What do you think about Unilateralism in Politics
It was a Coup.
The East and South would still vote Russian. More than half the country speaks Russian.
Ukraine and Novo Russia are different countries, language, customs, world view.
An election where the party that won the last election is not allowed, or the Communists, is not an election.
Western Ukraine and the Bandera and Rights Sector have killed 8,000, bankrupted a very poor country, defaulted on their debt, produced runaway inflation, are managing Ukraine into another famine.
The up side is Russia has taken in over a million, Russian speaking, families with children, just what Russia needs.
Kiev is failing fast, and refusing to hold the elections promised in the cease fire agreement. A new Constitution, a Federal System, with each Oblast electing their own Governors.
Democratic elections, local rule, are the way to secure the lives of the people.
The EU will not open the door and let ten million move to western Europe.
Local, National, and Regional stability has to come from the people who live there.
Not to mention the fact that Bandera people (if someone who tear unborn children from mother belly might be called people) murdered during World War II, hundreds if not Thousands of Poles, Russians and Jews, and actively collaborated with the Nazis.
I do not like Putin's Russia, are a bit arrogant, and Putin sometimes behave like an as*hole, but on Ukraine might have a point.
Putin is a bit defensive, but last summer the line of NATO tanks running a hundred meters from the Russian border, and the threat of first strike atomic missiles being based in Poland, can make people defensive.
The International Brokered deal for early elections in Ukraine was violated by a Coup a few days later.
History still drives us, the Soviets fought the Bandera for five years after the war ended in Germany, because they continued killing Russians and Poles. North Western Ukraine was part of Poland, populated by Polish people, but became Ukraine because the Soviets fought the Bandera into the fifties there. It remained a war zone.
Bandera was never an army, they were murdering gangs, they killed Russians, Poles, Hungarians, and slaughtered women, children, old people. Even terrorists are defined as seeking a political goal through violence, Bandera did not have a political goal, violence and horror were their goal.
That they are marching in the streets of Kiev, being part of the government, being part of the army, is honoring a serial killer cult. It is like a government supporting the Turks returning to slaughter Christians.
A government by Coup that sent the army to murder 8,000 in Eastern Ukraine.
Regretfully we have people in the State Department who see starting WWIII with the Russians as job security. Like the Governor of Odessa, when he was President of Georgia, who tried to start a war with Russia as a fast track to joining NATO.
Putin is playing the hand he was dealt, countering aggression, taking a few provinces in Georgia, all of Crimea, and stopping the slaughter of Russian speaking Ukrainians along his western border. He could have been in Kiev in a week and returned the elected President. He has chosen to involve Europe in restoring peace, and giving Kiev enough rope to hang themselves.
In free and fair elections, the richer and industrial eastern and southern parts of Ukraine, who speak Russian, would win against the Western Ukraine of poverty and small farms.
If it comes to Civil War, with the element of surprise and the full force of the army, Bandera, Rights Sector, Private Armies, Kiev has lost twice to the civilians of the Eastern Oblasts.
The problem is, no one wants Western Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine, Novo Russia, does not want it, Russia does not want it, Europe does not want it, and I think Poland and Hungry have border problems with them. Kiev was a Russian city of history, they do not want it back.
They are broke, they have defaulted on their debt, everything has been stolen, like all Social Payments, cheap gas and food, and now the dogs of the Coup Government, the Bandera, the Rights Sector, fight each other in the ruins over the scraps and knawed bones.
A Federal System, with free and fair democratic elections in every Oblast, Self rule, home rule, represented by their own in a Federal System, is the only way out of this mess.
The International Brokered deal for early elections in Ukraine was violated by a Coup a few days later.
History still drives us, the Soviets fought the Bandera for five years after the war ended in Germany, because they continued killing Russians and Poles. North Western Ukraine was part of Poland, populated by Polish people, but became Ukraine because the Soviets fought the Bandera into the fifties there. It remained a war zone.
Bandera was never an army, they were murdering gangs, they killed Russians, Poles, Hungarians, and slaughtered women, children, old people. Even terrorists are defined as seeking a political goal through violence, Bandera did not have a political goal, violence and horror were their goal.
That they are marching in the streets of Kiev, being part of the government, being part of the army, is honoring a serial killer cult. It is like a government supporting the Turks returning to slaughter Christians.
A government by Coup that sent the army to murder 8,000 in Eastern Ukraine.
Regretfully we have people in the State Department who see starting WWIII with the Russians as job security. Like the Governor of Odessa, when he was President of Georgia, who tried to start a war with Russia as a fast track to joining NATO.
Putin is playing the hand he was dealt, countering aggression, taking a few provinces in Georgia, all of Crimea, and stopping the slaughter of Russian speaking Ukrainians along his western border. He could have been in Kiev in a week and returned the elected President. He has chosen to involve Europe in restoring peace, and giving Kiev enough rope to hang themselves.
In free and fair elections, the richer and industrial eastern and southern parts of Ukraine, who speak Russian, would win against the Western Ukraine of poverty and small farms.
If it comes to Civil War, with the element of surprise and the full force of the army, Bandera, Rights Sector, Private Armies, Kiev has lost twice to the civilians of the Eastern Oblasts.
The problem is, no one wants Western Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine, Novo Russia, does not want it, Russia does not want it, Europe does not want it, and I think Poland and Hungry have border problems with them. Kiev was a Russian city of history, they do not want it back.
They are broke, they have defaulted on their debt, everything has been stolen, like all Social Payments, cheap gas and food, and now the dogs of the Coup Government, the Bandera, the Rights Sector, fight each other in the ruins over the scraps and knawed bones.
A Federal System, with free and fair democratic elections in every Oblast, Self rule, home rule, represented by their own in a Federal System, is the only way out of this mess.
I once read an article indeed quite biased because I wrote it our Polish historian who lost his family, murdered by Bandera.
The historian said that Ukraine was never really a real state, but a garbage dump, where the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kingdom of Hungary and the Russian tsardom , got rid of criminals and other antisocial individuals that Ukraine was such a country as the nineteenth century Australia, a penal colony for Polish Russia and Hungary
But I think it's a little exaggerated opinion.
Some of our Polish historians believe that you should not compare the Polish national liberation struggle, and our uprisings, the revolt in Ukraine.
Because even when they were partitions, and Russia, Prussia (later Germany) and Austria occupied our lands, were Polish freedom fighters and our patriots have never attacked civilians, Russian or German who tried to "settle" on our lands, their goal It was the only military personnel and officials of the occupying powers, and Banderowy murdered everyone regardless of whether it was a military, civilian, woman or child, but it was enough that it was not Ukrainian.
I think your historian right, from Putin I learned that Ukraine means borderland.
The politics of the present comes from Nova Russia being joined, then Crimea to out vote and rule the Ukraine.
A lawless frontier between Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, inhabited by thieves, highwaymen, and felons on the run from Poland, the Baltics, plus Romanian Turks and gypsies. Also everyone who would be hung in Hungary.
As the current border includes lands that were recently Polish, Hungarian, where Hungarians and Poles got killed, no one really wanted them back. It was just left as an open air prison. That it took the Red Army five years to conquer it after WWII, shows what a mess it was.
Even then, they hunted down and killed the men, but left the women and children. Genocide has such a bad name, but the children grew up to become Bandera.
As the border with Europe it is known for being the main place to traffic kidnapped Ukrainian girls into Europe, as sex workers, and tobacco and drugs.
The Mafia of Italy is known for having crime families. The Western Ukraine is known for the Bandera having a crime country. A Mafia only Italy. With several borders, and all of government and police, they can evade any pressure.
Where Poland in their darkest days retained a sense of honor, on their best days the Bandera do not have honor.
These are the people our State Department supports. It would take Hungry, Poland, and Russia to close in on them and kill millions, to end this festering wound. The Warsaw Pact kept them in check, but since independence, three governments in twenty years, a 50% decline in income from Soviet days, it is just getting worse.
Just the last year has shown another 50% decline in income. When they reach their natural level, starving murders and thieves, they will start raiding Polish lands again, killing six people and stealing a pig.
Our moral and legal sense get in the way, mostly it is a good thing, but at some point we have to agree with Saddam, when a Kurd town tries to kill you, gassing 8,000 makes sense. Poland is too moral to do that, but when the Coup government falls, and it will, and several dog packs fight over Kiev, the entire border becomes Bandera shopping raids, pushing them back to historic Polish borders, and a cleared buffer, well, Russia would not object.
Our new problems are our old problems coming back. We can learn from history, last time it took the Red Army five years to restore order. A couple of Policemen along the Polish border are not going to fix this problem.
Christian values and morals are best, but they do not work on Turks and criminal gangs.