozen. Not allowed to rent his home or pay taxes. In effect banished! And UK says it is not at war! How about that!!!
President Putin is the greatest leader of the 21st century. Nobody else comes even close. It is a tragedy for the West that he has been so maligned and misunderstood, on purpose. Notice that I said, for the West. The rest of the world, the global supermajority, gets it. As time passes we will realize that what the West thinks is insignificant, as is the West itself. The West is really just the US, and the US sits on an isolated continent as the real world passes it by. Geography is fate. It should be obvious now that the US cannot effectively project either military or economic power. Thank you Donald Trump!
He is the new Adolf Hitler.
You really didn’t understand a thing of what was said. Apparently you have more trust to the ridiculous propaganda put out but the neocons & warmongers who see Russia as a country ripe for looting if only they can get rid of the Russian patriots. Very sad but oh so “American”
Smhlol Go read a book
St Petersburg is the neo Nazi capital of Europe, where they hold international neonazi forums and paramilitary training at the Partizan neonazi camp, which is blessed by Russian patriarch Kirill because they promote the revival of the Holy Russian Empire. Putin is a Russian imperialist in the line of the Czars and Stalin. Not far from Nazism though it is its own brand of Russian imperialism. They deny how Stalin got into bed with the Nazis. On 15 August 1939 Stalin was smiling ear to ear cosying up to hideous Nazi Joachim von Ribbentrop, a month before they invaded Poland together from East and West with a pre arranged demarcation line. It was not Stalin's initiative to part ways with the Nazis in 1941 either.
Of course none of that is true, even n a fever dream. Kiev is the nazi capital of Europe, and Kirill does not bless neonazis. Maybe don't say stuff that can be looked up in 5 seconds you degenerate.
Yes people can look it up, they don't need to take your word or mine. They can also look up Alexei Milchakov and his Rusich neonazi Wagner unit.
You're both insane and wrong. Get back to the bottle banderite.
Zionists are the same, when you mention Israeli crimes. You are Antisemitic/Russophobic and the personal insults and everything. Same as the Zionists.
Check out Antony Sutton's Wallstreet and the Bolsheviks and Wallstreet and the Rise of Hitler. See nazi grandchildren in power today in europe UK Canada. See zionists in Israel (their Haavara agreement with hitler triggered the holding camps that became death camps). The soviet union is history but they did defeat and continue to defeat nazis and ukranian nazis like the Azov and banderites and in general any genocidal ukranians (because forbidding the language, religion and culture if 2/3 of ukrainians is a genocide just like moving populations or killing them by doing the unrecognizable wests dirty work).
Putin has killed as many Ukrainians as Netanyahu has killed Palestinians in Gaza. Zionist Israel also calls its victims "Nazis". That's not a good enough excuse for killing tens of thousands of people for your imperialist expansionism.
The Soviet Union was full blown Nazi ally until Hitler kicked them out of bed. They invaded Poland together and Hitler helped Stalin invade Finland by blocking British French assistance to Finland at the Baltic straits between Sweden and Denmark. Stalin even sent Hitler congratulations on the conquest of Paris.
You can download those books on archive.org. History;Fiction or Science by Fomenko also help. Nothing is what it seems.
It's a bit puzzling… History shows how the US has lied about almost everything… Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Iran, Iran-Contra, Libya, Israel, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Philippines, fishing boats in the Pacific, (the list just goes on and on) and damn near everything domestic. All lies and propaganda, year after year, with the mainstream media serving up stenographic services for the deep state. Lies and propaganda… and yet we accept and believe every word the government spews about Russia and Putin. Lies about everything else, but on Russia, nothing but the truth. Puzzling, indeed!
There is nothing puzzling, people obfuscate and lie about their own flaws and wrongdoing while pointing out the flaws and wrongdoing of others very clearly. If we are being honest, Russia and the West are both bloody imperialist villains who analyse each other's crimes very well but mince their words quite predictably about their own misdeeds.
Reading down the list of comments. Pack of Russiaphobes. Considering the actions of the west these last 50 years I have to wionder will they ever take their blinders off.
You know the old saying: never believe anything until it's been officially swarmed by trolls. Evidently the Duran has become sufficiently effective (or feared) to be worth targeting.
Personally I like the CIA's declassified history chapter on its support for the Ukrainian Nazis, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/STUDIES%20IN%20INTELLIGENCE%20NAZI%20-%20RELATED%20ARTICLES_0015.pdf. Especially on p22, talking of the CIA's predecessor the SSU and its director Colonel Quinn: even in 1946 'Quinn considered the Ukrainians "adroit political intriguers and past masters in the art of propaganda" who would not hesitate to use the United States for their own ends.'
Don't forget Putin is the guy Blair helped kill a quarter of a million people in Chechnya. Blair invited Putin on a state visit complete with a golden carriage ride with the Queen.
When he visited Bush in the White House they proclaimed their Afghanistan-Chechnya-Iraq common front in their “war on terror”.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/when-tony-blair-backed-putins-brutal-war/
Thank you Mr. Kurpis, you are surely a voice of reason. In 2001 during his visit to Germany, his speech to the German parliament, the Bundestag, held in perfect German, had been met with standing ovation. After the Munich Security (!) Conference in 2007, where he complained about the lack of will in the West to accept Russia as an equal partner, he got silence from the audience in response. This was precisely the moment when NATO propaganda outlets started producing the image of Putin, the autocrat, Putin the butcher of Tchechnya and so on. Only one year later POTUS Bush jr. insisted on inviting Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO which was - according to Ambassador William Burns - the brightest of all red lines for Russia. long story made short for people who are not familiar with the facts and spread propaganda lies instead.
Thank you Mr. Kurpis.
Sadly, resignedly, I have come to the conclusion that there is practically nothing I can do about where my friends and relatives go for information.
I still guess animosity to Putin can be traced back to that photo of barechested Putin on horseback. :)
If nothing else the neocons have jealousy down pat
Excellent article, much needed.
#PutinBestPresident #LavrovBest FM
It is interesting to suggest diplomatic initiatives were undermined by Zelensky, when Zelensky offered to hold high level negotiations in Istanbul and Putin sent Vladimir Medinsky, a fringe figure at best, a former culture minister who had fallen out of favour in 2020, with no real mandate to negotiate anything. This was the definition of a diplomatic snub.
A well deserved snub after the nazi Zelensky tried to assassinate the Russian head-of-state.
By Mashal Chiang Kai-Shek in late 1936 about the relationship with Japan "和平未到完全絕望的時刻，絕不放棄和平，犧牲未到最後關頭，絕不輕言犧牲". Per translate.google.com, it is
We will never give up on peace until all hope is lost; we will never lightly speak of sacrifice until the very last moment.
Let’s see, Putin 1.0 was focused on diplomacy and negotiations. With the US. So when the US offered him an offramp to prevent him attacking Ukraine, he chose what? War. That was Putin 2.0. Back in 2022. The thing that has changed is that Ukraine has shed its reliance on the United States and NATO, and has developed its own organic capabilities to stand up to the naked aggression that began in 2014 with the takeover of Crimea. And guess what? Ukraine is methodically isolating Crimea from Russia. Crimea is unsustainable, and we are weeks or months away from Crimea transitioning to new government. It is a horse race between Putin and Trump as to which is the worst leader of the 21st-century.
I truly do not understand men like you (not that I understand Americans, in general, either, a very peculiar species of humans). Do you, like, have too much time on your hands? Why not commit yourself to reading the cia-scripted western press releases but instead come here, read a considerably long article, and even comment? Who cares about what you think? You just rehash the main points of the dead-end, irredeemably Russophobic western press. I sincerely hope you live long enough to see all your geopolitical mental constructs trashed. By History. . . .
Ssssh! Don't feed the troll!
Or: never mud-wrestle with a pig. You just get filthy: and the pig likes it.
We need to counteract the propaganda the trolls spread too.
Fair enough! In which case I take the view the most enjoyable approach is not to bother defending - history will do that - but to attack: identify who benefits from the troll activity, and then skewer the beneficiary with unexpected and authoritative (never media) sources. In this matter the beneficiary seems to be Ukraine, for which my favorite sources are the US Army and the CIA. Here's an example taken from the latter, used already in this thread:
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Personally I like the CIA's declassified history chapter on its support for the Ukrainian Nazis, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/STUDIES%20IN%20INTELLIGENCE%20NAZI%20-%20RELATED%20ARTICLES_0015.pdf. Especially on p22, talking of the CIA's predecessor the SSU and its director Colonel Quinn: even in 1946 'Quinn considered the Ukrainians "adroit political intriguers and past masters in the art of propaganda" who would not hesitate to use the United States for their own ends.'
Whoa! Ukrainians are the "masters in the art of propaganda"? Between the shots of vodka? See, you have just proven how asinine and incompetent the Americans are, even their best intelligence dudes. Actually, it is so painful to watch the west destroy Ukraine and its people. Anglo-Germans are so racists towards the Slavs. I hate them.
[edited] You may well be right. Just like any other quote in a similar context, it doesn't establish anything beyond what somebody thought someone else thought...
That source is from 28 years ago and references none of today’s players. In fact, the Soviet Union made a deal with the Nazis and partitioned Poland and it was the Nazis who ended that deal, the Soviets supported the Nazis until the surprise attack. In case you forgot, Russia abrogated three signed treaties with Ukraine and invaded Crimea in 2014. And Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022. Ukraine is defending its sovereignty. Go home Russia!
Thanks Ed, but it's an ancient troll trick to put in an initial vanilla response (in your case just *four* words!), and then massively edit it without flagging the edit. In your next identity, feel free to play nice. Cheers!
"Soviet Union made a deal with the Nazis and partitioned Poland. . ." blah blah blah. Just repeat this ad nauseum and feel smug and smart about it. Without a modicum of understanding of any real history, especially of the USSR.
Russian ARE home in Crimea (Krym, an old Turkic name actually). They did not invade Krym as one cannot invade one's own land, besides there were nuclear subs stored there, about to be appropriated by the NATO nazis.
There WAS a referendum there, you brainwashed ass. It has been Russian since the Turks left, and even before.
Ukraine does not have any sovereignty!! It is an invented country. Ukrainian is not a real language, it has been recently invented from the mixture of the local Russian dialects and the Polish brought over by the western Ukrainian fascists (a compounded language, like the Israeli “Hebrew”). It is paiful to hear them.
Have you ever been in Krym? If yes—which is doubtful—did you EVER meet ANY natives in Krym who actually spoke anything but Russian and very occasionally Tatar, Greek or Armenian? How can a man who thinks of himself as intelligent go on actually REPEATING word-for-word the official propaganda? For a Russian, it is an unforgivable stupidity. Back in the USSR, we excommunicated ppl like you, we felt nothing but pity and contempt toward the folks who repeated the Party slogans.
https://substack.com/@therailroadman/note/p-202840509?r=8ac6bg&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Remeber, Ed Ellis, the Internet never forgets. All your Russophobic lies here might as well have been printed in stone. It is the same as being pro war in Iraq a few decades ago. You will be shamed and be ashamed.
Europe's complicity in fuelling the Ukrainian crisis is undeniable. Together with the United States, European countries orchestrated the Orange Revolution in Kiev in 2004. To create an anti-Russian bridgehead in Ukraine, they spent years buying off politicians and entire parties, rewriting history and educational curricula, cultivating and nurturing Ukrainian nationalism, and went to great lengths to pull away Ukraine away from Russia.
In 2013, the European Union rejected outright our proposal for a compromise on the association agreement – a deal Brussels had long been pressing Viktor Yanukovich to sign. It is worth recalling: Ukraine was offered unilateral market opening, without reciprocal commitments – terms that would have proved incompatible with Kiev's continued membership in the CIS free-trade zone. When Viktor Yanukovich requested a deferral, the Europeans incited street riots which swiftly escalated into a coup d'état in Kiev in February 2014.
Germany, France and Poland then proved themselves to be equally treacherous. Having guaranteed that the agreement struck between the opposition and Viktor Yanukovich would be honoured, they washed their hands of it the instant that same opposition, their own handiwork, took power. "Democracy," they shrugged, "takes unexpected turns."
Europe thereafter lent its backing to the new authorities. In Odessa on 2 May 2014, the burning alive of dozens of innocent supporters of closer ties with Russia did not draw a single word of condemnation from European capitals.
As co-guarantors of the 2015 Minsk Agreements, France and Germany effectively encouraged the Ukrainian regime to sabotage its own commitments. As Angela Merkel and François Hollande later conceded – after the special military operation had already begun – the implementation by Kiev of the Minsk Agreements, unanimously approved by the UN Security Council, was never genuinely intended. The objective, they admitted, was merely to buy time: to shore up the Armed Forces of Ukraine and flood them with Western weaponry.
Then Russia should have never signed Minsk or the borders agreements. But they did.
That’s what I’m doing.
There is only one cause of the fascist Russian invasion of Ukraine. Putins decision to invade.
Only one thing will stop it. Putins decision to withdraw.
If Putin genuinely wanted to negotiate, he would do so directly with the Ukrainians.
Your apologia for Putin is disgusting.
Thank you Kurpis for one of the very few objective & informed analysis of Putin & Russian reasoning. If only people would question Western propaganda & motives
Thank you Kurpis for one of the very few objective & informed analysis of Putin & Russian reasoning. If only people would question Western propaganda & motives before regurgitating the same old worn out lies that masquerade as US foreign policy
Putin is the guy Blair helped kill a quarter of a million people in Chechnya. When he visited Bush in the White House they proclaimed their Afghanistan-Chechnya-Iraq common front in their “war on terror”.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/when-tony-blair-backed-putins-brutal-war/
The chechens today are proudly helping in Ukraine.
Do you make light of the trans Atlantic slave trade, because at the end of the day the 10th cavalry “proudly” helped with the genocide of Native Americans.
Who did the slave trading? Who killed the native americans and why? Why then? Fomenkos chronology will provide answers if you get over the "pseudoscientific" deterrant placed on his mathematical and statistical evidence. Beliwve me if you are on this thread you are not one of the liars but are bedazzled by their stories. You do not profit from war or conquest. You most likely provide the blood. There are two sets of people in each country and they keep things churning.
The 10th Cavalry were recently freed black slaves. They turned up in the nick of time to save the white man and help win crucial battles the Native Americans were about to win before the 10th Cavalry turned up.
You pretend you don't see the analogy with the Akhmat militia and you try to change the subject. Like a Zionist would do, they "argue" like that too. Russia apologists and Zionist apologists say so many of the same things these days I sometimes wonder who copied it from whom.
“The Chechens”, you mean the Akhmat militia who were Russia collaborators since the 1990s and helped Putin butcher their own country.
Anna Politkovskaya documented and exposed Putin's atrocities in Chechnya and she was executed for Putin on his birthday in the entrance of her Moscow home.
Former Russia-1 editor-in-chief Dmitry Skorobutov recently claimed that, following the Bolotnaya Square protests of 2011–2012, special news broadcasts began to be prepared specifically for Putin, while those around him gradually started filtering and sanitizing the information he received.
What makes the claim noteworthy is that it is consistent with statements Skorobutov has made in the past. As early as 2017, he described Russian state media as operating under extensive censorship, with lists of forbidden topics and a newsroom culture in which journalists understood which stories were to be promoted and which were to be ignored. He has also previously identified the 2011–2012 protests as a turning point, after which the Kremlin became significantly more focused on information control.
If accurate, the claim would fit a pattern often observed in highly centralized authoritarian systems: leaders become increasingly isolated from unwelcome information as subordinates learn to tell them what they want to hear rather than what they need to know.
https://x.com/natalkakyiv/status/2067996373912367184?s=46
Sounds like the UK completely cancelling Graham Phillips and his videos of Ukranian soldiers participating in a parade opening fire on the May 9 antinazi parade goers, guts everywhere, then burning a police station with cops inside Find him on substack. Apparently the judge said there is NO freedom of speech in UK but the king DOES allow you to express some things. Accounts frozen. Not allowed to rent his home or pay taxes. In effect banished! And UK says it is not at war! How about that!!!