Liz Truss is a lunatic

Push Russia out of whole of Ukraine, says Truss

Is she going there to fight? 

Western politicians waging a kind of demented jihad, but using Ukrainians to do the actual fighting and dying. Sick. 

Arms dealers are happy though!

Crimeans and many other folks in eastern Ukraine want to be independent/part of Russia!! (More so since Nazi-sympathisers came to power in a US-backed coup in 2014). Let them go!!!! The alternative is indefinite war and bloodshed, and potential nuclear war.

Stop trying to own and control the entire goddamn world!

If Ukraine was Mexico

If Mexico became a militarised, corrupt, client state of China (following a violent China-backed coup); If they were welcoming fascists into their government and army, persecuting an ethnic minority, waging war on separatists, seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, and seeking membership of an aggressive China-led military alliance, would we support them in any of this?

No!!

But would we also oppose an inevitable US invasion?

Yes!

Would we call for diplomacy/a peaceful solution, and an end to all militarism/imperialism/persecution/fascism?

Yes!

Western press shilling for Nazis

Examples of western press accidentally/purposefully promoting Ukrainian neo-Nazis/ulta nationalists:

PBS Newshour interviews the Mayor of Konotop, Artem Semenikhin, who has a portrait of Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator Stepan Bandera, on the wall behind him.

BBC show gutsy Ukrainian grandmother being trained by soldiers from neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. 

BBC interview Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze, who says, "It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed”.

For International Women's Day, NATO's Twitter account posted a photo of women fighters in Ukraine. One of these women was wearing a Nazi symbol. The tweet has been deleted. 

Denis Prokopenko, commander of Ukraine's Nāzi Azov Battalion appearing on CNN

(will update)

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And evidence of Nazism in Ukraine from before the invasion:

Ukrainian prime minister was guest speaker at neo-Nazi event

2018 BBC Newsnight

Russians rightly fear NATO

Can everyone please stop pretending that they’d be cool with an obscenely aggressive, hostile foreign power rocking up on the borders of their country and pointing ballistic missiles at them?

Russians rightly fear US/NATO encirclement.

Imagine Russia/China were waging overt/covert wars of aggression around the world. Imagine they were openly talking about wanting regime change in the US. Imagine they were meddling in Mexico to install a puppet regime. Imagine they were sending lethal arms there and backing literal Nazi groups. 

What would the US do?

Putin’s invasion is wrong and horrible. He could’ve carried on trying for peaceful solutions. I guess he snapped. But it’s absurd to place all the blame on him and ignore all the history that led to this!! 

If we want peace, we need to understand all the reasons why the war happened.

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Why is Russia being so condemned and punished by the international community, given that the US/west are guiltier of FAR greater criminality, yet have faced no consequences? Perhaps because the international community, thanks to that imperial criminality, has been significantly captured by the west? And this west-dominated world order is what Putin is now pushing back against...

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How is it possible, after so many wars and such planetary destruction, that so many people still believe western powers/NATO to be benign and non-threatening?! It is they who are the most misinformed, not Russians!

Keir Starmer is a fascist boot-licker

Keir Starmer warns Labour MPs anyone attacking Nato will be booted out

NATO destroyed an African country (Libya), and bombed Serbia to shit. It’s most powerful member - the US -  wages covert/overt wars around the world constantly. Many, many millions killed/displaced as a result. 

In Ukraine, the US played a major role in the 2014 coup, helping to install a regime friendly to neo-Nazis, (eg they were incorporated into the National Guard).

I guess Keir really wants us all to know that he’s a terrifying, racist, fascistic supremacist?

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Where were all these new anti-war, pro-international law activists that have suddenly sprung up in response to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, when the US installed a puppet regime in Ukraine that appeases/empowers neo-Nazis? Where were they as the US & co waged wars all over the world? (Mostly non-white people, so they don’t matter?).

If you think Putin will give a crap about our cries of war crimes, you need to get a grip. He will laugh at us. If we want a peaceful world, we’ll need to lead by example, and stop letting our governments commit all kinds of heinous crimes.

Russia invasion of Ukraine: black and white?

Read this. 

Some facts (as I understand them) that everyone should be aware of:

- The US played a significant role in a rebellion/coup in Ukraine, in 2014, and then spent 8 years sending lethal arms to the post-coup government. 

- Neo-Nazi groups played a bloody role in the rebellion, and the governments that have been in power in Ukraine since then, have been appeasing/rewarding/praising those groups, allowing them to thrive and assist in their war on ethnic Russian separatists who opposed the coup. The previous (also NATO-backed/armed) President of Ukraine - Poroshenko - described the neo-Nazis as “our best warriors”, and they were incorporated into the National Guard. 

- The post-2014 governments have been trying to denigrate the Russian language (in a country with many millions who have Russian as their first language). 

- The governments have failed to implement the Minsk Agreement that was meant to guarantee peace, and semi-autonomy, to the area in eastern Ukraine where the separatists are. Approx 14,000 people have died in fighting, 80% on the separatist side, including many civilians/children.

- NATO promised Russia 30 years ago that there would be no eastward expansion. They lied. It has expanded ever since, despite western experts regularly saying that this is a very bad idea as Russia will understandably be threatened by it. (NATO was formed after WW2 specifically for western powers to unite against Russia. Early on in his rule, Putin suggested that Russia become a member, but that was rejected. Today, NATO's military doctrine specifically refers to Russia as an adversary). 

- NATO has proven itself to be an aggressive military alliance. (E.g. the war on Yugoslavia, e.g. the war on Libya). The west has been waging covert/overt wars around the world since WW2, (to expand the interests of western corporations/banks/oligarchs. Sorry, I mean ‘to spread democracy’). The US has military bases encircling Russia, in numerous countries.

- The US has pulled out of weapons treaties with Russia: e.g. the Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty in 2002, and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2020.

- A few days before Russia invaded Ukraine, the Ukrainian president Zelensky suggested that his country would pursue nuclear weapons.

You can oppose Putin’s invasion of Ukraine but still see that the above is all extremely important information that everyone should be made aware of. Western media has been completely omitting most of it. We would be made very aware if Ukraine was Mexico, Russia was the US, and NATO was Russia/China. 

'Unprovoked attack'

Anyone describing Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an 'unprovoked attack' is either ignorant or lying. 

The 'unprovoked attack' was in Ukraine, in 2014. A rebellion was hijacked by the US. A puppet government installed. It's all documented. 

And following that, for 8 years Russia has been seeking peace deals that have been repeatedly broken by that US-backed Ukrainian government, which has waged war on the east, resulting in 14,000 deaths. Where was the 'international community' and the 'human rights groups' during that assault, (that involved neo-Nazi groups!)?

(And this is just one of hundreds of covert/overt unprovoked attacks from the US & co over the last 70 years, all around the world. Will they now learn that those days are over?).

US/NATO have been expanding east in Europe, pushing up against Russia, pulling out of weapons treaties, for the last 30 years, surely knowing that eventually Russia would lash out. If the boot was on the other foot, I imagine we'd have been in a major world war long ago! (So far, Putin's just targeting military sites in Ukraine).

Arrogant, ignorant, western exceptionalists/imperialists are HUGELY to blame for this situation. How dare they now attack those of us who've been trying to find peaceful solutions. This war is on them and their refusal to even consider the other side of the story.

I recommend watching Oliver Stone's film for Russia's perspective.

(Also read this. According to one study, 70 per cent of western Ukrainians have a favorable view of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, while that number is 11 per cent in eastern Ukraine).