Saturday, March 4, 2023

Stop this Ukrainian Madness

 

Ukraine

1.      Since 400 BC, Ukraine as a country has never existed until the twentieth century when----Russia created it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P0QSxlnI

2.      Kiev was the capital of the Russian people until the Mongols ran them out.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Kyiv/History

3.      Eastern Ukraine is part of the homeland of the Cossacks who are a rich part of Russian military history.  Ethnically, Cossacks are not Ukrainian.

https://www.history-magazine.com/cossacks.html

Fighting for independence is certainly worthy but there is no historical basis for the Ukrainians having independence.  I have sympathy for the desire for independence.  But if the desire for independence is the criteria, what about the Kurds who have been much more friendly to the US than Ukraine.

4.      George HW Bush and the entire NATO leadership promised Gorbachev that there would be no eastward expansion  of NATO.  Then, the West reneged.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early

To end the Cold War and bring down the Iron Curtain, US/NATO recognizes Russia’s security concerns, then sticks it to them.

So, the US recognized that Russia had existential concerns about its western border.  With regard to Ukraine, look at the map.  Small wonder that Russia is ready to go to the mat on this issue.  Just imagine the US’s reaction if such an occurrence were to occur in its backyard---oh, but wait we know.  It was called the Cuban missile crisis.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-war-poses-existential-threat-survival-russian-people-putin

 

On the other hand, Russia hardly represents an existential threat to the West unless it pushes Russia to the nuclear brink.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/one-year-later-ukraine-washington-and-nato-got-it-very-wrong

 

 

5.       Ukraine has a long history of government corruption.

https://eurasianet.org/a-brief-history-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-dawn-of-the-zelensky-era

6.      It is still happening.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/senior-ukrainian-officials-depart-corruption-crackdown-rcna67130

7.      Not to mention the Hunter Biden connection.

https://time.com/6254861/hunter-biden-laptop-investigations-charges/

8.      And whose money are these guys stealing?

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/spot-odd-one-out-0

Two years ago, we were calling these guys crooks; now they are freedom fighters.

Meanwhile back in the US,

    (9) the national debt is at a record level,

    (10) the deficit is enormous,

I refer you to the Rogoff/Reinhart study that shows that high levels of government debt negatively impacts economic growth.

          https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-8494

     (11) Texas is being invaded by tens of thousands of illegal immigrants a month, many carrying          Fentanyl [which poses a major risk to the US population]---and God knows what else.

 

To summarize, having promised not to do so, the US is sending billions of dollars, much of which is going into the coffers of the  ruling class, to Ukraine, a country that never existed prior to its creation by Russia in order to win its independence from Russia which views such a development as an existential risk instead of taking care of problems at home which threaten not just Texas but the US as a whole.

           

 

 

 

 

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