hromadske.tv , the purveyor of this hateful rant from Ukrainian journalist Bogdan Butkevich about Donbass residents, was supported by US Embassy, governments of Netherlands, Canada and by George Soros.
Butkevich said that Donbass was "severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for" and that out of 4 million inhabitants in Donetask oblast, "at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous"
Butkevich said "Donbass must be exploited as a resource". He did not claim to have a final solution ("quick solution recipe"), but said "the most important thing that must be done- no matter how cruel it may sound – there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED"
Behind the play-acting Zelensky, this is what Biden administration is promoting and endorsing.
Butkevich is not alone. Former PM Yulia Tymoshenko, released from prison as a result of US regime change coup in Feb 2014, said that 8 million ethnic Russians (in Donbass and elsewhere in Ukraine) "must be killed with nuclear weapons".
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everyone in west seems convinced that sanctions are going to cripple Russia and that war effort is being financed by exports. But in late 2021, Russia was running a very large current surplus of $27 billion/month with exports nearly double imports ($57 billion vs $30 billion)
in 2020 (and it will be significantly different in 2021), approximately half Russia's imports came from China and Belarus. I expect that most of the $2B/month of imports from Germany and $1B/month from US could be easily replaced from China.
in contrast, US is running a current account deficit of $80 billion per month and has international debt of $22.8 trillion (Russia: $0.48 trillion).
Biden and US seemed more concerned with throwing their weight around than listening to long-standing concerns. But in addition, read Reagan era ambassador Jack Matlock's words - somebody who was at the table for big events. US alliance with Ukraine makes war more, not less likely
Kyiv regime has been at war with Russian-speaking separatists for eight years and has killed thousands of them. It was, and is, madness for Western countries to allow Kyiv regime to be tail that wags dog in potentially catastrophic war-peace decisions betwe US and Russia.
if Kyiv regime had been cut loose years ago, they would have been forced to make practical accommodations and none of this would have happened.
here's something interesting: the Iraq invasion began on Mar 19, 2003. One week later, NATO made big expansion towards Russia, admitting Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia. nato.int/cps/en/natoliv…
2/ Baltic states were immediate neighbors. Addition of Lithuania even created NATO barrier separating Kaliningrad from rest of Russia.
3/ Hard to see how accession of any these nations contributed to improved security on NORTH ATLANTIC, the stated purpose of NATO. Question: did these nations contribute troops to US' Iraq invasion adventure? Was that connected to NATO admission?
how is it that NATO countries can decide on access to SWIFT without agreement with China, India, Africa, South America and rest of world?
one of the little understood purposes of NATO (and I hadn't thought about this prior to present crisis) is that its functioned as a sort of US and Europe workaround to the United Nations, where Second and Third World nations have a say. (There's another obvious descriptor.)
one of the characteristics of Syrian war against AlQaeda and ISIS was that heavily fortified fronts scarcely moved, but rapid advances occurred from "behind". That's happening in Ukr. While media watch Kyiv, rapid advance from south to encircle Maniupol and entire Azov coastline.
it's very difficult for Donetsk (or Russian) forces to advance against entrenched Kyiv regime forces along line that's contested for 8 years. But when Kyiv forces start to get surrounded by advance from south, they will probably retreat, leaving Mariupol in a pocket.
@Suriyakmaps should have an updated map today (I clipped from him in diagram above)
on Nov 2, 2021, Dmitri Yarosh, leader of neo-Nazi Pravy Sektor during 2014 US-backed regime change coup, was named Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian military. facebook.com/dyastrub/posts…
Yarosh on diversity, equity and inclusion:
here is 2015 video on Pravy Sektor, the movement led at the time by the recently appointed Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian military. Not entirely unreasonable for neighboring nation to be concerned about such influence.