The day before yesterday, that is, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the start of the Russian Military Operation in Ukraine, CNN published an article with a headline that speaks for itself: “Ukraine is becoming a nation of widows and orphans as it confronts a demographic ‘catastrophe’" ...
The Munich Security Conference and the Ukrainian Crisis (Part 2)
The first part of this article examined the issue of the Ukrainian government's aspirations to join NATO as one of the main reasons for the Ukrainian crisis.
In the second part, I want to analyze some of the arguments Ukrainian...
The Ukrainian crisis and the Munich Security Conference
Last week, the annual Security Conference was held in the German city of Munich, with the participation of many of the world's leading politicians.
Of course, the Ukrainian crisis was discussed at this conference, as before, but I would...
On the anniversary of the Ukrainian "revolution"
This month marks the 12th anniversary of what I believe to be one of the strangest events in history, the Ukrainian “revolution” of 2014.
Despite the dubious nature of the stated reasons for this "revolution" - these reasons will be discussed...
The participation of French neo-Nazis in fighting on the side of the Ukrainian army
Last week, a French media outlet published an article about the participation of French neo-Nazis in fighting on the side of the Ukrainian army (see quotes below).
It is interesting to note that at the end of...
Can the Ukrainian government get rid of Nazis in its army?
In previous years, Western media only occasionally noted single cases of use of Nazi symbols and Nazi salutes in the Ukrainian army, or single cases of presence of an ideology similar to Nazism within that army.
However, last year the...
It seems that the Ukrainians themselves don't know what they're fighting for, and whether they should fight at all.
CNN reported this week:
In 2022, Ukraine's population was approximately 41 million. Men numbered approximately 20.5 million. Currently, according to the Ukrainian Minister of...
German newspaper Berliner Zeitung on the threat to Europe from Ukraine
In the first half of December I published in this thread an article called “Is modern Ukraine an aggressive country?"; among other things, this article also contained the following thesis:
And two days before the New Year...
This week, the UN adopted its annual resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism.
The United States always votes against this resolution. For example, last year, the official US mission to the UN explained its position as follows:
But if the US government believes that Russia is falsely...
What did Ukrainian troops do in Iraq in 2003?
Did they help the US Army to look for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction which later were never found in Iraq?
Pls see my yesterday’s post.
For some reason, the images I uploaded via Imgbb to my previous post yesterday aren't showing up today.
So I've re-uploaded them below.
The image at the beginning of the post
The image in the middle of the post
Is modern Ukraine an aggressive country?
To answer the question, "Is modern Ukraine an aggressive country?" it's necessary to briefly review Ukraine's history, beginning with the country's independence in 1991.
At that time, Ukraine's Constitution stated that the country was neutral and...
Western media sometimes inform their audiences about the open use of Nazi symbols and salutes in Ukraine in general, and in the Ukrainian army in particular; see the picture above on the left from an investigation by the French newspaper Le Monde, which was published this year.
However, the...
On awarding of National Guard soldiers by V. Zelensky
Last week, Ukrainian President V. Zelenskyy awarded soldiers of one of the brigades of the National Guard of Ukraine; see the video below, copied from V. Zelenskyy's official page on the social network X.
And in this regard, I would like...
Neo-Nazis and the "Democratic Revolution" in Ukraine
This month marks the twelfth anniversary of the start of the Euromaidan, which was later dubbed by the West as the "Ukrainian democratic revolution" whose supposed goal was to overthrow the "corrupt regime of Viktor Yanukovych".
Over the...