Politics

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Most of the seeds of these problems were originally created by foreign interference by one sole nation, who continue to be and have been by far the most meddlesome across the globe at least in the last hundred years or so. At the end of the day, whoever has the most money and guns ultimately does the talking and pulls the strings whether directly up front or behind the scenes. On that point, other than the up front government financing, we'll never know how much money is pumped into targeted countries behind the scenes.

Also - A few interesting articles from recent years:

11 August, 2014
Ukraine crisis: the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists
https://archive.fo/8cMkI

10 September, 2014
Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/ ... -neo-nazis

10 March, 2015
Volunteer Ukrainian unit includes Nazis
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/wor ... /24664937/

4 July, 2015
Is America Training Neonazis in Ukraine?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-americ ... in-ukraine

14 January, 2016
Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill
https://archive.fo/PAbjU#selection-865.0-865.79

18 January, 2018
The US Is Arming And Assisting Neo-Nazis In Ukraine, While Congress Debates Prohibition
https://therealnews.com/the-us-is-armin ... rohibition

31 December, 2018
Why Does No One Care That Neo-Nazis Are Gaining Power In Ukraine?
https://forward.com/opinion/416751/why- ... n-ukraine/

22 February, 2019
Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
https://www.thenation.com/article/archi ... t-ukraine/

4 October, 2021
Far-right extremists in Ukraine brag they have received training from the Canadian Forces: report
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national ... ces-report

20 October, 2021
Far-right extremists in Ukrainian military bragged about Canadian training, report says
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/far-right- ... -1.5631304

13 January, 2022
CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades
https://news.yahoo.com/cia-trained-ukra ... 58008.html

15 January, 2022
The CIA May Be Breeding Nazi Terror in Ukraine
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cia-neo- ... biden-nato

Ukraine such a Nazified country, they’ve elected a Jew to be president!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy

Really, now, this “Ukraine is full of Nazis” trope is a propaganda line straight out of the Kremlin.

Yes, Ukraine has a neofascism problem. Most of Europe has a problem with neofascists. But to suggest that the neofascists dominate is misleading in the extreme.

[Typeing3]

Ukraine such a Nazified country, they’ve elected a Jew to be president!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy

Really, now, this “Ukraine is full of Nazis” trope is a propaganda line straight out of the Kremlin.

Yes, Ukraine has a neofascism problem. Most of Europe has a problem with neofascists. But to suggest that the neofascists dominate is misleading in the extreme.

Some reoccurring issues raised in all the linked articles include foreign state and corporate financing, as well as military personnel and foreign financing once again. In that regard, it's most certainly an added layer that has contributed to the crisis.

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Some reoccurring issues raised in all the linked articles include foreign state and corporate financing, as well as military personnel and foreign financing once again. In that regard, it's most certainly an added layer that has contributed to the crisis.

Nah, 90+% of the current crisis is that Russia has a fascist dictator who hates democracy and wants to recreate the Russian empire by force.

[Typeing3]

Nah, 90+% of the current crisis is that Russia has a fascist dictator who hates democracy and wants to recreate the Russian empire by force.

Fair enough.

The other issues - while being minor (<10% according to your estimates) - are still contributors.

[SouthSardiswx]

Welp l've been letting you experts post about the Ukraine situation as you guy's Kells Tpin do more deep diving and l thank you for that. l did hear someone comment last night about being careful what you read online that some people love these opportunities to post misinformation.

[Typeing3]

Welp l've been letting you experts post about the Ukraine situation as you guy's Kells Tpin do more deep diving and l thank you for that. l did hear someone comment last night about being careful what you read online that some people love these opportunities to post misinformation.

It's a horrible situation. At the end of the day, it's the common people that suffer the most, whether that be civilians or soldiers.

I suspect Canada will soon see a wave of Ukrainian immigration, as the country has done many times in the past in accepting refugees from other war-torn countries.

[Forrest Gump]

Some interesting facts about Ukraine..if true

For those who ask:
“Why does Ukraine matter?”
How the independent, sovereign, democratic nation of Ukraine ranks:
1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;
2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world’s reserves);
2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
8th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)
Ukraine is an agricultural country:
1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;
3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world’s volume);
1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;
4th place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;
5th largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;
3rd largest producer of potatoes in the world;
4th largest rye producer in the world;
5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);
5th place in the world in wheat exports;
9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;
Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.
Ukraine is an industrialized country:
2-е Europe’s and 4th largest natural gas pipeline system in the world (142.5 bln cubic meters of gas throughput capacity in the EU);
2nd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;
3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);
5th largest iron exporter in the world
4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;
4th world’s largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;
3rd place in the world in clay exports
5th place in the world in titanium exports
8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;
12th place in the world in exports of defense industry products;
12th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

Fair enough.

The other issues - while being minor (<10% according to your estimates) - are still contributors.

Sure, and the West really screwed the pooch w.r.t. Russia back in the 1990’s, by egging on Yeltsin as he created the strongman presidency that Putin later leveraged into a dictatorship.

[Typeing3]

Sure, and the West really screwed the pooch w.r.t. Russia back in the 1990’s, by egging on Yeltsin as he created the strongman presidency that Putin later leveraged into a dictatorship.

Time magazine covers back in July 1996, soon after Russia's second election:

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Source: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,1 ... 15,00.html

[PortKells]

Welp l've been letting you experts post about the Ukraine situation as you guy's Kells Tpin do more deep diving and l thank you for that. l did hear someone comment last night about being careful what you read online that some people love these opportunities to post misinformation.

Don't take my over-confidence as actual competence..lol. An expert I am not.

Having said that I do believe that the food factor is underrated here. Wars like this will become more common as food gets more and more difficult to produce thanks to climate change. Hell I could see a rogue American regime invading us sooner than later if we don't cede our water to them in the coming decades. Anything and everything is on the table now.

[Forrest Gump]

The U.S. and the West will be freezing the assets of wealthy Russians including $250 Billion of Putin's own money...say What?? I had to rewind the news segment to see whether I heard right. How on earth does someone in his position amass that type of wealth? Even if he's fleecing the Russian people,that's unbelievable. Wouldn't that amount make him the wealthiest in the world if true?

And how about Trump supporting Putin regarding Ukraine..unreal..he really must've got help from Russia when he got elected the first time around.

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

The U.S. and the West will be freezing the assets of wealthy Russians including $250 Billion of Putin's own money...say What?? I had to rewind the news segment to see whether I heard right. How on earth does someone in his position amass that type of wealth? Even if he's fleecing the Russian people,that's unbelievable. Wouldn't that amount make him the wealthiest in the world if true?

Controlling a government, particularly in an unfree society, can be an effective way to get filthy stinking rich.

[SouthSardiswx]

So l stopped watching CNN years ago, Global is just looped over and over (repeated) CBC makes me fall asleep and CTV is a Wannabe CNN.
Great choices during times of crisis like now. Forget internet it's either day old news stories or some made up false misinformation and to top it off main stream radio is just as bad the first day NW had breaking repeated news every 15min l didn't tune into News1130 l'm sure it was just as bad.

[moonshadow0825]

The U.S. and the West will be freezing the assets of wealthy Russians including $250 Billion of Putin's own money...say What?? I had to rewind the news segment to see whether I heard right. How on earth does someone in his position amass that type of wealth? Even if he's fleecing the Russian people,that's unbelievable. Wouldn't that amount make him the wealthiest in the world if true?

And how about Trump supporting Putin regarding Ukraine..unreal..he really must've got help from Russia when he got elected the first time around.

Not sure if you all remember that Russia got a $22.6 Billion bail out in 1998 by the IMF, of which $11 Billion was disbursed (I think), this was after an earlier $8 Billion paid between 1992 and 1998.
it's generally viewed as a failure as a bail out as the IMF was not able to impose sufficient restrictions on the use of the funds and as earlier as 1999 governments had tracked over $10 Billion of the $18 Billion was laundered through the Bank of New York to be placed in offshore tax havens like Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Switzerland and Cyprus; American officials also considered that another $5 Billion was "misused". if you read up on the Panama papers you will see a number of Oligarchs on the lists.
Global banks like UBS, Credit Suisse & Deutchebank have been hiring Russian speaking advisors since the early 2000's, you don't make that kind of investment just for giggles.

Putin came up through the KGB, he would have been in a brilliant place to collect bribes which I imagine only got more common as he moved up the political power level. $250 Billion might be on the conservative side imo. whether he is the wealthiest in the world

[Forrest Gump]

Interesting..But regardless of his wealth pretty awful what the Ukrainian people are going through right now, Putin is full of lies and deceit who wants to emulate Stalin, and since he has conquered wealth he now wants more power and has his sights set on the former Soviet States. Looks like he has managed to lull everyone to sleep over the years.He says he doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO and yet former Soviet States Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia already have. He's also threatening Finland and Sweden ,which I was surprised to see that they are not NATO members,yet Norway and Iceland are. Putin's true colors are now in full display, we are living in interesting times.