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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized the imbalanced coverage of the situation surrounding his country exhibited by some Western politicians and media. He was speaking to foreign reporters during a major press conference on Friday.
Hundreds and more anti-war activists rallied outside the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday to demand that the Biden administration stop antagonising Russia, risking war between two nuclear-armed powers.
With tensions growing on the border between Russia and Ukraine, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has announced that Zagreb will pull its troops out of NATO contingents stationed in the region should the situation spiral into a full-scale conflict. Bulgaria also says, ‘don’t include us. We’ll not be sending troops to Ukraine.’
Ukraine’s defence minister has raised the spectre of one of the European Union’s major concerns, large scale migration, amid American lurid and unproven claims that Russia is planning an invasion of his country.
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