The leader of NATO admits that the US has been equipping and arming Ukraine since 2014. This is always worth to remember whenever an "unprovoked attack" is reported in our media.
Maidan´s peaceful demonstrations escalated to violent coup d´etat, extreme nationalist forces were used (and supported by US.) After Maidan`s coup d ´etat, US Victoria Nuland and the U.S. ambassador decided together who is worthy to lead the country and Russia on her part quickly carries out its previous threat to seize its old military base in Crimea. The war in eastern Ukraine begins when the Russian-speaking people of eastern Ukraine ( 30%) do not accept the transfer of power, loss of Russian language status etc.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has expanded east in four waves, contrary to promises made to Gorbachev.
Arming Kiev by Nato, when there are 30% Russian speakers leads "to divide and conquer development. " ( Ruanda, Afganistan etc.?)
In March 2022, the peace talks were sabotaged by Boris Johnson and Joe Biden.
Biden´s and Porosenko's 2015-2016 phone conversations tell of Joe and his son Hunter's illegal business ventures in the country, bribery and extortion.
Jeffrey Sachs, who served as an economic adviser to several states, has accurate information about the proxy war in Ukraine, has been monitoring the situation since the time of Gorbachev.
Here's article from retired Colonel Jacques Baud, Retired Swiss Military Intelligent Officer ,specialist in Eastern countries. He claims that Ukraine's negotiators, who contributed to the peace, were eliminated after the March 2022 negotiations. According to Baud: " Denis Kireyev, one of the Ukrainian negotiators, assassinated on March 5 by the Ukrainian secret service (SBU) because he was too favorable to Russia and was considered a traitor. The same fate befell Dmitry Demyanenko, former deputy head of the SBU's main directorate for Kiev and its region, who was assassinated on March 10 because he was too favorable to an agreement with Russia."
Great analysis indeed with accurate historical data of the development between sc. West and the Russian world. It was very fluent to read. Accurate objective data gives rational picture of the development of the sad situation in Ukraine. I am so tired to "experts", whose obvious war propaganda and promoted ideology has became valued over objectivity.
Only an adult child believes anymore to our media.
UA has advanced rocket engine and space vehicle production and exports. If my memory serves me well, Ukrainian Hrim project stalled in 2019 or 2021? Hrim missile would have had a range of 400 km with 500 kg warhead. Saudi Arabia was somehow involved in that project too?
Some macroecon Youtubers tell on their broadcasts "...there are no certainties, only probabilities". Based on historical records there is a probability for Saigon-style developments. We saw "mini-Saigon" already in 2021 in Kabul. Morgan doctrine, sort of.
I signed up because I wanted to hear an alternative critical take.
But this is simply wrong, based largely on
1) shallow assumptions about how the world works (e.g., Maersheimer one-size fits all approach to analyzing global relationships),
2) a complete lack of attributing any agency to any local people, be it to East Germans in 1953 or Ukrainians in 2022, as well as the roles of regimes (be it Stalin’s USSR or Putin’s Russian Federation), and
3) the error of putting the cart before the horse (i.e., viewing American power as the motivation of policy actions, rather than simply the consequence of location, size and history).
Finally, I believe this kind of analysis is indeed what could help escalate a fairly contained regional war into a world war.
Because, if Americans behaved based on your own ideas of how the world works, they would have remained isolationist in the late 30s, they would have handed over Asia-Pacific to Japan’s military junta and Europe to Hitler.
Of course, none of that would have avoided a world war - it would have simply kept America out of it for a bit longer, making it even stronger in the process.
Anyway, good luck to you. I will not be renewing my subscription.
Well, you definitely have a right to your opinion, but there's no "shallowness" here. The people I cite are leading scholars in the field and they have been studying NATO-Russia relations for decades. As a scholar, I tend to go with the most indepth knowledge.
Moreover, we are not talking about the aspirations of people, but geopolitics. We Finns carry a natural sympathy for all nations under heavy Russian influence, but we have also set up a model how to thrive under it. Ukraine lost that in May, imho, when the first Russian progress had been halted (that was the Winter War moment). Now they are heading to annihilation, which is most unfortunate for all Europe. After the obvious route to peace was lost, possibly under heavy U.S. influence, was forced to reconsider my narrative on the war.
There's no Hitler nor Stalin now. Putin has a command-and-control, a "Stalinist-like" grip on the Russian society, but there are much worse leaders lining up behind him. The true enemy of Europe is not the Russian people or even President Putin now.
Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into the WWII. They were highly symphatetic to the Nazi-regime before without understanding the risks it posed (it was Hitler's aim from the beginning, since 1933, to wage war in Europe). But, past mistakes do not guarantee that new ones will not be done. The U.S. has become an invading force even since Korean War. Trump brought an actual change to that and let's hope he or someone else in the (true) Conservative circles will bring that back after 2024. However, with the current trajectory "after 2024" may be too late.
Today American MQ-9 Reaper down after Russian SU-27 damaged its propeller over international waters of Black Sea. I'm afraid this won't end well. Some similarities with the Hainan incident in 2001. However, the US plane had 24 crew on board when the Chinese J-8 collided with it. If my memory serves me right the Chinese J-8 was lost then. BR JKi
The leader of NATO admits that the US has been equipping and arming Ukraine since 2014. This is always worth to remember whenever an "unprovoked attack" is reported in our media.
Maidan´s peaceful demonstrations escalated to violent coup d´etat, extreme nationalist forces were used (and supported by US.) After Maidan`s coup d ´etat, US Victoria Nuland and the U.S. ambassador decided together who is worthy to lead the country and Russia on her part quickly carries out its previous threat to seize its old military base in Crimea. The war in eastern Ukraine begins when the Russian-speaking people of eastern Ukraine ( 30%) do not accept the transfer of power, loss of Russian language status etc.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has expanded east in four waves, contrary to promises made to Gorbachev.
Arming Kiev by Nato, when there are 30% Russian speakers leads "to divide and conquer development. " ( Ruanda, Afganistan etc.?)
In March 2022, the peace talks were sabotaged by Boris Johnson and Joe Biden.
Biden´s and Porosenko's 2015-2016 phone conversations tell of Joe and his son Hunter's illegal business ventures in the country, bribery and extortion.
Jeffrey Sachs, who served as an economic adviser to several states, has accurate information about the proxy war in Ukraine, has been monitoring the situation since the time of Gorbachev.
Here's article from retired Colonel Jacques Baud, Retired Swiss Military Intelligent Officer ,specialist in Eastern countries. He claims that Ukraine's negotiators, who contributed to the peace, were eliminated after the March 2022 negotiations. According to Baud: " Denis Kireyev, one of the Ukrainian negotiators, assassinated on March 5 by the Ukrainian secret service (SBU) because he was too favorable to Russia and was considered a traitor. The same fate befell Dmitry Demyanenko, former deputy head of the SBU's main directorate for Kiev and its region, who was assassinated on March 10 because he was too favorable to an agreement with Russia."
https://www.sott.net/article/466340-Retired-Swiss-Military-Intelligence-Officer-Is-it-Possible-to-Actually-Know-What-Has-Been-And-is-Going-on-in-Ukraine
Great analysis indeed with accurate historical data of the development between sc. West and the Russian world. It was very fluent to read. Accurate objective data gives rational picture of the development of the sad situation in Ukraine. I am so tired to "experts", whose obvious war propaganda and promoted ideology has became valued over objectivity.
Only an adult child believes anymore to our media.
UA has advanced rocket engine and space vehicle production and exports. If my memory serves me well, Ukrainian Hrim project stalled in 2019 or 2021? Hrim missile would have had a range of 400 km with 500 kg warhead. Saudi Arabia was somehow involved in that project too?
Some macroecon Youtubers tell on their broadcasts "...there are no certainties, only probabilities". Based on historical records there is a probability for Saigon-style developments. We saw "mini-Saigon" already in 2021 in Kabul. Morgan doctrine, sort of.
I signed up because I wanted to hear an alternative critical take.
But this is simply wrong, based largely on
1) shallow assumptions about how the world works (e.g., Maersheimer one-size fits all approach to analyzing global relationships),
2) a complete lack of attributing any agency to any local people, be it to East Germans in 1953 or Ukrainians in 2022, as well as the roles of regimes (be it Stalin’s USSR or Putin’s Russian Federation), and
3) the error of putting the cart before the horse (i.e., viewing American power as the motivation of policy actions, rather than simply the consequence of location, size and history).
Finally, I believe this kind of analysis is indeed what could help escalate a fairly contained regional war into a world war.
Because, if Americans behaved based on your own ideas of how the world works, they would have remained isolationist in the late 30s, they would have handed over Asia-Pacific to Japan’s military junta and Europe to Hitler.
Of course, none of that would have avoided a world war - it would have simply kept America out of it for a bit longer, making it even stronger in the process.
Anyway, good luck to you. I will not be renewing my subscription.
Hi,
Well, you definitely have a right to your opinion, but there's no "shallowness" here. The people I cite are leading scholars in the field and they have been studying NATO-Russia relations for decades. As a scholar, I tend to go with the most indepth knowledge.
Moreover, we are not talking about the aspirations of people, but geopolitics. We Finns carry a natural sympathy for all nations under heavy Russian influence, but we have also set up a model how to thrive under it. Ukraine lost that in May, imho, when the first Russian progress had been halted (that was the Winter War moment). Now they are heading to annihilation, which is most unfortunate for all Europe. After the obvious route to peace was lost, possibly under heavy U.S. influence, was forced to reconsider my narrative on the war.
There's no Hitler nor Stalin now. Putin has a command-and-control, a "Stalinist-like" grip on the Russian society, but there are much worse leaders lining up behind him. The true enemy of Europe is not the Russian people or even President Putin now.
Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into the WWII. They were highly symphatetic to the Nazi-regime before without understanding the risks it posed (it was Hitler's aim from the beginning, since 1933, to wage war in Europe). But, past mistakes do not guarantee that new ones will not be done. The U.S. has become an invading force even since Korean War. Trump brought an actual change to that and let's hope he or someone else in the (true) Conservative circles will bring that back after 2024. However, with the current trajectory "after 2024" may be too late.
Thank you, and all the best to you.
Today American MQ-9 Reaper down after Russian SU-27 damaged its propeller over international waters of Black Sea. I'm afraid this won't end well. Some similarities with the Hainan incident in 2001. However, the US plane had 24 crew on board when the Chinese J-8 collided with it. If my memory serves me right the Chinese J-8 was lost then. BR JKi