Just Politics

[jbsliverer]

No it is not. This is already a War, it involves many countries around the World. Lethal arms are being stated for giving to people to kill other people. Innocent people are being slaughtered right now.

We can arm sit in cushy lives and see that nobody is getting harmed in our yard so we need a Label. Alright, call it a Police Action, call it Engineered Disturbance Management, call it WW2.0, don't give a fuck.
As long as we don't put that nasty roman numeral on it, we're good right?

We have major tyrant slaughtering to take whatever he wants. He's threatening and effecting a very large portion of this planet. Short term, long term, directly and indirectly. Russian leadership is being a World Bully, has declared WAR, acted upon it, and taking over parts of the WORLD that is not his.

He started killing major human life before, he's killing humans now, he won't stop the killing, and he will kill again.

We have about 12-24hrs maybe to get some major air support, supply drops, and personnel additions and replacement stopping this thing. The people there are begging the world to help in every possible way and proper words. Fighting valiantly for their lives and in turn, unwittingly fighting for ours, and the world.

But they will be annihilated very soon without the worlds support, real support, and violent support. Their cries will go to a murmur, drowned out by by our complaints of soft masks, how we're going to wrap the flag around our ass, and whether or not our stocks go up or down. Or whether or not we label all of this destruction, all of this major shitstorm that we are in the middle of currently right now, with the right dot or t.

If the decent part of this world does not do this now, it will only make the inevitable results worse. Or let's just admit to our defeat, and give everything to these mother fuckers, and go about whatever merry little way that they end up giving us. We didn't count up enough bullets, bombs, lives to get to categorize it a WAR. Great job people, way to go, high five.



Who is the pro-Moscow Ukrainian mogul Viktor Medvedchuk?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/28/ukraine-russia-medvedchuck/

Ukrainian tycoon Viktor Medvedchuk, left, speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow in October 2020. (AP)
By David L. Stern
Today at 4:00 a.m. EST


16
MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin is godfather to his daughter. The two men vacation together and meet up to watch Formula One races.

Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of Ukraine’s most prominent Kremlin-friendly party, has leveraged his proximity to Putin to establish himself as one of Ukraine’s most influential behind-the-scenes political brokers for more than three decades. It also made him a very wealthy man: In 2021, Forbes magazine estimated he was worth $620 million.

But it’s his position as one of the Kremlin’s favorite Ukrainian politicians that may catapult him to prominence in the weeks to come.

Historic sanctions on Russia had roots in emotional appeal from Zelensky

If Moscow succeeds in occupying Ukraine, Medvedchuk’s Opposition Platform-For Life party may provide the pool of politicians from which the Kremlin will assemble a government more to its liking.

Medvedchuk has denied that the party is pro-Russian. Still, it pushes for closer political and economic ties with Moscow, and a number of its members parrot Kremlin talking points.

His relationship with Putin stretches back more than 20 years. Medvedchuk has visited the Russian leader at home in Moscow and Sochi, joining Putin to watch races and combat sambo tournaments.

After Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014, the U.S. government sanctioned Medvedchuk for “contributing to the current situation in Ukraine” and for leading an organization at the time that “engaged in actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine.”

But when the conflict with Moscow-supported separatists ignited in eastern Ukraine months later, Ukrainian officials found Medvedchuk to be a useful go-between with the Kremlin who could pass messages to Russian officials and help negotiate prisoner exchanges with the militants.

This mediator role came to an abrupt end with Volodymyr Zelensky’s victory in Ukraine’s presidential elections in 2019. In February 2021, Zelensky signed a decree that accused Medvedchuk of financing terrorism, freezing his assets.

The decree also blocked transmission of three television stations that are associated with Medvedchuk and are accused of broadcasting pro-Kremlin propaganda.

In May, prosecutors accused Medvedchuk of high treason and placed him under house arrest.

Moscow condemned the moves, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling the treason charges a witch hunt. Putin said it was “an absolutely obvious purge of the political field” that could turn Ukraine into “a kind of anti-Russia.”