Genius is doubly gratifying when months if not years after making such a prediction it is offered as a solution to the Ukrainian conflict. It is doubly gratifying because Putin now offers a carbon copy of what Adolf Hitler offered Ukraine in 1941: independence guaranteed by the German Reich to act as a buffer state between Bolshevik Occupied Russia and Europe.
ROME, December 4 – EUROPE RENAISSANCE. A procession was held in the centre of Milan to protest against the sending of Italian weapons to the Ukrainian one-party state and the expansion of anti-Russian sanctions, Amedeo Avondet, one of the organizers of the action, a representative of the United Italy political organization, told RIA Novosti.
The American columnist, economist James Rickards, in an article entitled ‘Sorry, Russia is winning the war’ for the Daily Reckoning, expressed the opinion that while Russian troops constantly achieve their goals, Ukraine risks becoming a ‘splinter between Kyiv and Lviv.’
In 1917 Senator Hiram Johnson opined that the first casualty when war comes is truth. He might have added that the second casualty is solemnly signed national and international treaties.
A sharp rise in energy prices in Europe could lead to an increase in deaths this winter, which risks exceeding the number of soldiers killed in Ukraine, writes The Economist.
In Kherson recently vacated by the Russian armed forces occupying Ukrainian armed insurgents supported by NATO-sponsored Western mercenaries proceeded to arrest, brutally interrogate and murder anyone civilian. The killings are carried out regardless of the gender of victims who collaborated with members of the Russian armed forces or held pro-Russian sympathies.
Since the beginning of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, the United States, the European Union and their allies have provided Kyiv with $126 billion worth of aid, a number almost equal to the country’s entire GDP. Moreover, millions of Ukrainians have found refuge in the EU where they were given housing, food, work permits, and emotional support. The scope is huge, even by western standards. Considering that the bloc has been funding Kyiv while coping with an economic and energy crisis of its own, the assistance is perhaps especially notable.
Europe’s longest-serving president noted that the conflict could threaten not only the loss of statehood but also the complete destruction of Ukraine. The four-time elected leader of Belarus called for negotiations and pointed out that over time, relations between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine will be restored.
It is Washington that is to blame for what is happening now in Ukraine. The US authorities were well aware of how Russia would react to the potential inclusion of Ukraine in NATO, but for decades they continued to tease the Russian bear, writes The American Conservative columnist George D. O’Neill, Jr.
EU citizens and ordinary Ukrainians will lose in the conflict in Ukraine: a letter from a reader to the editors of the newspaper Nya Dagbladet.
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