That was then...
On December 14, 1939, the League of Nations, the international peacekeeping organization formed at the end of World War I, expels the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in response to the Soviets’ invasion of Finland on November 30...
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Andrew Nikiforuk, writing in the Tyee, has a great piece on the 1939 winter war and how Finland won the peace by in the end...
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This morning in Turkey, in the face of the direct bombing of a Mariupol maternity hospital, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accused the Ukrainians of using “human shields”, claimed that civilians are “being used as hostages”, and stated, “We did not attack Ukraine”.
But why wouldn’t the Russians just continue to lie to the world?
Standing next to Putin after a one-on-one 2018 meeting in Helsinki, then US President Trump said this about Russian meddling and support for him in the 2016 US presidential election:
“My people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others saying they think it's Russia. I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this, I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
And very recently the Russians’ useful idiot said this:
"I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine -- of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful."
Then he doubled down:
“They say, 'Trump said Putin's smart.' I mean, he's taking over a country for two dollars' worth of sanctions, I’d say that's pretty smart. He's taking over a country -- really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in."
Trump has a realistic chance of infecting the Oval Office again in 2024. Not soon enough in Russia’s books.
You wonder if those people sitting at the U.N. making these comments actually believe it or just doing as instructed. Do they actually think we are going to believe that "shxt"? I'm sure some will, but really. The man needs to get a new job. Wonder how isolated he is at the U.N. or if other representatives confront him.
When I look at the news and see how the russians are bombing Ukraine, I want to know how long before they put Putin on trial at the Hague.
Ironic eh, that the current, only, resident, living in the Kremlin (with a now in-house heli-pad), is Putin. We know what happened to his predecessors, the royalty, however, with all the sanctions being placed on Russia by the non-communist world, and the personal hardships of the people within .... will there be another revolution when it's obvious that Putin is not thinking of the people within his domain?
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