He lists many things I read (not always in complete agreement).
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Boutcha
Here's the best debunking:
I discovered this on twitter first with most of the same information:
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Friday, April 1, 2022
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Letter to My Representative
With Russia, as with any other country, our best option is to pursue peace through actual diplomacy and negotiation--which always requires compromise, and not endless war in any of its forms including sanctions, demonization, and declarations that we seek regime change. I am disgusted with the endless global war perpetrated by Washington DC on the rest of the world for full spectrum dominance. I would like to see a country that is strictly neutral on foreign wars, never meddles in the internal affairs of other countries, and instead focuses on the development of renewable energy for domestic and global use--the only hope for saving human civilization. Why can't we be more like China?
The Russian military operations in Ukraine were anything but unprovoked. The were the widely predicted result of decades of US meddling in Ukraine, including funding coups in 2004 and 2014, funding extremist terrorist militias, and becoming the arms merchant and puppet master of the Ukrainian government. Victoria Nuland confirmed we had spent $5 Billion up to 2014, and of course many billions more since then, on these efforts.
These ultimately created, and must have been designed to create, a terrible situation to which Russian leadership would have to respond militarily (after facing nothing but US stonewalling and/or broken promises in endless attempts at diplomacy over decades). 14,000 people had already been killed before February 2022 clashes between Ukrainian ethnic russian communities (only occasionally helped by Russia) and extremist terrorists financed by the USA. Russia's operations are justifiable by the exact same doctrines which President Clinton enunciated with regards to Yugoslavia, only Russia's claims are true and their security needs are historically proven.
Nothing that Russia has been asking for looks unreasonable to me. It is the US, echoed by its vassal state 2014 Ukraine which has been unreasonable. We should not try to be the overlord of Ukraine--it is a far away country we have little need for...except as a potential launching pad for threatening, controlling, and ultimately dismembering Russia, which was clearly the purpose of our meddling all along.
Monday, March 28, 2022
What Happened to Minsk II
The Minsk II Protocol was supposed to be the solution to the civil war that emerged in Ukraine after the 2014 Maidan Revolution.
Minsk granted autonomy to DPR and LPR to satisfy the demands of post-Maidan separatists there.
Friends who follow western media (ie disinformation) closely and memorize every detail tell me that Minsk II was thwarted by Putin by not disarming and removing the Russian Green Men holding the Donbas hostage. In my briefer reading of western media, Minsk was never mentioned at all, nor the civil war, nor any particular obsession with the 2014 Revolution.
But, actually, as far as I can tell, Minsk never passed the Ukrainian parliament. It got a majority on first reading (265 out of 450 MP's), but then, more deadly Neo-nazi protests emerged:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34105925
As late as 2017 Minsk had still not passed, and Carnegie (CIA) bemoans the fact that Decentralization still hasn't passed--and probably wouldn't--because it was attached to those Minsk reforms (like legalizing Russian language).
https://carnegieendowment.org/2017/03/08/ukraine-s-slow-struggle-for-decentralization-pub-68219
Now, in all likelihood, the USA, as the new overlord of Ukraine, providing money, connections, weapons, intelligence, and diplomacy, could EASILY push Ukraine to getting these reforms passed.
But the USA was not a party to the agreement, and the agreement effectively gives Donbas a veto over NATO expansion to Ukraine--which is the opposite of US intention to make Ukraine a full fledged vassal (NATO member). So you would not expect US media (CIA) to say anything good about it, if even mention it at all.
My fact-check-meter says it was the US-Neonazi axis that was responsible for torpedoing Minsk II. Neonazis under US supervision stopped it, and US supervision never bothered to get it back on track.
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This isn’t about pipelines and gas.
I see that mistake being made by a lot of people in the West. Apparently they can only think in such superficial materialistic and commercial terms.
But this war is much much bigger than that.
Look at the map, preferably a topographic one.
One of the most critical points of Russian territory is the one immediately to the east of Ukraine — you cut that off and you have severed their access to the Black Sean, the Caucasus, and the Caspian and you have a wide open lane for attack towards Siberia south of the Urals.
This is what the Germans tried to do in 1942 and it’s the reason a million people died at Stalingrad.
When Ukraine (and Belarus) was part of the USSR, that provided a 1500-km buffer for any such attack.
And again, that played a crucial role in the war — the German plan was to secure everything west of the Urals by the end of 1941. Didn’t work out because it turned out that vast distances matter a lot even for mechanized warfare.
Also, after the war the border was actually anchored at the Carpathian mountains (it’s probably one reason Stalin wanted those western regions so bad) and wasn’t only an open plane anymore, plus there were the additional buffers of the other Eastern Bloc countries in between the USSR and NATO.
But what happens if you give a potential invader a 1500 km head start with modern equipment?
And that is only if we consider traditional land-based warfare.
But we live in a world of cruise missiles, and it is 5 minutes from one to fly from Kharkov to Moscow, if you flood the airspace with such missiles, even the sophisticated Russian air defenses will not be able to stop them all. So the decapitation strike becomes very hard to defend against.
This is why Putin was talking about how “they have created security risks we cannot accept”.
On top of that, one has to consider that the Russians do see themselves, Belarusians and Ukrainians as part of the same larger nation, not as separate entities. And the Ukrainians in particular are a very large component of that larger Russian nation — about a quarter of it.
To have that turned militantly against you is a gigantic historic defeat and simply cannot be allowed.
Gas pipelines are a very minor consideration in that much grander military and historical context.