Ukrainian government is now officially publishing racist ideologies long espoused by Ukrainian neo-Nazis. US and NATO claim that such ideology was fringe, but it isn't. It's fundamental to understanding conflict.
Claims of Ukraine government have to be read to be believed. They say that Ukrainians come from pure Slavic stock, while Russians are a form of mongrel ("mixed" with Ugro-Finnic tribes).
Facebook has recently announced that it now permits of Azov Battallion, currently being cheered on by US media for its defense of Mariupol. Azov Battallion was founded by Andrii Biletsky, now leading militia in Mariupol.
Here is a 2008 manifesto from Biletsky entitled "Ukrainian racial social nationalism". web.archive.org/web/2008040902… Worth reading to understand exactly who US media and politicians are backing.
US ally Biletsky calls for "Racial Purification of the Nation", says Ukrainians are "one of largest and highest quality of European White Race" and must "lead White Nations around the world in last crusade of its existence. A campaign against Semitic-led inhumanity." Disgusting
US-backed (and Facebook approved) Biletsky calls for a "Greater Ukraine" and proposes construction of "our Superpower-Empire" "hich will be the legal successor of the Scythian and Kievan Rus' empires." A new Third Reich, so to speak.
US-backed Biletsky closes manifesto by calling on "all the ancient Ukrainian Aryan values, forgotten in modern society. Only their revival and implementation by a group of fanatical fighters can lead to the final victory of European civilization in the world struggle."
While Twitter has closed many accounts that challenge US narrative, Biletsky continues to tweet from the front lines of Mariupol. twitter.com/AndrijBilec
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in early 1990s, component republics of Yugoslavia (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia etc) declared independence and soon recognized by western nations, but separations of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk have been denounced by west. Is there a principled difference? Or merely partisanship?
I've done some preliminary googling and encountered a seemingly astonishing response to Donetsk/Lugansk by the recently separatist Balkan republics.
aa.com.tr/en/europe/west… the various Balkan republics, each of whom unilaterally declared independence from Yugoslavia, denounce corresponding declarations by Donetsk and Lugansk as "violation of international law"
@ProfMJCleveland@Pimpernell13@15poundstogo@themarketswork If Joffe's stories were based on data acquired by Neustar as subcontractor to Azure Government under strict confidentiality, seems to me that his claims that he was legally entitled to tell stories to FBI, CIA, OIG, Senate Armed Services, NYT, Mother Jones, etc are questionable
@ProfMJCleveland@Pimpernell13@15poundstogo@themarketswork second, without knowing identity of vendor, it's hard to know what issues arose. For example, identification of Danchenko (or Joffe) raised all sorts of questions and issues that couldnt be even thought of until they were identified.
@ErrataRob Here's a comment from a 2007 review of DoD program doi.org/10.17226/12005, indicating that DoD piggybacked research into bioweapon pathogens into reluctant nations by tying funding to local disease research with bioweapon research
@ErrataRob 2/ clearly there are biolabs with non-sinister purposes. But wouldn't one ordinarily expect biolabs associated with disease control to be funded or supported through WHO or CDC or that type of organization, not DoD? So why the huge DoD role in Ukraine biolabs?
@ErrataRob 3/ Same report said that one important reason for US involvement in biolabs was to enable US DoD to directly obtain pathogen strains without having to submit to external scrutiny or "questions" that would "unnecessarily delay transfer". Maybe those questions should be asked
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).
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"