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Imagine If US Had Pledged To Back Zelensky Militarily Against The Nazi Factions by rottennaija(m): 4:14pm On May 08, 2022
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1523056176044273664

Imagine if instead of deliberately provoking and funding a proxy war against Russia that could get everyone killed, the US had pledged to back Zelensky militarily against the Nazi factions who were threatening to kill him if he made peace with Russia as he campaigned on doing?


It would have been wins all around. We wouldn't be staring down the barrel of nuclear war, Zelensky could have enacted the peace policies he was elected to enact, and the US alliance wouldn't be arming literal Nazis in Ukraine.

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https://mate.substack.com/p/siding-with-ukraines-far-right-us?s=r

Re: Imagine If US Had Pledged To Back Zelensky Militarily Against The Nazi Factions by God1000(m): 4:18pm On May 08, 2022
US is giving them massive support though, except the deployment of troops
Re: Imagine If US Had Pledged To Back Zelensky Militarily Against The Nazi Factions by rottennaija(m): 4:20pm On May 08, 2022
But peace and sanity are just not what the US empire is about. The US empire is about securing planetary domination, even if it means risking the life of everyone on earth, arming literal Nazis, and actively sabotaging peace to arrive at a horrific war.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/27/can-russia-escape-the-us-trap/

It would've taken a tiny fraction of the US military firepower they're currently using to protect this person from the fascist extremists who threatened to lynch him if he enacted the policies he was elected to enact.

https://twitter.com/dietchinator/status/1523058995699019777?s=20&t=YcUT4COOal15Ef5TTYMhOA

2014 #Zelensky was a better guy than 2022 #Zelenskyy. Here he is on TV demanding that the people in #Donbass be left alone and to let them speak their native #Russian language:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1523058995699019777
Re: Imagine If US Had Pledged To Back Zelensky Militarily Against The Nazi Factions by rottennaija(m): 4:21pm On May 08, 2022
https://mate.substack.com/p/siding-with-ukraines-far-right-us?s=r

Siding with Ukraine's far-right, US sabotaged Zelensky's mandate for peace
In 2019, Zelensky was elected on an overwhelming mandate to make peace with Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen warned that year, the US chose to side with Ukraine's far-right and fuel war.

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On a warm October day in 2019, the eminent Russia studies professor Stephen F. Cohen and I sat down in Manhattan for what would be our last in-person interview (Cohen passed away in September 2020 at the age of 81).

The House was gearing up to impeach Donald Trump for freezing weapons shipments to Ukraine while pressuring its government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The Beltway media was consumed with frenzy of a presidency in peril. But Professor Cohen, one of the leading Russia scholars in the United States, was concerned with what the impeachment spectacle in Washington meant for the long-running war between the US-backed Ukrainian government and Russian-backed rebels in the Donbas.

At that point, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky was just months into an upstart presidency that he had won on a pledge to end the Donbas conflict. Instead of supporting the Ukrainian leader's peace mandate, Democrats in Congress were impeaching Trump for briefly impeding the flow of weapons that fueled the fight. As his Democratic allies now like to forget, President Obama refused to send these same weapons out of fear of prolonging the war and arming Nazis. By abandoning Obama’s policy, the Democrats, Cohen warned, threaten to sabotage peace and strengthen Ukraine's far-right.

"Zelensky ran as a peace candidate," Cohen explained. "He won an enormous mandate to make peace. So, that means he has to negotiate with Vladimir Putin." But there was a major obstacle. Ukrainian fascists "have said that they will remove and kill Zelensky if he continues along this line of negotiating with Putin… His life is being threatened literally by a quasi-fascist movement in Ukraine."

Peace could only come, Cohen stressed, on one condition. "[Zelensky] can’t go forward with full peace negotiations with Russia, with Putin, unless America has his back," he said. "Maybe that won’t be enough, but unless the White House encourages this diplomacy, Zelensky has no chance of negotiating an end to the war. So the stakes are enormously high."

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Re: Imagine If US Had Pledged To Back Zelensky Militarily Against The Nazi Factions by Dvdpity: 9:35pm On May 08, 2022
Now those far rights especially Azov has been sent to hell. I just pity the innocent civilians.

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