So, we have disproportionately inadequate Western response to the putin's build-up around Ukraine, namely: - NO fighter jets and/or Patriot systems on the ground,
- YES panic and hysteria, Embassies evacuated etc.
Such a response plays right at putin's hand.
yes, this looks like this.
and this is not helping at all.
Now Western companies are stoping air connection to Ukraine. It is no less than a de-facto sanctioning the victim of potential aggression BY the Western commercial players.
Feels like the West already introduced sanctions against Ukraine.
Instead of introducing them against russian federation.
Interesting fact from @WELTAMSONNTAG.
Looks like in 2020 alone Germany sold a dual use products to russian federation on € 366 million while to Ukraine only on € 17 million.
Who is under sanctions? Aggressor or victim?
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let me be clear: anything short of "things which can effectively deter putin" = not enough to prevent big war.
"things which can effectively deter putin" are 1. fighter jets & 2. air defence.
period.
articles in the press and White House warnings are fine art, nothing more.
if the White House is serious about defending Ukraine they must give us those two things. and ASAP.
we should have been given those long time ago, but the West was busy creating Ukraine image of the most corrupt country in the world
let's hope there is still time...
bcs if there is no time, Ukrainians' blood will be on the West's hands too. @WaschukCanUA explained in plain English why. Because of these mistakes and because of reluctance to fix those mistakes: huri.harvard.edu/what-west-got-…
#Khrzhanovsky's record of approaching the totalitarian past by re-creating it in the most visceral manner raises a disturbing question.
Is vividly bringing the aesthetics of #Nazi terror on the very ground where it had taken place an appropriate way to honor victims?
Karel Berkhoff — the Western world’s foremost expert on #BabynYar and the memorial’s former lead historian —resigned, he compared the project to a Shoah theme park.
Over several months Mr. Berkhoff was joined by a majority of the staff, a paralyzing turnover...
Тут буде невеличка гілка з декількома думками з приводу цього інтерв'ю Мінгареллі для ЄП.
Перш за все, я щасливий, що очільник Представництва ЄС в Украіні нарешті звернув увагу на те, про що я говорю уже довго — і не просто звернув, а навіть вголос про це заговорив.
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Я більше року тому почав говорити, що довга і важка боротьба, яка, з подачі кислотно-налаштованих на роздмухування зради пасажирів, НЕ ВИГЛЯДАЄ виграшною, — здатна загострити в украінців комплекс вивченоі безпорадності.
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І в результаті, украінці
— або заб'ються в куточок і нічого не будуть робити, терпеливо переносячи удари долі "бо ми ж ні на що не здатні, бачте он навіть тисячі людських жертв нічого не змінили в цій краіні, то ліпше не висовуватися і сидіти тихо, АБИ НЕ ГІРШЕ".
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