REWIND: 1939: Assured of French and English support Poland is goaded into repeatedly provoking war with Hitler’s Germany, which is seen as a trade rival to Britain and France. Outcome: 50 million dead and hundreds of cities incinerated.
Americans may know little about Ukraine and even less about its leadership but one thing is certain: they strongly oppose sending US soldiers to fight Russians in defence of Kiev’s managed democracy, a new poll has revealed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded Western journalists provide proof of Russia’s supposed imminent plans to launch a full-scale invasion of his country. Astonished that he, the elected President of Europe’s largest nation is left out of the media’s inflammatory headlines he says:
The military bloc isn’t always concerned about protecting its own, the Russian president has said. Despite NATO’s insistence that it is a defensive organisation, the US-led military bloc has not always acted that way, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, citing examples of NATO interventions and conflicts in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
EDITORIAL: The only enemy Ukraine has is Washington DC (NATO) and the Brussels European Union. Is there a difference? No. A fellow Ukrainian explains: ‘Support by the United States is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.’ – Nikita Khrushchev.
Despite claims from the West and its state-affiliated corporate media that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is just around the corner, the chance of a serious escalation on the Russian border remains low, the Ukrainian defence minister said on Sunday.
On Friday, Bloomberg news agency published the headline ‘Russia invades Ukraine’ only to remove it half an hour later, lamely claiming that it was a pre-written headline rolled out inadvertently.
Millions of Ukrainians would welcome annexation by Russia with open arms, gladly separating from the control of Kiev in the event of an invasion, one of the country’s former top army officers has declared as tensions skyrocket between the two former Soviet republics.
While Ukraine has long held ambitions to join the EU, officials in Brussels are treating spurned Kiev with contempt, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has claimed, as tensions heat up across the shared border with Russia. Speaking on the RTL TV channel on Sunday, Zagreb’s leader shared his opinions on the former Soviet republic’s relations with the 27-member bloc.
Throughout much of the European Union the old, the young, the already impoverished, the jobless due to the scamdemic are frozen out of the gas market. The political elite, responsible for the woes of the working class, stay warm in their tax-funded heated homes.
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