Minsk II: 2 words you’ll never hear on mainstream news
Ask a hundred Americans and you’ll be lucky to find even one who’s ever heard of Minsk II. But ask those same Americans how the Ukraine war started, and you’ll like get ‘Russian President Putin woke up one day and decided to re-establish the Soviet empire, starting with Ukraine.
That is because our government and its slavishly loyal media have created a false narrative for maximum propaganda to support pouring billions in weaponry into the Ukraine war zone, ensuring that death and destruction will proceed endlessly.
Minsk II was the 2015 agreement hammered out by Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany to end the civil war in Ukraine between the pro west, ultra nationalist government and the pro Russian Ukrainians in the eastern Donbas provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk.
Why a civil war in Ukraine? Historically, Ukraine was cobbled together first by the Russian Empire, then the Soviet Union over 4 centuries, containing disparate peoples. The main ones were the Western leaning, Ukrainian speaking people in the north and west, and the Russian speaking in the east and south.
Their relationship was always toxic, but under Soviet rule relative peace prevailed. Once freed from Soviet rule in 1999, the tension between the two disparate groups resurfaced. Fifteen years on the U.S. essentially blew up whatever chance for peaceful resolution by aiding a coup which violently removed Russian leaning President Yanukovych, replacing him with an ultra nationalist government under Petro Poroshenko.
Thus began the civil war in the Donbas that has killed over 14,000 Ukrainians in Kiev’s effort to subjugate and marginalize the hated Russian leaning Ukrainians. And leading the carnage for the past 3 years is current president Volodymyr Zelensky. Calling him the new Churchill doesn’t quite fit.
But Ukraine had an off ramp from civil war early on in the form of the Minsk and then the Minsk II agreements in 2014 and 2015. The latter called for autonomy for the breakaway provinces Donetsk and Lugansk, amnesty to the combatants and representation in the Ukraine government.
But goaded by the U.S. and the ultra nationalists with the real power, both post coup presidents Poroshenko and Zelensky opted to continue the civil war to both retake the breakaway provinces and recapture the Crimea, seized by Russia after the 2014 coup threatened their naval base at Sebastopol in the Crimea.
In the months leading up to Russia’s criminal war, Ukraine, with the help of weaponry and training by Uncle Sam, dramatically increased its criminal shelling of the Donbas, even massing a hundred thousand troops for a possible invasion predicted for March.
Did that, and the threat of NATO’s encroachment in Ukraine up to Russia’s borders make Russia’s invasion legal or necessary for Russia’s national defense? Of course not. But expecting Russia would sit back and do nothing made their invasion virtually inevitable.
On February 24, that inevitability occurred, costing thousands of senseless deaths, putting the world in danger of worldwide recession, millions of poor worldwide facing starvation from food shortages and worst of all….nuclear war.
Millions of words have been spilled by our government and our media framing this war as the madman in the Kremlin and his dreams of a reconstituted Soviet empire. But they could do better with just two words that Ukraine and U.S. refused to honor and implement: Minsk II.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 9:14 AM
2 Comments:
Well, at first I just thought that you were just another Russian troll.
Basically, all of your talking points are in lock step with Russia's revisionist history.
But, after researching your background, maybe you're not.
I always love lectures from non-Ukrainians about understanding Ukraines history.
The Ukrainian language actually predates the Russian Empire by about a hundred years.
Various empires have fought to control the region and stomp-out Ukrainian culture.
My ancestors got fed up with it and left before the beginning of World War I.
So, what's going on now is hardly anything new (especially in regard to Russia).
Granted the war could have been avoided by Ukraine.
It could have become a non-aligned state.
It could have made concessions to the eastern oblasts.
It could have given-up claims to Crimea (which historically don't hold water).
But it decided that it was an independent nation that had certain rights.
None of which have been respected by Russia.
Russia's actions just prove that Europe needs NATO more than it ever thought.
Ukraine should have never give up it's nukes.
Hmmm
There is the zionist version of current events which is endlessly spewing out of every MSM orifice and foisted on the masses. Then, hidden under all that BS is the reality (truth) which I note in part below, meaning of course it will never be allowed to see the light of day....
There can never be world peace until the masses have all the facts. It is the men hiding and distorting all the facts, men and women and the army of zionist minions that operate in secrecy that conspire for and profit from endless war, deprivation and unrest ultimately to serve israeli empire... And the one tie that binds them all? ZIONISM...
One has only to make note of the 2 most important words to understanding Putin's police action which have never been uttered by the US MSM about the “Ukrainian conflict”, zionism and israel. This demonstrates 3 immutable facts: zionist jews really do control the US MSM, the conflict in the Ukraine. the conflict is ultimately about serving israel not America, let alone the American people. Finally, zionist jews have absolute power and control of the US media apparatus…
Until these zionist chains of oppression, tyranny and exploitation which are destroying America from within are cut, American will never be free again…
Most people still don't understand the devastating import of obama ordering the CIA to institute regime change in the Ukraine in late 2013 which was orchestrated by biden/clinton . This coup was personally directed by zionist israeli vicky upland who was on the ground in the Ukraine overseeing the installation of a hardline militant jewish ISRAELI zionist regime. This regime change resulted in a Ukrainian government that in practical terms today differs little from the Nazis of old accepting the fact that in 2022 it is the jews who are persecuting Ukrainian Christians and Muslims...
Obviously, most Americans are completely unaware of the fact that the vast majority of jews living in the Ukraine were safely evacuated BEFORE the Police Action by Putin began...
But we must not forget the images of jewish zionist Zemenskyy using his mercenaries from the "Regiment" forcing all fighting age men to remain, literally at the point of a gun. Of course, what Americans were NOT told is that he did not turn his guns on the Ukrainian men until AFTER all the jewish men had been allowed to run and hide in poland, england and israel.
These jewish men, cowards, and traitors to Ukraine all, will of course eventually return as carpet baggers. But they will return to buy up the recently “abandoned" millions of acres of farmland, homes, and businesses ONLY AFTER they are sure hostilities have ceased (and the previous owners either dead or in exile) and their personal safety assured when they return. And oh, by the way, they will be using money doled out by the EU and US taxpayers, not their own, let alone israel to which they owe their true allegiance and fealty and ultimately is the prime beneficiary.
Make no mistake, this "war" being foisted on the citizens of the world is not for them, not to save the oppressed or preserve Freedom and Democracy, rather it is yet another in a long line of wars serving the needs and interests of an ever expanding jewish only and unquestionably fascist zionist empire.
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