Ukraine crisis erupted with little warning & caught virtually everyone off guard on both sides of the Atlantic—Kyiv, Brussels, Washington, and Moscow. Seeds of the crisis had been planted for decades.
I'm not sure the article contains important facts. Why is it not written why Tymoshenko was imprisoned and where her husband fled to with the stolen money?
> Instead of ensuring Russian influence in Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea had severely eroded it.
Are you sure? What sources are you drawing on? And is western Ukraine controlled by the Banderovians the same as eastern Ukraine with a Russian-speaking population? Are you questioning the referendums in the five new Russian regions?
After reading the article thoroughly, I understand that it is parroted Western propaganda.
Hello Henry Brewer and thank you for reading and commenting on this piece.
The book, (chapter 2) is called {Conflict in Ukraine} from 2015. The authors are:
Rajan Menon, who is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the Powell School, City College of New York/City University of New York, and Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. The author, most recently, of The End of Alliances, he is now (2015) completing a book on humanitarian intervention, and is a regular contributor to nationalinterest.org. (I just book-marked it.)
Eugene Rumer is a Senior Associate and Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Here is the ePub book, you can look at it yourself. (It will download directly in your folder.)
Chances are these are both Americans. So this may be in part, western propaganda. How people are educated is their belief system, so that is a built in bias that is difficult to overcome. I sincerely doubt that there ever will be a truly neutral story. The Russian side will be their narrative, and will take into consideration their interests.
Tymoshenko was imprisoned because she was obviously a strong opposition. This article said she was also favored by America. The prosecutors case was that she was connected to the Orange Revolution, and the foreigners who funded it. Where money went with her husband?? If you start to trace money flows in Ukraine, you probably have to write many volumes of exposé.
If Russia wants to "gain influence" in Ukraine is an assumption. What are the chances for soft power? I have grown to believe that every interference in Ukraine, for decades, was only about Crimea, and revoking Russia's lease on the naval base, while installing NATO in the Black Sea. To deny Russia its only warm water port and kick it out of the Black Sea is the Western Billionaire's dream. Russia would never allow that (over WWIII and beyond), with or without any referendum. It's my opinion.
Who are the Banderovians? Is that about Stepan Bandera? Those followers are in Western Ukraine, right? Eastern Ukraine is the Russian Speakers. I am presenting this essay as it is, not inserting too much of my own opinion. So I am not adding any personal "take" on referendums. Perhaps at war's end, there will be more referendums, and in more provinces. Then we'll see more about public opinion. I don't believe Russia will try to occupy an area with unfriendly people, just demilitarize them.
I have been looking through several books and authors, and I believe I have some well rounded writings concentrating on these same events. Taken all together they do give a more complete picture. I choose them, because I think they expose some part of the sequence that is less known in the west. I don't say substitute one belief for another. But take in the whole picture.
The particularly interesting part of this book was how much of a gangster Yanukovych is. Corruption is also in Russia, but we don't know much about it. It also explains how he approached default with the IMF. Default would lose the 2015 elections for him, and IMF imposed austerity for a new loan, that would also cause him to lose. So how could he cover that debt roll-over?
I'm not sure the article contains important facts. Why is it not written why Tymoshenko was imprisoned and where her husband fled to with the stolen money?
> Instead of ensuring Russian influence in Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea had severely eroded it.
Are you sure? What sources are you drawing on? And is western Ukraine controlled by the Banderovians the same as eastern Ukraine with a Russian-speaking population? Are you questioning the referendums in the five new Russian regions?
After reading the article thoroughly, I understand that it is parroted Western propaganda.
Hello Henry Brewer and thank you for reading and commenting on this piece.
The book, (chapter 2) is called {Conflict in Ukraine} from 2015. The authors are:
Rajan Menon, who is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the Powell School, City College of New York/City University of New York, and Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. The author, most recently, of The End of Alliances, he is now (2015) completing a book on humanitarian intervention, and is a regular contributor to nationalinterest.org. (I just book-marked it.)
Eugene Rumer is a Senior Associate and Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Here is the ePub book, you can look at it yourself. (It will download directly in your folder.)
https://brax.me/f/Conflict%20in%20Ukraine_%20The%20Unwinding%20of%20the%20Post%26ndash%3BCold%20War%20--%20Rajan%20Menon%2C%20Eugene%20B_%20Rumer2015.epub/T4AZ67c55139811761.42065158
Chances are these are both Americans. So this may be in part, western propaganda. How people are educated is their belief system, so that is a built in bias that is difficult to overcome. I sincerely doubt that there ever will be a truly neutral story. The Russian side will be their narrative, and will take into consideration their interests.
Tymoshenko was imprisoned because she was obviously a strong opposition. This article said she was also favored by America. The prosecutors case was that she was connected to the Orange Revolution, and the foreigners who funded it. Where money went with her husband?? If you start to trace money flows in Ukraine, you probably have to write many volumes of exposé.
If Russia wants to "gain influence" in Ukraine is an assumption. What are the chances for soft power? I have grown to believe that every interference in Ukraine, for decades, was only about Crimea, and revoking Russia's lease on the naval base, while installing NATO in the Black Sea. To deny Russia its only warm water port and kick it out of the Black Sea is the Western Billionaire's dream. Russia would never allow that (over WWIII and beyond), with or without any referendum. It's my opinion.
Who are the Banderovians? Is that about Stepan Bandera? Those followers are in Western Ukraine, right? Eastern Ukraine is the Russian Speakers. I am presenting this essay as it is, not inserting too much of my own opinion. So I am not adding any personal "take" on referendums. Perhaps at war's end, there will be more referendums, and in more provinces. Then we'll see more about public opinion. I don't believe Russia will try to occupy an area with unfriendly people, just demilitarize them.
I have been looking through several books and authors, and I believe I have some well rounded writings concentrating on these same events. Taken all together they do give a more complete picture. I choose them, because I think they expose some part of the sequence that is less known in the west. I don't say substitute one belief for another. But take in the whole picture.
The particularly interesting part of this book was how much of a gangster Yanukovych is. Corruption is also in Russia, but we don't know much about it. It also explains how he approached default with the IMF. Default would lose the 2015 elections for him, and IMF imposed austerity for a new loan, that would also cause him to lose. So how could he cover that debt roll-over?
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