Posted on 07/11/2022 7:24:16 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Ukraine’s million man army will liberate Crimea.
ABSOLUTELY!
Putin was so afraid of local Tatar population that he:
-Banned their local cultural representation council - Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
-Banned the only TV channel that was airing in Tatar language - ATR (TV channel)
-Applied prosecution and repressions against local tatar activists
-Made it real hard for tatar to organise their own cultural events, like commemoration of Tatar deportation from USSR
-Leaders of local Tatar community like Mustafa Dzhemilev
and others had to leave Crimea due to threats
So, what do you think, did Tatars supported Russian annexation of Crimea?
**in addition, that “referendum” itself was done during massive hate-speech campaign, the numbers are heavily distorted and are disputed even by Russia own human-rights council. In fact, Putin’s ‘Human Rights Council’ accidentally Posts Real Crimean Election Results!
So no “voting” here was really possible at all!!!!
The ethnic balance of Crimea was as follows:
Russians comprised 58.5% of the population of Crimea. The two next largest ethnic groups were Ukrainians, who comprised 24% of the population, and Crimean Tatars, who comprised 10.2%. (2001 figures) The Russian Government claimed a highly dubious 96.7% vote in favor of annexation.
Then this article, in which the official Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights in Russia let slip the truth - as you can read, it was very quickly removed from their website:
“Russian government agency reveals fraudulent nature of the Crimean referendum results
By Ilya Somin
Contributor, The Volokh Conspiracy May 6, 2014
The Russian government’s claims that the March 16 referendum in Crimea resulted in a 96.7% vote in favor of annexation were always extremely dubious. But now, as Paul Roderick Gregory of Forbes points out, a report by Russia ’s official Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights suggests that the REAL numbers were FAR DIFFERENT from those previously claimed:
The website
of the “President of Russia’s Council on Civil Society and Human Rights” posted a blog that was quickly taken down as if it were toxic radioactive waste. According to the Council’s report about the March referendum to annex Crimea, the turnout was a maximum 30%. And of these, only half voted for annexation – meaning ONLY 15% of Crimean citizens voted FOR annexation.
The fate of Crimea, therefore, was decided by the 15% of Crimeans, who voted in favor of unification with Russia (under the watchful eye of Kalashnikov-toting soldiers).
Although the report appears to be absent from the English-Language Council website linked by Forbes, it is still available at the Council’s Russian-language website here. The report states that it is based on interviews with numerous Crimean officials, experts, civil society leaders, and ordinary citizens.
Moreover, the low turnout rate, combined with evidence of intimidation and violence by pro-Russia forces, strongly suggests that many opponents of annexation chose not to vote out of fear. This does not definitively prove that annexation lacked majority support. It is possible that a fair vote might still have led to a narrow majority in favor of annexation. Still, the Council report provides further evidence that the official results cannot be trusted and that the real distribution of opinion in Crimea is at least much more evenly divided than Russia claims. “
It seems highly unlikely that the Crimean Tatars voted overwhelmingly for Anschluss with Russia.
“The Ukies are the most corrupted nation”
The Ukraine was “corrupted” by the deep-state create by Putin & con’t under puppet gov’t under Putin
BTW: LOOK AT CORRUPTION IN THE PUTIN/KREMLIN GOV’T:
EXAMPLE: HUMAN TRAFFICKING
1- The Russian Connection: How Russia Became a Leader in the
World’s Human Trafficking MarketWorld’s Human Trafficking M
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6299&context=etd
2- Human Trafficking: The Secret to Putin’s Economy
25.Nov.2020
https://hir.harvard.edu/putin-and-human-trafficking/
3- The War Against Human Trafficking in Russia
https://www.borgenmagazine.com/war-human-trafficking-in-russia/
4- 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report: Russia
https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-trafficking-in-persons-report-2/russia/
“The Government of Russia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so”
5-’Worst Human Traffickers’ Include Russia, Belarus, Iran, Turkmenistan
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-belarus-iran-turkmenistan-human-traffickers-report/29326302.html
6- WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IS THE TRAFFICKER: STATE-SPONSORED TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS:
The 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report includes the following 11 governments with a documented “policy or pattern” of human trafficking, trafficking in government-funded programs, forced labor in government-affiliated medical services or other sectors, sexual slavery in government camps, or the employment or recruitment of child soldiers:
Afghanistan
Burma
China
Cuba
Eritrea
Korea, North
Iran
RUSSIA [RANKS TIER 3]
South Sudan
Syria
Turkmenista
THE BIG LIE OF PUTIN: In other words, Russia intentionally will use artifice, disinformation, and evasion in any and ALL agreements or interactions with other ‘alleged allied’ political entities.
PONDER POINTS:
1st, Russia will always continue to use military conflict to force their national will on others.
2nd, Russia originally corrupted branches of governmentin Ukraine creating a “deep-state”
3rd Russia will ALWAYS continue to solve policies unilaterally for their own political foreign policy goals.
All branches of government were corrupted over many years in both Ukraine and U.S.
As President Trump was NOT installed in 2016, neither was President Zelensky installed in 2014. Ukraine is experiencing reformation into a much different political nation under President Zelensky. Similarly, as the U.S. experienced political purification under President Trump.
Both Ukraine & Russia shared naval bases in Ukraine until Putin invasion of 2014.
REMEMBER
On 3 March 2014, Col. Mamchur was given an ultimatum to surrender by Russian forces. He instead chose to march to a pro-Russian checkpoint with his men unarmed while only carrying the flag of the 62nd Fighter Aviation Regiment.
The event marked the first time that weapons were fired in the Crimean crisis as Russian troops fired warning shots as Mamchur and his regiment approached. The regiment is well respected amongst Russian troops, including the historic events they went through in 1941.
Mamchur and his regiment were stopped at a Russian blockade where he directly confronted the Russian troops by stating that, “It is our duty to safeguard the Constitution of Ukraine in keeping this base.” The Russian troops eventually withdrew, while Mamchur, for twenty additional days, maintained his post in Belbek.
Under Col. Mamchur, the Belbek base came to be known as a bastion of resistance. Crimean separatists then cut the brakes in the family car, death threats he has received and in Sevastopol posters had been put up demanding his execution for treachery.
Mamchur wedded a military couple inside the base. Mamchur has complained that he, and his fellow Ukrainian commanders had received no help from the Ukrainian government despite repeated requests.
On 23 March, Mamchur’s base Belbek was overrun by Russian regular troops, being the last Ukrainian base to fall. Mamchur was verbally abused by pro-Russian militia and cossacks, but he refused to be provoked, and ordered his men to resist non-violently and sing the Ukrainian national anthem.
Immediately he was then arrested. He was released three days later. According to Mamchur’s aides he was being held in Sevastopol. Mamchur has stated he was, during his detention, under intense psychological pressure. “They kept me in a single confinement cell for 3.5 days.
On the first day unidentified Russian troops kept constantly talking to me – they tried to persuade me to commit treason, betray the oath to the people of Ukraine, go serve in the Russian army. Then there was just psychological pressure – they would not let me sleep, knocked on the door with gun butts. I feel well, my mood is a fighting one. What will I do next? First, I will take a shower, then I will be making decisions. Glory to Ukraine!”
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/world/europe/no-bloodshed-in-a-standoff-at-an-airfield-in-ukraine.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000002749138/confrontation-in-crimea.html
Elsewhere but related...
Russia-occupied areas of Ukraine are full of fear and short on essential supplies
https://youtu.be/xuUrxwO41oA
yada yada yada, we’re all a Blue and Yellow team, blah blah blah.
First of all Russia had two main goals when it annexed Crimea in 2014. One was to have direct access to a warm weather port. The other was to put a stop to the 2012 interest in gas and oil prospects in the sea around Crimea and in the Donbass. US oil majors had signed exploration agreements with Ukraine, but the 2014 Russian invasion stopped that cold.
So now to the question of how happy Crimeans are with the new situation. Here are two articles, one from Al Jazeera, and the other from the UK. Hopefully tapping different opinion sources.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/21/the-devastating-human-economic-costs-of-crimeas-annexation [May 2021]
https://www.theweek.co.uk/russia/60273/crimea-how-daily-life-has-changed-under-russian-rule [Feb. 2022]
Here Rand Org. looks at Russia in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1498.html
No flag other than the Russian flag will fly over Crimea in the future. There would be total nuclear war before that happened.
Destroy the Orc fleet and they won’t need an HQ.
Where was this ‘total nuclear war’ of yours between 1991 and 2014? Stop with the Russian nuclear threats already. They became tiresome months ago.
The possibility of Ukraine becoming a NATO proxy had not become a tangible risk until the Maidan Revolution, as I’m sure you’re aware. History wasn’t static between ‘91 and 2014; it wasn’t like Russia just up and decided to annex Crimea out of the blue. There was a chain of historical and geopolitical events that led to that happening.
Like it or not, numerous Russian political figures since the fall of the USSR made it known that Ukraine becoming part of NATO was their red line. You could call it their version of the Monroe Doctrine.
(Albeit far more limited than our own Monroe Doctrine, seeing as America claimed the entire Western Hemisphere as its region of influence.)
Soviet Russia must be destroyed.
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