RFLECTIONS ON THE WAR AND THE BIGGER ONE COMING by HUGH MURRAY
Ukraine's Vlod Zelensky is the well known leader who heads his nation in time of war. The former television comedian is transformed into the new Churchill, urging his nation to fight on against the foreign invaders. The media shows him as the man of the hour, the man of courage. Or, is he simply the Greta Thunberg of Ukraine?
Greta Thunberg began her activism for the environment at age 15, and her demands that adults see the necessity of protecting the environment, as she sees it, made her into a media spokes girl in the left wing media. Her demands that governments do as she says is almost laughable, but since her message is that of the left, the media promote her, and legislators throughout the world listen to her and try to accommodate her demands. If she were not presenting the left-wing message in a new package, the left-leaning media would never have promoted her. She is the same old green message in a new, Swedish wine bottle. Still trying to shame, insult, bully nations into doing what she wants. Even in failure, she gets the publicity for her left-wing message.
Zelensky is the latest version of Thunberg, accusing, shaming, demanding, that nations support his nation financially, legally, and militarily. He is very popular in the US with Democrats and Rhino Republicans. No matter his packaging, is Zelensky correct in his message?
Ukraine was one of the provinces of the Czarist Russian Empire. Allied with Britain, France, and the other allied nations in "the Great War" (WWI), Russia did poorly, and in early 917 there was a revolution that brought a Western type government to power, until the fall when Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized control. German armies continued to invade while the Reds sought to expand their internal control in a civil war. Forced to sign a peace treaty, Red Russia ceded chunks of territory to newly independent countries, like Ukraine, which were to become German satellites. Half year later, Germany and the Central Powers surrendered to the Allies, and Germany had to withdraw from all its gains in the East. Soon after, the Communist led Ukraine requested to join the Soviet Union. Under Stalin the Reds sought to collectivize agriculture, and use crops to get funds to industrialize. Ukraine, the traditional "bread basket" of Europe, became the center of a war against the successful farmers (kulaks), whose crops were taken, and whose family members starved or were sent to Gulags (to freeze or starve). The policy led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians, the first of many Communist experiment in economics that led to millions more deaths under Mao and the Khmer Rouge. But as the left reasoned, to make an omelet one has to break a few eggs.
During WWII, when the Germans invaded the Ukraine, many natives were happy to see the end of Stalin's rule. The choice was between Hitler and Stalin, 2 monsters. For the Jews of Ukraine, Hitler meant death, so they had no choice. Others did; and there were those who sympathized with and even fought along side the German invaders during WWII. For a movie depiction of the division, see "Europa, Europa," for Poles fleeing the German invaders. Then news that the Soviets have invaded Poland from the East, and many Poles turn around to run toward the Germans, while others were still running away. In the West it is easy for us to condemn those who chose one or the other, but we did not have to choose between 2 monsters, one worse than the other. Our leaders, far from perfect, have generally avoided such savagery on such mass scales.
After WWII, there was a kind of civil war in Poland and Ukraine for a few years before the Communists could regain complete control.
After Stalin's death, Khruschev became the next leader of the USSR. A Ukrainian, he changed to border of Ukraine, giving it Russian territory. This made little difference as they were all part of the USSR. Then Reagan and Gorbachev, the Wall falls, and so does the USSR. The enlarged Ukraine becomes independent, with a large Russian speaking population. Indeed, in all ot the break-away nations of the USSR, Russian minorities were suddenly stranded in places like Turkmenistan. Ukraine was close to Russia, and had a corrupt, pro-Russian elected government, until a Western led coup in 2014. To protect the Russian naval bases, Putin invaded the Crimea, and some eastern parts of the Ukraine declared their independence from that nation and looked to Russia. Kiev has never recognized these Russian enclaves, even though a Minsk Agreement was supposed to do so. The new Ukraine government continued some aspects of the old - like corruption. But now US military sponsored scientific labs in Ukraine and other former Soviet lands. The US was very worried that these labs would fall to Russian troops with the invasion this year. Russia alleged they were scenes of biological and chemical warfare. The US denied the allegations. But why was the US military sponsoring these labs?
Why is the US subsidizing the war in the Ukraine? Without American backing, Zelensky would have to go to the negotiating table and make a deal. Without the support of the Democrats (and its media) and the UniParty Republicans (mainly Rhinos), (and major support from most of Fox News) Ukraine would sue for peace. America mobilized all its allies to get on board the train to Ukraine. NATO (North Atlantic?), and for the economic war against Russia, even Japan. India and a few others have resisted America's attempt to isolate Russia, diplomatically, and especially economically.
Democrats and Rhino Republican maintain that the border of Ukraine is sacrosanct and must be maintained against the Russian invasion. Yet, Democrats and many Rhino Republicans support the invasion of the border of the US by those crossing in from Mexico. Pres. Biden and his Administration collude with pro-invasion organizations who teach foreigners how to lie so they will seem like legitimate refugees. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and various NGOs and religious organizations all partake in this fraud. Some gain considerable US federal dollars by "helping" the refugees. Lately, I think it is near a thousand a day who come across the border. Some have links to drug cartels, some are returning after having been deported, a few are potential terrorists. It is clear that neither Democrats nor Rhino Republicans care at all about America's southern border, but they are cheerleading the efforts to defend that of Ukraine.
The Ukraine is corrupt, and according to Panama Papers Pres. Zelensky has many off-shore accounts too. More important, American weapons manufacturers can make a mint if the US subsidizes the war in Ukraine, as it did in Afghanistan, as it did in Iraq, as it did in Vietnam, etc. So left-wing ideas about flooding the US with refugees (and the donor class Republicans favor cheap labor which comes with the thousands of illegal aliens(, and Uniparty (Dems and Rhinos) may get a% of the military contracts so they cheeer the blue and yellow flag and are delighted when Zelensky "speaks truth" that he needs more money and military aid. Why, Zelensky is better than Thornberg in shaming us into doing what we already want to do.
The problem is - the US has no real national interest in Ukraine. Worse, a war is on the horizon in which we have vital interest, and we are ruining our own economy, sending military materiale to Ukraine, forcing Putin into China's arms, when we are about to face a conflict with the People's Republic of China.
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