Seeing Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral seemed fitting: Z-Man’s money-laundering operation in Kyiv was the proximate cause of Graham’s death. Had the senator not been working so hard to add to the butcher’s bill in Europe, he would still be alive today. Surely there is a lesson here for some people to see.
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I know there are plenty of pro-Ukraine cheerleaders who just cannot stomach any criticism of an ongoing military conflict that has now lasted longer than WWII. However, I have never seen this as anything other than a civil war that British, European, and American globalists have exploited for monetary and geopolitical reasons that have nothing to do with the sovereignty of Ukraine.
Ukraine is not a member of the European Union. It is not a member of NATO. If Ukraine’s diminutive dictator wishes to turn what’s left of his country into a parking lot, so be it. Let the weight of this folly fall on the head of a comedian who has led his country to slaughter and will leave it a rump of its former self. When the war finally ends, the multinational investment firms will recycle the carnage into reconstruction profits. Ukraine will be stripped and sold for parts. Its people will live in other countries. Foreigners from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East will be dumped into Ukraine by the millions to make up for the rump state’s depleted workforce. Ukraine will never look the same. And future historians will wonder why a comedian was allowed to destroy an entire nation.
It’s not as if the Ukrainian people have had a choice in this matter. Elections have been canceled. Public dissent is outlawed. Opposition political parties are outlawed. Even church services are outlawed if the Christian congregations are seen to have Russian sympathies. The fact that millions of military-aged Ukrainians have refused to fight (by either fleeing the country or hiding from Kyiv’s brutal press-gangs on the streets) suggests that they do not see this conflict as worth the cost of their blood. It seems counterintuitive to me for Americans, Brits, or Europeans to demand that Ukrainians sacrifice their lives in a war that they do not want. Dying for Ukraine should be a choice for Ukrainians. The Ukrainian people alone should decide whether to fight or sue for peace.
This whole conflict is centered around territories that lie on the border between Russia and Ukraine. If you look at election results going back to Ukraine’s post-Soviet Union independence in 1991, a clear pattern emerges: The Western provinces have consistently voted for political candidates who are seen to be more pro-European Union; the Eastern provinces have consistently voted for political candidates who are seen to be more pro-Russian Federation. This breakdown has largely remained an 80/20 split within the two geographical regions of Ukraine. In the Western lands, roughly 80% of voters have been in favor of strengthening political and economic ties with Europe. In the Eastern lands, roughly 80% of voters have been in favor of strengthening political and economic ties with Russia. This makes sense because the Eastern territories of Ukraine are filled with Russian-speaking people who attend Russian church services, read Russian newspapers, and share Russian customs. In reality, the post-’91 territorial boundaries of modern Ukraine fused two politically and culturally distinct nations together.
These things happen. Post-war treaties and realpolitik conjure untenable nation states into existence all the time. The Middle East has been in a constant state of war since WWI primarily because Europe carved up its former colonies into unnatural nation states filled with culturally distinct peoples whose historic grievances guaranteed a century of political revolution, social resentment, and regional instability. In a similar way, Czechoslovakia came into existence at the end of WWI after declaring independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire; by the end of the Cold War, it peacefully split into two sovereign states: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Something similar should have happened with Ukraine.
To my ear, it is preposterous to hear Ukraine’s pro-war cheerleaders screaming about “democracy,” “self-determination,” and “sovereignty.” For thirty years, the people living in Ukraine’s Eastern provinces have voted along that 80/20 split to align themselves with Russia. After anti-democracy forces overthrew legitimately-elected, pro-Russia Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in a 2014 coup d’état — rebranded as the “Revolution of Dignity” — the people living in the Eastern provinces sought to separate from a Ukrainian government that had just deposed their elected leader. Kyiv declared war on those people, and a civil war has been raging ever since.
Just because the U.S. State Department, Britain’s MI6, and the European Commission supported the 2014 coup doesn’t make it “democratic.” The people living in the East have voted to separate from Ukraine. It is Kyiv and its Western backers who refuse to allow those people to determine their own futures. Pretending to respect territorial borders as some indispensable hallmark of national sovereignty is a ruse, especially when American, British, and European globalists have opened their own borders to foreign invaders for decades.
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Furthermore, dictator Zelenskyy has stated that, should he ever permit another election in Ukraine, the people in the Eastern provinces will not be allowed to vote. It will surely be much easier for pro-E.U. candidates to win future elections if all the people who would normally vote for pro-Russia candidates are denied suffrage. But the absurdity of fighting a war for “democracy” just to disenfranchise voters proves that this conflict has never been about preserving Ukrainians’ self-determination. A dictator refuses to hold elections. But if he does hold elections, only his friends get to vote? People are dying for Ukrainian corruption and Ukrainian tyranny.
This war isn’t about “democracy.” It’s not about national “sovereignty.” It’s not about protecting little bitty Ukraine from big, bad Russia’s “unprovoked invasion.” If it were about any of those things, responsible leaders would at least be wary of allowing tit-for-tat attacks to spiral into WWIII between nuclear powers. Instead, Western globalists seem to yearn for war between the Russian Federation and the United States.
Last December, NATO Secretary Mark Rutte urged member countries to prepare for war with Russia. Around the same time, rogue American Intelligence bureaucrats disseminated propaganda to the press claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attack all of Europe. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was forced to publicly refute that claim. She wrote, “[T]his is a lie and propaganda” being pushed by “warmongers who want to undermine President Trump’s tireless efforts to end this bloody war that has resulted in more than a million casualties on both sides.” Furthermore, she accused Western propagandists of “fomenting hysteria and fear among the people to get them to support the escalation of war, which is what NATO and the EU really want in order to pull the United States military directly into war with Russia.”
If we could go back and stop WWI or WWII, would we? If the answer is “yes,” then why wouldn’t we treat the present moment as an invaluable opportunity to avoid rushing into WWIII? When hundreds of millions of lives are on the line, why are Western leaders almost giddy about going to war with Russia?
This war is about nothing more than making money and maintaining political power. British, European, and, unfortunately, American globalists have decided that WWIII is the best way to distract Western citizens from “green energy”-induced inflation, central bank currency manipulation, foreign invasion, and a litany of other economically and culturally suicidal policies. Western governments are so committed to destroying Western civilization that WWIII seems like the cherry on top of a “new world order” sundae.
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