No part of me supports what is happening in Ukraine.

There’s one aspect that I feel people don’t understand:

For Americans WWII led to the Greatest Generation. For us Brits we had spitfires and The Blitz Spirit. Russians had none of that and no fond memories. All they experienced was an invading force who came not for tactical victories and negotiations; but the utter and total elimination of every Russian man woman and child. The complete and utter elimination of their entire culture was at stake. The scars of that conflict run so deep that it resonates profoundly to this day. Every city, town and village has a memorial of that incomprehensibly nightmarish conflict and the pain is still very real. It is ingrained in the Russian psyche.

For decades Russia has first asked, then pleaded, then cautioned, then threatened against NATO expansion because they have bad associations with organised European armies massed at their borders. NATO are touted as a defensive force but Libya and Afghanistan would beg to differ.

Ukraine has never been culturally associated with The West.

People think NATO expansion is just a technicality that Putin is using to enact his own expansionist agenda. But it is more than just a technicality. And it’s not just about Putin. Every Russian I’ve spoken to is angry and frustrated by NATO and Europe. They do not want a unified and incredibly well funded pan European and American army massed on their borders. A non NATO buffer zone isn’t just some legal jargon but a very real comfort.

Russia had a friendly leader in Ukraine. Sure, Yanukovich was as incompetent as he was corrupt, or vice versa. But at least to them he was pro Russia. Seeing their democratically elected leader ousted by a mob angered Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians.

But this latest attempt to join nato proved to be the last straw: after those decades of requests and threats that amounted to nothing, Russia has finally acted on the threat that has been loudly and unambiguously trumpeted for years.

EDIT: this is not my justification nor am I an apologist. I am merely sharing a perspective that I feel many people simply have not considered

WATCH - UFC #11 Featherweight Bryce Mitchell calls out the Biden family corruption in Ukraine.

Bryce also says stop sending Americans overseas to fight politician's wars and stop sending taxpayer's dollars to foreign countries when we got veterans sleeping on the streets in America.

Rumble | @KanekoaTheGreat

More athletes are dropping dead. ✨😔🙏🏽✨

Shane Olivea, Former San Diego Charger and Ohio State Lineman, Dead at 40
https://people.com/sports/shane-olivea-former-san-diego-charger-ohio-state-lineman-dead-at-40

Cricket-Reaction to the death of Australian great Shane Warne
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/cricket-reaction-to-the-death-of-australian-great-shane-warne/ar-AAUDtpc

Katie Meyer: Stanford University Soccer Player Found Dead Inside Campus Residence at 22
https://news.yahoo.com/katie-meyer-stanford-university-soccer-001510254.html

@drue86

A renowned Russian conductor has been forced to resign his position as honorary president of the Edinburgh International Festival.

The people of Scotland who are still using critical thinking should be writing letters of condemnation to the Edinburgh Festival: director@eif.co.uk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-60565520

"It's not fair to force artists, or any other personality, to express their political opinions in public and denounce their homeland."

"I am not a political person. I am not a political expert. I am an artist and my aim is to unite people across the political divide"

Anna Netrebko

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/03/01/russian-opera-singer-anna-netrebko-suspends-performances-until-further-notice

Look what Putin has done..oh wait it's Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand!

Ooops. Narrative fail. Ukrainian woman speaks truthfully about the dire situation of life under the Zelensky regime/puppet government.

Punch line: it isn't Russia who ruined Ukrainians' lives.

Soros' Empire

Question:
What do you think would have happened to Cuba if Moscow did not turn its missiles around in 1962?

Answer:
What is happening to Ukraine in 2022 when NATO refused to rule out their bases and nuclear missiles there.

🇺🇸 US Army Retired Colonel Douglas MacGregor explains the realistic military situation in Ukraine

Can mRNA vaccines alter intelligence?

"It is not beyond rational thought to propose that if genetic sequences integrate into many cellular components of the physiology, they may influence mental states. A wide scale disruption of DNA could be a result of mRNA vaccination, and has already been proposed by some as a possibility. No one really understands how higher human functions like assessments of fairness emerge, nor how they might be altered.

Many have close friends or relatives who have become suddenly angry and ready to cut off all ties. Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark surveyed attitudes in 21 countries and found that vaccinated people despise those who refuse to get the jab – but the opposite is not true. The researchers found that vaccinated people made ‘stereotypic inferences that unvaccinated individuals are untrustworthy and unintelligent, making the antipathy resemble prejudice towards other deviant groups’.

We are witnessing a world hazarding a war whose worst consequences are almost unthinkable—nuclear annihilation. In this, the whole world has gone beyond brinkmanship to impetuous conflict. Perhaps the judgement of some politicians has been degraded to the point that frustration, anger, and irrational imaginings of power are sufficient to override any consideration of human extinction. "
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/can-mrna-vaccines-alter-intelligence/

Vaccinated people despise those who refuse to get the jab - but the opposite is not true, study reveals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10537241/Vaccinated-people-feel-antipathy-refuse-Covid-19-jab-survey-shows.html

Channel: @robinmg

🇩🇪 In Germany another Russian store was attacked. The vandals broke the glass and doused the store windows with paint.

This is the "new normal" for Russians living in the 'tolerant' and 'inclusive' West.

📍 Germany

The problem of stirring up hate towards Russia like Western media is doing is that it ends up spreading like wild fire, it ends up enveloping in flames the innocent, gives an excuse for general lawlessness and chaos, and creates a spiral of hate that ultimately backfires on all those who tolerate it rather than vehemently oppose it from day one.

WE NEED ZERO TOLERANCE FOR BOTH UNVAXXOPHOBIA AND RUSSOPHOBIA

By the way it's heading, soon we will all be branded as "radicalised love extremists".. 💜

t.me/lovenotfearmankind
https://lovenotfearmankind.org

“Because of Ukraine, European banks lost 30% of their value in 2 weeks. This was also influenced by anti-Russian sanctions.”

Or maybe this is just the bailout money poop, which debased the currency, hitting the fan.

30% sounds about right.

Funny how the economic truth and the vaccine hoax truth, all come out at the same time.

XF - @NewResistance

The Democratic Pact

Is democracy the natural order of things? - Anna Wright

"Our democratic relationship with our state broke down in March 2020. Yes, the state wielded power it had no business exerting, but the people also have a responsibility in that they acquiesced to it. We gave away our power and bowed down to weak bureaucrats who got drunk on it. We gave them the “keys to the liquor cabinet” and they had a party (in some cases, literally.) Neil Ferguson himself said, that they never expected to “get away with it in Europe... and then Italy did it and we realised we could.”

People in the UK mostly went along with it and you could forgive many of them because the state-sponsored fear-mongering propaganda was staggering. It was criminally abusive to threaten people with the notion that they were going to “kill grannies” if they ventured outside. What they did essentially contravened the UN conditions on solitary confinement and torture known as the “Mandela Rules”. 

https://www.thenewera.uk/p/the-democratic-pact?s=r