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In 1940 and 1941, America First isolationists argued that the U.S. should not help Britain resist the Nazi onslaught because it had no chance to prevail. “I have been forced to the conclusion that we cannot win this war for England, regardless of how much assistance we extend,” Charles Lindbergh said on April 1941.

Today, America firsters are voicing a similar refrain when it comes to Ukraine.

#Ukraine #maga #gqp #gop #VoteBlue #Putin #russia #GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3SYShTr


Russian MP Andrey Gurulev:

"Whose ally is Israel? Of the United States of America. Whose ally is Iran and its surrounding Muslim world? Ours."
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #Iran #Israel


Commenting on #Ukraine membership in #NATO, #Putin said “Ukraine has right to ensure its security, but not by creating threats to #Russia”[^1], a statement which on its face value sounds absurd, granted that it’s Russia that in the first place materialised the largest threat in the last half century for Ukraine and Europe.

But behind that statement there’s a certain logic of Russian elites, and since this postulate was and will be picked up by the Putinverstehers of the world, I think it requires a clarification.

Russians wholeheartedly believe they have a moral right to Ukraine and Eastern Europe. This “right” is not based on, or directly contravenes all kind of international agreements and obligations signed by Russia but it doesn’t matter, because Russia treats all laws in the same way as explained by Simonyan in the context of Wagner mutiny - they are “made for humans” and can be applied selectively, as necessary.[^2]

Because of the above, they also believe they have a moral right to intervene, either covertly, as they did all the time before 2014, or directly, using military force, as they did starting from 2014. These interventions form the core of “security of Russian interests” frequently mentioned by Putin and others.

This vague “moral right” to interventions of their liking was precisely what drove not only annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas, but also numerous GRU assassinations in Europe, explosions in Vrbětice etc. And, to be honest, lukewarm reaction of the international community was perceived by them as a kind of approving nod.

Now, once we established how these interventions in “their zone of influence” (once again, having no legal base) are considered as their sacred right, any defensive actions or countermeasures undertaken by the target countries are naturally described by Russia as “violation of their security”.

This is exactly how air defense “Patriot” batteries located in #Poland were described by Russians as “threat to their security”, and this is exactly how Ukrainian static lines of fortifications in Donbas were also described as “offensive”. Of course, you can’t invade another country with static trenches 20 km from their border, but dialectically these fortifications reduced options for Russian invasion, thus limiting their “sacred right” to invade. 🤷‍♂️

This kind of dialectics has a long tradition in Russia: during and after WW2, Soviets many times labelled as “Nazis” anyone who fought against Soviet influences even if they also fought against German invasion. Which led to absurd arguments, where people like Poland’s Witold Pilecki, who tirelessly fought against Nazis from 1939, when USSR was German ally, was at the end of the war sentenced to death as “Nazi collaborator” because he also opposed Soviet occupation.[^3]


[^1]: https://tass.com/world/1646611

[^2]: https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/AX56Nlajrdw8qiex4S

[^3]: https://write.as/arcadian/on-the-kremlins-ideas-of-denazification-and-russophobia


Frankly, I've been surprised that #Prigozhin hadn't yet fall out of the window for several months now ...

#PutinWarCriminal #Putin #RussiaIsATerroristState


BREAKING NEWS!

❗️The US and its allies plan to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets as part of long-term efforts to strengthen Kyiv's security, — a senior White House official commented to NBC News
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Russian #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey #Finland


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“I’m not bluffing on nuclear weapons”, says Putin

What a Grade A cunt.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/21/ukraine-news-russia-war-putin-counter-offensive-mobilisation/

#putin #russia #nuclearWar #ukraine #eu


RT @natynettle@twitter.com

3/ @SlackHQ@twitter.com (by @salesforce@twitter.com) & @mailchimp@twitter.com cut services to human rights groups & independent media in Russia. These include legal aid orgs that are helping jailed anti-war protestors as I write this.

I’m sure the intentions are good, but they are inadvertently helping #

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/natynettle/status/1504208487450034179