RE: Peace Talks Gathering Pace?14 Mar 2023 02:00
Big blu. Things are seldom as they seem. Yanokovytch was once the pro-russian president of Ukraine, duly elected (supposedly). He was a dreadful person and the epitome of all that Westerners hate about the Cold War Russian and Eastern European regimes where every aspect of their lives are controlled by corruption and extortion. Under Yanokovytch, Ukrainians were the poorest of the poor with no chance of the country being brought out of poverty as all the money went to himself, his govt and out to Moscow. While he was drinking his water from solid gold taps, Ukrainians were starving to death. ( I met a school 'dinner lady' who was seldom actually paid actual money for her work and only managed to feed herself and family by 'buying' the kids food from the school 'controller' by doing favours ffs!. But the problems (war) started when America interfered, intervened and micro managed the balance of power in Ukraine in 2014 and assisted in the ousting of the pro Russian regime under the control of Yanokovytch. Putin subsequently invaded Crimea and took hold of the sea ports and naval bases around Sevastopol to protect himself from the West. yes it was a land grab, a war, and was devastating for Ukrainians living in Crimea. ( depite the Russian press telling everyone in the world that they were welcomed with open arms). But, America were the cause of it due to their meddling. Biden was the deputy Pres under Obama and was closely involved in supporting the pro-european politics. Look up Victoria Nuland and Geoffey Pyatt.
I am not a supporter in any way of the current Russian Invasion, my allegiance is to Ukraine through marriage and having spent many months there over a period of 10 years or more visiting Crimea, Odessa Nikolaev, Kherson, Kharkiv and travelling for days across the country in their ancient rickety trains. Sadly our little retreat/second home in Nikolaev (wife's flat actually) has been destroyed by Rocket attacks and my 82 yr old Mother in law became homeless having lost all her possessions and her home as well. There are no 'insurance' policies like we have in the West so nobody will give her a replacement 'life'. Putin is to blame for it but USA started it in 2014 by prodding the bear so to speak. -just my POV.