It is heartening to see the long-suffering Ukrainian people, under the yoke of a Nazi dictatorship installed after the U.S. and NATO invaded Ukraine, strewing roses at the boot heels of their brave Russian liberators.
Oh, wait … those aren’t roses, they’re Molotov cocktails.
Joking aside, it is true that the U.S. supported a coup in 2014 against Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, and there were some elements in that coup with neo-Nazi leanings. However, all countries have their Nazis; in Russia, they currently occupy the Kremlin.
Also, Chris Hedges has a good article today in Salon about what he characterizes the giant mistake of expanding NATO east after the fall of the Soviet Union. He makes the quite valid point that this expansion was not done out of fear of an enfeebled Russia purged of Communism and its captive states, but out of the desire of the military-industrial complex for continued profits. And selling arms to the former Communist bloc, which had to reconfigure their militaries to meet NATO specifications, was a profit bonanza.
Of course the end of the Cold War could have produced a huge peace dividend that could have been spent on vital domestic needs in the West, particularly the U.S., which alone among Western industrialized nations lacks universal health care, but it was not to be, since both of our major parties are under the control of our own oligarchs.
None of this, of course, justifies the Russian attack on Ukraine.
As stated, Poland and other NATO nations need have no fear of a Russian attack unless Putin has lost his mind, and if he has, I firmly believe the Russian military would step in and relieve him of duty. There is plenty of dissent in Russia right now, including at high echelons of government, against Putin’s dirty war. Reports are circulating that he is furious over the bogged-down invasion, evidently having expected a cake walk. Such are the delusions of a self-isolated strongman who listens only to lackeys and yes men who tell him what he wants to hear. Perhaps he will meet the same end as Gaddafi and Ceausescu.
And as a matter of fact, I recall reading an article a couple of years ago, allegedly based on inside info from the upper echelons of the Kremlin, that KKKomrade Putin specifically fears meeting Gaddafi’s gruesome fate. It‘s not too far-fetched to imagine the Russian people one day overrunning Putin’s huge golden palace with gilded eagles that he erected for himself using money stolen from the Russian people.
www.independent.co.uk
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. Some reports indicate that they are putting up quite a fight. But who knows what’s really going on. The first casualty of war is truth. Mayor of Kharkiv reports that the Russians have been thrown back. I hope so. I am reminded of the Soviet Finnish War where Finland out smarted and drove the Soviet forces back, but eventually the Soviets used their overwhelming numbers to defeat them.
