Posted on 07/03/2023 5:18:30 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The contest runs a few more days. Then I'll close it and announce the winner. Lol!
I saw that scumbag speak at Fanueil Hall in Boston back then in preparation for an article I wrote for FrontPage mag.
A completely corrupt, filthy, anti-West slimebag immune to being destroyed because of his leftist/communist views.
Even his creepy little "human cat" bit with Rula Lenska didn't get him dented too badly - if Farage had done such a thing he'd have been vaporized by the leftist/globalist BBC and other British propaganda outlets.
Farage's "sins" against the leftist/.globalist Establishment are stoking Brexit and his withering, abusive attacks on the vile EU leadership and its equally vile bureaucracy.
Because of those "sins" he must be destroyed.
A similar dynamic's in play in the US with Trump and others who dent the leftist/globalist Establishment.
“Yes, born in Detroit, Michigan.”
Fascinating!
What area: North, South, East or West? Down-river? Were your parents also born & raised or move to Detroit?
KIIS executive director Anton Grushetsky: “now even in the south and East, people consider Russians enemies”
10.05.2023
https://umoloda.kyiv.ua/number/3854/188/175200/
A large-scale war has changed many factors in the worldview of Ukrainians. We were able to learn new values.
The unique path of development of Ukraine plus belonging to the global Western civilization is considered by our citizens as a guarantee of victory.
Ukraine’s success depends on joining the EU
- Anton Nikolaevich, you have very interesting research, for example, on Ukraine’s relations with the West. I’m interested in the scientist Timothy Garton Ash. Who is he and what is his role in these studies?
- This is a British writer, journalist, commentator, he has published many messages concerning Ukraine. This is one of those opinion leaders who influence the formation of public opinion in the West regarding Ukraine. He came to Ukraine in February, gave lectures at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and had meetings with the country’s top leadership.
Timothy Garton Ash offered a few questions for our research. ONE of them is whether Ukrainians feel the need for the truth about the war. The SECOND is how Ukrainians feel, whether the future of Ukraine depends on joining the European Union.
And the THIRD and most sensitive issue is the situation with Crimea, because in the West, on the one hand, they support the territorial integrity of Ukraine, but at the same time they believe that Ukraine should decide for itself how to end the war. But this is an official position. Unofficial-between the lines of reasoning that the West is afraid that the issue of Crimea will become a “red light” for Putin and may lead to excessive escalation.
Therefore, the question for the Ukrainian population provided for two scenarios: the West offers Ukraine full assistance with the Donbass, but implies abstinence from military operations in Crimea; and the second option is whether Ukrainians should continue to fight, even in the face of reduced Western support, but win back all territories including Crimea.
By the way, if we see that 85-90% OF UKRAINIANS ARE GENERALLY AGAINST ANY TERRITORIAL CONCESSIONS, then if we are talking about Crimea, the share of those who are ready for certain discussions is slightly higher, but now more than 70% of Ukrainians believe that Crimea is also a territory where UKRAINE SHOULD CONTINUE TO FIGHT.
- Yeah. But now this support continues, IT IS GROWING, maybe not as fast as we would like, but the Ukrainians are optimistic and feel that we have enough strength to do all this. Unfortunately, the average Ukrainian is not an expert, he does not have all the information. After a year of full-scale war, Ukrainians feel that we are strong enough together with the West to defeat our enemies and establish control over all territories.
So far, we see that those who believe that we should not only win, but also change society for the better prevail. But the fact that there are 30% of those who believe that we have already done so much that we should simply be given financial support creates a certain great potential for political populists and for political speculators who can take advantage of such sentiments of the population: “we don’t need to go along with the West, fulfill their bonded conditions”, “we just have to give everything, because we are defending Europe with ourselves”.
— Again the question proposed by Timothy Garton Ash: “one of the expectations of Ukrainians is fair retribution, when the perpetrators of the war will be brought to justice. At the same time, it is an element of communication between Ukraine and the West. To what extent do Ukrainians feel the importance of documenting the whole truth about the war (we are talking about a conditional truth commission, which should forever preserve an objective picture of events)?”- 88% of Ukrainians support the idea of the need to document and preserve the true history of the war, even if it will be difficult to achieve full justice with Putin in the dock.
— The latter is a more narrowly professional question from Timothy as a professional historian, and this question is supposedly obvious. On the one hand, we have a demand for justice — to bring to justice in the legal plane all those involved in this brutal war.
We certainly WANT TO SEE PUTIN AND HIS HENCHMEN IN THE HAGUE IN THE DOCK. THIS IS JUSTICE. But given the modernity, there are many arguments why this can be very difficult to do. This may be a distant prospect, Putin may have time to die himself before he is in the dock.
But another important element is to document everything that is happening, so that this history of the war is postponed for us, the Ukrainians who live all this. We understand all these facts: the defense of Mariupol, the situation in Bakhmut, the Kharkiv liberation operation, the liberation of Kherson, the suffering of people under occupation...
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- From 32 to 6 percent there are fewer people who believe that Russian should be studied in a smaller volume than Ukrainian, but in a larger volume than other foreign languages.
- Even after the occupation of Crimea, a huge number of people still believed that the Russian language should be studied, and even in large quantities. EVEN BEFORE 2022, 80-90% of our people hated the Kremlin, but they believed that the occupation of Crimea and the war in the Donbas were the RESPONSIBILITY OF THE KREMLIN, while 80% of Ukrainians treated “ordinary” Russians well. And so there was no critical attitude to Russian literature, to Russian culture. Now, even in the south and East, people consider Russians enemies.
- Now you should not learn Russian in schools, according to 52% of Ukrainians. It seems to me that this is not even enough.
- If you look at the life of one generation over several years, when we talk about society, this is a radical change in consciousness. Especially in the south and East. They went through a radical change in their consciousness, their value coordinate system, this year, and they moved as Khvylevoy said: “Get Away from Moscow!»
— In the South, 49% believe that it is not worth learning Russian, and in the East-30%.
— That is why we emphasize that in the East in 2019, 0% said that it is not necessary to learn Russian, and now-30%. Therefore, these are drastic changes. This, by the way, is a matter of responsibility of journalists and those involved in the media sphere, because we must support all these positive changes. The absolute majority of residents of the south and East are Ukrainian patriots, and they are undergoing obvious ideological changes, and we must support them.
One set of grandparents had a house on the West Side of Detroit, the other on Parkside, near the golf club.
My Dad was born in Detroit, my Mom in Minnesota, but moved to Detroit as a young girl.
All American Vlad!
Having a finger accidentally hit an f next to the v for vicious is not a sign of needing English as a Second Language courses. It is a sign of poor proofreading following too many late nights reading about the NOT WAR in Ukraine. Actually, my second language is Spanish, followed at some distance by French, Italian, Portuguese, and more remotely, Nahuatl.
Did Mommy approve?
Did she give you a cookie and glass of milk as a reward?
Bwahahahaha!!!
Oh man. . .things are getting really weird around here now.
Oooh you just HAD to trivialize my accidentally hitting the f which is next to the v which is the beginning of the word vicious by insultingly suggesting I needed more ESL studies. So, back at you, you just had to jump in to this post to support all your pro dictatorship and territory invading buddies.
Slavo Youcrayney!!! Bwahahaha!
Here’s your ESL extra credit assignment for the week: Learn the meaning of the English word “trivialize.” Then use it correctly in a sentence.
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