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Ukraine on My Mind

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I’m thinking a lot about the people of Ukraine today. Genie and I spent a month travelling there in 2018, and although it was a difficult trip in many ways, we had some wonderful experiences there and met some amazing people. To think of them now facing bombs and tanks is deeply distressing.

I don’t have a whole lot to say about what’s happening, other than to express my solidarity with the Ukrainian people and to ask a question:

“Isn’t this the precise situation that the United Nations was created to deal with?”

After the barbarity of World War 2, didn’t people come to understand that unilateral force was no way to solve the world’s problems? Didn’t they set up the UN to uphold world peace and to be the arbiter and peacekeeper when one state invaded another? I know the UN has been horribly undermined since then, often deliberately by the US and others, but shouldn’t we at least be trying to solve problems through collective rather than individual action? Why is all the analysis talking about what Biden will do or what the UK or Europe will do? Isn’t this the time for collective action? Who knows, the experience may even come in useful in dealing with the even bigger problem of climate change.

I’m not saying the UN could magically solve the crisis, but I’m sad that it seems so marginalised, that all the talk is about Russia’s military action and NATO’s military response.

The way things are going, it looks as if we’re heading for a quick Russian military conquest of Ukraine followed by a long and bloody guerilla war fought by the remaining Ukrainian forces who will not accept Russian occupation and who will be lavishly funded and armed by the West in yet another proxy war. I really hope that doesn’t happen because it would not be good for anyone except the “defence” industry (there’s an Orwellian name if ever you saw one).

Anyway, posting holiday snaps is about as inadequate a response as I can think of, but it’s what I feel like doing right now. I want to remember my time there and to celebrate the country that is now under attack.

So here are my memories of Ukraine as it was in 2018. We drove in from Belarus in the north, spent some time in Kiev and the centre of the country (including Chernobyl, which I wrote about in this post on Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer), headed west to Lviv, south to the fascinating Hutsul region, then travelled east along the south of the country, stopping before we got too close to the Russian separatist territory and turning down to visit Odessa on the Black Sea coast before driving on into Moldova.

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Source: https://andrewblackman.net/2022/02/ukraine-on-my-mind/


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    • Fake News = The False Prophet

      “Isn’t this the precise situation that the United Nations was created to deal with?”

      No, it isn’t. It’s precisely the reason all these problems exist so that the UN can pretend to have some sort of actual function. You need to take another listen to this:

      Victoria Nuland Phone Call – Regime Change in Ukraine (Fuck the EU, bring in UN officials to seal the deal etc).
      https://www.bitchute.com/video/dJRbqJlVIYhZ/

      Those that wish to create a one world government have been behind every conflict we have had and as David Icke puts it they perform the totalitarian tiptoe inching ever closer to their self declared goal. You should also take a good long look at what the role of the red cross really is along with a good number of other so called charities which are actually fronts involved in gun running, re-arming conflict zones under cover of truces and women and child trafficking, something the UN exels at. Thanks for supporting these activities with your ‘donation’The UN are THE enemy.

    • JLenardDetroit

      BREAKING: Tucker to move Show to Moscow, to more easily/readily get/share SOVIET Talking Points… /sarcasm

      #Finland officially admitted to NATO today… #TheRestOfTheStory

      Sad people DO NOT KNOW #HISTORY!
      I am glad Finland joined #NATO.
      #RUSSIA (#Soviets) invaded #Finland in 1930′s and were occupying #Ukraine LONG BEFORE #HITLER #Annexed / #Invaded ANYONE!

      #Sweden MUST BE allowed to join next.

      We must FORWARD DEPLOY into the #Baltic States to preserve their #FREEDOM. #NATO, purely defensive, DOES NOT THREATEN ANYONE!

      #FACTSmatter #HISTORYmatters #CONTEXTmatters #PeaceThruStrength #NevilleChamberlainismWeaknessBreedsEnemyHostilities

      more in my TERROR STRIKES #book: https://TerrorStrikes.info/quotes
      and https://tinyurl.com/PutinAtrocityApologists (including UPDATE on Belarus FREEDOM FIGHTERS trying to over-throw Belarus Putin Puppet Regime and Soviet Bloc loyalty)
      plus /military/2018/07/trump-as-with-previous-presidents-demand-nato-pay-their-shares-as-promised-is-it-different-this-time-2481785.html

      Stop being a USEFUL IDIOT, study some History!

      AND LEARN WHY THERE IS A “SUPPOSED” NAZI BATTALION, They in Eastern Ukraine saw the NAZIs (as did many NAZI COLLABORATORS IN THE MIDDLE EAST as LIBERATORS of Russian or British occupation) #FACTSmatter #TheMoreYouKnow #TheRestOfTheStory #CONTEXTmatters — they are NOT Hitlerian AntiSemite Holocaust supporting NAZI SOCI’s!!! Wake from your idiocy!

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