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War in Ukraine and the World

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Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine has unleashed several national security debates in the United States and among its allies in Europe and beyond over how the West should respond. Questions have arisen over the necessity of defeating Putin’s aggression, to what extent this is possible, and whether Putin would utilize nuclear weapons. To discuss these and other matters, Boris Ryvkin, an attorney and former national security adviser to Senator Ted Cruz, will joined Conservative Casual Friday show host Andrew E. Harrod (@AEHarrod) for a stimulating conversation. 

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  1. Andrew and Boris, discuss this:
    No one mentions the Nazis of the Azov Battalion in Ukraine or Ukraine’s infatuation with Stepan Bandera or the fact that Zelensky is a puppet of the West (Igor Kolomoisky is his sugar daddy buying him a 36 million dollar home in Miami and funding a billion dollar bank account for him) or that RUSSIA IS WINNING THE WAR…or that Russian Sergey Lavrov is the most brilliant diplomat on the planet or that the neurotic EU and Collective West are elitist buffoons stabbing themselves in the foot by sanctioning Russian gas and oil.

    No one mentions the genocide of Russians and Russian speaking Ukrainians in the Donbass by the Ukraine Nazi troops over the past 8 years. No mention of Ukraine breaking the Minsk Accords. No one mentions that the BILLIONS AND BILLIONS sent to Zelensky in money to fund the Ukraine government is going into the pockets of the elites (especially cocaine headed former TV comedian Zelensky) and that only 20%, if that, of the weapons make it to the front lines since all the rest are sold on the black market. (Remember that Ukraine was and still is the MOST CORRUPT country in Europe.)

    But all will be well for Russia, China, India etc because with Xi’s trip to Saudi Arabia it’s clear that MBS will join BRICS and that soon the USD will be overshadowed by the BRICS monetary system. The United States will become a backwater country – it’s well on the way to Communism at the moment – and the EU will implode. It’s going to be a cold cold winter for Europeans, Germans especially – with no heat because their elite political class sanctioned Russian gas and oil.

    The EU and Collective West – especially the Biden Reich House (which no country outside of the West wants anything to do with) want regime change in Russia in order to plunder the vast wealth of all her commodities FOR FREE. Then the West will live happily ever after.

    • Exactly. As a UK subject I have said the same thing and I am accused of being a quisling and Putin puppet. I think Prof. John Mearshiemer got it right.

    • Actually, you hear this stuff from Russian apologists all the time.

      There *are*–or were–some neo-Nazis in the Azov Battalion, but these are far dwarfed by the number of neo-Nazis in the Wagner Battalion, which is…Russian. In fact, there are far more neo-Nazis in Russia than there are in Ukraine, so perhaps Putin should invade his own nation?

      Then, the idea that getting weapons to defend against an invasion makes you a puppet is very strange. I suppose the only ‘proper’ response for Ukraine is surrender to Russia? Given Lavrov’s admission that Russia plans on the liquidation of any Ukrainians who favor independence and this is what makes them “Nazis”, this is especially disturbing.

      By the way, Lavrov’s admitting this may not actually make him a “brilliant diplomat”.

      And no–Russia failed in their plot to send Chechen assassins to assassinate Zelensky, and have had to withdraw from the area around Kyiv and from Snake Island and all other parts of Ukraine save for small slivers of the country in the east and south. Given Putin thinking that he’d be able to take the entire nation in just days, how is this Russia “winning”?

      As for the Minsk accords, Russia violated them first by invading Ukraine. They not only had vowed never to do so, but said they would defend Ukraine when she gave up her nuclear weapons. So much for that…

      And I see the claim again that President Zelensky is a drug addict. This is in fact my “favorite” excuse for Russia supposedly having had to invade Ukraine–out of the dozen or so they regularly trot out.

      And are you claiming that Ukraine is pushing Russia back using only 20% of the weapons they have gotten? Wouldn’t this actually be even more embarrassing for Russia if true? (Not that it is).

      Then there is more cheering on Russia and China and other unfree states like Saudi Arabia. That you seem to be lauding this as a future for the world is very troubling.

      Oh, as far as that cold winter goes, I found a Russia troll claiming that it had become common for Britons to spend their evenings in McDonald’s because they were heated and they were freezing to death at home. Only two problems with this bizarre scenario–it is August, and even in frequently chilly Britain you aren’t going to find people shivering in the Summer; and much of Europe is in fact going through a rather well-known heat wave right now, so this makes even less sense.

      So bang on…

      • Gravenimage needs to be red pilled. Poor thing…..believing every Collective West piece of propaganda in the leftist MSM.

        • Note that Billy Chickens is unable to point to a single thing that I got wrong–this should not surprise.

          Here is the Lavrov interview:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTUxPKJEEE&ab_channel=WillVernon

          This is an inept interview by the BBC, but Lavrov’s own words are damning enough.

          Is Billy Chickens implying that this interview was somehow faked? What else is he claiming? He doesn’t actually say…

  2. I agree with you. I have noticed the Conservatives and Christians have lost moral authority.

    TWICE so far Zelensky,in the last few days,obeying the US Globalist regime, ordered missiles to hit the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia region.

    It is the biggest in the world, there could have been a nuclear explosion.No comments or condemnation from Conservative news websites.

    • Nuclear reactors don’t blow up like a fission bomb. They overheat and produce hydrogen gas and steam. Fukushima explosions were from gas not fission. However these types of explosions can create a spread of contaminating radioactive materials.

      • Thank goodness for that,but notice how the Globalist(mainstream) press put it. That Russia was attacking the nuclear plant. It was Ukraine. Ukraine is the most corrupt nation in Europe, Lately:

        Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz gas company is supposedly running a massive embezzlement scheme

        as it seeks to get BILLIONS of dollars from the government for alleged gas purchases

        even though Ukraine presumably does not need additional gas for the winter according to Yulia Timoshenko, an MP and the head of the ‘Fatherland’ party.She calls it the “Scam of the Century”.

        According to Timoshenko, the lawmakers were about to pass several bills that would grant Naftogaz additional funding for gas purchases ahead of the winter.

        One of them would grant the company “compensation” from the budget that was worth $4.08 billion.

      • How *dare* Ukraine fight back? Don’t they know that disappointing Putin is not allowed? He is, after all the new Peter the Great–he’s said so himself.

        • Ukraine “fighting back” ? Yes, just like the West wants it to, to the very last Ukrainian, because Ukraine is fighting a proxy war for NATO and the West. Shame on the Biden Reich House! Gravenimage needs to get a grip on reality. Has GI seen the videos of King Zelensky and pals “playing the piano with their penises” back when he was a comedian? He did this act several times.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-UiadUOrfk&t=31s

        • More from Billy Chickens:

          Ukraine “fighting back” ? Yes, just like the West wants it to, to the very last Ukrainian, because Ukraine is fighting a proxy war for NATO and the West. Shame on the Biden Reich House!
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          In the interview with Russian Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov that I posted above he claims that what makes a Ukrainian a “Nazi” is not wanting to be conquered by Russia. He also makes it clear that the goal of Russia in Ukraine is the liquidation of her people. So if you don’t want to be murdered by Russia this is bad. No Ukrainian should be allowed to fight back against this as Billy Chickens would have it. Very disturbing.

          More:

          Gravenimage needs to get a grip on reality. Has GI seen the videos of King Zelensky and pals “playing the piano with their penises” back when he was a comedian? He did this act several times.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-UiadUOrfk&t=31s
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          Of course I have! It’s hilarious! Zelensky and his comedy partner pretend to play the piano with their enormous penises. (Don’t worry–this is actually completely G-rated). Everyone here who hasn’t seen this should take a look! Thanks for the link.

          Note that Billy Chickens somehow considers this damning–that if you have a sense of humor you should not be allowed to stand up against savagery. How does that work?

          Lots of people who take a stand against aggression have fine senses of humor–including Robert Spencer, David Wood, and the great Winston Churchill. Should Churchill have excused himself from facing down the Fascists because he could quip about it? I think not.

  3. “Questions have arisen over the necessity of defeating Putin’s aggression,” I see a lot of aggression towards the citizens of the US coming from the US government. Look over there not over here you poor stupid slobs.

    The establishment will wave the flag at you and say that you are a traitor for not being onboard with their mission. Never mind that they will burn that same flag later. Yes, the establishment thought that the best way to get the support of patriots was to attack them.

  4. We don’t need to de-nazify Ukraine we really need to de-Putinize Russia.
    At least here it is an article more or less requesting comments about or mentioning what most of us are trying to do: Stop the murderous Russians. That is progress.
    What I can’t understand for the life of me is how the extreme right LePen, Trump etc and the extreme Marxist left Corbyn and many others BOTH are pushing for Putin to win! I don’t get the pro-Russianess of Trump and others.
    This article is progress.
    If there is a Nazi I would say it is Putin the political son of Stalin whose USSR he wants back and who started WWII invading European nations ALONGSIDE his ally Hitler.
    Only the madness of Hitler could push an even worse genocidal maniac like Stalin on to the side of the West and on the basis of my enemy’s enemy is my friend Chuchill made his promised pact with the devil! But in the end couldn’t save the Empire which was an excellent thing. The real power over territory of the West. The Marxists which followed Churchill in UK and USA left China to Stalin, let the Russian empire in expansion and destroyed the European mercantile empires whose colonies failed and now we are being invaded by the failures of decolonization! Who are destroying us! The wisdom of centuries was lost on us.
    The sins of the Nazi were punished a long time ago, the much worse sins of the Marxists weren’t even looked at! Sort of 6 million genocide of Hitler V 10 million of Stalin (mostly Ukrainians) but the gold medal of genocide maniacs goes to Mao with 80 million +!
    Marxism wasn’t even touched for all this.
    What a lot don’t want to see or admit is that compared with Putin’s daddy Stalin the Nazi were seen as liberators by the Ukrainians and were received by the Ukrainians with open arms, that bad is the regime Putin comes from and which he has inherited.
    We don’t need to de-nazify Ukraine we really need to de-Putinize Russia.

  5. War in Ukraine and the World
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    Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine also seems to have emboldened aggression from China, Turkey, and Iran. But given how things are going for Russia these days, they may think again…

    • Russia WAS provoked by the Ukraine but GI and David Foot are too deluded to understand this. BTW – the Nazi Stepan Bandera is still a huge icon in Ukraine. He’s officially called Ukraine’s National Hero. There’s a 21 foot tall statue of him erected in Lviv in 2007, his 100th birthday was celebrated in several Ukrainian cities, a Bandera postage stamp was issued in Ukraine in 2009, and his 105th birthday was celebrated by a torchlight procession in Kiev in 2014. In 2018 Ukraine’s parliament designated Jan 1st (Bandera’s birthday) as a national holiday and 2019 was dedicated as The Year of Bandera. The Biden Reich House, the Eu and the Collective West support Nazis. They are arming Nazis. They LOVE Nazis…all the while calling the Jan 6 protesters Nazis!

      • Billy Chickens wrote:

        Russia WAS provoked by the Ukraine but GI and David Foot are too deluded to understand this.
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        Ah, yes–Ukraine wanting freedom and to avoid the Russian heel is “provocation”.

        In the same way, Britain “provoked” Hitler by not caving to attacks by the LuftWaffe.

  6. I’m mystified at how Ukraine’s killing of 15,000 ethnic Russians and Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians in the Donbass over 8 years is an indication of Ukraine yearning for freedom. Seems more like provocation. Also, Snake Island….you fell for the propaganda on THAT hahah.

    Hitler was a Nazi. Western Ukraine is Nazi territory. The Russians in the Donbass want to get out from under the Ukrainian Nazi heel. They want freedom.

    • Billy Chickens wrote:

      I’m mystified at how Ukraine’s killing of 15,000 ethnic Russians and Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians in the Donbass over 8 years is an indication of Ukraine yearning for freedom. Seems more like provocation.
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      If Billy Chickens *really* believed that Ukraine was indiscriminately killing ethnic Russians living in Donbass he would have stuck with that, instead of implying that Russia had to invade Ukraine because President Zelensky once did a comedy bit involving a piano.

      But Russia itself scarcely mentions this supposed atrocity anymore–as I noted, more recently they have offered excuses for invading Ukraine that include the Ukraine simply not existing, Zelensky being a drug addict, and Putin being Peter the Great–known for his conquests, *not* his protecting Russian speakers.

      And in Donbass *itself* over 80% of the population there wanted to stay with Ukraine. That number is probably higher now that Russia has caused so much devastation there.

      And note that *no one* in Donbass welcomed the Russian invaders as liberators. There were no crowds in the streets waving Russian flags as the tanks rolled in. Why would that be, if the population there was yearning to live under a dictator like Putin?

      The closest Russia came was an elderly woman–since styled “Babushka Z” by Russian propagandists–who waved the Soviet flag at Ukrainian soldiers who were handing out food. She was confused, and thought that these were Russian soldiers and they might not hurt her if she displayed a Soviet flag. So even this single old lady was not the symbol they had desperately hoped for…

      More:

      Also, Snake Island….you fell for the propaganda on THAT hahah.
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      Ah…this is probably a reference to Russia saying that it abandoned Snake Island as a “good will gesture” to Ukraine. No mention of why a force bent on robbing, raping, and murdering civilians would suddenly abandon a strategic island as a “good will gesture” to the people it has said must be liquidated. But then, no logic is needed here.

      Speaking of which, there was a time that Billy Chickens appeared to be an Anti-Jihadist, but this has not been the case for many months now. All of his recent comments here have been lauding Russian aggression. Very disturbing–but scarcely surprising. After all, Putin has used Chechen Muslims to try and terrorize Ukrainians and to try and assassinate President Zelensky; Putin is trying to get Syrian mercenaries to attack Ukraine; he is getting weapons from the Iranian Mullahs; and Muslim leaders in Russian Imams have issued a Fatwa declaring murdering Ukrainians an act of holiness, and that dying there makes Muslims “martyrs”.

      • GI is deluded by believing the Western media controlled by the Deep State and its agenda. But that aside, even if it were true – which it isn’t – why the complaint that Russia is getting weapons from the Iranian Mullahs when the Ukraine has gotten all-l-l-l its weapons from the Collective West? What’s the difference?

        None, because if one side can get weapons from several countries, why cannot the other side get weapons’ from some other countries? What GI is saying is that it’s OK for the Ukraine to do something but not for Russia to do the same. Unbalanced reasoning on GI’s part.

        But then GI must love Nazis because of what I mentioned above about Ukraine and the Nazi Bandera to which GI remains silent.

        • GI is deluded by believing the Western media controlled by the Deep State and its agenda. But that aside, even if it were true – which it isn’t – why the complaint that Russia is getting weapons from the Iranian Mullahs when the Ukraine has gotten all-l-l-l its weapons from the Collective West? What’s the difference?
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          Iran *itself* is confirming this:

          “Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Confirms Drone Exercises With Russians”

          https://www.iranintl.com/en/202208158709

          The claim that it is just Western news sources that are claiming this and that it is false is simply untrue.

          And the West has never denied providing arms to Ukraine for her defense. Why should they?

          And if you believe that there is no difference between the bloody Mullahs and the West, what are you even doing here at Jihad Watch? Surely not opposing Jihad terror.

          More:

          None, because if one side can get weapons from several countries, why cannot the other side get weapons’ from some other countries? What GI is saying is that it’s OK for the Ukraine to do something but not for Russia to do the same. Unbalanced reasoning on GI’s part.
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          Oh, Russia can snuggle up to any thugs it wants to to get weapons to murder Ukrainians. We just have the right to point this out. Seems to tick off Billy Chickens, though.

          And this shows who Russia’s allies are–North Korea, Iran, Hiz’ballah–and it’s not pretty. Then, it shows that Russia is in dire straights if they are reduced to approaching Iran–the claim for many years that Russia had the second greatest military in the world seems to be a canard.

          More:

          But then GI must love Nazis because of what I mentioned above about Ukraine and the Nazi Bandera to which GI remains silent.
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          Is Billy Chickens not even bothering to read my replies to his tosh?

          In my comment of Aug 14, 2022 at 8:51 pm above I address this. I note that Ukraine, like many European nations, has some neo-Nazis–but not nearly as many as does Russia.

          The size of the Azov Battalion was about 300 in 2014, and reached a high point of 900 members the following year, but it appears t have shrunk significantly in more recent years. Not only are not all members neo-Nazis, but the implication that Russia had to invade Ukraine because of a group of less than a thousand neo-Nazis seems bizarre. (Besides, I thought they had to invade because Zelensky used to a comedian?)

          Then there is the Wagner Group–which is not Ukrainian, but Russian. And not just Russian. but Putin’s de facto private army. This group is named for Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer.

          As of 2017, the Wagner Group had over six times the number of members as the Azov Battalion at its height. Hence, I said that if Putin has a problem with neo-Nazis he should be invading his own nation. Along with Chechen Muslims, the Wagner Group also tried to assassinate President Zelensky, with no luck. They *have* likely murdered journalists, though. Maksim Borodin was thrown from his fifth floor balcony after writing critically about the group. They also appear to have links to the deaths of Russian journalists in the CAR.

          And who is acting like a Nazi here? Nothing quite as Fascist as invading your neighbors–and it is not Ukraine that is doing this.

          And the claim that I love Nazis is grotesque. I have noted many times here that I hate Fascism *and* Islam.

  7. GI, Russia is not in “dire straights”. You ignore the fact that there is a world outside of the Collective West. The rest of the world is tired of the West which is run by arrogant elitist globalists of the Deep State, Davos, WEF, etc. The rest of the world is sick of the West bullying them, lying to them, betraying them. As a result, the rest of the world is shifting away from the West, away from the US and the EU, and now away from the SWIFT system. BRICS is forming with Russia, China, India, Iran, Brazil, South Africa and now possibly Saudi Arabia. They’ll have all the money, gas and oil needed while the West, with a vastly depleted USD system, will be powered by the windmills and batteries of their green agenda.

    While the West goes the way unto its own death literally by suicide, the REST OF THE WORLD, tired of the West’s bullying and its insistence of Western “values” – abortion-green energy-LGBT-drag queen-transgender etc “values” – will form an alliance where countries will be free from Western “values”. They will thrive, while Europe – and Western civilization with it due in part to their ignorant immigration policies letting Islam – turns into third world status.

    The West has wanted war with Russia for decades in order to plunder her wealth – although God only knows what the EU would do with all Russia’s gas and oil since they’re so hell bent on leather, foaming at the mouth eager to run the world on windmills and batteries – and Ukraine is its opportunity….that is, opportunity to make a regime change in Russia – except Putin’s popularity is at 87%. The Ukraine – not even an EU member – is fighting the war for the EU, US and NATO against Russia. Zelensky is a puppet exactly as Joe Biden is a puppet, strings pulled by their puppet masters of the deep state…the deep globalist state.

    The world is changing. Shifting away from the West. Stop blaming Russia. Blame the West for its elitist vicious bigoted hatred of all other countries and peoples – especially its visceral hatred of Russians – all other sovereign nations, bossing them around like the bully on the playground, telling them to “play nice” or else. Or else what? Looks like the bully is getting beat up at the moment. As a result, for the bully to save face, Biden has us on the brink of WWIII with China and Russia. All in a year and a half. Just as the globalists want.

    We can agree to disagree and meet on the battlefield.

    • P.S. The REST OF THE WORLD is that 85% of countries which have NOT sanctioned Russia. They’re sick of the globalist agenda and the West’s bullying.

    • There is no doubt that there are problems in the West–I have often noted them here myself.

      But this is nothing compared to the problems of what passes for Russia’s allies at this point–basket cases like North Korea and Iran.

      The only nations that voted with Russia at the UN against the end of the attack on Ukraine were Belarus, Syria, North Korea and Eritrea. This is pretty sad. So much for your global cabal of countries that support Russia.

      And I note that you are lauding Saudi Arabia again, along with Iran–no wonder you aren’t even pretending to still be an Anti-Jihadist. These are two of the worst Shari’ah states in the world.

      And no–the West is not a “bully” for saying something critical about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

      And the idea that Iran and Saudi Arabia have no problem with Islam is beyond bizarre–these are both Shari’ah states. And Russia, sadly, has an increasing problem with its own aggressive, mushrooming Muslim population. Allowing a Shari’ah state on their own soil in Chechnya does not help this situation, whatever you might believe.

      And no–the West has never made a grab for Russian wealth–by which, I suppose, you mean natural resources. Sadly, Russia has never allowed average Russians to build any kind of wealth. There was some hope after the fall of the Soviet Union, but then most of the populace fell back into the habit of accepting brutal authoritarianism and Putin as their dictator.

      And of course support for Putin is high–for one thing, you can be imprisoned or just assassinated if you disagree with him.

      Then, Ukraine is fighting for her own people and her own freedom–the claim that she is only fighting to save her people from liquidation is because many in the EU, US, and NATO support her is exactly backwards. Many Ukrainians remember the Holodomor all too well.

      And no–people in civilized nations are not “elitist” for considering this from Russia savagery. I don’t know anyone who hates Russians as such, including myself. I am simply not a fan of supporting this kind of barbaric aggression. In the same way, eighty years ago I would have opposed Fascism, and not because I am irrationally bigoted against Germans, Italians, or Japanese.

      Billy Chickens wrote:

      We can agree to disagree and meet on the battlefield.
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      Now *this* is hilarious! I say some critical things about Billy Chickens’ boy Putin, and he wants to meet me on the battlefield? I’m a woman, 5’1″, 62, and have a bad knee. I guess he’ll show me! (Oh, but I might bring some HIMARS with me–that might change the balance a bit 🙂 ). In the same way, Ukraine is a lot smaller than is Russia, but seems to be holding her own quite well.

      And I think I’ve spent enough time countering Billy Chickens’ vicious claptrap, so unless he says something particularly outrageous in reply I think I’ll leave things here.

  8. Well, I’m a woman, 5:4″ and 76. But, yeah, you might want to bring your HIMARS because I’m in perfect health from decades of galloping race horses. No problem beating you on the battlefield haha! Piece of cake!!

    • Actually, my point above was that Billy Chickens appears to think that the appropriate response to anyone saying something critical about Putin is to threaten to kill them–and then to double down on the likelihood of being able to kill them. Quite troubling–but no real surprise.

    • I was thinking how bizarre this from Billy Chickens is–then I realized how much of a piece it is with everything else she has said here. If you disagree with her–or with Vladimir Putin–then this in and of itself is grounds for physical attack. She doesn’t have to think I’m a “Nazi”–or even a comedian–just disagreeing is enough to create a battlefield to attack me on.

      Now hopefully in Billy Chickens’ case this is just a sick fantasy–unfortunately Vladimir Putin was able to put his fantasy into action. Of course in his fantasy no one fought back…

  9. GI is one sick person filled with vicious hatred, twisting words to suit her own deluded world view.

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