Oct 30, 2022·edited Oct 30, 2022Liked by Ohio Barbarian
And the Cuban Missile Crisis - Khrushchev put nukes in Cuba because the United States put nukes in Turkey. JFK requested that this information be omitted from the official story. The US put nukes in Turkey - and Italy - after the Bay of Pigs invasion by the US failed. Khrushchev took the nukes out of Cuba when the US took their nukes out of Turkey.
Great and clear summary of Ukraine events; thank you!
I'll take the liberty of adding a few more, some I have seen in person.
In 2018, Poroshenko engineered an incident with Russia in the Kerch Strait, resulting in the capture of Ukrainian military ships and martial law in parts of Ukraine. I wondered if I would have an extended visit in Ukraine 😉
Poroshenko, just before leaving office, put into effect a law gradually banning the Russian language. Billboards gradually have gone more and to Ukrainian. Servers are now required to first address customers in Ukrainian.
In March of 2021, Ukraine started sending large amounts of troops and equipment to the contact line with Donbass. I saw trains filled with tanks heading east on Twitter to my surprise.
In February of this year, the shelling of Donbass by Ukraine increased by a huge amount, and was recorded by the UN Special Monitoring Mission.
In (I think) February of this year, Biden and Johnson started sending planeloads of offensive military weapons to Ukraine.
Towards the end of February, Russia recognized the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics as independent and responded to their requests for military assistance.
And an opinion: the arming of Ukraine and the increased shelling in February showed that a major attack on the Uk
DPR and LPR by Ukrainian forces was coming. I believe Russia and Putin chose to respond to prevent the invasion by Ukraine.
Based on this, I can lay out a timeline, go back and read for meaning (a task) and understand the connection dots. It never occurred to me in my late 30's to 40's to understand what was going on during the Clinton years. It's more important than ever to catch up.
And the Cuban Missile Crisis - Khrushchev put nukes in Cuba because the United States put nukes in Turkey. JFK requested that this information be omitted from the official story. The US put nukes in Turkey - and Italy - after the Bay of Pigs invasion by the US failed. Khrushchev took the nukes out of Cuba when the US took their nukes out of Turkey.
Great and clear summary of Ukraine events; thank you!
I'll take the liberty of adding a few more, some I have seen in person.
In 2018, Poroshenko engineered an incident with Russia in the Kerch Strait, resulting in the capture of Ukrainian military ships and martial law in parts of Ukraine. I wondered if I would have an extended visit in Ukraine 😉
Poroshenko, just before leaving office, put into effect a law gradually banning the Russian language. Billboards gradually have gone more and to Ukrainian. Servers are now required to first address customers in Ukrainian.
In March of 2021, Ukraine started sending large amounts of troops and equipment to the contact line with Donbass. I saw trains filled with tanks heading east on Twitter to my surprise.
In February of this year, the shelling of Donbass by Ukraine increased by a huge amount, and was recorded by the UN Special Monitoring Mission.
In (I think) February of this year, Biden and Johnson started sending planeloads of offensive military weapons to Ukraine.
Towards the end of February, Russia recognized the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics as independent and responded to their requests for military assistance.
And an opinion: the arming of Ukraine and the increased shelling in February showed that a major attack on the Uk
DPR and LPR by Ukrainian forces was coming. I believe Russia and Putin chose to respond to prevent the invasion by Ukraine.
This started already in 2007, when Putin gave a speech at the security conference in
Munich warning the West of Russia's Red Line with regard to NATO expansion. He
warned not to include Georgia and Ukraine in that Alliance. 2008 Bush offered both
countries the membership. A corrupt western stooge, Sakashvili(?), attacked from
Georgia the autonomous Ossetia region, which asked for Russian help.Remember
McCain's "We are all Georgians now"? Russia defeated the attack and was promptly
labelled by the West as a war criminal country. After that event the West kept peace for
a bit, but the intent to subdue Russia never stopped. However, from that time forward
Russia prepared for a possible war. In a speech 2010 Putin - while addressing his country -
he warned of new hypersonic weapons in case the West would attack. After the US coup
in Maidan he looked for a peaceful solution, refusing annexation of the Donbass. From that
time on (if not earlier) the West trained Ukrainians for war (in Florida,Ramstein and the UK).
Thus the Minsk agreements were both a fake.
Now we have 2 atomic weapons superpowers claiming this war as an existential one for
each side, while the West is starting already to sanction China. Unless the West finds an
offramp in both cases and is willing to use it, we will have WWIII.Just my opinion.
Based on this, I can lay out a timeline, go back and read for meaning (a task) and understand the connection dots. It never occurred to me in my late 30's to 40's to understand what was going on during the Clinton years. It's more important than ever to catch up.