The
current security crisis in Ukraine fueled by Kiev and its western
allies is on the verge of triggering a new wave of violence in the
Donbass region. Recent statements by Russian officials have warned about
the possibility of a resurgence of large-scale clashes, which would be a
consequence of the extreme militarization promoted in the conflict zone
by Ukrainian forces. Read more...
The
Russian troops that took part in defense exercises in Belarus and
Crimea are now returning to their barracks, contradicting widely
circulated reports that Russia is about to invade Ukraine. Although
Moscow repeatedly stressed that troop mobilizations were for defense
exercises, a weak and unverified intelligence leak disseminated across
Western media claimed that Russia would invade Ukraine on February 16. Read more...
How
they must be laughing in the Kremlin. Western policy towards Ukraine is
evolving from the ridiculous to the positively surreal. Thus the latest
demonstration of the West’s unbreakable commitment to Ukraine and to
future Ukrainian NATO membership is — to evacuate Western diplomats from Kiev, before a single shot has been fired, and while Russia continues to deny that it has any intention of invading. Read more...
US
President Biden claims Russian troops continue “encircling Ukraine”
even as Moscow says they are withdrawing. The Russian soldiers were
never there for the purpose of invading Ukraine. They were in Belarus as
part of a training exercise akin to the ones NATO continually conducts
on Russia’s borders. Read more...
Putin
intends to assure that if Ukraine invades Donbass, the residents in
Donbass will win. He has armed and trained them how to use the weapons,
but if Russian soldiers would need to enter Donbass and fight there
against Ukraine, he also will need to defeat the Ukrainian soldiers
there. He is waiting for Ukraine to invade Donbass. Read more...
The
Minsk agreements, written in 2014 by the Trilateral Contact Group on
Ukraine, consisting of the Kiev government, Russia, and the Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), with mediation from
France and Germany in the so-called Normandy Format, seeks to end war in
the mostly Russian-speaking Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. Read more...
Under
the terms of the Yalta agreements, Stalin agreed to enter the war in
the Pacific in exchange for the return of Russian territory that had
been lost during the Russo-Japanese war. Stalin further agreed to the
division of Germany and to stay out of Greece’s civil war. In return,
the U.S. and Great Britain agreed to a Soviet sphere of influence in
Eastern Europe to avoid the prospect of Germany ever invading Russia
again. Read more...
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