Russia plans to hold several accession referendums in Ukraine

[Toro]

So what you are saying is President Victor Yanukovich was one of Putin stooges. And now the Ukraine has a real leader willing to stand up to Russia. God bless the Ukraine. Others will follow. Russia has subjugated people in what we now call Russia. Soon to be a plethora of free Nations.

George is one of those anti-American losers who blame America for every swallow that falls out of the sky. They side with the enemies of America, the west and freedom because they hate America above all else.

 

[georgephillip]

Well, Ritter is a liar as well as a fool. No weapons were sent to Ukraine until Trump became president, and no significant shipments of weapons were sent there until Putin launched the invasion and the Ukrainians demonstrated they were capable of defeating the Russian invaders.

Since 2014 the US has provided more than $12.7 billion in security assistance for training and equipment to help Ukraine preserve its territorial integrity.
us arms to ukraine since 2015 - Google Search

 

[georgephillip]

As you well know there are no facts to support your claims that the US is responsible for Russia's failure in the 1990's or that US "capitalists" profited from Russia's failures.

In which case you should have no trouble providing evidence for your claim, right?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

How much "help" did the "shock therapy" arranged by greedy American capitalists provide to all of those former Soviet states, and how did that affect poverty levels, life expectancy, and inflation rates in the former USSR?

The Harvard Boys Do Russia

"Through the late summer and fall of 1991, as the Soviet state fell apart, Harvard Professor Jeffrey Sachs and other Western economists participated in meetings at a dacha outside Moscow where young, pro-Yeltsin reformers planned Russia’s economic and political future.

"Sachs teamed up with Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin’s first architect of economic reform, to promote a plan of 'shock therapy' to swiftly eliminate most of the price controls and subsidies that had underpinned life for Soviet citizens for decades.

"Shock therapy produced more shock—not least, hyperinflation that hit 2,500 percent—than therapy."

The sucky commie economy was going to be bad, no matter who they listened to.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

You're the King of Suck.
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“Show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker”

Thank goodness your poverty can be blamed on your own horrible decisions.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Since 2014 the US has provided more than $12.7 billion in security assistance for training and equipment to help Ukraine preserve its territorial integrity.
us arms to ukraine since 2015 - Google Search

But no weapons until Trump became president, so Ritter is a liar as well as a fool.

 

[toomuchtime_]

In which case you should have no trouble providing evidence for your claim, right?

Did you never go to school? You can't prove a negative, asshole, however your inability to produce any facts to support your claims pretty much proves my case that there are no such claims.

 

[toomuchtime_]

What country do you live in?
A majority of the world does not support the US proxy war against Russia being waged to the last drop of Ukrainian blood.

Corruption in Ukraine - Wikipedia

"Corruption is widespread in Ukrainian society.[1][2] In 2012 Ernst & Young put Ukraine among the three most-corrupt nations from 43 surveyed, alongside Colombia and Brazil.[3][4]

"In 2015 The Guardian called Ukraine 'the most corrupt nation in Europe'.[5]

"According to a poll conducted by Ernst & Young in 2017, experts considered Ukraine to be the ninth-most corrupt nation from 53 surveyed.[6]

"According to Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, (a scale of least to most corrupt nations), Ukraine ranked 122nd out of 180 countries in 2021, the second most corrupt in Europe, with Russia the most at 136.[7]"

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on Wednesday demanding that Russia immediately end its military operations in Ukraine.
Known informally as the world’s “town hall”, the Assembly is where all 193 UN Member States have a voice. A total of 141 countries voted in favour of the resolution, which reaffirms Ukrainian sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.

Assembly President Abdulla Shahid struggled to read the results of the vote as ambassadors began applauding, and then standing up, as he started speaking.

'Unconditionally withdraw'​

The resolution demands that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.”

It was sponsored by more than 90 countries and needed a two-thirds majority in the Assembly to pass.

Five countries - Belarus, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (more commonly known as North Korea) Eritrea, Russia and Syria - voted against it, while 35 abstained.

The voting capped off a rare special emergency session of the General Assembly that began on Monday, during which countries took to the podium to declare their positions on the crisis, now entering a second week.

General Assembly resolution demands end to Russian offensive in Ukraine

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on Wednesday demanding that Russia immediately end its military operations in Ukraine.

news.un.org

 

[georgephillip]

The majority of the world condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supports Ukraine's resistance to the invaders.

A majority of the world recognizes the real source of US power on the world stage is its dollar and not the killing of millions of innocent human beings since 1945. The perceived US "trigger happiness" when it comes to sanctions makes countries from Germany to India more inclined to stop buying oil in dollars and shift to alternative currencies instead.

The American unipolar moment has passed.

Good riddance.

 

[toomuchtime_]

A majority of the world recognizes the real source of US power on the world stage is its dollar and not the killing of millions of innocent human beings since 1945. The perceived US "trigger happiness" when it comes to sanctions makes countries from Germany to India more inclined to stop buying oil in dollars and shift to alternative currencies instead.

The American unipolar moment has passed.

Good riddance.

No, the majority of the world understands, even if you are unable to, that the source of the US's influence in the world is the US economy that Russia's leaders were too corrupt and incompetent to emulate in the 1990's. By 1900, the US had the largest economy in the world, and it still does. It was the power of the US economy that defeated Hitler and saved Stalin's sorry ass, and it was the power of the US economy that convinced Gorbachev that the Soviet Union could only damage itself by continuing to fight against the US and it is the power of the US economy that makes US sanctions so effective.

There are no alternative currencies in the world, not even the Euro, that are available in sufficient quantities to support world trade.

 

[Stann]

George is one of those anti-American losers who blame America for every swallow that falls out of the sky. They side with the enemies of America, the west and freedom because they hate America above all else.

I don't see that. He's made some good points. It helps explains Putin's moves now that he no longer has a puppet as a leader of the Ukraine who ignored the minority Russian back rebels who tried to take over the provinces, and when did they take Crimea ? I believe it was around the same time. 2014 if you can't remember that.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

A majority of the world recognizes the real source of US power on the world stage is its dollar and not the killing of millions of innocent human beings since 1945. The perceived US "trigger happiness" when it comes to sanctions makes countries from Germany to India more inclined to stop buying oil in dollars and shift to alternative currencies instead.

The American unipolar moment has passed.

Good riddance.

Even as Russia swirls down the drain.

 

[georgephillip]

The Russian collapse wiped out billions on Wall Street, and destroyed the largest hedge fund at the time, anti-American moron.

Capitalism reduced life expectancy in Russia, increased the poverty rate from single digits to 40%, and produced hyperinflation that reached 2500%. So a few greedy Americans lost billion$, so what? They should have lost everything.

 

[georgephillip]

But no weapons until Trump became president, so Ritter is a liar as well as a fool.

Lethal Weapons to Ukraine: A Primer

"The shift in US policy under the Trump administration has been misunderstood. The US government is directly supplying lethal defense hardware to the Ukrainian military for the first time, although US-made lethal weapons have been in Ukraine since 2015."

In other words, since one year after the US helped instigate an illegal coup that drove a duly elected president from office US-made lethal weapons supplied by US puppets began flowing into Ukraine thereby fueling a civil war that is now in full bloom (but not for much longer)

 

[georgephillip]

Did you never go to school? You can't prove a negative, asshole, however your inability to produce any facts to support your claims pretty much proves my case that there are no such claims.

I provided evidence for my claim the US was responsible for Russia's economic failure in the 1990s; why can't you find a single credible source that refutes my allegations?

The Harvard Boys Do Russia

"The architect of privatization was former First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais, a darling of the U.S. and Western financial establishments.

"Chubais’s drastic and corrupt stewardship made him extremely unpopular.

"According to The New York Times, he 'may be the most despised man in Russia.'

"Essential to the implementation of Chubais’s policies was the enthusiastic support of the Clinton Administration and its key representative for economic assistance in Moscow, the Harvard Institute for International Development.

"Using the prestige of Harvard’s name and connections in the Administration, H.I.I.D. officials acquired virtual carte blanche over the U.S. economic aid program to Russia,"

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Capitalism reduced life expectancy in Russia, increased the poverty rate from single digits to 40%, and produced hyperinflation that reached 2500%. So a few greedy Americans lost billion$, so what? They should have lost everything.

Capitalism reduced life expectancy in Russia,

That was the failure of communism. And theft by the nomenklatura.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Lethal Weapons to Ukraine: A Primer

"The shift in US policy under the Trump administration has been misunderstood. The US government is directly supplying lethal defense hardware to the Ukrainian military for the first time, although US-made lethal weapons have been in Ukraine since 2015."

In other words, since one year after the US helped instigate an illegal coup that drove a duly elected president from office US-made lethal weapons supplied by US puppets began flowing into Ukraine thereby fueling a civil war that is now in full bloom (but not for much longer)

Putin's puppet barely escaped the hangman. Sad.

 

[para bellum]

In other words, since one year after the US helped instigate an illegal coup that drove a duly elected president from office US-made lethal weapons supplied by US puppets began flowing into Ukraine thereby fueling a civil war that is now in full bloom (but not for much longer)

Um, no.

Here are the trade registers for all weapons supplied to Ukraine since 2014.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Capitalism reduced life expectancy in Russia, increased the poverty rate from single digits to 40%, and produced hyperinflation that reached 2500%. So a few greedy Americans lost billion$, so what? They should have lost everything.

As is so often true of your posts, there are no facts to support your claims. All the former Soviet states tried to achieve democracy and a free market economy, but Russia did worse than all the others because it was, and is, the most corrupt of these countries and has the most incompetent leaders. It was Russian greed and incompetence that was responsible for Russia's failures.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Lethal Weapons to Ukraine: A Primer

"The shift in US policy under the Trump administration has been misunderstood. The US government is directly supplying lethal defense hardware to the Ukrainian military for the first time, although US-made lethal weapons have been in Ukraine since 2015."

In other words, since one year after the US helped instigate an illegal coup that drove a duly elected president from office US-made lethal weapons supplied by US puppets began flowing into Ukraine thereby fueling a civil war that is now in full bloom (but not for much longer)

Once again, there are no facts to support your claim that " the US helped instigate an illegal coup that drove a duly elected president from office."