Russia, it can be argued is acting out of defense, Israel is not. Ukraine, backed by creeping, belligerent US/NATO expansion to Russiaās borders, demanding of its Western backers before the war to acquire nuclear capability is a real, present danger to Russian national security; Israel, armed with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, is a dangerous, destabilizing threat to regional and world peace. Russia is not fighting a defenseless state, but one de facto allied and armed by US/NATO, with an armed forces count of about 300,000, including paramilitaries; Israelās is perhaps the strongest military in the Middle East. The Russian offensive is not motivated by ideologically-inspired expansionist motives; Israel is a hyper-expansionist, colonizing apartheid state. Russia does not engage in dispossession and ethnic cleansing, Israel and Ukraine do. Russia does not conduct war with criminality; Israel and Ukraine do. Russia aspires to a secure, fair, economically prosperous neighborhood and world, Israel hinders this locally and doesnāt give a damn globally. (For Israelās extremely well-organized and financed supportersāaka lobbiesāin Washington and other Western capitals, thereās only one state that comes first.) Russia does not have an institutionally racist, exclusivist ideology, Israel and Ukraine do. Russia is not a religio-ethnic or ethnolinguistic state, Israel and Ukraine are. Ukraine is not a stateless, occupied, captive population, Palestine is. Israel is interested in using the Ukraine conflict to āingatherā Ukrainian Jews to solidify its demographic lead and disappear Palestine, Russia does not do this in Ukraine or elsewhere.
The Ukrainian and Israeli regimes enjoy the support of the same imperial, global hegemon, are hostile to their neighbor(s), and are extremists unaware that their long term survival, security and prosperity hinges on peace and coexistence with the others within them and around them. Both suffer from suicidal myopia. [...]
Aside from their genocidal war against ethnic Russians, including unspeakable brutality in the Donbass, their army and hardcore Nazi formations have in fact terrorized and killed their own civilians to prevent them moving through the humanitarian corridors (as in the homicidal Azov battalion in Mariupol where 125,000 civilians are held captive), placed artillery and military formations in neighborhoods as a hostage to avoid Russian attack, moved into civilian buildings, used human shields, murdered journalists, those deemed to be politically incorrect towards war, and opposition figures, shelled their own civilian facilities, presumably accidentally, and blamed it on the Russians, and early on in the war, the regimeās security services murdered one of its own negotiators.
Ending the war is of the utmost urgency, but the Kiev regime is, under US pressure and its own extremists, stalling and escalating even when its army is scattered and surrounded, the US imperative being to maintain the stream into Ukraine of lethal weapons and neo-Nazi fighters and other assorted mercenaries trained by the CIA (and British) since at least 2015, and assiduously work overtime to cause a Russian quagmire even at the growing risk of a nuclear cataclysm.
It needs reiteration: Ukraineās ruling military/oligarchic/xenophobic elite is intensely corrupt, right-radical, chauvinistic, and undemocratic, violently imposing its authority on a country of intensely divided identities.
This eliteās sociopolitical and cultural base is in parts of the western half of the country with its anachronistic Galician-Polish loathing towards Russia and ethnic Russians in Ukraine, and whose nationalists and crypto-Nazis view Russians as Asiatic mongrels. Though accounting, with their supporters, for some 10 percent of the population, neo-Nazi and old-fashioned Nazi groups have had a huge, outsized effect on the state.
Many are familiar with the quote from a leading expert, the late Stephen F. Cohen, that Kyiv āencouragedā and ārehabilitatedā neofascists, āeven memorializing Ukrainian collaborators with Nazi German extermination pogroms and their leaders during World War II, renaming streets in their honor, building monuments to them, rewriting history to glorify themā¦ā We are talking about monuments to western Ukrainian Nazis who, along with that other equally virulently Russophobic state, Poland, collaborated, in their territories, with the German Nazi occupation in the murder of millions of Jews in the Holocaust.
In the racist, supremacist realm, the Ukrainian and Israeli regimes ironically have much in common.
Aside from the warās material and political realities, thereās the astounding matter of the āinformation war,ā so tightly controlled and orchestrated by the West and which hands down leaves Russia in the dust, that most of us are clueless regarding up from down, war from peace, criminality from humanity, victim from victimizer, legal from illegal, fake from real. The intense propaganda is directed at American and Western publics to convince them of war and economic sacrifice.
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