Putin’s speech today was very weak. He confirmed what we knew all this time: russia’s invasion of Ukraine was driven by one goal - imperialistic ambitions to conquer Ukraine.
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2/ It was not to stop “Nazis" or to prevent NATO expansion, as some brainwashed idiots continue to repeat. It was to conquer Ukraine. But since russia was not able to achieve its objective, now they want four regions of Ukraine - Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
3/ Why now? Because things are going badly for russia. Russia was not able to achieve any meaningful advances in Kharkiv, while losing tens of thousands of soldiers. New US and European sanctions are hurting russian banks and the Ruble.
4/ The G7 will send another $50 billion using the frozen russian assets. More Patriots are coming. F16s are coming. US and Europe are delivering more weapons each week.
5/ As Dzhokhar Dudayev, first president of the Chechen Republic said: “Russia always offers negotiations when it is struggling, when plans are falling apart, in order to buy time, regroup, correct mistakes, find a weak spot, and then strike again with renewed strength!"
6/ The only reasonable response is not to give into this “fake negotiations” trap but to give Ukraine all the needed tools to push the russian evil back to Mordor.
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Why Ukraine didn’t sign a “peace agreement” with russia in 2022?
The New York Times published the text of a draft peace agreement that Ukrainian and russian delegations developed in 2022. In the end, the agreement wasn’t signed.
Here are its main points:
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2/ russia wanted to keep Crimea, but the fate of other territories was proposed to be decided at a personal meeting between Zelensky and Putin.
3/ russia asked for the lifting of Ukrainian sanctions, which have been in place since 2014, and to call for the same step by Western partners.
2/ Base on their analysis they created a list of organizations and individuals in the USA opposing support for Ukraine.
3/ The brainwashed russian puppets were not happy. Senator J.D. Vance and Congressman Matt Gaetz wrote a letter to Antony Blinken demanding information about the Ukrainian NGO by June 28.
the ban on the transfer of American weapons to Azov brigade, which had been in effect since 2017. This is an important defeat of russian propaganda and the western journalists who were spreading it. 1/n
2/ Azov was formed in response to russia's invasions of Crimea and Donbas in 2014. Azov began as a militia group made up of football fans, who pushed the russian occupiers out of Mariupol.
3/ In response, Moscow began an initiative to slander Azov as “𝐍𝐞𝐨 𝐍𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐬” as an effective method to reduce international support for Ukraine. Often using symbols taken out of context and cheap photoshops to “prove” their false narratives.
Anyone who says that NATO provoked russia to attack Ukraine is either stupid, brainwashed or simply doesn’t know the history.
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2/ Until 2013, only about 20-30% of Ukrainians (depending on the poll) were in favor of joining NATO. After the annexation of Crimea, that number went up to more than 50%. And now, after the full scale invasion, close to 90% of Ukrainians say that they want Ukraine to join NATO.
3/ Also, it was russian aggression that forced Sweden and Finland to join NATO. It is russian aggression that has prompted other countries to join NATO not “NATO’s expansion” forcing russia to attack the neighboring countries.
Italy received 1,108,035 Schengen visa applications in 2023. Who were the main applicants and recipients of visas - russians and Chinese.
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2/ On May 29 Norway has banned the entry of tourists from russia. The ban affects both those who previously obtained a Norwegian tourist visa and those who obtained a visa issued by another country of the Schengen Agreement.
3/ Minister of Justice and Public Security Emilie Enger Mehl highlighted that the position taken by Norway is a direct response to russia's illegal aggression against Ukraine.
In a recent interview, Garry Kasparov, one of the best chess players of all time and a russian dissident who stood up to Putin, said that Ukraine is doing what NATO was designed to: protect free Europe from russian authoritarianism. 1/n
2/ Kasparov is one of the few russian dissidents who believes in victory for Ukraine. But he is upset that, despite Ukraine's defense of the West, the West still won’t give Ukraine the permissions and tools needed to win.
3/ Washington doesn’t even speak the language of victory. Instead, the White House says: “‘We will stand with Ukraine as long as it takes.” Kasparov adds that these words are “nonsense because this sentence is very ambiguous.”