Ukraine Crisis Commentary (Abreviated)

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Ukraine Crisis Commentary
by
Frederick Serafim
Initial Publication Sept 2022
CRYTERION.COM

    Imagine for a moment what the US would do if a major foreign power assisted an anti-US coup d'etat in Mexico, and then started equipping that regime with hi-tech weapons, while they persecuted and killed pro-US Mexicans and Americans living in Mexico. Russia has been facing that equivalent scenario since 2014 in Ukraine. Would the US spend 8 years trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement, as Russia did? Of course not! Pink Floyd's Roger Waters recently posed this hypothetical on CNN and at the UN Security council to some alarmingly closed minds. Think this scenario is far fetched? Think again, and it likely wouldn't even require the involvement of a foreign power. Black market NATO weapons from Ukraine are starting to appear in the ranks of Mexican drug cartels. Shoulder mounted Stinger anti-aircraft missile launchers have been spotted. Sen. Lindsey Graham has already called for US troops to enter Mexico.
    Though I was somewhat alarmed at Russia's tank convoy advance on Kiev, as a long time aficionado of geopolitical affairs, I was not surprised by Russia's military intervention into eastern Ukraine. Here's a few facts that should be considered, many of which I gleaned over the years from hundreds of, then still objective, mostly western press releases. Although many of those stories have now been expunged from the record, a sampling of these releases are listed at the page bottom as links. Now, according to people like journalist Seymour Hersh of Watergate fame, former senior Pentagon advisor Douglas MacGregor Ph.D, and former lead UN weapons of mass destruction inspector Scott Ritter etc., the mainstream western narrative has narrowed and hardened into outright propaganda such as we've never seen before, but nevertheless, a compromise settlement is both justified and necessary, being that by 2022 Russia was faced with only two very bad options: A) Stand back militarily and spinelessly allow the continued persecution and ethnic cleansing of Russian Ukrainians, or B) Intervene militarily. They forlornly chose option B.
   Most NATO nations blame Russia for the war because they were the first to declare a Special Operation nation on nation invasion of Ukraine. However, by that logic then the Allies were to blame for WWII. Hitler neither invaded nor declared war on the Allies, but "merely" persecuted Jews, occupied the Sudetenland and attacked Poland. It was the Allies who very "wrongfully" first declared war on "poor" Hitler.

- In spite of the Cold War being declared over, the US pushed for continued NATO expansion into former Soviet satellite states, against the advice of people like Kissinger, Clinton's Defense Secretary, Bill Perry and former Ambassador to Russia, and CIA Director William Burns, just to name a few, and in contravention to the pledge made to Mikhail Gorbachev as he voluntarily set the stage for the break up of the Soviet Union. Russian complaints were ignored and never properly covered in the western press.

- The current Ukrainian government first came to power in a violent 2014 insurrection against the twice legitimately elected government of Victor Yanukovich, who wanted to govern on friendly terms with both the West and Russia. Both times the Ukraine Central Election Commission confirmed the legitimacy of Yanukovich. However, after his first 2004 victory, Yanukovich voluntarily stepped down to prevent imminent extreme violence, but not after the second 2010 victory, which was also confirmed by international observers. Note the distinct geographical divide between ethnic Ukrainian voters and ethnic Russian-Ukrainian voters presented in the 2012 mid-term electoral map below. Ukrainian Banderite Nationalists do not have the numbers to consistently govern democratically, given the pre-2014 borders. The country should actually have been named "Ukrus", and now it must be split.

- The US was heavily involved in encouraging the "Maidan" insurrection, with Joe and Hunter Biden playing a significant part, and more specifically, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, who was directly involved in the insurrection's progress, and the selection of the new regime's governmental officials. We should take note of the near total silence of Barack Obama regarding Ukraine. Biden was Obama's compromise choice for VP, in order to appeal to hardline Democrats and Independents. His near total silence now speaks volumes and reflects the possibility of his regret at appointing the party hawks, Biden and Nuland, to oversee the Ukraine situation. Of course, for the sake of party unity he can't come out and say as much, though he has admitted that most Crimeans supported the 2014 Russian takeover of Crimea, and therefore he didn't react forcefully.

- Head of the 100 year old national Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, Glenn Michalchuk, has repeatedly condemned Ukraine's coup d'etat puppet regime now headed by Volodymir Zelensky, as well as the NATO supply of weapons to Ukraine, which he says are causing the destruction of Ukraine and the deaths of countless Ukrainian men being used as cannon fodder, all in the interest of furthering NATO's misguided geopolitical pursuits. He has also condemned western mainstream propaganda and the silencing of critics such as himself and many others. He advocates for negotiation with Russia and the fair treatment of ethnic Russian-Ukrainians. It's no wonder he's being silenced. Christia Freeland, the Canadian Deputy Prime Minister is the maternal granddaughter of Michael Chomiak, the chief editor of an important Ukrainian Nazi newspaper during WWII. Christia is a member of the much younger, pro-war United Ukrainian Congress, and an ardent supporter of Ukrainian ultra-Nationalists. Her influence led to the Canadian Parliament giving two standing ovations to WWII Ukrainian Nazi SS officer, Jaroslav Hunka, in September of 2023. Now 15 countries are calling for Hunka's extradition for suspected war crimes, and the government is allowing Hunka to lie low in Canada. What evil imbecility! In addition, Canada, like the US, allowed important WWII Ukrainian Nazis to emigrate to Canada unfettered, where they have built multiple memorials to WWII Ukrainian war criminals, Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich.
Glenn Michalchuk AUUC National President

- The specific ouster of Yanukovich in 2014 was spearheaded by the violence of Neo-Nazi brigades, in particular at that time, the Right Sector brigade. Their leader, Dmytro Yarosh, is now the commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, which includes Ukrainian and International Neo-Nazis who have flocked to Ukraine to serve under such banners as the Aidar, Azov, Bandera, Centura, Kraken and Right Sector brigades. There is video evidence of Ukrainian extremists purposely killing and martyring their own unarmed protesters in false flag operations during the insurrection, in order to create outrage, and satisfy Victoria Nuland's "100 dead" requirement for greater US support. Terrorists in New Zealand who in 2019 murdered 51 Muslim worshippers, claimed association with Ukraine, as did recently captured Italian Neo-Nazi conspirators. Well known US Neo-Nazi Ukraine fighter/recruiter, Kent "Boneface" McLellan explains the situation, while visiting his Florida home, to independent journalist, Juan Sinmiedo.

- Petro Poroshenko was made leader of the new government. He did try to contain the rise of the Neo-Nazi brigades for a time, but was unable to do so, and was forced to tacitly accept their existence and activities, under pressure of potential assassination. The current Ukrainian Nationalist government and Ukrainian Neo-Nazis exist now as tenuously allied rivals for power. The difference is that Ukrainian Nationalists understand the disadvantage inherent in identifying themselves as Neo-Nazis, while trying to dominate the political environment and join NATO; whereas the Neo-Nazis want to create a fully independent Neo-Nazi Ukraine, through the use of violence and intimidation of government officials. However, even they have started trying to whitewash their exterior image to avoid the Neo-Nazi stigma. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian people are one thing, but at the heart of both of these Banderite power factions lies their WWII Nazi heritage.

- These are Neo-Nazis, not WWII Nazis but they badge themselves with Nazi isignia such as the SS Wolfsangel and Dirlewanger etc. and often sport swastika tattoos. Their prime targets are pro and ethnic Russians, not Jews. For them, violence against Jews is neither necessary nor expedient, at least for now. WWII Nazis killed more than enough Jews in western Ukraine, and President Zelensky, the current Jewish President / professional actor, was hand picked to create deceptively good optics for them. First he was handed the role of the ever so "witty and intelligent" President of Ukraine in a heavily publicized hit TV show, and then they handed him the actual Presidency with a campaign that cynically promised "peace and reconcilliation". Zelensky is being extraordinarily well compensated for his role.

- Yakov Kedmi, the former head of the Israeli intelligence service Nativ, speaking on the air of the Full Contact program said of Zelensky, “He should be an outcast in any society more than others, because he rages on the blood of his ancestors, tries to justify and whitewash the murderers of his people, who today run the show in Ukraine. And at the same time he shouts: "I am a Jew." He is a disgrace to the Jewish people." Another possibility is that Zelensky isn't just motivated by money, but also by the fact that he enjoys presiding over the slaughter of the most ardent of Ukrainian Nationalists, who are the decendents of the murderers of his people. This could account for the many suicide attacks he's ordered. He may even have explained this to the Israeli government who have more recently softened their criticism of him.

- Even Zelensky's Ukrainian Nationalists still pay hommage to the WWII Nazi collaborators, Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich, who were so violent that even the Nazis jailed Bandera for a time for his extreme advocation of Ukrainian independence. In addition to the genocide of Jews and ethnic Russians, they also exterminated other non-Ukrainian ethnic groups, including an estimated 100,000 Poles of Volyn province. Poland has been assisting Ukraine's war effort, but they have put Zelensky on notice that they intend to seek reparations for the Volyn Massacre, and there have been violent clashes between "allied" Polish mercenary brigades and Ukrainian Neo-Nazis.

- Since 2014, the EU and NATO have been rejecting Ukraine's applications for membership on the grounds of unacceptably high levels of Neo-Nazism, and political / corporate corruption. However, they are now being whitewashed and exploited as a convenient means of militarily confronting Russia - as cannon fodder.

- In response to the coup d'etat, Putin easily occupied Crimea, and Russian troops were welcomed by the large Russian majority there.

- The large population of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine refused to recognize the coup d'etat government. Eastern Ukrainian regions (not just Donbas and Crimea) are historically former Russian provinces with ethnic Russian majorities, plus Tatars, Cossacks, Gypsies and Ukrainians. These areas should never have been made a part of Ukraine, when Ukraine, for the first time in history, became a country in 1991 with the fall of the USSR. Lenin and Khrushchev, who was Ukrainian, granted to Ukraine the right to the administrative tax income benefit of these prosperous regions, under the Soviet umbrella, as a misguided attempt at solidarity under communization. They never intended these borders to demarcate Ukraine's borders as an independent country. Today, ethnic Ukrainians are still blaming ethnic Russian Ukrainians for the incompetent excesses of Stalin, which led to the mass starvation of both millions of ethnic Russians and even more ethnic Ukrainians.

- The new regime began their efforts to try and discourage use of the Russian language (which is over 60% the same as Ukrainian) and discriminate against pro-Russian Ukrainians and other smaller ethnic groups. In particular, for this reason NATO member Hungary, has never supported sanctions or military actions against Russia.

- Peaceful pro-Russian protesters fell under persecution and violent attacks from Neo-Nazi brigades. In one case, 48 peaceful protesters in Odessa were driven into a building to seek refuge from Neo-Nazi violence. All were killed when the building was set on fire. The atrocity was covered live on Ukrainian TV while the police and fire departments stood down, and no one has ever been arrested. Kyiv Post Article - 48 People Burned Alive

- Eastern Ukrainians of the two Donbas provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk, were forced to militarily defend themselves from persecution and bombings, and they declared their independence.

- Putin tried for 8 years to implement a compromise peace settlement with Ukraine by negotiating the Minsk I and Minsk II agreements, but Neo-Nazi interference caused these agreements to fail. His compromise proposals then, were miniscule compared to what he's going for now.

- Recently, former President Poroshenko admitted that he never intended to honour the Minsk Agreements, but rather used them to buy time in order to build up the Ukrainian military. Former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and former French President Hollande, who were instrumental in structuring the Minsk Agreements, are now admitting that in fact, they knew that Ukraine was bargaining in bad faith only to buy time. However, it was politically advantageous for them to oversee a short-term bad faith agreement, rather than no agreement at all.

- Zelensky came to power on a platform of peace and reconciliation, but instead he too bowed to pressure and placated the Neo-Nazi brigades, and recognized them as semi-independent units of the Ukrainian army. Many pro-Russian Ukrainians were no longer available to vote.

- Now, Zelensky is ruling as an outright puppet dictator, torn between the demands of his US and more extreme Neo-Nazi allies. He has banned opposition parties and freedom of the press, and fired his Attorney General and other officials, who he deemed not suitably compliant. So much for our democratic moral high ground.

- Ukrainian extremists have now published an online hit list called Myrotvorets - "Peacemaker". People marked for liquidation include names such as Nobel Peace Prize winner, Henry Kissinger; Pink Floyd singer, Roger Waters; US senator, Rand Paul; lead UN Iraq WMD inspector, Scott Ritter; political scientst, John Mearsheimer, and many, many more.

- Nevertheless, Zelensky is a great comedian. Search out the video of him playing the piano with his penis. You'll die laughing! Many Ukrainians already have.

    Also, it should be noted that if this conflict escalates due to increased military support from NATO, and Russia fears potential destruction, it could turn nuclear, and Russia (and China) have an advantage. Unlike NATO, they have fully developed hyper-sonic missile technology. This means that Russia can deploy a huge arsenal of both conventional and low yield nuclear warheads, which are too fast to detect and intercept, and aim them with deadly accuracy at NATO military bases, missile silos and installations, as well as power stations, in both Europe and America, without destroying all of humanity. Should the US retaliate using their remaining land and submarine based ICBM's, then that's it for humanity. It should be noted that the Cuban Missile Crisis was averted by the US agreeing to remove their nuclear missiles from Turkey, in exchange for the USSR removing their's from Cuba. A similar compromise solution must be achieved in Ukraine.
    Fortunately, Putin doesn't foresee the the nuclear scenario unfolding, and has no intention or need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Initially, the Russians had merely employed their 200,000 strong special operation forces, which included about 50,000 pro-Russian Ukrainian militiamen, while Ukraine has fully mobilized their 700,000 strong army of largely under-trained conscripts, using US/NATO weapons facilitated by on-the-ground NATO advisors, specialists and mercenaries. With Russia's further partial mobilization of over 300,000 reservists, plus volunteers, the stalemate should break in Russia's favour, and a Republican controlled House may lose interest in funding Ukraine's war effort, especially when considering how badly sanctions on Russia are backfiring.
    Normally, I prefer a Democratic Congress, but not under the present circumstances, with a Democratic war-monger in the White House. It is very telling that 30 progressive Democrats have actually presented a statement which is surprisingly close to the Trump Republican stance, calling for military funding to Ukraine be reduced, and a diplomatic solution found. Of course, Biden opposes his progressive wing on this issue and frames this conflict as being one of democracy vs authoritarianism, which isn't really true because Russians do also get to vote and exert some degree of control. It's more like Semi-Democratic Plutocracy vs Russia's evolving social system, plus it should be remembered that the Pirate Confederacies of the Caribbean were also democracies. However, democracies, at best, are only as good as the people doing the voting, and in the case of the pirates, democracy did not prevent an earthquake from sinking their capitol at Port Royal, into the sea. We may well have a similar fate awaiting us. Also, for those who are religious, I don't think heaven is a democracy.
    Recently, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Henry Kissinger, came out of retirement to try and encourage a peaceful compromise solution, and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on tour spreading a message (albeit with eccentric stage theatrics) that is essentially the same as what I've outlined above, and even Elon Musk has advocated for a diplomatic compromise solution, while presenting the map above. We would all do well to listen, and ignore the western mainstream press's US/NATO propaganda machine, which is in full swing. To really understand the Ukraine crisis people should search out the current American leading lights on Youtube and other independent news channels, such as retired senior Pentagon advisor, Colonel Douglas McGregor Ph.D; former UN WMD lead inspector, Scott Ritter; UN economist / political advisor, Jeffrey Sachs; US journalist/activist Max Blumenthal; esteemed political scientist, John Mearsheimer; film maker Oliver Stone; Constitutional expert, Judge Andrew Napolitano; retired Col. Daniel Davis etc. Democrats, western liberals, and mainstream conservatives are now suffering from extreme, irrational, anti-Russian, Russophobic prejudice, cognitive dissonance, and paradigmatic groupthink, whereby they just can't fathom the fact that Joe Biden isn't the big solution to the dangers posed by Donald Trump. Trump certainly was, and still possibly is an insidious threat to American democracy, however, Biden is now a threat to all of humanity. It's time to end our hypocritical arrogance, steeped in wilful ignorance, and quit trying to play God. "The pathway to hell is paved with good intentions" seems like the appropriate maxim.