MICHAEL WALSH AMERICAN FREE PRESS CORRESPONDENT

For the first time since the closing stages of World War II, ethnic cleansing and mass deportations based on ethnicity are taking place from the Black to the Baltic Seas.

At the urging of the NATO Bloc, Kyiv from 2014 to 2022 coerced and violently set out to oppress or otherwise expel the ethnic Russian population of Eastern Ukraine.

Slaughtered because of their ethnicity

According to the UN, 10,500 Ukrainian citizens of Russian ethnicity were slain by the Ukrainian armed forces. Over 100,000 residents of the affected regions were maimed or made homeless.

The historically Russian territories were Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. These provinces constitute about 15 per cent of Ukrainian territory, roughly the size of Portugal.

Putin Exasperated

Exasperated but impotent, Russian President Vladimir Putin finally moved to annex the disputed regions.

Firstly, he allowed for internationally observed plebiscites to determine the preferred allegiance of the citizens of these territories.

Residents who voted for a return to their Russian homeland were overwhelmingly in favor.

Wild Rejoicing

Much to the mortification of the Western Alliance and their on-message media, wild rejoicing followed the outcome of the referendums.

Finally, on February 24, 2022, the Kremlin endorsed the people’s will by formally announcing the return to Russia of these historically Russian regions.

Now, facing ignominious defeat from their failed strategy in Eastern Ukraine, the three Baltic States are pencilling in their determination to expel their ethnic Russian populations to Russia or elsewhere.

History Repeats

Most of the residents affected are unfamiliar with the countries they will be ejected to. It appears that recent history in Donbas is set to repeat itself.

According to Grigory Lukyantsev, ‘The Baltic states are openly preparing for the mass deportation of Russian-speaking residents.’

Lukyantsev, who is the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department of Multilateral Cooperation on Human Rights, is outraged.

The final solution

He emphasized that this is likely a way for the Baltic states to finally resolve the ‘Russian question’ in their territories, but they do so with sinister underlying motives.

Background: The roots of many ethnic Russians are deeply embedded in the Baltic States. Most were born in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as were their forebears.

Russian homelands

These Baltic States were historically part of Imperial Russia (1721-1917) and absorbed again from 1944 to 1991.

As a consequence, over one million citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are ethnic Russian Orthodox Christians and fluent speakers of the Russian language.

Now facing defeat in Ukraine, are some EU/NATO members preparing for a hopefully more successful outcome than Ukraine, where the attempt to expel Ukraine’s ethnic Russian peoples resulted in the tables being turned? 

Exiled because they are Russian

As it did from 2014-2022, will the world again watch as one million Baltic Russians are coerced into exile in foreign countries?

What is the thinking behind the proposed expulsions based on a people’s ethnicity?

Is it the intention of NATO’s Russophobic regimes to again goad Putin into annexing and liberating threatened ethnic Russians who, through birthright, reside in the Baltic States?

Such an unlikely trap set for Putin would invoke Article 5 of the NATO Alliance.

World War III?

This, they hope, would spark World War III. In their illusions, the outcome of such a war would remove Putin, dismember Russia, and make the Russian Federation ripe for plunder, exploitation and globalist control.

Are the Russophobic warmongers of several NATO nations delusional? Comments from Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova suggest so.

Contempt for the EU

‘I propose to recognize the European parliament as a sponsor of idiocy.’

Matteo Renzi. Italian Prime Minister 2014 ~ 2016 was equally acid-tongued: ‘You can knock on some European leaders’ heads and ask if anybody’s home.’

Can Latvia and its Baltic cohorts succeed where Ukraine failed? I think not, but unable or unwilling to learn from recent history, these regimes are gung-ho in their quest to repeat the same fatal mistake.

Inviting a Russian retaliation

In fact, by allowing air corridors for NATO-Ukrainian drones aimed at Russia, by pledging to rebuild bombed Ukrainian arsenals in Germany, Poland and the Baltic States, they invite a Russian military response.

Nor does it help matters that the populations of the Baltic nations are being psyched up to a war footing. Ukrainian army officers will be training Latvia’s reluctant conscripts.

NATO Ambush

Can Russia’s head of state be provoked until he stumbles into a NATO ambush?

‘If someone puts some of our territories under threat, that means we will have to direct our armed forces and modern strike power at those territories, from where the threat emanates.’

However, my guess is that the shrewd Vladimir Putin will stick to playing the long game. He will prioritise future success and achieve long-term goals over quick wins.

Russia vs. NATO 1-0

By applying such a strategy, Russia has already defeated both Ukraine and the NATO Alliance.

Since the annexation of Ukraine’s disputed regions, the Kremlin’s strategists have emptied NATO’s UK, EU and American arsenals into Ukraine’s battlefields.

Bankrupt and Empty Arsenals

Today, the European Union’s and the UK’s gross debt is an eyewatering €18.36 trillion. America’s debt is just under $40 trillion.

Broke and without a string to their bow; unable to replace their lost arsenals, these nations of perpetual war appear to have fallen on their own escutcheon.  Tell readers what you think

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