Great. So Ukraine is now fully "Russiafied". Well done. Very fine research.
So: what then is this war all about nowadays? Revenge for 300 year old grievances? Culpability for the crimes committed by the USSR? No....this war is not about that. Not really. In this war, historical context doesn't amount to a hill of beans, certainly as far as the West is concerned. This war is all about present day geopolitical hegemony. Mob bosses and turf wars.
I've got late breaking news: North America has been taken over by white settlers! Treaties have been broken! Oh the humanity!
My bad! I didn't extend my information far enough for you & your uninformed misinformation! Why did Russia claim it needed to invade Ukraine?
Because of land or oil? To protect itself? To a small extent. But the big reason was to unify Big Russia with Little Russians! I watched Putin's speech after the invasion. He spoke again and again of rescuing Russians from Russian-speaking Ukrainians being forced to learn Ukrainian. In fact, most of those Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine are learning to speak Ukrainian, so they won't be identified as Russians. They are still proud of their Ukrainian citizenship & identity.
And if you knew anything about Ukraine, you would understand that western Ukrainians tend to use Polish as their second language, although some Russian words have crept into their vocabularies! Western Ukraine has nothing to do with Russian issues, because they were ruled by Lithuania, Poland & Austria. That is where my grandparents came from - western Ukraine! My maiden name was actually Polish, although my grandfather was born & raised in Ukraine. My father's maternal grandmother was also Polish, although she Ukrainianized her name. You show your total ignorance of Ukrainian history, when you talk about redressing the wrongs from 300 years ago.
Try 80 years ago for the Holomodor, and till the 1990's Russia's control of the Soviet Union, shipping millions of Ukrainians through WWI, WWII, and post WWII, to
The Gulags in Siberia, up till the despicable Soviet Union finally collapsed, only to be taken over by Putin & his goons, a current dictator who admires Stalin, his hero. So, I'm talking about right now, because right now Ukraine is being bombed, with thousands dying, & infrastructure destroyed by the current dictator.
As for rejecting Timothy Snyder, it goes to show how incredibly narrow minded you are. He is a humanist, and declares so. But a humanist in terms of his sorrow over what Stalin and the Soviet Union did to Ukrainian peasants, over & over. Stalin starved & murdered literally millions of Ukrainians. Up to 6 million during the Holomodor in 1932-33, and hundreds of thousands of others in political purges such as 1937-38, of the people he himself put into power in Ukraine. And after WWII until his death, he continued to
Murder not just Ukrainians, but any other ethnicity if he so chose!
I read the mainstream news daily in Canada. I want to see what propaganda and lies they are feeding Canadians. During the Pandemic, it was threats and pushing vaxes! The Freedom Convoy, was composed of people protesting mandatory vaccines. The Convoy was torn down in our media as radical, violent rebels, destroying Ottawa. In fact, that is how Trudeau shut them down! By claiming their violence was a threat, and invoking the War Measures Act, renamed the Emergency Act. Pastors & churches who refused to close their doors, were jailed & fined. What violence, you ask? Bouncy castles for the kids, and barbecues. Even people in Ottawa admitted there was no violence. Yet the 2 leaders have been held without bail for over a year. Trudeau hates anyone who thwarts his dictatorship! Trudeau openly admitted the country he admired most was Communist China, because "they could get things done!" This is the arrogant prime minister who called Canadians racists & misogynists for supporting the Freedom or Trucker's Convoy, who had a high percentage of people of every race, to say nothing of women & children! I know this, because I read all the news, not just people I agree with. I guess being educated has made a difference in being able to assess public information & how true it is or not!
I had first hand knowledge of how bad the globalist brainwashing was in Canada by our media. I didn't have to read it second hand in an alternate media. When people posted it was happening, I was able to affirm what I had read in the MSM because I kept an eye open. Our gov't bought & paid for CBC was outed so many times on lies & falsehoods about the Freedom Convoy, vaxes, etc. CBC has always been a paid for by the gov't media outlet. But since Trudeau took office in 2015, he has dictated who they hire, and what they print!
The other exciting thing for me, reading the MSM in Canada, is watching them change their tune lately. Trudeau has had one scandal after another. But 11 MPs were given money from CCP. Trudeau denied he knew about it, Trudeau denied he had been briefed on it, turns out to be a total lie. He was briefed 5 times on the CCP and Chinese influence in our last 2 elections, which Trudeau barely won. That was the last straw even for our paid for left wing media!
Our media is finally turning against Trudeau & about time! I have made sure I have always read both or many sides of an issue. You are the definition of an uninformed person, because you will not listen to any viewpoint you disagree with. Except in the case of Timothy Snyder, he actually tells the truth. He's studied in Poland & Ukraine, read historical reviews written by the people who lived during those times, and how evil that the Soviet Union and Stalin were, and now Putin & Russia. Stay narrow minded, with your "America is the centre of the universe" theory, & that the US is somehow a major player in this war. Defend the evil, paranoid dictator Putin, who is an assassin in fact! Putin is trying to bring back the glory days when Russia and then the Soviet Union exercised absolute power over Ukraine. Support Russian's cultural & language genocide of Ukrainians & their language! It's just another indication of how you have not researched both sides of this conflict! Not meaning the US & Russia, but Russia and its unjustified invasion of Ukraine. Even Austria & Poland never committed cultural genocide when they ruled Ukraine. Austria controlled western Ukrainian for centuries, when my grandparents lived there. They left to find a better life in Canada. They did not run and escape from certain genocide, like Ukrainians today!
I'm in constant contact with Ukrainian news from Ukraine. In Ukrainian, which I have just learned to read! The blame for the Russian invasion is laid on the KGB goon, Putin. No one expects American troops on the front lines. You are so out of touch with reality. You said my children could go & fight in Ukraine. Not so much! They are all too old to be in active military service. In their 40s & 50s! But, my cousins in Ukraine, several times removed (meaning from generations distant from mine!) did enter the armed forces in Ukraine, to defend their country, and died doing it!
You & CV5 really belong in this forum. You are fellow co-conspirators! You think you are uncovering conspiracies, when you are perpetuating them. You are both totally uniformed as to the true cause of this invasion- Russian pride & greed! Open your eyes to the truth. No one wants to hear your Russian misinformation which you have both bought into!
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