• Ukraine and its lesson for the rest of the world.

    From frodo sam0@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 24 18:27:36 2022
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as trusted
    subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia under
    Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal and
    destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his shirt,
    diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in international
    politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate
    ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which
    is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the streets to
    demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. Since
    then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to the
    Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to militarily
    defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states became
    independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states again.
    To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK. They ran
    covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on the island
    of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its against the
    Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal that the US.
    The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the world
    should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 24 19:50:58 2022
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as trusted
    subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia under
    Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal and
    destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his shirt,
    diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in international
    politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate
    ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which
    is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the streets to
    demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. Since
    then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to the
    Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states became
    independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states again. To
    prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK. They ran
    covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on the
    island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its against
    the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal that
    the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the world
    should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.

    Dumb post.

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  • From boro@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 26 03:57:26 2022
    On 25/2/2022 10:27 am, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as trusted
    subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia under
    Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal and
    destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his shirt,
    diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in international
    politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate
    ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev
    which is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the streets to
    demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. Since
    then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to the
    Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states became
    independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states again.
    To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK. They ran
    covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on the
    island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its against
    the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal that
    the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the world
    should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.



    Well said.

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  • From Tom Jigme Wheat@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 25 14:11:44 2022
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as trusted
    subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia under
    Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal and
    destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his shirt,
    diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in international
    politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate
    ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which
    is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the streets to
    demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. Since
    then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to the
    Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states became
    independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states again. To
    prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK. They ran
    covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on the
    island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its against
    the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal that
    the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the world
    should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an exception.


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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Tom Jigme Wheat on Fri Feb 25 16:39:20 2022
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-8, Tom Jigme Wheat wrote:
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an exception.


    Yes Tom, that's right. The Chinese government says that nations should leave other nations alone. They demand the freedom to persecute their own people without interference, where "their own people" means whatever they say it does. Taiwan disagrees with
    these bullies.

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  • From paul polikos@21:1/5 to bmoore on Fri Feb 25 19:28:04 2022
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 12:39:22 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-8, Tom Jigme Wheat wrote:
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an
    exception.”
    Yes Tom, that's right. The Chinese government says that nations should leave other nations alone. They demand the freedom to persecute their own people without interference, where "their own people" means whatever they say it does. Taiwan disagrees
    with these bullies.

    Chinese Foreign Minister: "all countries’ sovereignty must be respected". This is a neutral statement. The leader of any country would have said that.

    Chinese President has called for high-level negotiation between Russia and Ukraine. This is another neutral approach to the situation.

    The Chinese leadership has a profound understanding of the issue between Russia and Ukraine. It knows the dirty role the US-led West has played to bring about the current situation.

    The US-led West continues to play the same dirty trick on China. Hong Kong is now a lost cause. Taiwan has become the focus. What is happening to Ukraine is a good lesson for Taiwan. If Taiwan swallow the bait of those fake and vague American-owned
    concept of democracy, freedom and human rights and allow itself to be trained into an attack dog of the US against China, it will end up worse than Ukraine.

    The Americans never dare to take on the Russians. This was true when Russia-led Warsaw Pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia. It is true again today when Russia attacked Ukraine. Why? Its the Russian military might, especially its nuclear arsenal. This is
    a lesson for the Chinese. If it can reach parity with the US in military capability, especially nuclear-wise, all its problems with the US would evaporate into thin air. Taiwan would return to the embrace of its Motherland.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From paul polikos@21:1/5 to bmoore on Fri Feb 25 19:40:51 2022
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as trusted
    subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia under
    Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal and
    destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his shirt,
    diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in international
    politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next,
    instigate ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev
    which is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the streets to
    demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. Since
    then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to the
    Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states became
    independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states again. To
    prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK. They
    ran covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening
    between the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on the
    island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its against
    the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal that
    the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the world
    should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    Dumb post.


    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter so that he
    could remain behind to fight the Ukrainians!

    https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Sat Feb 26 20:59:05 2022
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 7:28:06 PM UTC-8, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 12:39:22 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-8, Tom Jigme Wheat wrote:
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an
    exception.”
    Yes Tom, that's right. The Chinese government says that nations should leave other nations alone. They demand the freedom to persecute their own people without interference, where "their own people" means whatever they say it does. Taiwan disagrees
    with these bullies.
    Chinese Foreign Minister: "all countries’ sovereignty must be respected". This is a neutral statement. The leader of any country would have said that.

    Chinese President has called for high-level negotiation between Russia and Ukraine. This is another neutral approach to the situation.

    The Chinese leadership has a profound understanding of the issue between Russia and Ukraine. It knows the dirty role the US-led West has played to bring about the current situation.

    The US-led West continues to play the same dirty trick on China. Hong Kong is now a lost cause. Taiwan has become the focus. What is happening to Ukraine is a good lesson for Taiwan. If Taiwan swallow the bait of those fake and vague American-owned
    concept of democracy, freedom and human rights and allow itself to be trained into an attack dog of the US against China, it will end up worse than Ukraine.

    The Americans never dare to take on the Russians. This was true when Russia-led Warsaw Pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia. It is true again today when Russia attacked Ukraine. Why? Its the Russian military might, especially its nuclear arsenal. This
    is a lesson for the Chinese. If it can reach parity with the US in military capability, especially nuclear-wise, all its problems with the US would evaporate into thin air. Taiwan would return to the embrace of its Motherland.

    Yeah, "embrace of the motherland" is code for death grip. You've never been to Taiwan, obviously.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Sat Feb 26 23:31:05 2022
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:28:06 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 12:39:22 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-8, Tom Jigme Wheat wrote:
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an
    exception.”
    Yes Tom, that's right. The Chinese government says that nations should leave other nations alone. They demand the freedom to persecute their own people without interference, where "their own people" means whatever they say it does. Taiwan disagrees
    with these bullies.
    Chinese Foreign Minister: "all countries’ sovereignty must be respected". This is a neutral statement. The leader of any country would have said that.

    Chinese President has called for high-level negotiation between Russia and Ukraine. This is another neutral approach to the situation.

    The Chinese leadership has a profound understanding of the issue between Russia and Ukraine. It knows the dirty role the US-led West has played to bring about the current situation.

    The US-led West continues to play the same dirty trick on China. Hong Kong is now a lost cause. Taiwan has become the focus. What is happening to Ukraine is a good lesson for Taiwan. If Taiwan swallow the bait of those fake and vague American-owned
    concept of democracy, freedom and human rights and allow itself to be trained into an attack dog of the US against China, it will end up worse than Ukraine.

    The Americans never dare to take on the Russians. This was true when Russia-led Warsaw Pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia. It is true again today when Russia attacked Ukraine. Why? Its the Russian military might, especially its nuclear arsenal. This
    is a lesson for the Chinese. If it can reach parity with the US in military capability, especially nuclear-wise, all its problems with the US would evaporate into thin air. Taiwan would return to the embrace of its Motherland.

    The war doesn’t seem to be going well for Russia, at the moment.

    The Russians expectations have not materialised. Taking lessons from the swift victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Russians have expected :
    1. Ukrainian government forces to be lacking in the will to fight and
    2. the general population will be nonchalant to the fight.

    But both are not happening. Government forces are putting up stiff resistance and the people are responding enthusiastically to the call for mass mobilisation.

    As the fight drags on, it will quickly become problematic for the Russians because US and European military aids are reaching Ukraine in swift flows.

    The way out for the Russian now is to attack Kiev and bring down the government there in one swift and strong blow. This will break the spirit of the resistance.

    Otherwise, Russia risk being bogged down into a long drawn war, i.e., Ukraine will become Russia’s Vietnam.
    That’s the ending the US-led West would love to see.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From kico@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 27 15:28:59 2022
    On 25/2/2022 10:27 am, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as trusted
    subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia under
    Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal and
    destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his shirt,
    diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in international
    politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate
    ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev
    which is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the streets to
    demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. Since
    then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to the
    Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states became
    independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states again.
    To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK. They ran
    covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on the
    island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its against
    the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal that
    the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the world
    should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.


    Taiwan must return to China, without any interference from US and the world,too. US should not engage in double standards. Why they don't
    fight Russia for invasion into Ukraine which does not belong to Russia
    at all.

    But US wants to fight for Taiwan, if China invades to take back Taiwan,
    which is the property of China. Taiwanese know who is their homeland is.
    Their homeland is China and not US. US is not their motherland, but
    China is. They want their homeland to take charge of Taiwan.

    They know their corrupted politicians are going to sell out Taiwan as
    vassal state of the US. They know and seen how the people and leaders in
    those vassal states like Japan and South Korea are "backside sniffers"
    of US backsides.

    Therefore they don't want to see Taiwanese who are Chinese people to be
    the vassal state of the US what like what the "sissy" leader of South
    Korea and Japan will remain doing kowtowing the US on the same thing
    years and years, forever like what they what they have been seeing year
    after year, even of ever changing of leader of different party as seen
    before till now.

    Make no mistake, if today China is to invade and take back Taiwan, all
    the Taiwanese will stand up and clap hands to welcome them. They will
    line the streets to welcome Chinese troops.They will stand up to help
    China in identifying those people with anti-China feelings and help
    Chine to identify those anti-china gangsters in society and help China
    to arrest those "resistance forces" or 'independence force" run by the
    US and spies in Taiwan.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gerard jud@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Mon Feb 28 01:18:12 2022
    On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 7:31:06 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:28:06 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 12:39:22 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-8, Tom Jigme Wheat wrote:
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an
    exception.”
    Yes Tom, that's right. The Chinese government says that nations should leave other nations alone. They demand the freedom to persecute their own people without interference, where "their own people" means whatever they say it does. Taiwan disagrees
    with these bullies.
    Chinese Foreign Minister: "all countries’ sovereignty must be respected".
    This is a neutral statement. The leader of any country would have said that.

    Chinese President has called for high-level negotiation between Russia and Ukraine. This is another neutral approach to the situation.

    The Chinese leadership has a profound understanding of the issue between Russia and Ukraine. It knows the dirty role the US-led West has played to bring about the current situation.

    The US-led West continues to play the same dirty trick on China. Hong Kong is now a lost cause. Taiwan has become the focus. What is happening to Ukraine is a good lesson for Taiwan. If Taiwan swallow the bait of those fake and vague American-owned
    concept of democracy, freedom and human rights and allow itself to be trained into an attack dog of the US against China, it will end up worse than Ukraine.

    The Americans never dare to take on the Russians. This was true when Russia-led Warsaw Pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia. It is true again today when Russia attacked Ukraine. Why? Its the Russian military might, especially its nuclear arsenal. This
    is a lesson for the Chinese. If it can reach parity with the US in military capability, especially nuclear-wise, all its problems with the US would evaporate into thin air. Taiwan would return to the embrace of its Motherland.
    The war doesn’t seem to be going well for Russia, at the moment.

    The Russians expectations have not materialised. Taking lessons from the swift victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Russians have expected :
    1. Ukrainian government forces to be lacking in the will to fight and
    2. the general population will be nonchalant to the fight.

    But both are not happening. Government forces are putting up stiff resistance and the people are responding enthusiastically to the call for mass mobilisation.

    As the fight drags on, it will quickly become problematic for the Russians because US and European military aids are reaching Ukraine in swift flows.

    The way out for the Russian now is to attack Kiev and bring down the government there in one swift and strong blow. This will break the spirit of the resistance.

    Otherwise, Russia risk being bogged down into a long drawn war, i.e., Ukraine will become Russia’s Vietnam.
    That’s the ending the US-led West would love to see.

    No one likes war. It brings about deaths and destruction. We sympathise with all the people caught in the fighting right now between Russia and Ukraine. How does this come about?

    After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US became the only superpower. Together with its European allies, collectively referred to as the West, it has a stranglehold on the whole world. Not satisfied with this, it wants to create a world according to its
    own ideals.

    Under the Biden Administration, Western hocus-pocus of an ideal world has been crystalised into the rhetoric of Rules-based World Order and Universal Values. It is being hoisted on the world. Those nations which do not subscribe to it face the threat of
    a regime change plotted by the West. Few nations can stand up to the threat. Most can only comply.

    Every era has its priority. The priority of the 21st Century is to free the world of the West stranglehold on it.

    Russia under Putin is willing to stand up to the West. Unfortunately for Ukraine, it has become the battleground. But what Russia does benefits the whole world. The world will be different from now on. It will be a better place for all.

    It will be a multi-polar world, a world of diverse political ideologies, not just Western-style democracy. It will be a world enlivened with a diversity of values, not just those “universal values” of the West.

    Nations which want a truly free world, a world of diversities, should support Russia.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gerard jud@21:1/5 to gerard jud on Thu Mar 3 17:20:44 2022
    On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 9:18:14 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 7:31:06 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:28:06 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 12:39:22 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-8, Tom Jigme Wheat wrote:
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an
    exception.”
    Yes Tom, that's right. The Chinese government says that nations should leave other nations alone. They demand the freedom to persecute their own people without interference, where "their own people" means whatever they say it does. Taiwan
    disagrees with these bullies.
    Chinese Foreign Minister: "all countries’ sovereignty must be respected".
    This is a neutral statement. The leader of any country would have said that.

    Chinese President has called for high-level negotiation between Russia and Ukraine. This is another neutral approach to the situation.

    The Chinese leadership has a profound understanding of the issue between Russia and Ukraine. It knows the dirty role the US-led West has played to bring about the current situation.

    The US-led West continues to play the same dirty trick on China. Hong Kong is now a lost cause. Taiwan has become the focus. What is happening to Ukraine is a good lesson for Taiwan. If Taiwan swallow the bait of those fake and vague American-owned
    concept of democracy, freedom and human rights and allow itself to be trained into an attack dog of the US against China, it will end up worse than Ukraine.

    The Americans never dare to take on the Russians. This was true when Russia-led Warsaw Pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia. It is true again today when Russia attacked Ukraine. Why? Its the Russian military might, especially its nuclear arsenal.
    This is a lesson for the Chinese. If it can reach parity with the US in military capability, especially nuclear-wise, all its problems with the US would evaporate into thin air. Taiwan would return to the embrace of its Motherland.
    The war doesn’t seem to be going well for Russia, at the moment.

    The Russians expectations have not materialised. Taking lessons from the swift victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Russians have expected :
    1. Ukrainian government forces to be lacking in the will to fight and
    2. the general population will be nonchalant to the fight.

    But both are not happening. Government forces are putting up stiff resistance and the people are responding enthusiastically to the call for mass mobilisation.

    As the fight drags on, it will quickly become problematic for the Russians because US and European military aids are reaching Ukraine in swift flows.

    The way out for the Russian now is to attack Kiev and bring down the government there in one swift and strong blow. This will break the spirit of the resistance.

    Otherwise, Russia risk being bogged down into a long drawn war, i.e., Ukraine will become Russia’s Vietnam.
    That’s the ending the US-led West would love to see.
    No one likes war. It brings about deaths and destruction. We sympathise with all the people caught in the fighting right now between Russia and Ukraine. How does this come about?

    After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US became the only superpower. Together with its European allies, collectively referred to as the West, it has a stranglehold on the whole world. Not satisfied with this, it wants to create a world according to
    its own ideals.

    Under the Biden Administration, Western hocus-pocus of an ideal world has been crystalised into the rhetoric of Rules-based World Order and Universal Values. It is being hoisted on the world. Those nations which do not subscribe to it face the threat
    of a regime change plotted by the West. Few nations can stand up to the threat. Most can only comply.

    Every era has its priority. The priority of the 21st Century is to free the world of the West stranglehold on it.

    Russia under Putin is willing to stand up to the West. Unfortunately for Ukraine, it has become the battleground. But what Russia does benefits the whole world. The world will be different from now on. It will be a better place for all.

    It will be a multi-polar world, a world of diverse political ideologies, not just Western-style democracy. It will be a world enlivened with a diversity of values, not just those “universal values” of the West.

    Nations which want a truly free world, a world of diversities, should support Russia.
    To better understand the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

    Recall how the West rode roughshod over the world when there wasn't any other power to counterbalance its might

    The nation of Yugoslavia had internal ethnic problems. The West marched in with their forces under the banner of UN. Civilians blocked UN vehicles, begging UN personnel not to advance further into their country. Their pleas were ignored. Yugoslavia was
    dismembered until it became extinct.

    An attack by the Muslims on the US heartland on 9/11. The West took revenge on the Muslim world. Afghanistan was openly invaded. Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk. The Gaddafi regime of Libya was toppled. Syria almost followed Libya. A bit more details.


    US-led forces openly invaded Afghanistan, without seeking UN approval.

    Iraq was accused of being in possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction. US Sec. of State went to UN to produce a “smoking gun” to the world. The UN Assembly was not convinced. Despite getting no approval from the UN and mass protests worldwide
    against an invasion, the US invaded Iraq and boasted that the invasion was as easy as a cakewalk. After the invasion was completed, no WMD was ever found in Iraq. No apology from the US. No American official was ever charged for any crime.


    In Libya, the government put down violent protest with violence. The Gaddafi regime was accused of crime against humanity. Western nations supplied arms to rebel forces. A no-fly zone was declared over Libya. Libyan air-defence systems were bombed by
    NATO planes. The same planes would provide air support to the rebels in any big battle between Government and rebel forces. Gaffadi himself was a target of aerial bombardment. In the end, Gaffadi was captured and killed by rebel forces and his regime
    toppled.

    Similar attempt was made against Syria. With assistance from the West, Oppositions turned armed rebels. The government was accused of using chemical weapons against its own people. This could have triggered The West to start a full-scale military
    operation to bring down the regime. But Putin's Russia was there to stop it from happening. If not for this, Syria could have become another Libya.

    The West made many attempts to topple the socialists regime in Venezuela. It was another victim of economic sanctions by the West. But the Maduro regime still stands, to this day.

    N Korea was threatened with invasion several times, each time surrounded by several US naval fleets.


    During the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98, IMF officials swaggered into Asian countries and ordered their governments not to bail out their failing banks. Those banks had to become bankrupt, without regard to their effects on the general population.
    In Indonesia, this caused bloody riots which brought down the Suharto regime. But when it came to the US Financial Crisis of 2008/9, IMF was nowhere around to issue orders. US banks and financial institutions became “too big to fail”. They were allowed to be bailed out by their government.

    Even the tiny nation of Singapore was not spared. When it wanted to whack the arse of an American teenager who had broken the country’s law, the tiny nation was threatened with economic sanctions, a regime change was in the plan. Finally, a US naval
    fleet was sent steaming toward the island nation until it had to capitulate. The teen’s arse was spared from the worst punishment.


    In recent years, China bears the brunt of the attack by the West simply because it is advancing rapidly by its own means without subscribing to Western values.


    All these happened while no nation could or was willing to stand up to the West. Now we know how authoritarian and dictatorial the West is when there is other power to counterbalance it's might. The world desperately needs a force to counterbalance the
    might of the West. The West has to be shown that it is not the Master of the World. That’s what Putin’s Russia is doing. It did this first in Syria and right now in Ukraine. It should be appreciated for its courage.

    Ukraine has it coming for itself.

    In Ukraine, under Western support, one group staged a coup to topple the Pro-Russian regime. From then on, successive regimes antagonised Russia without limit. These regimes wanted to cut-off historical ethnic links between Ukrainians and Russians. They
    carried out ethnic cleansing and genocide of Russians within Ukraine. Yugoslavia was accused of the same crime of ethnic cleansing and genocide of its minorities. This was the excuse Western powers used to dismember it. When the Ukrainians did it to
    their minority Russians, there was hardly a whimper from the West.

    Next, Ukraine allows itself to be used as a base to threaten the security of Russia. Western powers secretly use Ukraine to attempt to carry out a regime change in Russia. Worse, Ukraine wants to join NATO, bringing nuclear-capable Western power right to
    the border of Russia.

    This has crossed the Red Line. Russia has no choice but to act.


    It’s understandable that small nations would want to depend on bigger nations. But not to the extend that a small nation allows itself to be used to threaten the security of a big nation, especially if that big nation is a neighbor as powerful as
    Russia. Russia is not alone in doing this. Other nations had done it too. Indonesia invaded East Timur because it could not tolerate a Communist state as its neighbor, however small that state may be. It was the same reason the US invaded Grenada.



    What happens between Ukraine and Russia have many important lessons for the world, especially for those small nations. We are now in the era of Big Power Conflicts. Small nations have to know how to survive under such global political environment.
    Neutrality is the key. Take no side. Be friends to all and enemy to none.

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  • From frodo sam0@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Fri Mar 4 02:32:42 2022
    On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 7:31:06 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:28:06 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 12:39:22 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-8, Tom Jigme Wheat wrote:
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an
    exception.”
    Yes Tom, that's right. The Chinese government says that nations should leave other nations alone. They demand the freedom to persecute their own people without interference, where "their own people" means whatever they say it does. Taiwan disagrees
    with these bullies.
    Chinese Foreign Minister: "all countries’ sovereignty must be respected".
    This is a neutral statement. The leader of any country would have said that.

    Chinese President has called for high-level negotiation between Russia and Ukraine. This is another neutral approach to the situation.

    The Chinese leadership has a profound understanding of the issue between Russia and Ukraine. It knows the dirty role the US-led West has played to bring about the current situation.

    The US-led West continues to play the same dirty trick on China. Hong Kong is now a lost cause. Taiwan has become the focus. What is happening to Ukraine is a good lesson for Taiwan. If Taiwan swallow the bait of those fake and vague American-owned
    concept of democracy, freedom and human rights and allow itself to be trained into an attack dog of the US against China, it will end up worse than Ukraine.

    The Americans never dare to take on the Russians. This was true when Russia-led Warsaw Pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia. It is true again today when Russia attacked Ukraine. Why? Its the Russian military might, especially its nuclear arsenal. This
    is a lesson for the Chinese. If it can reach parity with the US in military capability, especially nuclear-wise, all its problems with the US would evaporate into thin air. Taiwan would return to the embrace of its Motherland.
    The war doesn’t seem to be going well for Russia, at the moment.

    The Russians expectations have not materialised. Taking lessons from the swift victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Russians have expected :
    1. Ukrainian government forces to be lacking in the will to fight and
    2. the general population will be nonchalant to the fight.

    But both are not happening. Government forces are putting up stiff resistance and the people are responding enthusiastically to the call for mass mobilisation.

    As the fight drags on, it will quickly become problematic for the Russians because US and European military aids are reaching Ukraine in swift flows.

    The way out for the Russian now is to attack Kiev and bring down the government there in one swift and strong blow. This will break the spirit of the resistance.

    Otherwise, Russia risk being bogged down into a long drawn war, i.e., Ukraine will become Russia’s Vietnam.
    That’s the ending the US-led West would love to see.
    Another lesson from this conflict.

    The West has a stranglehold on information.

    The West has stronger soft power, the media. This is setting the narratives, and controlling the information disseminated to the world. Beyond Russia, the world “knows” about the war through Western media.

    Russian English language-based media like RT and Sputnik have been banned in EU.

    In his latest online international press conference, Russian Foreign Minister referred to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation which has info about what the Ukrainians did to the Russians in Donbass. But that website
    has been blocked.


    Western narratives prevail. And it is this: Russia is the aggressor against Ukrainian, Russian soldiers are committing atrocities against Ukrainian civilians indiscriminately.
    The Russians have to do something about this.


    The Russians seem to be losing momentum in the conflict. This may prove to be fatal. Even though the US and EU are not willing to put boots on the ground, they are those from various parts of the world who volunteer to fight for the Ukrainians. US and EU
    can recruit volunteers and build up an International Volunteers Army or IVA and supply it with the latest weapons. NATO soldiers can join in the conflict as IVA.

    Russia has to do a quick job in Ukrainian.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to gera...@gmail.com on Sat Mar 5 21:38:28 2022
    On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 9:18:14 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 7:31:06 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:28:06 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 12:39:22 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 2:11:46 PM UTC-8, Tom Jigme Wheat wrote:
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    China’s support for Russia has also stopped short of direct approval for military action. Over the weekend, Wang, the Chinese foreign minister, reiterated that all countries’ sovereignty must be respected, adding that “Ukraine is not an
    exception.”
    Yes Tom, that's right. The Chinese government says that nations should leave other nations alone. They demand the freedom to persecute their own people without interference, where "their own people" means whatever they say it does. Taiwan
    disagrees with these bullies.
    Chinese Foreign Minister: "all countries’ sovereignty must be respected".
    This is a neutral statement. The leader of any country would have said that.

    Chinese President has called for high-level negotiation between Russia and Ukraine. This is another neutral approach to the situation.

    The Chinese leadership has a profound understanding of the issue between Russia and Ukraine. It knows the dirty role the US-led West has played to bring about the current situation.

    The US-led West continues to play the same dirty trick on China. Hong Kong is now a lost cause. Taiwan has become the focus. What is happening to Ukraine is a good lesson for Taiwan. If Taiwan swallow the bait of those fake and vague American-owned
    concept of democracy, freedom and human rights and allow itself to be trained into an attack dog of the US against China, it will end up worse than Ukraine.

    The Americans never dare to take on the Russians. This was true when Russia-led Warsaw Pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia. It is true again today when Russia attacked Ukraine. Why? Its the Russian military might, especially its nuclear arsenal.
    This is a lesson for the Chinese. If it can reach parity with the US in military capability, especially nuclear-wise, all its problems with the US would evaporate into thin air. Taiwan would return to the embrace of its Motherland.
    The war doesn’t seem to be going well for Russia, at the moment.

    The Russians expectations have not materialised. Taking lessons from the swift victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Russians have expected :
    1. Ukrainian government forces to be lacking in the will to fight and
    2. the general population will be nonchalant to the fight.

    But both are not happening. Government forces are putting up stiff resistance and the people are responding enthusiastically to the call for mass mobilisation.

    As the fight drags on, it will quickly become problematic for the Russians because US and European military aids are reaching Ukraine in swift flows.

    The way out for the Russian now is to attack Kiev and bring down the government there in one swift and strong blow. This will break the spirit of the resistance.

    Otherwise, Russia risk being bogged down into a long drawn war, i.e., Ukraine will become Russia’s Vietnam.
    That’s the ending the US-led West would love to see.
    No one likes war. It brings about deaths and destruction. We sympathise with all the people caught in the fighting right now between Russia and Ukraine. How does this come about?

    After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US became the only superpower. Together with its European allies, collectively referred to as the West, it has a stranglehold on the whole world. Not satisfied with this, it wants to create a world according to
    its own ideals.

    Under the Biden Administration, Western hocus-pocus of an ideal world has been crystalised into the rhetoric of Rules-based World Order and Universal Values. It is being hoisted on the world. Those nations which do not subscribe to it face the threat
    of a regime change plotted by the West. Few nations can stand up to the threat. Most can only comply.

    Every era has its priority. The priority of the 21st Century is to free the world of the West stranglehold on it.

    Russia under Putin is willing to stand up to the West. Unfortunately for Ukraine, it has become the battleground. But what Russia does benefits the whole world. The world will be different from now on. It will be a better place for all.

    It will be a multi-polar world, a world of diverse political ideologies, not just Western-style democracy. It will be a world enlivened with a diversity of values, not just those “universal values” of the West.

    Nations which want a truly free world, a world of diversities, should support Russia.

    “The territorial integrity of a sovereign state” flies freely in UN debates on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, especially among smaller states.

    If “The territorial integrity of a sovereign state” can be taken as sacrosanct, no nation would need to defend iself against external aggressors. There would be no need for a defence force or a Ministry or Dept of Defence for a state.

    The truth is that your territory is not yours if you cannot defend it. The evidence to this is for all to see. The Westerners should know this better than anyone else because of what they have done to ex-Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria. The US
    continues to violate the Chinese territories of Taiwan and the South China Sea.

    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine is not simply about sovereign state and territorial integrity. It’s more than that. Russia is openly challenging the World Order defined and defended by the West. The West have continuously trained a pack of
    attacking dogs to defend its World Order. Ukraine is one of them. It thinks it can misbehave towards its neighbor because it has a strong master. It is paying dearly for this.

    Look at the performance of the Westerners recently. From Afghanistan, they fled in panic with their tails between their legs. Now, in Ukraine, they hide themselves, keeping a safe distance from the fight like some frightened rats.

    No-fly zone? They did it in ex-Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya. Don’t expect them to establish one over Ukraine. That would entails bombing Russian air defence systems on the ground and taking out Russian fighter jets in the air. They don’t have the guts
    to do that. They can only bully those weaker than them.

    Those other attacking dogs trained by the West should watch their behaviors lest they end up like Ukraine.

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  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Sun Mar 6 01:32:29 2022
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as trusted
    subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia under
    Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal and
    destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his shirt,
    diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in international
    politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next,
    instigate ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev
    which is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the streets to
    demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. Since
    then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to the
    Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states
    became independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK. They
    ran covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening
    between the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on the
    island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its
    against the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal
    that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the world
    should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter so that he
    could remain behind to fight the Ukrainians!

    https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS


    More lies exposed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg

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  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Tue Mar 8 20:51:09 2022
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as trusted
    subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia
    under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up
    to the US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal
    and destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his
    shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in
    international politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next,
    instigate ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev
    which is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the streets
    to demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. Since
    then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to
    the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council. Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states
    became independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK.
    They ran covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening
    between the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on
    the island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its
    against the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal
    that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the
    world should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter so that he
    could remain behind to fight the Ukrainians!

    https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS
    More lies exposed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to avoid local deaths and
    destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders bringing deaths and destruction
    to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Thu Mar 10 22:49:02 2022
    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as
    trusted subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia
    under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up
    to the US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal
    and destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his
    shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in
    international politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next,
    instigate ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was
    Kiev which is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the
    streets to demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the
    streets. Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to
    the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council. Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states
    became independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK.
    They ran covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening
    between the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on
    the island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its
    against the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal
    that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the
    world should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter so that
    he could remain behind to fight the Ukrainians!

    https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS
    More lies exposed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to avoid local deaths and
    destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders bringing deaths and
    destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine

    Russia cannot afford to lose this fight. It has to remind itself of what happened to Iraq after the latter misadventure in Kuwait.

    If Russia were to withdraw from Ukraine without achieving its initial objective, it will not be the end of the matter for the West. It will be the West turn to denuclearise and demilitarise Russia. This will be followed by the dismemberment of Russia
    until it becomes extinct, like ex-Yugoslavia. This may not be achievable but the West will give it a shot.

    More likely, the West will go for those smaller states which have explicitly supported Russia. Even those which have abstained will be dealt - “either you are with us or you are with the enemy”.

    Whichever side wins, the impact on the world will be great. If Russia wins, the world will phase quicker into a multi-polar one. If the West wins, it will be a unipolar world in which nothing now can stand in the West’s way to globalise its World Order
    and “Universal Values”.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Fri Mar 11 21:18:22 2022
    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top authority, its Western allies as
    trusted subordinates and the others as obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia. After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a honeymoon period with Russia
    under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up
    to the US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. They have him marked for disposal
    and destruction. As usual, the political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without his
    shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the Americans had prepared for him in
    international politics and military strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a US-backed puppet regime. Next,
    instigate ethnic conflict between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present day Ukraine. Its capital was
    Kiev which is also the capital of present day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. Instigate people to take to the
    streets to demand closer ties with US and Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the
    streets. Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and providing military trainings to
    the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme and take the initiative to
    militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council. Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. Previous Russian satellite states
    became independent republics. These republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. They almost succeeded in HK.
    They ran covert operations to instigate the Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening
    between the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become independent from China. If the Chinese on
    the island of Taiwan were to be dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for another fight, especially if its
    against the Russians. Few Americans would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear arsenal
    that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the
    Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give orders which the rest of the
    world should follow blindly. Those damned Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter so that
    he could remain behind to fight the Ukrainians!

    https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS
    More lies exposed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to avoid local deaths and
    destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders bringing deaths and
    destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From alien@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Sat Mar 12 06:05:01 2022
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogwacker@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote: >>>>>> The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To >>>>>> fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being >>>>>> authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The >>>>>> US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top >>>>>> authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as >>>>>> obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those >>>>>> which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia >>>>>> was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led >>>>>> Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest >>>>>> from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the >>>>>> US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the >>>>>> US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, >>>>>> Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not >>>>>> have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. >>>>>> They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by >>>>>> engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without >>>>>> his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his >>>>>> kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China >>>>>> was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the >>>>>> Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military >>>>>> strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become >>>>>> the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a >>>>>> political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a >>>>>> US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine >>>>>> and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a >>>>>> feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present >>>>>> day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present >>>>>> day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine >>>>>> and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the >>>>>> Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. >>>>>> Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a >>>>>> tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters >>>>>> which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets. >>>>>> Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been >>>>>> behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated >>>>>> into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military, >>>>>> they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and >>>>>> providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out >>>>>> between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over >>>>>> Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support >>>>>> from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme >>>>>> and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big >>>>>> dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council. >>>>>> Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. >>>>>> Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine. >>>>>>
    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in >>>>>> Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in >>>>>> Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. >>>>>> Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These >>>>>> republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having >>>>>> played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have >>>>>> this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states >>>>>> again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves >>>>>> under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of >>>>>> several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are >>>>>> nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone. >>>>>>
    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in >>>>>> other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies. >>>>>> In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet. >>>>>> They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the >>>>>> Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were >>>>>> beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK, >>>>>> Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had >>>>>> planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty >>>>>> tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the >>>>>> Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking >>>>>> over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next >>>>>> move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. >>>>>> Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for >>>>>> another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans >>>>>> would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The >>>>>> Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know >>>>>> that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear >>>>>> arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide >>>>>> plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing >>>>>> the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is >>>>>> dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing >>>>>> its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human >>>>>> rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give >>>>>> orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned >>>>>> Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists >>>>>> pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their >>>>>> military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the >>>>>> whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about >>>> a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he >>>> decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place >>>> in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a >>>> town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan >> months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders >> bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons >> into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).

    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to alien on Sun Mar 13 00:20:58 2022
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote: >>>> On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote: >>>>>> The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The >>>>>> US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top >>>>>> authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a >>>>>> honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led >>>>>> Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the >>>>>> US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya, >>>>>> Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin. >>>>>> They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the >>>>>> political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the >>>>>> Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military >>>>>> strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a >>>>>> political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between >>>>>> Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a >>>>>> feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the >>>>>> Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. >>>>>> Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters >>>>>> which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and >>>>>> providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out >>>>>> between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support >>>>>> from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council. >>>>>> Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. >>>>>> Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in >>>>>> Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. >>>>>> Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These >>>>>> republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have >>>>>> this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of >>>>>> several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone. >>>>>>
    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had >>>>>> planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty >>>>>> tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the >>>>>> Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its >>>>>> enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan. >>>>>> Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for >>>>>> another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans >>>>>> would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear >>>>>> arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human >>>>>> rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their >>>>>> military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the >>>>>> whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he >>>> decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful >>>> farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the >>>> Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local >> leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to >> avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the >> Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The >> soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that >> reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~

    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the residents who lived
    through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From frodo sam0@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Mon Mar 14 18:10:27 2022
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote: >>>> On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The >>>>>> US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top >>>>>> authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a >>>>>> honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the >>>>>> political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the >>>>>> Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a >>>>>> political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between >>>>>> Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the >>>>>> Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics. >>>>>> Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and >>>>>> providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council. >>>>>> Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. >>>>>> Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy. >>>>>>
    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited. >>>>>> Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of >>>>>> several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and >>>>>> 2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become >>>>>> independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the >>>>>> Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its >>>>>> enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful >>>> farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the >>>> Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the residents who
    lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.

    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gerard jud@21:1/5 to gerard jud on Wed Mar 16 02:32:08 2022
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote: >>>>> On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya. >>>>>>
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas. >>>>>>
    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy. >>>>>>
    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and >>>>>> 2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become >>>>>> independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically. >> From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the >> “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to >> bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the residents who
    lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will replace the US
    as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its only
    temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an unambiguous
    position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border and the other
    in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin color. Indian is
    speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.

    In the latest conflict between Russia and Ukraine, again we see the trademarks of Western propaganda. They are so familiar. Those old enough would have seen it in ex-Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Now they are applied to Russia. There are some
    consistent features.

    1. The state of mind of the leader.
    We have read similar stuff before about Milosevic of ex-Yugoslavia, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Gaddafi of Libya and Assad of Syria. Now President Putin of Russia has become the subject of psycho-analysis by many Western “experts”. The conclusion is
    foretold. He is mentally defective in as many ways as there are words to describe it.

    2. The enemies are inhuman.
    Russian soldiers are targeting civilians! This is not a credible narrative.
    Why waste ammunition on those who cannot fire back? That’s one sure way to lose a war. While you are wasting resources attacking unarmed civilians, your enemy would be strengthening themselves for counterattacks against you. Every militarist knows
    this. History has shown it. Many military historians have written that the Nazis lost the Battle of Britain because they switched from bombing military targets to civilian ones.

    Why then are those civilian buildings bombed?
    Having been cornered into a city, if not near to or in those buildings, where else would your enemy be hiding and fighting from? Before a building is bombed, projectiles would have been fire from it. No reporter from the enemy side would show the tracers
    emanating from it. They would only show the building after it is bombed.
    But why no soldiers among the dead and wounded?
    Mobility increases the chances of survival in a fire fight. After firing from one building, before drawing fire from the other side, the soldiers would move to another building.

    Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg
    at time mark 17:00. It explained why civilian buildings were bombed.
    “There were tanks standing in this neighborhood, they maneuvered between the buildings.”


    Propaganda only works for those who accept info presented to them without questioning.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gerard jud@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 16 02:28:51 2022
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a >>>>>> honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the >>>>>> political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between >>>>>> Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas. >>>>>>
    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy. >>>>>>
    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and >>>>>> 2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become >>>>>> independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its >>>>>> enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful >>>> farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the >> “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to >> bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the residents who
    lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will replace the US as
    the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world. US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its only
    temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an unambiguous position.
    Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border and the other in
    Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin color. Indian is
    speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gerard jud@21:1/5 to gerard jud on Thu Mar 17 06:02:21 2022
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote: >>>>> On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya. >>>>>>
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas. >>>>>>
    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy. >>>>>>
    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and >>>>>> 2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become >>>>>> independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically. >> From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the >> “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to >> bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the residents who
    lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will replace the US
    as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its only
    temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an unambiguous
    position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border and the other
    in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin color. Indian is
    speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.

    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its weight. That’s
    only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a strategic partner
    of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine alone swearing not
    to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From frodo sam0@21:1/5 to gera...@gmail.com on Thu Mar 17 19:07:10 2022
    On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 1:02:24 PM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote: >>>>> On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya. >>>>>>
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas. >>>>>>
    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy. >>>>>>
    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and >>>>>> 2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans. >>>>>>
    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening. >>
    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically. >> From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the residents
    who lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will replace the US
    as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its only
    temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an unambiguous
    position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border and the
    other in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin color. Indian
    is speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.
    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its weight. That’
    s only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a strategic partner
    of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine alone swearing
    not to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.


    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/joe-biden-xi-jinping-friday/index.html

    After creating a big problem for the world, the US would think of using China to help solve it. When there is no big problem in the world, the US would make China the problem. China would be accused of all sorts of evils such as ethnic cleansing,
    genocide, persecution of religions, crimes against humanity, a pariah nation without freedom and human rights, etc..

    Should China help to solve the problem? Can it? The root problem of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is for all to see. The US is the culprit. Here's why. Russia under Putin is not as submissive as other nations to the World Order and Universal Values which
    the US-led West pushes and peddles around the world. For this, Russia under Putin becomes a target for regime change. Ukraine becomes the proxy in the fight between the US-led West and Russia. Using its military arm NATO, the US-led West threaten Russia
    s security by creeping towards the border of Russia.

    The solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dead simple. It does not need China or other nations to get involved. That would only complicate matters. All it takes is for all NATO member nations to make an unambiguous commitment not to advance beyond
    a limit agreed to between them and Russia.

    Instead of working towards that, the US is worsening the crisis by supplying more arms to Ukraine, adding oil to fire, causing more deaths and destruction. As usual, it wants the world to believe that it is doing this for the sake of freedom and human
    rights.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 21 01:34:04 2022
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a >>>>>> honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the >>>>>> political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between >>>>>> Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas. >>>>>>
    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy. >>>>>>
    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and >>>>>> 2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become >>>>>> independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its >>>>>> enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful >>>> farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the >> “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to >> bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the residents who
    lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8

    Patrick Lancaster in action again, this time reporting from the ground in Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6UzUMrEEXM

    Mariupol is as good as having fallen to the Russians, with only a few Ukrainian pockets of resistance left to be mopped up.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 21 02:03:45 2022
    On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:07:12 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 1:02:24 PM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote: >>> On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote: >>>>> On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya. >>>>>>
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas. >>>>>>
    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans. >>>>>>
    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the residents
    who lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will replace the
    US as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its only
    temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an unambiguous
    position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border and the
    other in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin color.
    Indian is speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.
    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its weight. That
    s only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a strategic
    partner of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine alone swearing
    not to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/joe-biden-xi-jinping-friday/index.html

    After creating a big problem for the world, the US would think of using China to help solve it. When there is no big problem in the world, the US would make China the problem. China would be accused of all sorts of evils such as ethnic cleansing,
    genocide, persecution of religions, crimes against humanity, a pariah nation without freedom and human rights, etc..

    Should China help to solve the problem? Can it? The root problem of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is for all to see. The US is the culprit. Here's why. Russia under Putin is not as submissive as other nations to the World Order and Universal Values which
    the US-led West pushes and peddles around the world. For this, Russia under Putin becomes a target for regime change. Ukraine becomes the proxy in the fight between the US-led West and Russia. Using its military arm NATO, the US-led West threaten Russia
    s security by creeping towards the border of Russia.

    The solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dead simple. It does not need China or other nations to get involved. That would only complicate matters. All it takes is for all NATO member nations to make an unambiguous commitment not to advance beyond
    a limit agreed to between them and Russia.

    Instead of working towards that, the US is worsening the crisis by supplying more arms to Ukraine, adding oil to fire, causing more deaths and destruction. As usual, it wants the world to believe that it is doing this for the sake of freedom and human
    rights.

    Will the conflict in Ukraine lead to World War 3? Definitely not. It can only happen if the US dares to fight with Russia directly. But it dares not. Why? In the past, Americans have been fighting wars away from their own homeland, in WW1, WW2 and
    subsequent wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Unlike those enemies of the past, Russia makes a big difference. It has the military might to bring the war over to the US mainland; and its going to be NUCLEAR! Russia can nuke the US. Its recent
    use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine is a stark warning to the Americans. The regime in Ukraine should get this clear: the Americans will not risk their own home ground being nuked for the sake of defending Ukraine.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gerard jud@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Wed Mar 23 18:38:32 2022
    On Monday, March 21, 2022 at 9:03:46 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:07:12 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 1:02:24 PM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote: >>> On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians. >>>>>> Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans. >>>>>>
    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the
    residents who lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will replace
    the US as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its only
    temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an unambiguous
    position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border and the
    other in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin color.
    Indian is speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.
    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its weight.
    That’s only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a strategic
    partner of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine alone
    swearing not to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/joe-biden-xi-jinping-friday/index.html

    After creating a big problem for the world, the US would think of using China to help solve it. When there is no big problem in the world, the US would make China the problem. China would be accused of all sorts of evils such as ethnic cleansing,
    genocide, persecution of religions, crimes against humanity, a pariah nation without freedom and human rights, etc..

    Should China help to solve the problem? Can it? The root problem of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is for all to see. The US is the culprit. Here's why. Russia under Putin is not as submissive as other nations to the World Order and Universal Values
    which the US-led West pushes and peddles around the world. For this, Russia under Putin becomes a target for regime change. Ukraine becomes the proxy in the fight between the US-led West and Russia. Using its military arm NATO, the US-led West threaten
    Russia’s security by creeping towards the border of Russia.

    The solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dead simple. It does not need China or other nations to get involved. That would only complicate matters. All it takes is for all NATO member nations to make an unambiguous commitment not to advance
    beyond a limit agreed to between them and Russia.

    Instead of working towards that, the US is worsening the crisis by supplying more arms to Ukraine, adding oil to fire, causing more deaths and destruction. As usual, it wants the world to believe that it is doing this for the sake of freedom and
    human rights.
    Will the conflict in Ukraine lead to World War 3? Definitely not. It can only happen if the US dares to fight with Russia directly. But it dares not. Why? In the past, Americans have been fighting wars away from their own homeland, in WW1, WW2 and
    subsequent wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Unlike those enemies of the past, Russia makes a big difference. It has the military might to bring the war over to the US mainland; and its going to be NUCLEAR! Russia can nuke the US. Its recent
    use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine is a stark warning to the Americans. The regime in Ukraine should get this clear: the Americans will not risk their own home ground being nuked for the sake of defending Ukraine.

    Hear it from a very experienced American journalist. She debunked those regular Western propaganda about the Ukraine War very effectively.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfyBBnHABE

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  • From decadence thlon@21:1/5 to decadence thlon on Fri Mar 25 19:48:49 2022
    On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:30:37 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 1:38:34 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, March 21, 2022 at 9:03:46 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:07:12 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 1:02:24 PM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians. >>>>>> Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders. >>>>
    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the
    residents who lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will
    replace the US as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its
    only temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an
    unambiguous position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border and
    the other in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin color.
    Indian is speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.
    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its weight.
    That’s only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a strategic
    partner of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine alone
    swearing not to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/joe-biden-xi-jinping-friday/index.html

    After creating a big problem for the world, the US would think of using China to help solve it. When there is no big problem in the world, the US would make China the problem. China would be accused of all sorts of evils such as ethnic cleansing,
    genocide, persecution of religions, crimes against humanity, a pariah nation without freedom and human rights, etc..

    Should China help to solve the problem? Can it? The root problem of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is for all to see. The US is the culprit. Here's why. Russia under Putin is not as submissive as other nations to the World Order and Universal Values
    which the US-led West pushes and peddles around the world. For this, Russia under Putin becomes a target for regime change. Ukraine becomes the proxy in the fight between the US-led West and Russia. Using its military arm NATO, the US-led West threaten
    Russia’s security by creeping towards the border of Russia.

    The solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dead simple. It does not need China or other nations to get involved. That would only complicate matters. All it takes is for all NATO member nations to make an unambiguous commitment not to advance
    beyond a limit agreed to between them and Russia.

    Instead of working towards that, the US is worsening the crisis by supplying more arms to Ukraine, adding oil to fire, causing more deaths and destruction. As usual, it wants the world to believe that it is doing this for the sake of freedom and
    human rights.
    Will the conflict in Ukraine lead to World War 3? Definitely not. It can only happen if the US dares to fight with Russia directly. But it dares not. Why? In the past, Americans have been fighting wars away from their own homeland, in WW1, WW2 and
    subsequent wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Unlike those enemies of the past, Russia makes a big difference. It has the military might to bring the war over to the US mainland; and its going to be NUCLEAR! Russia can nuke the US. Its recent
    use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine is a stark warning to the Americans. The regime in Ukraine should get this clear: the Americans will not risk their own home ground being nuked for the sake of defending Ukraine.
    Hear it from a very experienced American journalist. She debunked those regular Western propaganda about the Ukraine War very effectively.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfyBBnHABE
    "the real situation on the ground" in Mariupol.
    Ukrainian wanted to surrender but the neo-Nazi Azov soldiers prevented killed some of them and a fire fight broke out between the two sides.
    Azov soldiers used school as their firing positions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3h9Paoy-UA

    Another source for news about the war in Ukraine.

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=telesur+ukraine

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  • From decadence thlon@21:1/5 to gera...@gmail.com on Fri Mar 25 19:30:35 2022
    On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 1:38:34 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, March 21, 2022 at 9:03:46 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:07:12 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 1:02:24 PM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q>

    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians. >>>>>> Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the
    residents who lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will replace
    the US as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its only
    temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an
    unambiguous position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border and
    the other in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin color.
    Indian is speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.
    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its weight.
    That’s only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a strategic
    partner of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine alone
    swearing not to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/joe-biden-xi-jinping-friday/index.html

    After creating a big problem for the world, the US would think of using China to help solve it. When there is no big problem in the world, the US would make China the problem. China would be accused of all sorts of evils such as ethnic cleansing,
    genocide, persecution of religions, crimes against humanity, a pariah nation without freedom and human rights, etc..

    Should China help to solve the problem? Can it? The root problem of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is for all to see. The US is the culprit. Here's why. Russia under Putin is not as submissive as other nations to the World Order and Universal Values
    which the US-led West pushes and peddles around the world. For this, Russia under Putin becomes a target for regime change. Ukraine becomes the proxy in the fight between the US-led West and Russia. Using its military arm NATO, the US-led West threaten
    Russia’s security by creeping towards the border of Russia.

    The solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dead simple. It does not need China or other nations to get involved. That would only complicate matters. All it takes is for all NATO member nations to make an unambiguous commitment not to advance
    beyond a limit agreed to between them and Russia.

    Instead of working towards that, the US is worsening the crisis by supplying more arms to Ukraine, adding oil to fire, causing more deaths and destruction. As usual, it wants the world to believe that it is doing this for the sake of freedom and
    human rights.
    Will the conflict in Ukraine lead to World War 3? Definitely not. It can only happen if the US dares to fight with Russia directly. But it dares not. Why? In the past, Americans have been fighting wars away from their own homeland, in WW1, WW2 and
    subsequent wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Unlike those enemies of the past, Russia makes a big difference. It has the military might to bring the war over to the US mainland; and its going to be NUCLEAR! Russia can nuke the US. Its recent
    use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine is a stark warning to the Americans. The regime in Ukraine should get this clear: the Americans will not risk their own home ground being nuked for the sake of defending Ukraine.
    Hear it from a very experienced American journalist. She debunked those regular Western propaganda about the Ukraine War very effectively.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfyBBnHABE

    "the real situation on the ground" in Mariupol.
    Ukrainian wanted to surrender but the neo-Nazi Azov soldiers prevented killed some of them and a fire fight broke out between the two sides.
    Azov soldiers used school as their firing positions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3h9Paoy-UA

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From frodo sam0@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Sat Mar 26 23:13:18 2022
    On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 5:43:34 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:48:51 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:30:37 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 1:38:34 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, March 21, 2022 at 9:03:46 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:07:12 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 1:02:24 PM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q> >>>>>>
    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia. >>>>>>
    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda. >>>>
    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders. >>>>
    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the
    residents who lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will
    replace the US as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its
    only temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an
    unambiguous position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border
    and the other in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin
    color. Indian is speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.
    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its
    weight. That’s only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a
    strategic partner of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine alone
    swearing not to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/joe-biden-xi-jinping-friday/index.html

    After creating a big problem for the world, the US would think of using China to help solve it. When there is no big problem in the world, the US would make China the problem. China would be accused of all sorts of evils such as ethnic
    cleansing, genocide, persecution of religions, crimes against humanity, a pariah nation without freedom and human rights, etc..

    Should China help to solve the problem? Can it? The root problem of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is for all to see. The US is the culprit. Here's why. Russia under Putin is not as submissive as other nations to the World Order and Universal
    Values which the US-led West pushes and peddles around the world. For this, Russia under Putin becomes a target for regime change. Ukraine becomes the proxy in the fight between the US-led West and Russia. Using its military arm NATO, the US-led West
    threaten Russia’s security by creeping towards the border of Russia.

    The solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dead simple. It does not need China or other nations to get involved. That would only complicate matters. All it takes is for all NATO member nations to make an unambiguous commitment not to
    advance beyond a limit agreed to between them and Russia.

    Instead of working towards that, the US is worsening the crisis by supplying more arms to Ukraine, adding oil to fire, causing more deaths and destruction. As usual, it wants the world to believe that it is doing this for the sake of freedom
    and human rights.
    Will the conflict in Ukraine lead to World War 3? Definitely not. It can only happen if the US dares to fight with Russia directly. But it dares not. Why? In the past, Americans have been fighting wars away from their own homeland, in WW1, WW2
    and subsequent wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Unlike those enemies of the past, Russia makes a big difference. It has the military might to bring the war over to the US mainland; and its going to be NUCLEAR! Russia can nuke the US. Its
    recent use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine is a stark warning to the Americans. The regime in Ukraine should get this clear: the Americans will not risk their own home ground being nuked for the sake of defending Ukraine.
    Hear it from a very experienced American journalist. She debunked those regular Western propaganda about the Ukraine War very effectively.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfyBBnHABE
    "the real situation on the ground" in Mariupol.
    Ukrainian wanted to surrender but the neo-Nazi Azov soldiers prevented killed some of them and a fire fight broke out between the two sides.
    Azov soldiers used school as their firing positions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3h9Paoy-UA
    Another source for news about the war in Ukraine.

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=telesur+ukraine
    The truth, depicted via cartoons. https://world.huanqiu.com/article/47Ly9u2h0wX

    Russia is not fighting against Ukraine. It is fighting US and Europe in Ukraine.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlgWI0FzjKc

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  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to decadence thlon on Sat Mar 26 22:43:32 2022
    On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:48:51 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:30:37 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 1:38:34 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, March 21, 2022 at 9:03:46 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:07:12 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 1:02:24 PM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q> >>>>>>
    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia.

    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia.

    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears.
    1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda.

    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders. >>>>
    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS>
    More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of the
    residents who lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will
    replace the US as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if its
    only temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an
    unambiguous position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India border
    and the other in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin
    color. Indian is speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.
    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its
    weight. That’s only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a
    strategic partner of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine alone
    swearing not to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/joe-biden-xi-jinping-friday/index.html

    After creating a big problem for the world, the US would think of using China to help solve it. When there is no big problem in the world, the US would make China the problem. China would be accused of all sorts of evils such as ethnic
    cleansing, genocide, persecution of religions, crimes against humanity, a pariah nation without freedom and human rights, etc..

    Should China help to solve the problem? Can it? The root problem of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is for all to see. The US is the culprit. Here's why. Russia under Putin is not as submissive as other nations to the World Order and Universal
    Values which the US-led West pushes and peddles around the world. For this, Russia under Putin becomes a target for regime change. Ukraine becomes the proxy in the fight between the US-led West and Russia. Using its military arm NATO, the US-led West
    threaten Russia’s security by creeping towards the border of Russia.

    The solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dead simple. It does not need China or other nations to get involved. That would only complicate matters. All it takes is for all NATO member nations to make an unambiguous commitment not to
    advance beyond a limit agreed to between them and Russia.

    Instead of working towards that, the US is worsening the crisis by supplying more arms to Ukraine, adding oil to fire, causing more deaths and destruction. As usual, it wants the world to believe that it is doing this for the sake of freedom
    and human rights.
    Will the conflict in Ukraine lead to World War 3? Definitely not. It can only happen if the US dares to fight with Russia directly. But it dares not. Why? In the past, Americans have been fighting wars away from their own homeland, in WW1, WW2
    and subsequent wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Unlike those enemies of the past, Russia makes a big difference. It has the military might to bring the war over to the US mainland; and its going to be NUCLEAR! Russia can nuke the US. Its
    recent use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine is a stark warning to the Americans. The regime in Ukraine should get this clear: the Americans will not risk their own home ground being nuked for the sake of defending Ukraine.
    Hear it from a very experienced American journalist. She debunked those regular Western propaganda about the Ukraine War very effectively.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfyBBnHABE
    "the real situation on the ground" in Mariupol.
    Ukrainian wanted to surrender but the neo-Nazi Azov soldiers prevented killed some of them and a fire fight broke out between the two sides.
    Azov soldiers used school as their firing positions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3h9Paoy-UA
    Another source for news about the war in Ukraine.

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=telesur+ukraine

    The truth, depicted via cartoons.
    https://world.huanqiu.com/article/47Ly9u2h0wX

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  • From gerard jud@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 28 18:06:15 2022
    On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 6:13:19 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 5:43:34 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:48:51 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:30:37 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 1:38:34 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, March 21, 2022 at 9:03:46 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:07:12 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 1:02:24 PM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 9:28:52 AM UTC, gerard jud wrote:
    On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 1:10:29 AM UTC, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:21:00 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:05:04 AM UTC, alien wrote:
    On 12 Mar 2022 at 06.18.22 GMT+1, "wog wacker" <wogw...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:51:11 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 9:32:31 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 3:40:52 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 3:50:59 AM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6:27:38 PM UTC-8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To
    fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    While the US readily criticises nations like Russia and China as being
    authoritarian, it is establishing an authoritarian World Order. The
    US-led World Order is a hierarchical system with the US as the top
    authority, its Western allies as trusted subordinates and the others as
    obedient dogs.

    Other nations cannot question, let alone challenge, US authority. Those
    which do will face trouble. That’s what’s happening to Putin’s Russia.
    After the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union, the US had a
    honeymoon period with Russia under Yeltsin. The Slav state of Yugoslavia
    was wiped off the map of the world without a whimper from Yeltsin-led
    Slavic Russia. Then Iraq was invaded like a cakewalk without any protest
    from Russia, which was then the only country which could stand up to the
    US-led West.

    After Putin took over the rein from Yeltsin, the honeymoon period between
    the US and Russia ended. Unlike Yeltsin, Putin dares to question the
    US-led West. He questioned NATO over its conduct in Libya.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q> >>>>>>
    When the US-led West tried to do to Syria what it has done to Libya,
    Putin led Russia to confront the US militarily. The Americans could not
    have their way in Syria as they had in Libya. They were mad at Putin.
    They have him marked for disposal and destruction. As usual, the
    political American Press went into action first. US media had a field day
    with Putin. They ridiculed him as a sissy. He had to prove them wrong by
    engaging in tough and risky outdoor activities, riding a horse without
    his shirt, diving into depths, taking to adventures in the sky. Even his
    kind act to putting a blanket on the shoulder of the First Lady of China
    was grossly misinterpreted. These are nothing compared to what the
    Americans had prepared for him in international politics and military
    strategy.

    European nations bordering Russia, such as Ukraine and Belarus, become
    the pawns used to hit back at Putin’s Russia. In Ukraine, first a
    political coup to take down the Pro-Russian regime and replace it with a
    US-backed puppet regime. Next, instigate ethnic conflict between
    Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.

    Ukrainians and Russians share a special relationship. Belarus, Ukraine
    and Russia are nations of ethnic Slavs that grew out of Kievan Rus, a
    feudal state which stretched from the north of the Black Sea to present
    day Ukraine. Its capital was Kiev which is also the capital of present
    day Ukraine.

    Yet the Americans are able to cause bad blood to spill between Ukraine
    and Russia. Having accomplished their devilish act in Ukraine, the
    Americans next turn their attention on Belarus. Same dirty tactics.
    Instigate people to take to the streets to demand closer ties with US and
    Europe. But they found the Belarus leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to be a
    tough nut to crack. He took to the streets to reason with protesters
    which outnumber him many times. He won the verbal battle on the streets.
    Since then, he’s been left to rule unchallenged. He knew who has been
    behind this – those damned Americans.

    Meanwhile Ukraine turned from bad to worse. More Westerners infiltrated
    into Ukraine. In politics, they go in disguised as NGO’s. In military,
    they go in as contracted fighters and mercenaries, selling arms and
    providing military trainings to the Ukrainians. Open fights broke out
    between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. Russia stepped in to take over
    Crimea and helped ethnic Russians in the Donbass. Ukraine becomes a proxy
    in a war between the US-led West and Russia. >>>>>>
    The US-led puppet regime in Ukraine, with increasing military support
    from the Americans and their European allies, become more aggressive, and
    plan to reclaim Crimea and Donbass. The Russians see through the scheme
    and take the initiative to militarily defend the two areas.

    Several factors have been favorable to the Russians.
    Democracy has produced an old and senile President in the US and a big
    dumb gorilla as Sec. of Defence.
    Ukraine has a comedian as President.
    A Russian has been appointed President of the UN Security Council.
    Only months ago, US has met with humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
    Most important of all, the US is treating China as its enemy.

    There is no better time to mount a military offensive against Ukraine.

    History in the past three decades has shaped the current conflict in
    Europe. The collapse of the USSR were followed by political upheavals in
    Central and Eastern Europe. East and West Germany became reunited.
    Previous Russian satellite states became independent republics. These
    republics are eternally grateful to the US and Western Europe for having
    played critical roles in bringing about their independence. They have
    this fear of being re-absorbed by Russia to become its satellite states
    again. To prevent this from happening, they choose to place themselves
    under the protection of NATO. Among these states, Ukraine is one of
    several which share a border with Russia. >>>>>>
    Russia, on the other hand, has two fears. >>>>>> 1. The revival of an expansionist Germany (Fourth Reich?) and
    2. NATO expanding right to its border.

    Now that Ukraine and Russia are at war, the Americans and Europeans are
    nowhere to be found. The Ukrainians are left to fight and die alone.

    What happen in Ukraine before the latest open conflict has happened in
    other places. The Americans are instigating ethnic wars on its enemies.
    In China, they plan to do it in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.
    They almost succeeded in HK. They ran covert operations to instigate the
    Chinese in HK to agitate for independence from China. Chinese in HK were
    beating up Chinese from China. Had China not taken firm actions in HK,
    Chinese would be fighting Chinese on a big scale, as is happening between
    the Slavs in Ukraine and Russia.

    The Americans are most unhappy that HK has not turned out as they had
    planned. They have now shifted their attention to Taiwan. Same dirty
    tactics. Arming up Taiwan. Agitate the Chinese there to become
    independent from China. If the Chinese on the island of Taiwan were to be
    dumb enough to be used by the Americans, they will end up like the
    Ukrainians, fighting and dying to serve Americans’ own national interest.


    What happen between Russia and Ukrainian is not about one nation taking
    over part of another nation based on ethnicity. Rather, it’s the US using
    ethnicity to create wars for those nations it considers to be its
    enemies.

    Now that Ukraine is in open conflict with Russia, what’s the US next
    move? The Americans are still licking their wounds from Afghanistan.
    Their tails are still between their legs. No, they are not ready for
    another fight, especially if its against the Russians. Few Americans
    would want to die for Ukraine. They expect the Europeans to do it. The
    Europeans would not do it alone without the Americans. Both sides know
    that when the fight comes to the crunch, Russia has a bigger nuclear
    arsenal that the US. The solution will be this. Both sides will provide
    plenty of arms and advices to the Ukrainians who will be the ones doing
    the fighting and the dying. That’s how a country will end up if it is
    dumb enough to allow itself to be used by the Americans.

    Its time the US stop preaching about a rule-base World Order and pushing
    its ideology based on its own concept of democracy, freedom and human
    rights. To the Americans, a World Order is one in which only they give
    orders which the rest of the world should follow blindly. Those damned
    Americans are pushing their ideology more zealously than the Communists
    pushed Communism during the Cold War.
    The Americans should stop pursuing their foreign policies with their
    military might. This might-makes-right strategy is destabilising the
    whole world.
    Dumb post.
    Chinese media exposes dirty Western propaganda. >>>>
    In Western media, a video has recently gone viral. It is purportedly about
    a Ukrainian father bidding a tearful farewell to his daughter while he
    decided to stay back to fight the Russian invaders.

    The true turns out to be entirely different. The actual event takes place
    in the Donbass region. The video was originally released by a Mayor of a
    town in the region. The man was an ethnic Russian bidding a tearful
    farewell to his daughter so that he could remain behind to fight the
    Ukrainians!

    <https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46yEEx1j0BS> >>> More lies exposed.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTIUI4oYdg>
    Russia is not doing well in the fight.

    The Putin regime has initial expectations like what happened in Afghanistan
    months ago – government soldiers will not have the will to fight, local
    leaders will negotiate for the government soldiers to give up in order to
    avoid local deaths and destruction. But these are not happening.

    The Russians have not prepared well for the war, psychologically.
    From ordinary citizens to soldiers, in many Russians mind, just like the
    Western narrative, its big Russia invading its much smaller neighbor. The
    soldiers are fighting on weak moral ground. They see themselves as invaders
    bringing deaths and destruction to their own kind, Slavs. There’s that
    reluctance to go in for the kill during battles.

    All these lull in fighting to let civilians out is falling into the
    “humanitarian trap” of the West. While civilians are moving out of embattled
    areas, the West is using the time to move in vast amount of men and weapons
    into Ukraine.

    Its very difficult now to deliver a knock-out blow to the regime to
    bring the war to a quick end.

    For a more balanced view of the war, watch
    <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rt+ukraine>

    Now I cannot access any of the videos from Russia Today (RT).
    I think because youtube ban the channel.

    "Having blocked RT and Sputnik in the European Union – at the request of EU
    governments – on March 1, YouTube announced on Friday it was expanding this
    censorship to the entire planet, and including all channels “associated with
    Russian state-funded media.” "

    <https://www.rt.com/russia/551730-youtube-demonetize-censorship-media/>

    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~
    Damn. and they want to preach to the world about free flow of information, freedom of expression, etc..

    I accidentally find one channel by a Patrick Lancaster, an independent reporter, an American who claimed he has been in Ukraine for 8 years. Watch his coverage of Volnovakha, after it has fallen to the DPR. He interviewed some of
    the residents who lived through the fight. Interesting stuff.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbiplu3Cyjg

    Here are more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patrick+lancaster+ukraine

    Enjoy it while you can. I will not be surprised if Youtube decides to take his channel out too.
    Western media only portray the Russians as evil, bringing deaths and destruction to the Ukrainians.
    Ukrainians do the same to the Russians in Donbass too. But the Western media choose to ignore these.
    The following video is an on-site realtime report by an independent reporter in Donetsk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNhDKGjNK8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    Indian dogs are learning fast from their American master. They too are becoming loud-mouthed hotshots, talking through their arseholes with loud, stinking hot air. Unlike their American master, theirs come with curry flavor.

    This stupid loudmouth believes that China will benefit most from the Russia-Ukraine fight. He believes this fight is all a Chinese plot to weaken the US and strengthen China. According to this Indian, at the end of this war, China will
    replace the US as the world superpower and that is a dead threat to India.

    India is a double-headed snake with one head looking towards the US and the other towards Russia. It charms both the Big Powers with its forked tongues. It has made itself into a much sought-after partner of both the US and Russia.

    The truth is that India benefits more from the fight than China. Now that the US and Russia are enemies because of the Ukrainian conflict, India has become more important to both.
    Russia needs India more now than before to reduce its isolation from the world.
    US needs India more now, to play a stronger role to counter China while it is occupied with the Russians in Ukraine.
    India now finds itself in a very privileged position. It is being actively courted by both Russia and US. India will make the best of this opportune time in its history. It will make demands from both Russia and US.
    From both, it will demand for more advanced weapons. In addition, from the US, it would demand to have more authority over the waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It wants to become the Lord of the Indo-Pacific, even if
    its only temporarily, while the US is kept busy with the Ukrainian conflict.

    Like China, India has not taken side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Though an ally of the West, it has not come out openly to support Ukraine. But unlike China, it is being left alone, not pressured by the West to take a stand or an
    unambiguous position. Because of this, Indians remain welcomed in Ukraine. Indian reporters are on the ground in Ukraine reporting live on the war, unmolested.


    How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect the relationship between China and India?

    If Russia wins, India will continue to be a double-headed snake, looking towards both Russia and US for assistance to strengthen itself against China.

    If the US-led West wins, India will abandon Russia, become a one-headed snake looking only towards US.
    After having beaten Russia, the US will next concentrate its effort to bring about a regime change in China. For this, India will assume a more important role. It will be the pincer to crush China, with one claw at the China-India
    border and the other in Asia-Pacific, which the US has conveniently renamed Indo-Pacific.

    India would be most pleased to be the Chosen One of the US. This will allow it to realise its ambition to be a Hindu Superpower of the world. Indians are beginning to believe that the future of the world will be brown, like Indian skin
    color. Indian is speedily militarising itself with weapons from Russia, US and the latter allies such as Europe and Israel. It is boasting that whatever weapon systems it will build will be more advanced than those of China.

    China should be ready to give a good beating to the well-groomed and -trained US attack dog, India, if it dares misbehavior towards China.

    Meanwhile this stupid Indian should stop barking through his chilly-hot curry arsehole.
    Another Indian, this one the Foreign Minister from Singapore, thinks China and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

    https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/what-china-does-about-ukraine-could-affect-future-world-order-vivian-balakrishnan

    "
    Dr Balakrishnan said Singapore took the step because the invasion was egregious and involved a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
    Russia's actions set a dangerous precedent for big countries to trample over the concepts of territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence to invade a smaller neighbour, in abrogation of international laws, he added.
    "We felt this is a time that we have to take a stand; not because we are taking sides but because these principles are existential for a tiny city-state," he said.
    "

    That’s understandable. For a small nation like Singapore which is surrounded by much bigger neighbors, supporting the “special military operations” of Russia on Ukraine would be inviting trouble for itself.
    But it has not been consistent in standing up for its principles. It supported the American invasion of Iraq! Let’s face it. Singapore’s survival is based more on pragmatism than principles.

    A small country like Singapore is contented with the current World Order, sitting at the low end of the power hierarchy, being fed by the food chain starting from the top. Once in a while, the top power would allow it to punch above its
    weight. That’s only when the top power allows it.


    “What China does about Ukraine could affect future world order: Vivian Balakrishnan “

    Is that so?

    But what can China do? It is supposed to have little influence, few friends, some said no friend, in the world. The US is always warning China about this and that. How can a China that is so belittled affect the future world order?

    Even Russia and China combined cannot influence the world as much as the US-led West. This war has shown the stranglehold the US-led West has on the world politically, economically, socially, militarily, diplomatically and culturally.
    This is a World Order that Russia, China and many other countries would like to see changed.

    What about India? India would have more influence than China on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It claims to be the world’s largest democracy, it enthusiastically accepts the West appointed role as the counterbalance to China. It’s a
    strategic partner of the West. By Western yardstick, India can do no wrong. It can get away with doing things that China can’t.
    In 2019, it changed its law to complete its invasion of Kashmir, without a whimper from the West. That’s also a case of a big country swallowing up its smaller neighbor.
    When Russia proposes to sell oil to India at a discount, India readily accepts it and the US does not consider this as sanction-busting.
    Why then expects China to help deal with the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Go get India.

    Moreover Indians are very concerned that China will benefit from the conflict. Indians are worried that those benefits will strengthen China and therefore threaten India.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3JMzJ2OGY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD1iuC1Foo

    Getting China involved would only increase the threat that India feels.

    So, go get India!

    Ultimately, whether its Russia, Ukraine, China, India, or all combined, the problem will not be solved. Why? Because they are not the cause. The root cause of the problem is the US-led West, specifically its military arm NATO. Ukraine
    alone swearing not to join NATO will not solve the problem. It has to be all the member nations of NATO. All of them have to swear not to expand NATO beyond a limit agreed between them and Russia. QED.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/joe-biden-xi-jinping-friday/index.html

    After creating a big problem for the world, the US would think of using China to help solve it. When there is no big problem in the world, the US would make China the problem. China would be accused of all sorts of evils such as ethnic
    cleansing, genocide, persecution of religions, crimes against humanity, a pariah nation without freedom and human rights, etc..

    Should China help to solve the problem? Can it? The root problem of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is for all to see. The US is the culprit. Here's why. Russia under Putin is not as submissive as other nations to the World Order and Universal
    Values which the US-led West pushes and peddles around the world. For this, Russia under Putin becomes a target for regime change. Ukraine becomes the proxy in the fight between the US-led West and Russia. Using its military arm NATO, the US-led West
    threaten Russia’s security by creeping towards the border of Russia.

    The solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict is dead simple. It does not need China or other nations to get involved. That would only complicate matters. All it takes is for all NATO member nations to make an unambiguous commitment not to
    advance beyond a limit agreed to between them and Russia.

    Instead of working towards that, the US is worsening the crisis by supplying more arms to Ukraine, adding oil to fire, causing more deaths and destruction. As usual, it wants the world to believe that it is doing this for the sake of
    freedom and human rights.
    Will the conflict in Ukraine lead to World War 3? Definitely not. It can only happen if the US dares to fight with Russia directly. But it dares not. Why? In the past, Americans have been fighting wars away from their own homeland, in WW1,
    WW2 and subsequent wars in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. Unlike those enemies of the past, Russia makes a big difference. It has the military might to bring the war over to the US mainland; and its going to be NUCLEAR! Russia can nuke the US. Its
    recent use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine is a stark warning to the Americans. The regime in Ukraine should get this clear: the Americans will not risk their own home ground being nuked for the sake of defending Ukraine.
    Hear it from a very experienced American journalist. She debunked those regular Western propaganda about the Ukraine War very effectively.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfyBBnHABE
    "the real situation on the ground" in Mariupol.
    Ukrainian wanted to surrender but the neo-Nazi Azov soldiers prevented killed some of them and a fire fight broke out between the two sides.
    Azov soldiers used school as their firing positions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3h9Paoy-UA
    Another source for news about the war in Ukraine.

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=telesur+ukraine
    The truth, depicted via cartoons. https://world.huanqiu.com/article/47Ly9u2h0wX
    Russia is not fighting against Ukraine. It is fighting US and Europe in Ukraine.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlgWI0FzjKc

    Western media wants the world to believe that the Russians are bombing inhabited buildings, creating deaths and destruction indiscriminately. Those media never let us know that the other side is using those buildings as firing positions and using the
    inhabitants as human shields. Watch another field report from Mariupol by Patrick Lancaster.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZsWKXDKI-0

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 20 05:09:20 2022
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.

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  • From frodo sam0@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 22 21:14:02 2022
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.

    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 23 10:33:42 2022
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE

    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?

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  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to bmoore on Thu May 5 00:23:59 2022
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?

    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass

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  • From paul polikos@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Mon May 16 07:56:20 2022
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs

    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.

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  • From paul polikos@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Mon May 16 07:52:06 2022
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass

    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gerard jud@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Mon May 16 23:35:02 2022
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.

    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From paul polikos@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Sat May 28 02:07:38 2022
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs

    Hear it from Bishop Richard Williamson of Britain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3IJYYQHoNY

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From paul polikos@21:1/5 to gera...@gmail.com on Sat May 28 03:03:56 2022
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik

    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From frodo sam0@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Thu Jun 9 20:07:41 2022
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.

    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From jim gavon@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 29 23:08:25 2022
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ

    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to jim gavon on Sun Jul 31 05:46:25 2022
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 2:08:27 AM UTC-4, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?

    Is Ukraine a real democracy?
    If not, Ukraine is currently another Afghanistan for the US.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From dosai prata@21:1/5 to jim gavon on Mon Aug 15 20:04:07 2022
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?

    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its men to Ukraine.
    Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From paul polikos@21:1/5 to dosai prata on Sat Sep 24 02:10:06 2022
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 3:04:08 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?
    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its men to
    Ukraine. Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yats4seJaW0

    In his latest address to the UNSC, Russia's Foreign Minister reminded the world of what has really happened in Ukraine. Ukraine is not such pitiful victim of aggression as it wants the world to believe. The Zelensky regime is nationalists and racists, i.
    e., Nazism.

    Some salient points:
    1. Neo-Nazis came to power in Ukraine after a violent coup with the help of Westerners.
    2. The neo-Nazis mounted a campaign to carry out persecutions, ethnic cleansing and genocide against ethnic Russians.
    3. How many in the world know how the Ukrainian Nazis chased dozens of ethnic Russians in Odessa into a building and then set it on fire to bring a fiery deaths to those trapped in there while the Ukrainian Nazis watched and heard the cries of deaths
    without any sense of remorse?
    4. Zelensky referred to the people of Donbass not as humans but mere species or beings.
    5. Quote from a Ukrainian official: "We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today the fewer our children will need to kill"

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    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From paul polikos@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Sat Sep 24 02:41:22 2022
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:10:08 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 3:04:08 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?
    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its men to
    Ukraine. Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yats4seJaW0

    In his latest address to the UNSC, Russia's Foreign Minister reminded the world of what has really happened in Ukraine. Ukraine is not such pitiful victim of aggression as it wants the world to believe. The Zelensky regime is nationalists and racists,
    i.e., Nazism.

    Some salient points:
    1. Neo-Nazis came to power in Ukraine after a violent coup with the help of Westerners.
    2. The neo-Nazis mounted a campaign to carry out persecutions, ethnic cleansing and genocide against ethnic Russians.
    3. How many in the world know how the Ukrainian Nazis chased dozens of ethnic Russians in Odessa into a building and then set it on fire to bring a fiery deaths to those trapped in there while the Ukrainian Nazis watched and heard the cries of deaths
    without any sense of remorse?
    4. Zelensky referred to the people of Donbass not as humans but mere species or beings.
    5. Quote from a Ukrainian official: "We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today the fewer our children will need to kill"

    Why hasn't Russia won by now, more than half year since the "special military operations" begin?

    Russia has disturbed the US-led "Rule-based World Order". Nations which submit to this Order together possess the most powerful military and have a stranglehold on the world's economy. Russia has to fight the war on two major fronts: military and economy.

    Military
    A coalition of nations feed Ukraine with a steady flow of advanced weapons. Russia has confined itself to fighting in Ukraine only.

    Economy
    Economic sanctions have not have much effects on Russia because it has huge supplies of energy which the world needs.

    To fight to win:
    1. Russia may have to extend the scope of the war. It can't be targeting weapons only after they have arrived at their destination of Ukraine. It should destroy them at source., even if that means the US.
    2. Go beyond earth to destroy those satellites which are feeding information to the Ukrainians on Russians troop movements.
    3. Russia cannot fight alone against a powerful coalition and expect to win. It has to have a coalition too.

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  • From decadence thlon@21:1/5 to paul polikos on Sat Sep 24 23:16:15 2022
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:41:23 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:10:08 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 3:04:08 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?
    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its men to
    Ukraine. Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yats4seJaW0

    In his latest address to the UNSC, Russia's Foreign Minister reminded the world of what has really happened in Ukraine. Ukraine is not such pitiful victim of aggression as it wants the world to believe. The Zelensky regime is nationalists and racists,
    i.e., Nazism.

    Some salient points:
    1. Neo-Nazis came to power in Ukraine after a violent coup with the help of Westerners.
    2. The neo-Nazis mounted a campaign to carry out persecutions, ethnic cleansing and genocide against ethnic Russians.
    3. How many in the world know how the Ukrainian Nazis chased dozens of ethnic Russians in Odessa into a building and then set it on fire to bring a fiery deaths to those trapped in there while the Ukrainian Nazis watched and heard the cries of deaths
    without any sense of remorse?
    4. Zelensky referred to the people of Donbass not as humans but mere species or beings.
    5. Quote from a Ukrainian official: "We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today the fewer our children will need to kill"
    Why hasn't Russia won by now, more than half year since the "special military operations" begin?

    Russia has disturbed the US-led "Rule-based World Order". Nations which submit to this Order together possess the most powerful military and have a stranglehold on the world's economy. Russia has to fight the war on two major fronts: military and
    economy.

    Military
    A coalition of nations feed Ukraine with a steady flow of advanced weapons. Russia has confined itself to fighting in Ukraine only.

    Economy
    Economic sanctions have not have much effects on Russia because it has huge supplies of energy which the world needs.

    To fight to win:
    1. Russia may have to extend the scope of the war. It can't be targeting weapons only after they have arrived at their destination of Ukraine. It should destroy them at source., even if that means the US.
    2. Go beyond earth to destroy those satellites which are feeding information to the Ukrainians on Russians troop movements.
    3. Russia cannot fight alone against a powerful coalition and expect to win. It has to have a coalition too.

    Another area Russia is losing out is propaganda. The West has a stranglehold on the world's narrative, on any issue, through its media. This is not just MSM but also social media. Most of them are private enterprises. But that does not mean they will be
    neutral. They have to fall in line with their government policies. They have to be patriotic too.

    The US accuses Chinese companies of being a threat to its security because these companies are state enterprises. Private enterprises can be a threat to the security of a country too. SpaceX is actively working against Russia in the Ukraine conlict. Its
    Starlink satellites continue to provide communication links to US allies where terrestrial links become unavailable.

    The prevalence of English language is another factor working for the West. Large portion of the world's population learn about current world affairs through the English language. Many countries source their News from News Agencies originating from the
    English-speaking part of the world. Social media companies with worldwide reach are English-speaking Americans' such as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc.. They decide what gets publicised worldwide. For instance, Youtube has banned Russia Today.

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  • From papa dumdum@21:1/5 to decadence thlon on Tue Oct 11 20:44:27 2022
    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 6:16:16 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:41:23 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:10:08 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 3:04:08 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?
    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its men to
    Ukraine. Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yats4seJaW0

    In his latest address to the UNSC, Russia's Foreign Minister reminded the world of what has really happened in Ukraine. Ukraine is not such pitiful victim of aggression as it wants the world to believe. The Zelensky regime is nationalists and
    racists, i.e., Nazism.

    Some salient points:
    1. Neo-Nazis came to power in Ukraine after a violent coup with the help of Westerners.
    2. The neo-Nazis mounted a campaign to carry out persecutions, ethnic cleansing and genocide against ethnic Russians.
    3. How many in the world know how the Ukrainian Nazis chased dozens of ethnic Russians in Odessa into a building and then set it on fire to bring a fiery deaths to those trapped in there while the Ukrainian Nazis watched and heard the cries of
    deaths without any sense of remorse?
    4. Zelensky referred to the people of Donbass not as humans but mere species or beings.
    5. Quote from a Ukrainian official: "We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today the fewer our children will need to kill"
    Why hasn't Russia won by now, more than half year since the "special military operations" begin?

    Russia has disturbed the US-led "Rule-based World Order". Nations which submit to this Order together possess the most powerful military and have a stranglehold on the world's economy. Russia has to fight the war on two major fronts: military and
    economy.

    Military
    A coalition of nations feed Ukraine with a steady flow of advanced weapons. Russia has confined itself to fighting in Ukraine only.

    Economy
    Economic sanctions have not have much effects on Russia because it has huge supplies of energy which the world needs.

    To fight to win:
    1. Russia may have to extend the scope of the war. It can't be targeting weapons only after they have arrived at their destination of Ukraine. It should destroy them at source., even if that means the US.
    2. Go beyond earth to destroy those satellites which are feeding information to the Ukrainians on Russians troop movements.
    3. Russia cannot fight alone against a powerful coalition and expect to win. It has to have a coalition too.
    Another area Russia is losing out is propaganda. The West has a stranglehold on the world's narrative, on any issue, through its media. This is not just MSM but also social media. Most of them are private enterprises. But that does not mean they will
    be neutral. They have to fall in line with their government policies. They have to be patriotic too.

    The US accuses Chinese companies of being a threat to its security because these companies are state enterprises. Private enterprises can be a threat to the security of a country too. SpaceX is actively working against Russia in the Ukraine conlict.
    Its Starlink satellites continue to provide communication links to US allies where terrestrial links become unavailable.

    The prevalence of English language is another factor working for the West. Large portion of the world's population learn about current world affairs through the English language. Many countries source their News from News Agencies originating from the
    English-speaking part of the world. Social media companies with worldwide reach are English-speaking Americans' such as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc.. They decide what gets publicised worldwide. For instance, Youtube has banned Russia Today.

    It’s time for Russia to own up that it’s actions in Ukraine is nothing short of a war and it is not doing well in this war.

    Why? The Narrative.
    “A special military operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine.”

    This is not a good narrative. It cannot effectively counter its enemies’ narrative that Russia is invading Ukraine. Western propaganda spread it as “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine”.

    This affects Russia’s diplomacy in the world. It has few supporters in the UN for its actions in Ukraine. Hardly any nation is supporting Russia in the war. Its two big allies – India and China – are treading cautiously, as if they are walking in a
    minefield.

    In the war front, Russia has found itself fighting alone against a US-led NATO.

    Most important of all for Russia, not having the right narrative means not winning over the heart and mind of its own people for the war. This is affecting the morale of Russians from soldiers in the battlefields to ordinary people on the streets.
    Increasing number of Russians are believing that, in Ukraine, they are at fault, they are the invaders.

    This is affecting soldiers fighting in the battlefields. It is affecting the effort to mobilise more citizens for the war.

    Perhaps the Russians can learn from the Korean War.
    In that war, US and South Korean armies crossed the 38th Parallel dividing North and South Korea and pushed towards the Yalu River at the border between North Korea and China. The North Koreans pleaded for help from the Chinese. In response, the Chinese
    regime in those days mobilised a People’s Volunteer Army(PVA) and entered the war in Korea. US and South Korean propaganda spared no effort to demonise the Chinese as invaders. Despite this, there was no shortage of Chinese willing to join the PVA.
    More than this, they fought with a fighting and sacrificing spirit that even their enemies admired. This was because the Chinese got their narrative right. This was best conveyed through its war slogan of

    抗美援朝,保家卫国。

    Briefly translated, it means:
    Counter the US, Aid North Korea,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    It was telling the Chinese that helping North Korea to fight against the US was ultimately about protecting their own families and defending their own nation.

    Its not too late for the Russians to have a slogan like:
    Counter NATO, Aid the Donbass,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    There are truths in this slogan which are quite similar to what happened in the Korean War between North Korea, US and China.
    In the current case, Ukraine and NATO were expanding towards the border with Russia and waging an ethnic war against Russians in the border region of Donbass. The Russians there had pleaded for Russia’s aid. Russia responded with “special military
    operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”. If Russia had not intervened, there is a likelihood that the Ukrainians and their NATO-allies, after taking over Ukraine, would proceed to invade Russia. It seems many ordinary Russians have not
    realised this. Those who are proud to have escaped mobilisation for the war may find that they have no more families or nation to return to in the near future.

    It’s still not too late for the Kremlin to set its narrative right.

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  • From stoney@21:1/5 to papa dumdum on Fri Oct 14 02:14:32 2022
    On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 11:44:29 AM UTC+8, papa dumdum wrote:
    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 6:16:16 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:41:23 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:10:08 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 3:04:08 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?
    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its men
    to Ukraine. Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yats4seJaW0

    In his latest address to the UNSC, Russia's Foreign Minister reminded the world of what has really happened in Ukraine. Ukraine is not such pitiful victim of aggression as it wants the world to believe. The Zelensky regime is nationalists and
    racists, i.e., Nazism.

    Some salient points:
    1. Neo-Nazis came to power in Ukraine after a violent coup with the help of Westerners.
    2. The neo-Nazis mounted a campaign to carry out persecutions, ethnic cleansing and genocide against ethnic Russians.
    3. How many in the world know how the Ukrainian Nazis chased dozens of ethnic Russians in Odessa into a building and then set it on fire to bring a fiery deaths to those trapped in there while the Ukrainian Nazis watched and heard the cries of
    deaths without any sense of remorse?
    4. Zelensky referred to the people of Donbass not as humans but mere species or beings.
    5. Quote from a Ukrainian official: "We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today the fewer our children will need to kill"
    Why hasn't Russia won by now, more than half year since the "special military operations" begin?

    Russia has disturbed the US-led "Rule-based World Order". Nations which submit to this Order together possess the most powerful military and have a stranglehold on the world's economy. Russia has to fight the war on two major fronts: military and
    economy.

    Military
    A coalition of nations feed Ukraine with a steady flow of advanced weapons. Russia has confined itself to fighting in Ukraine only.

    Economy
    Economic sanctions have not have much effects on Russia because it has huge supplies of energy which the world needs.

    To fight to win:
    1. Russia may have to extend the scope of the war. It can't be targeting weapons only after they have arrived at their destination of Ukraine. It should destroy them at source., even if that means the US.
    2. Go beyond earth to destroy those satellites which are feeding information to the Ukrainians on Russians troop movements.
    3. Russia cannot fight alone against a powerful coalition and expect to win. It has to have a coalition too.
    Another area Russia is losing out is propaganda. The West has a stranglehold on the world's narrative, on any issue, through its media. This is not just MSM but also social media. Most of them are private enterprises. But that does not mean they will
    be neutral. They have to fall in line with their government policies. They have to be patriotic too.

    The US accuses Chinese companies of being a threat to its security because these companies are state enterprises. Private enterprises can be a threat to the security of a country too. SpaceX is actively working against Russia in the Ukraine conlict.
    Its Starlink satellites continue to provide communication links to US allies where terrestrial links become unavailable.

    The prevalence of English language is another factor working for the West. Large portion of the world's population learn about current world affairs through the English language. Many countries source their News from News Agencies originating from
    the English-speaking part of the world. Social media companies with worldwide reach are English-speaking Americans' such as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc.. They decide what gets publicised worldwide. For instance, Youtube has banned Russia Today.
    It’s time for Russia to own up that it’s actions in Ukraine is nothing short of a war and it is not doing well in this war.

    Why? The Narrative.
    “A special military operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine.”

    This is not a good narrative. It cannot effectively counter its enemies’ narrative that Russia is invading Ukraine. Western propaganda spread it as “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine”.

    This affects Russia’s diplomacy in the world. It has few supporters in the UN for its actions in Ukraine. Hardly any nation is supporting Russia in the war. Its two big allies – India and China – are treading cautiously, as if they are walking in
    a minefield.

    In the war front, Russia has found itself fighting alone against a US-led NATO.

    Most important of all for Russia, not having the right narrative means not winning over the heart and mind of its own people for the war. This is affecting the morale of Russians from soldiers in the battlefields to ordinary people on the streets.
    Increasing number of Russians are believing that, in Ukraine, they are at fault, they are the invaders.

    This is affecting soldiers fighting in the battlefields. It is affecting the effort to mobilise more citizens for the war.

    Perhaps the Russians can learn from the Korean War.
    In that war, US and South Korean armies crossed the 38th Parallel dividing North and South Korea and pushed towards the Yalu River at the border between North Korea and China. The North Koreans pleaded for help from the Chinese. In response, the
    Chinese regime in those days mobilised a People’s Volunteer Army(PVA) and entered the war in Korea. US and South Korean propaganda spared no effort to demonise the Chinese as invaders. Despite this, there was no shortage of Chinese willing to join the
    PVA. More than this, they fought with a fighting and sacrificing spirit that even their enemies admired. This was because the Chinese got their narrative right. This was best conveyed through its war slogan of

    抗美援朝,保家卫国。

    Briefly translated, it means:
    Counter the US, Aid North Korea,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    It was telling the Chinese that helping North Korea to fight against the US was ultimately about protecting their own families and defending their own nation.

    Its not too late for the Russians to have a slogan like:
    Counter NATO, Aid the Donbass,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    There are truths in this slogan which are quite similar to what happened in the Korean War between North Korea, US and China.
    In the current case, Ukraine and NATO were expanding towards the border with Russia and waging an ethnic war against Russians in the border region of Donbass. The Russians there had pleaded for Russia’s aid. Russia responded with “special military
    operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”. If Russia had not intervened, there is a likelihood that the Ukrainians and their NATO-allies, after taking over Ukraine, would proceed to invade Russia. It seems many ordinary Russians have not
    realised this. Those who are proud to have escaped mobilisation for the war may find that they have no more families or nation to return to in the near future.

    It’s still not too late for the Kremlin to set its narrative right.

    Absolutely, Russia should to set its narrative right. When the narrative is set right in the right mark and tone, people will rise up to go forward to fight for their country.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to papa dumdum on Fri Oct 14 05:41:20 2022
    On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 3:44:29 AM UTC, papa dumdum wrote:
    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 6:16:16 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:41:23 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:10:08 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 3:04:08 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?
    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its men
    to Ukraine. Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yats4seJaW0

    In his latest address to the UNSC, Russia's Foreign Minister reminded the world of what has really happened in Ukraine. Ukraine is not such pitiful victim of aggression as it wants the world to believe. The Zelensky regime is nationalists and
    racists, i.e., Nazism.

    Some salient points:
    1. Neo-Nazis came to power in Ukraine after a violent coup with the help of Westerners.
    2. The neo-Nazis mounted a campaign to carry out persecutions, ethnic cleansing and genocide against ethnic Russians.
    3. How many in the world know how the Ukrainian Nazis chased dozens of ethnic Russians in Odessa into a building and then set it on fire to bring a fiery deaths to those trapped in there while the Ukrainian Nazis watched and heard the cries of
    deaths without any sense of remorse?
    4. Zelensky referred to the people of Donbass not as humans but mere species or beings.
    5. Quote from a Ukrainian official: "We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today the fewer our children will need to kill"
    Why hasn't Russia won by now, more than half year since the "special military operations" begin?

    Russia has disturbed the US-led "Rule-based World Order". Nations which submit to this Order together possess the most powerful military and have a stranglehold on the world's economy. Russia has to fight the war on two major fronts: military and
    economy.

    Military
    A coalition of nations feed Ukraine with a steady flow of advanced weapons. Russia has confined itself to fighting in Ukraine only.

    Economy
    Economic sanctions have not have much effects on Russia because it has huge supplies of energy which the world needs.

    To fight to win:
    1. Russia may have to extend the scope of the war. It can't be targeting weapons only after they have arrived at their destination of Ukraine. It should destroy them at source., even if that means the US.
    2. Go beyond earth to destroy those satellites which are feeding information to the Ukrainians on Russians troop movements.
    3. Russia cannot fight alone against a powerful coalition and expect to win. It has to have a coalition too.
    Another area Russia is losing out is propaganda. The West has a stranglehold on the world's narrative, on any issue, through its media. This is not just MSM but also social media. Most of them are private enterprises. But that does not mean they will
    be neutral. They have to fall in line with their government policies. They have to be patriotic too.

    The US accuses Chinese companies of being a threat to its security because these companies are state enterprises. Private enterprises can be a threat to the security of a country too. SpaceX is actively working against Russia in the Ukraine conlict.
    Its Starlink satellites continue to provide communication links to US allies where terrestrial links become unavailable.

    The prevalence of English language is another factor working for the West. Large portion of the world's population learn about current world affairs through the English language. Many countries source their News from News Agencies originating from
    the English-speaking part of the world. Social media companies with worldwide reach are English-speaking Americans' such as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc.. They decide what gets publicised worldwide. For instance, Youtube has banned Russia Today.
    It’s time for Russia to own up that it’s actions in Ukraine is nothing short of a war and it is not doing well in this war.


    Why? The Narrative.
    “A special military operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine.”

    This is not a good narrative. It cannot effectively counter its enemies’ narrative that Russia is invading Ukraine. Western propaganda spread it as “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine”.

    Objectively speaking, Russia is the winning side. The free region of Ukraine is largely free
    from Nazism. The people of the free region had voted themselves independent at first and
    then became part of Russia. Action is louder than narrative.

    This affects Russia’s diplomacy in the world. It has few supporters in the UN for its actions in Ukraine. Hardly any nation is supporting Russia in the war. Its two big allies – India and China – are treading cautiously, as if they are walking in
    a minefield.

    Whatever. US/NATO/EU imposed sanctions have largely failed.

    In the war front, Russia has found itself fighting alone against a US-led NATO.
    Are Nato military physically fighting on the ground?
    Source please.

    Anyway, Russia is calling up reserves for that eventuality.

    Most important of all for Russia, not having the right narrative means not winning over the heart and mind of its own people for the war. This is affecting the morale of Russians from soldiers in the battlefields to ordinary people on the streets.
    Increasing number of Russians are believing that, in Ukraine, they are at fault, they are the invaders.

    How many out of how many Russians? Statistics?

    This is affecting soldiers fighting in the battlefields. It is affecting the effort to mobilise more citizens for the war.

    Perhaps the Russians can learn from the Korean War.
    In that war, US and South Korean armies crossed the 38th Parallel dividing North and South Korea and pushed towards the Yalu River at the border between North Korea and China. The North Koreans pleaded for help from the Chinese. In response, the
    Chinese regime in those days mobilised a People’s Volunteer Army(PVA) and entered the war in Korea. US and South Korean propaganda spared no effort to demonise the Chinese as invaders. Despite this, there was no shortage of Chinese willing to join the
    PVA. More than this, they fought with a fighting and sacrificing spirit that even their enemies admired. This was because the Chinese got their narrative right. This was best conveyed through its war slogan of

    抗美援朝,保家卫国。

    Briefly translated, it means:
    Counter the US, Aid North Korea,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    It was telling the Chinese that helping North Korea to fight against the US was ultimately about protecting their own families and defending their own nation.

    Its not too late for the Russians to have a slogan like:
    Counter NATO, Aid the Donbass,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    There are truths in this slogan which are quite similar to what happened in the Korean War between North Korea, US and China.
    In the current case, Ukraine and NATO were expanding towards the border with Russia and waging an ethnic war against Russians in the border region of Donbass. The Russians there had pleaded for Russia’s aid. Russia responded with “special military
    operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”. If Russia had not intervened, there is a likelihood that the Ukrainians and their NATO-allies, after taking over Ukraine, would proceed to invade Russia. It seems many ordinary Russians have not
    realised this. Those who are proud to have escaped mobilisation for the war may find that they have no more families or nation to return to in the near future.

    It’s still not too late for the Kremlin to set its narrative right.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 17 00:58:40 2022
    On Friday, October 14, 2022 at 12:41:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 3:44:29 AM UTC, papa dumd
    In this youtube channel(in Mandarin), there are videos which show soldiers from US, UK, France, etc..
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=萨沙

    Probably 6,000 Americans are there.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNIRZ505mY8


    MSM videos show widespread support for Biden's policy on Ukraine. This video is about a meeting between ordinary Americans and politician AOC.
    Between time mark 3.30 and 4.45, two guys spoke out strongly against US support for the war in Ukraine. We don't see this from the MSM.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCOSpG-PrM

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
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  • From A. Filip@21:1/5 to ltlee1@hotmail.com on Wed Oct 19 20:29:03 2022
    ltlee1 <ltlee1@hotmail.com> wrote:
    […]
    https://www.chinatimes.com/opinion/20221016001166-262103?chdtv

    "The war between Ukraine and Russia has been going on for 8 months,
    and both sides have won and lost. When will the war end? There is no
    sign yet, but it is Ukraine and its people who have suffered the most.

    Ukraine, which had a population of 41 million before the war, has lost
    22 million by October. According to the statistics of the United
    Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the total number of Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Europe is about 9.5 million. According to
    Russian statistics, there are about 4 million Ukrainian refugees who
    have fled into Russia. The population of Luh, Dua, Kher and Zha
    regions incorporated into Russia add up to about 8.5 million. Taking
    all into account, Ukraine currently has a population of only 19
    million people.

    Wealthy Ukrainians have already left the country, taking away with
    them a lot of money, technology and talents. Yet this group of
    Ukrainians are not registered with the UNHCR. Among the 9.5 million
    refugees in Europe, 90% are women and children under the age of
    60. Most of them will become foreign nationals and will not return to Ukraine. One can imagine, what will be the future of a country without
    of childbearing age women and without children?

    Ukrainian President Zelensky intends to join NATO, he tilted 100%
    toward with the United States, and is a pawn for the United States in provoking Russia. German Chancellor Sol has asked Zelensky before, why
    did you put the provisions of joining NATO into the constitution.
    Zelensky said it was their ideal.

    The other side of an ideal is the willingness to pay the price. The population is only 19 million, the economy has fallen by 45%, and the
    average per capita is less than 2,053 US dollars. It is the second
    poorest country in Europe. Together with the loss of the Zha, Don,
    Kher, and Lu regions, the economy may decline by 60%. "

    The US knows the situation well. However, if crisis in Ukraine means opportunity for
    the US, its leaders have the responsibility to exploit the situation to maximize US gain.
    The question now is whether Zelenskyy knew the situation but chose not minimize
    Ukrainian loss.

    The answer is
    1) Zelenskyy is totally ignorant given his background of a comedian/actor.
    2) He is kind of traitorous and/or willing to gamble Ukraine's future
    3) Somewhere between 1) and 2)

    "Unwise" choices in the past can not be undone.
    Did China surrender to Japan to avoid "a nasty and costly war"?

    --
    A. Filip : Big (Tech) Brother is watching you.
    | Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to
    | do the work. (John G. Pollard)

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to A. Filip on Wed Oct 19 12:23:01 2022
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:29:53 PM UTC, A. Filip wrote:
    ltlee1 wrote:
    […]
    https://www.chinatimes.com/opinion/20221016001166-262103?chdtv

    "The war between Ukraine and Russia has been going on for 8 months,
    and both sides have won and lost. When will the war end? There is no
    sign yet, but it is Ukraine and its people who have suffered the most.

    Ukraine, which had a population of 41 million before the war, has lost
    22 million by October. According to the statistics of the United
    Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the total number of Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Europe is about 9.5 million. According to Russian statistics, there are about 4 million Ukrainian refugees who
    have fled into Russia. The population of Luh, Dua, Kher and Zha
    regions incorporated into Russia add up to about 8.5 million. Taking
    all into account, Ukraine currently has a population of only 19
    million people.

    Wealthy Ukrainians have already left the country, taking away with
    them a lot of money, technology and talents. Yet this group of
    Ukrainians are not registered with the UNHCR. Among the 9.5 million refugees in Europe, 90% are women and children under the age of
    60. Most of them will become foreign nationals and will not return to Ukraine. One can imagine, what will be the future of a country without
    of childbearing age women and without children?

    Ukrainian President Zelensky intends to join NATO, he tilted 100%
    toward with the United States, and is a pawn for the United States in provoking Russia. German Chancellor Sol has asked Zelensky before, why
    did you put the provisions of joining NATO into the constitution.
    Zelensky said it was their ideal.

    The other side of an ideal is the willingness to pay the price. The population is only 19 million, the economy has fallen by 45%, and the average per capita is less than 2,053 US dollars. It is the second
    poorest country in Europe. Together with the loss of the Zha, Don,
    Kher, and Lu regions, the economy may decline by 60%. "

    The US knows the situation well. However, if crisis in Ukraine means opportunity for
    the US, its leaders have the responsibility to exploit the situation to maximize US gain.
    The question now is whether Zelenskyy knew the situation but chose not minimize
    Ukrainian loss.

    The answer is
    1) Zelenskyy is totally ignorant given his background of a comedian/actor. 2) He is kind of traitorous and/or willing to gamble Ukraine's future
    3) Somewhere between 1) and 2)
    "Unwise" choices in the past can not be undone.
    Did China surrender to Japan to avoid "a nasty and costly war"?

    Did revolutionary US surrender to the UK to avoid "a nasty and costly war"? Sorry to inform you that comparing apples and oranges will get you nowhere.

    To have meaningful comparison, may be you need to read some history first.


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  • From A. Filip@21:1/5 to ltlee1@hotmail.com on Wed Oct 19 21:44:25 2022
    ltlee1 <ltlee1@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:29:53 PM UTC, A. Filip wrote:
    ltlee1 wrote:
    […]
    https://www.chinatimes.com/opinion/20221016001166-262103?chdtv

    "The war between Ukraine and Russia has been going on for 8 months,
    and both sides have won and lost. When will the war end? There is no
    sign yet, but it is Ukraine and its people who have suffered the most.

    Ukraine, which had a population of 41 million before the war, has lost
    22 million by October. According to the statistics of the United
    Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the total number of Ukrainian
    refugees who have fled to Europe is about 9.5 million. According to
    Russian statistics, there are about 4 million Ukrainian refugees who
    have fled into Russia. The population of Luh, Dua, Kher and Zha
    regions incorporated into Russia add up to about 8.5 million. Taking
    all into account, Ukraine currently has a population of only 19
    million people.

    Wealthy Ukrainians have already left the country, taking away with
    them a lot of money, technology and talents. Yet this group of
    Ukrainians are not registered with the UNHCR. Among the 9.5 million
    refugees in Europe, 90% are women and children under the age of
    60. Most of them will become foreign nationals and will not return to
    Ukraine. One can imagine, what will be the future of a country without
    of childbearing age women and without children?

    Ukrainian President Zelensky intends to join NATO, he tilted 100%
    toward with the United States, and is a pawn for the United States in
    provoking Russia. German Chancellor Sol has asked Zelensky before, why
    did you put the provisions of joining NATO into the constitution.
    Zelensky said it was their ideal.

    The other side of an ideal is the willingness to pay the price. The
    population is only 19 million, the economy has fallen by 45%, and the
    average per capita is less than 2,053 US dollars. It is the second
    poorest country in Europe. Together with the loss of the Zha, Don,
    Kher, and Lu regions, the economy may decline by 60%. "

    The US knows the situation well. However, if crisis in Ukraine means opportunity for
    the US, its leaders have the responsibility to exploit the situation to maximize US gain.
    The question now is whether Zelenskyy knew the situation but chose not minimize
    Ukrainian loss.

    The answer is
    1) Zelenskyy is totally ignorant given his background of a comedian/actor. >> > 2) He is kind of traitorous and/or willing to gamble Ukraine's future
    3) Somewhere between 1) and 2)

    "Unwise" choices in the past can not be undone.
    Did China surrender to Japan to avoid "a nasty and costly war"?

    Did revolutionary US surrender to the UK to avoid "a nasty and costly war"? Sorry to inform you that comparing apples and oranges will get you nowhere.

    To have meaningful comparison, may be you need to read some history
    first.

    We see history from different perspectives, our interests are different.

    Anyway: We may agree that Zelensky's actions had been "much less than
    perfect". We may agree that the war will be costly++ for Ukraine.
    You seem to agree that quite often after the war start "the choices are limited". Putin started the current war.
    Any idiot chief can _start_ a war.

    --
    A. Filip : Big (Tech) Brother is watching you.
    | "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are
    | any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
    | (Howard Aiken)

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to A. Filip on Wed Oct 19 15:47:28 2022
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:45:14 PM UTC, A. Filip wrote:
    ltlee1 wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 6:29:53 PM UTC, A. Filip wrote:
    ltlee1 wrote:
    […]
    https://www.chinatimes.com/opinion/20221016001166-262103?chdtv

    "The war between Ukraine and Russia has been going on for 8 months,
    and both sides have won and lost. When will the war end? There is no
    sign yet, but it is Ukraine and its people who have suffered the most. >> >
    Ukraine, which had a population of 41 million before the war, has lost >> > 22 million by October. According to the statistics of the United
    Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the total number of Ukrainian >> > refugees who have fled to Europe is about 9.5 million. According to
    Russian statistics, there are about 4 million Ukrainian refugees who
    have fled into Russia. The population of Luh, Dua, Kher and Zha
    regions incorporated into Russia add up to about 8.5 million. Taking
    all into account, Ukraine currently has a population of only 19
    million people.

    Wealthy Ukrainians have already left the country, taking away with
    them a lot of money, technology and talents. Yet this group of
    Ukrainians are not registered with the UNHCR. Among the 9.5 million
    refugees in Europe, 90% are women and children under the age of
    60. Most of them will become foreign nationals and will not return to >> > Ukraine. One can imagine, what will be the future of a country without >> > of childbearing age women and without children?

    Ukrainian President Zelensky intends to join NATO, he tilted 100%
    toward with the United States, and is a pawn for the United States in >> > provoking Russia. German Chancellor Sol has asked Zelensky before, why >> > did you put the provisions of joining NATO into the constitution.
    Zelensky said it was their ideal.

    The other side of an ideal is the willingness to pay the price. The
    population is only 19 million, the economy has fallen by 45%, and the >> > average per capita is less than 2,053 US dollars. It is the second
    poorest country in Europe. Together with the loss of the Zha, Don,
    Kher, and Lu regions, the economy may decline by 60%. "

    The US knows the situation well. However, if crisis in Ukraine means opportunity for
    the US, its leaders have the responsibility to exploit the situation to maximize US gain.
    The question now is whether Zelenskyy knew the situation but chose not minimize
    Ukrainian loss.

    The answer is
    1) Zelenskyy is totally ignorant given his background of a comedian/actor.
    2) He is kind of traitorous and/or willing to gamble Ukraine's future >> > 3) Somewhere between 1) and 2)

    "Unwise" choices in the past can not be undone.
    Did China surrender to Japan to avoid "a nasty and costly war"?

    Did revolutionary US surrender to the UK to avoid "a nasty and costly war"?
    Sorry to inform you that comparing apples and oranges will get you nowhere.

    To have meaningful comparison, may be you need to read some history
    first.
    We see history from different perspectives, our interests are different.

    So? Many things are independent of seeing things from different perspectives. Examples:
    1. Historically speaking, the whole of today's Ukraine was once a part of a Russian
    dominated USSR. In contrast, China, either the ROC of the PRC was NEVER part of
    Japan.

    2. Geographically speaking, Russia is currently a lot larger than Ukraine. In contrast,
    Japan is a lot smaller and less populous than China according to history.

    1 + 2 means many Ukrainians are fighting on the Russian side. For non-fighters, many still
    consider themselves Russians and/or comfortable with living among Russians. In addition,
    Russia is large enough to accommodate these Ukrainians turned Russians.

    If not because of the above, Russia would be in larger trouble.

    Sorry to inform you comparing apples to oranges is comparing apples to oranges.
    Not necessarily because of difference in perspectives and interests.

    Of course, there are other thing to show that you are comparison apples and oranges.
    If could not think of some. Let me know.

    Anyway: We may agree that Zelensky's actions had been "much less than perfect". We may agree that the war will be costly++ for Ukraine.

    Using the scale 0 to N with N the condition of perfect, anything between 0 and
    (N - 1) is less than perfect.

    Not sure we COULD agree on anything before you specify the range and your view of imperfection on specific issue.

    You seem to agree that quite often after the war start "the choices are limited". Putin started the current war.
    Any idiot chief can _start_ a war.
    --
    A. Filip : Big (Tech) Brother is watching you.
    | "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are
    | any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
    | (Howard Aiken)

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 20 04:45:46 2022
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  • From dosai prata@21:1/5 to papa dumdum on Sun Oct 30 00:48:05 2022
    On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 3:44:29 AM UTC, papa dumdum wrote:
    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 6:16:16 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:41:23 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:10:08 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 3:04:08 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?
    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its men
    to Ukraine. Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yats4seJaW0

    In his latest address to the UNSC, Russia's Foreign Minister reminded the world of what has really happened in Ukraine. Ukraine is not such pitiful victim of aggression as it wants the world to believe. The Zelensky regime is nationalists and
    racists, i.e., Nazism.

    Some salient points:
    1. Neo-Nazis came to power in Ukraine after a violent coup with the help of Westerners.
    2. The neo-Nazis mounted a campaign to carry out persecutions, ethnic cleansing and genocide against ethnic Russians.
    3. How many in the world know how the Ukrainian Nazis chased dozens of ethnic Russians in Odessa into a building and then set it on fire to bring a fiery deaths to those trapped in there while the Ukrainian Nazis watched and heard the cries of
    deaths without any sense of remorse?
    4. Zelensky referred to the people of Donbass not as humans but mere species or beings.
    5. Quote from a Ukrainian official: "We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today the fewer our children will need to kill"
    Why hasn't Russia won by now, more than half year since the "special military operations" begin?

    Russia has disturbed the US-led "Rule-based World Order". Nations which submit to this Order together possess the most powerful military and have a stranglehold on the world's economy. Russia has to fight the war on two major fronts: military and
    economy.

    Military
    A coalition of nations feed Ukraine with a steady flow of advanced weapons. Russia has confined itself to fighting in Ukraine only.

    Economy
    Economic sanctions have not have much effects on Russia because it has huge supplies of energy which the world needs.

    To fight to win:
    1. Russia may have to extend the scope of the war. It can't be targeting weapons only after they have arrived at their destination of Ukraine. It should destroy them at source., even if that means the US.
    2. Go beyond earth to destroy those satellites which are feeding information to the Ukrainians on Russians troop movements.
    3. Russia cannot fight alone against a powerful coalition and expect to win. It has to have a coalition too.
    Another area Russia is losing out is propaganda. The West has a stranglehold on the world's narrative, on any issue, through its media. This is not just MSM but also social media. Most of them are private enterprises. But that does not mean they will
    be neutral. They have to fall in line with their government policies. They have to be patriotic too.

    The US accuses Chinese companies of being a threat to its security because these companies are state enterprises. Private enterprises can be a threat to the security of a country too. SpaceX is actively working against Russia in the Ukraine conlict.
    Its Starlink satellites continue to provide communication links to US allies where terrestrial links become unavailable.

    The prevalence of English language is another factor working for the West. Large portion of the world's population learn about current world affairs through the English language. Many countries source their News from News Agencies originating from
    the English-speaking part of the world. Social media companies with worldwide reach are English-speaking Americans' such as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc.. They decide what gets publicised worldwide. For instance, Youtube has banned Russia Today.
    It’s time for Russia to own up that it’s actions in Ukraine is nothing short of a war and it is not doing well in this war.

    Why? The Narrative.
    “A special military operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine.”

    This is not a good narrative. It cannot effectively counter its enemies’ narrative that Russia is invading Ukraine. Western propaganda spread it as “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine”.

    This affects Russia’s diplomacy in the world. It has few supporters in the UN for its actions in Ukraine. Hardly any nation is supporting Russia in the war. Its two big allies – India and China – are treading cautiously, as if they are walking in
    a minefield.

    In the war front, Russia has found itself fighting alone against a US-led NATO.

    Most important of all for Russia, not having the right narrative means not winning over the heart and mind of its own people for the war. This is affecting the morale of Russians from soldiers in the battlefields to ordinary people on the streets.
    Increasing number of Russians are believing that, in Ukraine, they are at fault, they are the invaders.

    This is affecting soldiers fighting in the battlefields. It is affecting the effort to mobilise more citizens for the war.

    Perhaps the Russians can learn from the Korean War.
    In that war, US and South Korean armies crossed the 38th Parallel dividing North and South Korea and pushed towards the Yalu River at the border between North Korea and China. The North Koreans pleaded for help from the Chinese. In response, the
    Chinese regime in those days mobilised a People’s Volunteer Army(PVA) and entered the war in Korea. US and South Korean propaganda spared no effort to demonise the Chinese as invaders. Despite this, there was no shortage of Chinese willing to join the
    PVA. More than this, they fought with a fighting and sacrificing spirit that even their enemies admired. This was because the Chinese got their narrative right. This was best conveyed through its war slogan of

    抗美援朝,保家卫国。

    Briefly translated, it means:
    Counter the US, Aid North Korea,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    It was telling the Chinese that helping North Korea to fight against the US was ultimately about protecting their own families and defending their own nation.

    Its not too late for the Russians to have a slogan like:
    Counter NATO, Aid the Donbass,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    There are truths in this slogan which are quite similar to what happened in the Korean War between North Korea, US and China.
    In the current case, Ukraine and NATO were expanding towards the border with Russia and waging an ethnic war against Russians in the border region of Donbass. The Russians there had pleaded for Russia’s aid. Russia responded with “special military
    operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”. If Russia had not intervened, there is a likelihood that the Ukrainians and their NATO-allies, after taking over Ukraine, would proceed to invade Russia. It seems many ordinary Russians have not
    realised this. Those who are proud to have escaped mobilisation for the war may find that they have no more families or nation to return to in the near future.

    It’s still not too late for the Kremlin to set its narrative right.

    China can use its leverage with Russia to prevent a nuclear war | Financial Times (ft.com)
    https://www.ft.com/content/f05fef3f-a8be-4007-a161-34764419847f

    Why should China play this role? US considers China its No. 1 enemy and is making all sorts of preparations, from strategic to tactical, from conventional to nuclear, in a war with China. Why should China help the US in Ukraine?

    China should avoid war with the US, if possible. One possible way is to weaken the US. Ukraine offers such an opportunity. China should help Russia to fight a war of attrition in Ukraine to wear down the US as much as possible. China should supply
    weapons and complete military systems to Russia and provide Chinese military personnel to operate them, while training for the Russians. In this way, the Chinese can test out not only the capability of their weapon systems but also the field operational
    organisations required by them. These will all happen in the setting of a real war situation.

    If the war turns into tactical nuclear one, China will have a chance to learn to fight a tactical nuclear war against the US.

    That’s what the Chinese should do. Make all the preparations and seize all opportunities to learn to fight with the US.

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  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to dosai prata on Sun Jan 15 18:53:46 2023
    On Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 7:48:07 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 3:44:29 AM UTC, papa dumdum wrote:
    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 6:16:16 AM UTC, decadence thlon wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:41:23 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:10:08 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 3:04:08 AM UTC, dosai prata wrote:
    On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 6:08:27 AM UTC, jim gavon wrote:
    On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 11:07:43 AM UTC+8, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 10:04:09 AM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 6:35:04 AM UTC, gera...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:56:21 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 2:52:07 PM UTC, paul polikos wrote:
    On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7:24:01 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 5:33:43 PM UTC, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, April 22, 2022 at 9:14:04 PM UTC-7, frodo sam0 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 12:09:21 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, frodo sam0 wrote:
    The US is solely responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. To fully understand this, let’s look at what the Americans have been up to.

    Don't think the US is solely responsible.
    As is, it is fair to call the US a co-belligerent. Without doubt, the US is exploiting and worsening the
    situation, it nevertheless does not create the situation. The root cause of the conflict is post colonial
    or imperial stress disorder, or PCSD.
    The conflict between India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait, Pakistan and
    Afghanistan, China and India, and many other between African nations are all manifestations
    of PCSD. In all cases, the peoples simply don't agree with borders demarcated by previous colonial
    master/imperialist. And they fought for their REAL or ACCEPTABLE borders.
    Listen to this long interview of Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He revealed a lot of things not reported by the Western media.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpRrep0twE
    I watched it, thanks. Excellent interview. What's an example of something Lavrov revealed that is not reported by the Western media?
    Graham Phillips is another brave reporter who reports from the Donbass. He brings updates about the fight in Azorstal, Mariupol.
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graham+phillips+donbass
    "The Russians are hammering the hell out of the Ukrainians." An assessment of the situation by a ex-British Commander which is very different from those of the MSM.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
    Another report from Mariupol by Graham Phillips.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clZ6lfSqOw

    The end is nigh.
    The surrendering has began.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxz6gk0i0Ik
    What is happening between Russia and Ukraine was forewarned by William Burns who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008. Read his memo to then Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.

    https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

    In particular, refer to Part 3. MAP refers to NATO's Membership Action Plan.
    The Russians are making slow but steady progress in Donbass. They may be aiming for a swathe stretching from Kharkiv to Odessa.

    For those who knows Mandarin, this is another source of news about the "special military operations" in Ukraine. It has regular reporting with videos from the Russian side.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Ky7FjJBI7ojx2Yqz2pkNQ
    Russia is not winning. Ukrainians are counter-attacking in Kherson. Where's the Russian airforce? In a land-based war, air-superiority can make a lot of difference.
    Will Ukraine become Afghanistan for Russia as it was for the Soviet Union?
    Russia seems to be struggling in Ukraine. It is up against that "Coalition of Willing Democracies". Like-minded nations which are against US hegemony should form a coalition with Russia. N Korea is talking about sending over 100,000 of its
    men to Ukraine. Others should follow suit. If not, after taking out Russia, the US will come for the rest of them, one by one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yats4seJaW0

    In his latest address to the UNSC, Russia's Foreign Minister reminded the world of what has really happened in Ukraine. Ukraine is not such pitiful victim of aggression as it wants the world to believe. The Zelensky regime is nationalists and
    racists, i.e., Nazism.

    Some salient points:
    1. Neo-Nazis came to power in Ukraine after a violent coup with the help of Westerners.
    2. The neo-Nazis mounted a campaign to carry out persecutions, ethnic cleansing and genocide against ethnic Russians.
    3. How many in the world know how the Ukrainian Nazis chased dozens of ethnic Russians in Odessa into a building and then set it on fire to bring a fiery deaths to those trapped in there while the Ukrainian Nazis watched and heard the cries of
    deaths without any sense of remorse?
    4. Zelensky referred to the people of Donbass not as humans but mere species or beings.
    5. Quote from a Ukrainian official: "We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today the fewer our children will need to kill"
    Why hasn't Russia won by now, more than half year since the "special military operations" begin?

    Russia has disturbed the US-led "Rule-based World Order". Nations which submit to this Order together possess the most powerful military and have a stranglehold on the world's economy. Russia has to fight the war on two major fronts: military and
    economy.

    Military
    A coalition of nations feed Ukraine with a steady flow of advanced weapons. Russia has confined itself to fighting in Ukraine only.

    Economy
    Economic sanctions have not have much effects on Russia because it has huge supplies of energy which the world needs.

    To fight to win:
    1. Russia may have to extend the scope of the war. It can't be targeting weapons only after they have arrived at their destination of Ukraine. It should destroy them at source., even if that means the US.
    2. Go beyond earth to destroy those satellites which are feeding information to the Ukrainians on Russians troop movements.
    3. Russia cannot fight alone against a powerful coalition and expect to win. It has to have a coalition too.
    Another area Russia is losing out is propaganda. The West has a stranglehold on the world's narrative, on any issue, through its media. This is not just MSM but also social media. Most of them are private enterprises. But that does not mean they
    will be neutral. They have to fall in line with their government policies. They have to be patriotic too.

    The US accuses Chinese companies of being a threat to its security because these companies are state enterprises. Private enterprises can be a threat to the security of a country too. SpaceX is actively working against Russia in the Ukraine conlict.
    Its Starlink satellites continue to provide communication links to US allies where terrestrial links become unavailable.

    The prevalence of English language is another factor working for the West. Large portion of the world's population learn about current world affairs through the English language. Many countries source their News from News Agencies originating from
    the English-speaking part of the world. Social media companies with worldwide reach are English-speaking Americans' such as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc.. They decide what gets publicised worldwide. For instance, Youtube has banned Russia Today.
    It’s time for Russia to own up that it’s actions in Ukraine is nothing short of a war and it is not doing well in this war.

    Why? The Narrative.
    “A special military operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine.”

    This is not a good narrative. It cannot effectively counter its enemies’ narrative that Russia is invading Ukraine. Western propaganda spread it as “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine”.

    This affects Russia’s diplomacy in the world. It has few supporters in the UN for its actions in Ukraine. Hardly any nation is supporting Russia in the war. Its two big allies – India and China – are treading cautiously, as if they are walking
    in a minefield.

    In the war front, Russia has found itself fighting alone against a US-led NATO.

    Most important of all for Russia, not having the right narrative means not winning over the heart and mind of its own people for the war. This is affecting the morale of Russians from soldiers in the battlefields to ordinary people on the streets.
    Increasing number of Russians are believing that, in Ukraine, they are at fault, they are the invaders.

    This is affecting soldiers fighting in the battlefields. It is affecting the effort to mobilise more citizens for the war.

    Perhaps the Russians can learn from the Korean War.
    In that war, US and South Korean armies crossed the 38th Parallel dividing North and South Korea and pushed towards the Yalu River at the border between North Korea and China. The North Koreans pleaded for help from the Chinese. In response, the
    Chinese regime in those days mobilised a People’s Volunteer Army(PVA) and entered the war in Korea. US and South Korean propaganda spared no effort to demonise the Chinese as invaders. Despite this, there was no shortage of Chinese willing to join the
    PVA. More than this, they fought with a fighting and sacrificing spirit that even their enemies admired. This was because the Chinese got their narrative right. This was best conveyed through its war slogan of

    抗美援朝,保家卫国。

    Briefly translated, it means:
    Counter the US, Aid North Korea,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    It was telling the Chinese that helping North Korea to fight against the US was ultimately about protecting their own families and defending their own nation.

    Its not too late for the Russians to have a slogan like:
    Counter NATO, Aid the Donbass,
    Protect our Families, Defend our Nation.

    There are truths in this slogan which are quite similar to what happened in the Korean War between North Korea, US and China.
    In the current case, Ukraine and NATO were expanding towards the border with Russia and waging an ethnic war against Russians in the border region of Donbass. The Russians there had pleaded for Russia’s aid. Russia responded with “special
    military operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”. If Russia had not intervened, there is a likelihood that the Ukrainians and their NATO-allies, after taking over Ukraine, would proceed to invade Russia. It seems many ordinary Russians
    have not realised this. Those who are proud to have escaped mobilisation for the war may find that they have no more families or nation to return to in the near future.

    It’s still not too late for the Kremlin to set its narrative right.
    China can use its leverage with Russia to prevent a nuclear war | Financial Times (ft.com)
    https://www.ft.com/content/f05fef3f-a8be-4007-a161-34764419847f

    Why should China play this role? US considers China its No. 1 enemy and is making all sorts of preparations, from strategic to tactical, from conventional to nuclear, in a war with China. Why should China help the US in Ukraine?

    China should avoid war with the US, if possible. One possible way is to weaken the US. Ukraine offers such an opportunity. China should help Russia to fight a war of attrition in Ukraine to wear down the US as much as possible. China should supply
    weapons and complete military systems to Russia and provide Chinese military personnel to operate them, while training for the Russians. In this way, the Chinese can test out not only the capability of their weapon systems but also the field operational
    organisations required by them. These will all happen in the setting of a real war situation.

    If the war turns into tactical nuclear one, China will have a chance to learn to fight a tactical nuclear war against the US.

    That’s what the Chinese should do. Make all the preparations and seize all opportunities to learn to fight with the US.

    How Ukraine became a laboratory for Western weapons and battlefield innovation https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/15/politics/ukraine-russia-war-weapons-lab/index.html

    While this is happening, Ukrainians of all ages are paying with their lives. Evil Westerners.

    Slavs being led by a Jew and Westerners to fight against Slavs. How ironic.

    It's time the Ukrainians realise how much they have been fooled. It's time they rise up in revolt against the war.

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