Wow, just wow. If any of you get your news by watching Ticket Carlson, you should know he is routing for totalitarian Russia to hammer the fledgling democracy of Ukraine.
I didn't see where Carlson said that. Between Ukraine and Russia, the issues are not settled, will not be settled. But under Obama, Russia made moves for territory and Obama gave no lethal weapon assistance to Ukraine. Ambassador Yankovich didn't support putting weapons on the border. the idea was to contain Russia with publicity, and bring Russia to negotiate a cease-fire. Ukraine was considered unreliable. George Soros' money was enough to tilt the 2014 election.
To be fair about Russia, the negotiations around the START treaty, where Russia was letting go of the missiles in Ukraine, we settled on assurances that Westerners would not interfere in the Ukraine, that it would not be taken into NATO. Ukraine was supposed to be a buffer state between the East and West, but Russia figured it would be pretty much under their thumb. There is enough anti-Russian sentiment in the Ukraine, from historical events like Stalin's starvation tactics, that were in fact genocidal, it is pretty certain Ukraine will never really be happy to be a Russian satellite. But there are areas where the population in the Ukraine consists largely of Russians. It is clear there needs to be a change in the borders. That will be the only stable resolution there. Yes, Russia went in militarily..... in response to Soro's meddling in the Ukraine election which threw out a pro-Russian leader.
No need to say it was good as it was. No need to argue about arms. The truth is, a plebisite would be the fair resolution of the issue. Voting. Some people might wanna move. Let them. Russia should be given all the bad press it deserves, but newsmen like Carlson should NOT just be partisan. It sounded like that, some. But I think it was more of an effort to just not be partisan, and not in favor of arming the border and increasing the border violence.
Russia has made a serious media play in favor of Zelensky recently, trying to set the stage for a settlement I believe. They literally crowed about the news when it was evident that there was no deal for arms per se from Trump. That Zelensky would not just roll for the USA.
Don't make any mistake about this. The Huntsman line about Russia is wrong. Russia is nationalist. Ukraine is nationalist. There will be a peace made between these two if the West just gets outta the picture. Russia will tolerate some arms going into Ukraine, so long as the Ukraine is not being owned by US.
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