Ukraine II: The Fight Against Russian Aggression

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#1,177
I blame Victoria Nuland and her cookies for bringing this scourge upon the Ukrainian people.

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#1,179
Wow.

To many Christians around the world, Putin may become the 21st Century Constantine, the Roman emperor who helped the Christians of his day by putting an end to the persecutions endured under the Roman Empire. Constantine also conferred privileges on the Christian church that allowed it to become strong enough to have a positive impact on society. Putin may turn out to play the same role in the history of our day and recreate the Christian superpower that used to be the role played by the West, but which the West has abandoned.
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https://www.rt.com/op-edge/321447-christians-isis-religion-putin/

So, basically this is just a nice, euphemistic way of saying you think we need a holy war.

I've always thought of RT as representative of the more "rational" pro-Russian media, mostly because it's English-language and meant by the Kremlin to seduce the Western masses (therefore, it can't be quite as goofy and overtly over-the-top as Russian state media meant for Russian domestic consumption), but, man, they're starting to go full Rossiya 1 and Dmitri Kiselev on us.

I guarantee you that you could have heard these same words uttered 100 years ago (and further back than that) by a ROC patriarch to describe Holy Russia, the tsar, and his and Russia's ordained mission from God to protect the Slavic and Christian peoples of the globe from "Germanic barbarism" and "Turk and Muslim savagery."

Scary rhetoric.
 
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Orthodox Christians think that, maybe.

I missed this but they dedicated a Holodomor memorial in D.C. the other day.

Dedication ceremony of the Holodomor Memorial

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Velo Vol said:
Orthodox Christians think that, maybe.

I missed this but they dedicated a Holodomor memorial in D.C. the other day.

Dedication ceremony of the Holodomor Memorial

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I'm not sure why it's in D.C., or even the US, for that matter, but good for them. It's a story that needs to be told and that far too few know about, namely because our Ukrainian/Kazakh peasant lobby isn't as strong here as perhaps it should be.
 
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Well, after a week of flinging baseless accusations of Western and American conspiracies all over the place, the Russian government is now asking for the resignation of its sports minister, and Putin (the man, the myth, the legend himself) is calling for an internal cleaning-of-house to eradicate Russia's doping problem.

So, in other words, it wasn't a vast conspiracy after all. Who would have thought!
 
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Velo Vol said:
At this stage any sign of stabilization is good news. Now if they would seriously take on corruption. . . .
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Is the "Russian Disease" too entrenched in Ukraine for it to ever function as a normal economy and society? Will Ukraine ever fully kick its bad Kremlin "habits"?

Stay tuned for next time. Same Ukraine place, same Ukraine channel.
 
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Velo Vol said:
What about Estonia? Latvia? Have they?
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I'm no Baltics expert, but I'd imagine that by the sheer fact of them being in the EU alone, their politics and economics are far more transparent and far more accountable than most other former Soviet states.

Say what you will about the EU, but whatever it is, the post-Soviet space makes it look like an organization with the integrity of Andy Griffith.

Like every other country on Earth, however, I'm sure all three have their share of problems nonetheless.

I'm sure Ukraine can shake the "Russian Disease," but it will also be much more difficult. The Soviets and the Federation after them made it their special project to ensure that Ukraine never really be able to integrate with the West. Therefore, Ukraine is a special case, with a special kind of corruption to battle. In addition, oligarchs ran wild in Ukraine, with its vast industrial venture opportunities after the Soviet fall, just like the oligarchs went wild in Russia.
 
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Remember the Iranian sanctions?

Putin will hold talks with Iranian president, Ayatollah Khamenei next week — Kremlin

"The parties will discuss all topical issues of bilateral cooperation - trade and investment cooperation, nuclear energy, oil and gas production, military and technical cooperation," the presidential aide said. According to him, considerable attention will be paid to the pressing international issues: the settlement of the Syrian conflict, the implementation of the joint comprehensive action plan on the Iranian nuclear program, the fight against terrorism, in particular, confronting the Islamic State terrorist group [banned in Russia].
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#1,197
#1,197
Google mena connection, and then we can talk about corruption.


The truth is, corruption rules everywhere, unfortunately.

It is about time we change that!
 
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