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Olena Semenyaka
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Below is an interview with Ukrainian Counter-Currents contributor Olena Semenyaka, who is currently in Kyiv, Ukraine. She took the time yesterday (March 6, 2022) to do an interview with me via e-mail. Apart from correcting typos and minor lapses in grammar, this interview is unedited.
What is it like in Kyiv at this time? Food, water, electricity, and so on?
I am seizing an opportunity to give a short interview to you while there is a temporary slowdown of the military actions in Ukraine. A few days ago the Russians hit the gas pipeline, which affected a part of the city, but the damage has been already repaired. Their target was the building of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense. KyivKhlib keeps baking bread for the city, although the lines are huge, and there is a shortage of basic products like that (for instance, milk). Humanitarian aid delivers food and medical supplies to those in need. The subway is being used 24 hours a day as a shelter. One train, roughly every hour, goes around the city as a means of transportation. But overall, the citizens are encouraged to leave their districts only if necessary.
There is a curfew in Kyiv, usually from 8 PM until 8 AM. There are checkpoints at every corner of the city, and the bridges are closed to private cars. The goal is to fight the Russian sabotage groups who are trying to break through into the city, as well as to reveal and block undercover saboteurs. A month ago, Russian agents infiltrated every city and rented apartments, and now they leave marks on buildings, trees, and roads that glow in the dark to guide and direct Russian missile strikes, as well as to recruit collaborationists. Saboteurs and those who are caught suspiciously photographing the positions of the Ukrainian military are being arrested by the territorial defense forces, which are so numerous now that there are not enough rifles for the volunteers.
This regime was introduced in Kyiv after Russia hit several panel houses with cruise missiles, and Russian tanks, once they broke through the defense lines, have started roaming in the “sleeping” residential quarters and running over civilian cars. A few days ago, again with missiles, including Iskanders, they blew up the oil depot near Kyiv and struck the Kyiv TV tower, killing five people. The day before yesterday, explosions in various parts of the city were heard as well. But these days the worst is happening on the approaches to Kyiv, in the towns of Hostomel, Bucha, Irpin, and Borodyanka. The residential quarters of these towns have suffered heavily: endless columns of Russian tanks, missiles launched from both Russia and Belarus, and airstrikes targeting civilians and the civilian infrastructure. So far, the siege has failed, but the enemy is not far off. The infrastructure in these towns is ruined, and they are mostly cut off. The shelling, particularly at night, continues.
Yet, true hell broke out in Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Mariupol. On March 3, 2022, almost 50 of Chernihiv’s residents were killed as a result of airstrikes. Yesterday, the entire city remained in the bomb shelters. No humanitarian corridors are possible. The city is besieged, just like the villages nearby. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s first capital, the occupiers hit both the city and regional administrative buildings with missiles, not to mention the houses. Due to constant shelling, Mariupol remains without electricity, heating, and water. Attempts to organize a humanitarian corridor now ends up in shelling by the Russians. In all of these cases, there are many civilian casualties, including children, and the death toll is growing as the emergency service and rescuers find new victims under the rubble of houses.
An hour ago (1335B6MAR2022), the Russians destroyed Vinnytsia airport in west-central Ukraine with eight rockets.
Were you surprised by the Russian invasion?
After Putin proclaimed the independence of the temporarily-occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk, the so-called DNR and LNR, or LDNR, I thought they would try to recognize them within the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and then try to move forward, if possible. When they started shelling the military bases in Kyiv and all over Ukraine at night, I understood that the full-scale war had been preplanned, but since the very beginning I considered it as doomed to fail. Putin’s intelligence misinformed him; he planned to set up a puppet governments like in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea and expected that the military “operation” and civilian casualties would not provoke a reaction of solidarity around the world. Yet Ukraine, even its allegedly most “Russia-friendly” regions, was ready to repel Putin’s attack both militarily and in relation to politics and information. There have been huge anti-Russian demonstrations in the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, the center of which had been occupied by the Russians until the residents literally swept them away from the city. The same is happening in the nearby cities of Melitopol and Berdiansk. It is quite possible that Russia, which had planned to complete its “military operation” in Ukraine within hours, will soon control not even a single administrative center.
Moreover, protests have begun even in the previously occupied territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. “Elite” Chechen units commanded by Ramzan Kadyrov were not so victorious, either. His authority, which was based on crude force, has been undermined significantly. To sum up, I was rather surprised that Putin is this stupid, but the invasion as such began eight years ago and its exacerbation was expected. I have been constantly clashing with Russian lobbyists on the information front, so I have never been at rest to begin with.
What do you think victory will look like?
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The restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, including Crimea. The overthrow of the regime in Russia, which will result in its own “demilitarization” and the termination of its geopolitical expansion to the West. The consolidation of the Central and Eastern European (Intermarium) countries, which are potentially Russia’s next target, and the reformation of the European Union on its basis. Western Europe began providing Ukraine with arms and all kinds of assistance quite quickly, which means that the geopolitical prospects for Intermarium as the European fortress are on the rise. The fact that NATO has not intervened is very eloquent; the European security system will. Needless to say, it will result in a change in the entire world order. Long low-intensity war and the emergence of hot spots all over the region are quite a possible scenario on the way to this envisaged victory, however.
Should Ukraine be victorious in the war, how will you win the peace?
Yes. Ukraine has shown that “the second strongest army in the world” is no match for it. Russia’s military strategy is disastrous: the columns of tanks and other military vehicles become trapped and liquidated, since Russia lacks the resources to occupy the country. It is obvious that their main reserves have been exhausted by now, and they will undoubtedly use the talks with Ukraine on March 7 to replenish their forces.
Their missiles (which are also not endless) and the Belarusian front (which is officially “neutral,” and yet 70 missiles have been launched from the territory of Belarus) are the strongest and at the same time the most vicious aspects of the Russian army, as they made it possible for them to advance to Kyiv from the north. Russian military planes and helicopters are being shot down by Ukraine on a regular basis, especially yesterday, (March 5, 2022), when nine aircraft were destroyed, so we cannot say that they have air superiority in general. However, the air defense systems are not all-powerful, and this allowed Russia to switch to terror tactics against the civilian population by hitting inhabited houses and leaving entire cities without water, heating, and electricity, and sometimes even food supplies. At the same time, the goal of these tactics was not achieved: People have only become even more determined to fight the Russian invasion until the end. In other words, instead Putin’s announced “de-Nazification” of Ukraine, the national self-identification of the Ukrainians is getting even sharper. Many Ukrainians, especially those with children, fled the country, but many also arrived from abroad to fight, not mentioning the foreign volunteers. The death toll of the Russian soldiers, according to Ukrainian sources, exceeds 11,000.
Putin’s biggest concern is to hush up the Russian army’s losses at home. Facebook and Twitter have been already blocked there. Telegram and YouTube operate with limitations. By contrast, Ukraine tries to reach the parents of those Russians who have been killed and uploads their data, as well as interviews with the captives, on the official websites: https://t.me/rf200 and https://200rf.com. The Russians have been taking to the streets despite the criminalization of the “No war!” slogan and the introduction of a 15-year sentence for “disinformation” and “fake news” concerning Russia’s “military operation.” The economic pressure is getting stronger, and we can predict opposition on the part of the Russian oligarchs.
The Kremlin’s propaganda machine, however, is preparing the Russians for the second mobilization wave, so ultra-patriotic moods and hatred for the “pro-Western Ukrainian Nazis” is growing there, too. Right now, Russia is commandeering civilian means of transportation for war needs. But the outcome of Russia’s aggression for Russia, as well as the truth about the destruction wrought on Ukraine by Russia, will counterbalance it. A further consolidation of Ukraine’s neighbors will be one of the key factors for its victory in information warfare, and, quite probably for the military as well. For instance, Poland initiated changes in legislation to allow its citizens to take part in the defense of another country — that is, Ukraine. The high motivation of the Ukrainians and their neighbors, who are eagerly assisting them and helping others to send help and to get to Ukraine, are no less important in this war than weapons. Both Belarus and China will, in the end, always choose their own national interests, not Russia’s sinking ship. Some Belarusian generals have already resigned and refused to take part in the war on Ukraine.
The Ukrainians and the Ukrainian delegation to the peace talks see victory, again, as the liberation of the Ukrainian land from Russian occupation as such, including Crimea. Unless Putin took the risk of invading Ukraine as a whole, I doubt that it would ever happen so unconditionally. The peaceful separation of Ukraine from the Soviet Union 30 years ago is only becoming real now, for everything has a price. The effort of solidarity to resolve this old conflict — that is, the simultaneous reshaping of the world order and its principles while Ukraine once again shows its remarkable defense potential for the first time since the Second World War — is the only way to emerge victorious out of this war. Luckily, many necessary changes are happening automatically and will be reflected upon retrospectively.
Do you think that the number of Russians killed are accurate? I am reminded of the “body counts“ from the Vietnam War, which were all highly inflated.
It is quite a probable number if you take into account the cargo planes and the number of destroyed enemy columns (one vehicle often carrying up to 15 soldiers). High-intensity fights are going on all the time all over Ukraine, and have been for 11 days already (1,000 per day in a big country), and Russia has never counted its soldiers. Also, take into account the ratio of the captives and killed (documented on the website which I mentioned), and those whose bodies have not yet been found were reported on by the prisoners. Ukraine says the numbers may be even bigger.
I believe that Russia will not overcome the outcome of its misinformation regarding Ukraine and the disastrous consequences of this aggression which they failed to disguise as a mere military operation. At the moment, they keep fighting because they have nothing to lose anymore. It is hard to imagine that the country that rapidly transforms into a huge North Korea will be able to maintain its military might. A change in the regime is highly probable.
Additionally, if Ukraine is able to take Crimea back, won’t that create a lasting problem? After all, Ukraine will always be next to Russia. If there isn’t some rapprochement, it could lead to decades or even more of trouble.
We believe that the decade(s) of trouble and unrest are waiting for us in any case. It is impossible to appease Russia, as the experience of Belarus shows. Either you become a part of Russia — which is especially unattractive for the Russians and Belarusians after February 24 — or you become its enemy. There is no way back for Ukraine, Russia, and the region.
What is the Intermarium Support Group, and what is your role in it?
I run the Non-Governmental Organization, the Intermarium Support Group, which since 2016 has been promoting the integration of Central and Eastern Europe. During this time it has mostly cooperated with the political party of the National Corps, which was founded by veterans of the Azov Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine (that is currently standing on guard in Mariupol, which was taken back from the separatists by them in 2014). But since 2020, its agenda has finally received state support. On October 1, 2020, the largest caucus in the Ukrainian parliament, the Intermarium Caucus, was founded by Sviatoslav Yurash, an MP from the ruling Servant of the People party. Since then I have also been cooperating with the Intermarium Caucus as his assistant.
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76 comments
Very good interview.
I hope she’s on track with her projections of where this all leads. But we know for certain Putin will never go quietly. It was refreshing to hear her perspective from the inside and not calling out for US support especially. A unified approach from European countries is what’s most important. This could also help chill Chinese support for Russia if all of a sudden some markets were closed. It will still take force to repel Russia but economics create pressure too. She definitely deserves our white support!
You are doing the right thing Mr. van de Camp.
Thank you Greg Johnson, and Morris van de Camp.
This is the truth, and you are allowing it to surface. Counter Currents indeed.
True! No one else seems to be rooting for Ukraine and telling their side of the story. The amount of Z accounts you see all over Twitter and FB gloating over our Ukrainian brothers and sisters getting killed by fellow whites is astounding!
Even if I didn’t know what is happening in Ukraine, for me to take a side Biden, establishment Left/Right (that wants dissidents in jail) Albright, Clinton’s, Soros and CNN is taking would be an INSANITY!
You live in an imaginary world.
Your country has been played by Russia and distroyed itself.
You know, in the 80’s I was admiring you. When allied with Russia you became cannon fodder. When allied, at least somewhat, with the West, your people lived well and was merry (or at least so made me believe Lepa Brena). I feel sorry for your people and country. I do.
The Ex-Yugoslavs lived “well” on loans from IMF – Communists never invested that money into the infrastructure. When the loan was due, everything collapsed. We, today are witnessing the last stages of liberalism. The U.S. is lashing out, the way Austro-Hungarian Empire did prior the WW1. If Russia ceases to exists, we will be partitioned, Serbian Republic in Bosnia will be abolished, maybe even by way of Operation Storm 2.0 and we will enter for the last time the Dark Age.
Are you still holding it against Ivan Grozny for destroying Kazan and replacing Tatar cavalry and herders with Rus farmers settlers? Any opinion on Alphonse DAlberquerque?
Maybe someone can enlighten me as to how Ukraine became its own country as it is? I understand that Crimea was given to it by Stalin, but why? It seems like at one time parts of if not all of Ukraine was once part of the Russian Empire. If one looks at both an election map and a map of ethnicities in Ukraine it appears that the Ukrainians dominate the western half while Russians the eastern half. Wouldn’t it just be better to peacefully separate like Czechoslovakia did back in the day?
Historical aspects
The tsars and the soviet leaders had a consuming passion for grand promises, followed by broken treaties, deportations, repressions, starvation, colonialism, gross propaganda, shameless and brutal Russification, genocide, senseless wars.
Russia has no special historical right on Crimea and the “Left Bank Ukraine”. Ukrainians suffered the worse from the Tatars, fought against them for centuries, and were the first to colonize the region (Crimea and the Wild Lands).
Crimea was emptied by its inhabitants, especially the Tatars due to their collaboration with Germany (Tatar SS Legions and so on) and repopulated with Russians and Ukrainians. (In fact the population replacement started with the XIX century.)
Political and economic aspects
Crimea can not stand by itself. It has no water. It was reasonable to join Ukraine on administrative grounds. It was done in 1954 by Khruschev (a Russian).
Now, Russia can not make promises (treaties and security assurance), and in 30 years to change again the borders after a sham referendum. Look at the “Budapest Memorandum” (1994), the “Peace and Friendship Treaty” (1997), the “Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas treaty” (2010) and see what they promised and what they are doing.
They were able to hijack Crimea due to the presence of Russian Navy in Sevastopol. Nothing else. After occupation the Russian administration started to bring in more Russians and chase away Ukrainians, confiscate and destroy their properties.
The voting pattern is one thing, and it doesn’t mean that if you vote for a certain candidate backed by Moscow (many are unaware by such details), you will also be eager to join Russia. These are two different things. People vote for what the politicians talk, and rebel for what politicians do. And this is why Putin and the Russian are booed everywhere in Ukraine.
Russia is trying to occupy regions with Ukrainian majority. Russia wants to occupy the southern part of Ukraine and cut it’s access to the Black Sea. It has no demographic/ethnic logic, but a strategic one. Land-locking an agricultural power like Ukraine is bankrupting it. And not only that.
Ukrainians know all too well that Russia means violence (nah, savagery), corruption, poverty, No one wants that for his people and country. But this is all that Russia has to offer. Ukrainians never really wanted to join NATO and EU. After the monumental Russian blunder in 2014, NATO and EU are their only choice. Can you blame that in good faith?
The more Russians a region has the more violent it is. Take a chart with the homicides by region in Russia. Compare with former occupied countries. It should suffice.
Conclusions
A lesson that should have been learned from the Yugoslavia Wars is that changing borders by force is a dangerous business. War in Europe is a dangerous business nobody wants or tolerates. Broken treaties is an absolute no-no. Why in the hell did you signed them first place? Are you a liar and trickster?
USSR/Russia had plans for the expected economic collapse and USSR breakup. At least since the 80’s, KGB prepared individuals and organizations to be left behind in the republics expected to break away. These were prepared to act on three direction: political, propaganda, and terror. On top on that the Russia left troops in certain hot spots to be used for operation like that in Crimea. Gladio type operation on a colossal scale.
Those plans conceived 40 years ago are coming to “fruition”. The elements were in plain air. Only the well greased western politicians pretended to see no evil. Now we have the worst humanitarian crisis and the Russians bombing civilians.
Russians have a huge responsibility, but have no inclination to understand what they have done in their bloody history. They will devise “oh so clever” verbal tricks and straight lies and never accept what they did and who they really are, and why nobody wants them.
Some details surely evade me but this is the general picture.
Yes, it is imperial. Agreed. Suppose the Russians went after the Bosphorus now? It’s militarily possible though Russia is outclassed in the sea. Highly unlikely, and I’d guess the Turks would bloody them, but that quick war between Armenia and Azerbaijan was obviously a prelude to the sort of contest, like a crazy Russian fleet attacking Istanbul. So much attention paid to the Baltic, but Russia may be looking for other prizes like the entry to the Black Sea.
I thought it rather kind of the Russians not to cut the power supply to the civilians before invading.
Would a tenfold Fukushima make you happy? Cause that might happen cutting off the grid from so many reactors in the same time.
I imagine you can’t just explode an RBMK reactor willy-nilly. But couldn’t they have just took strategic bits of the grid down, like electrical transformers (aici fac o traducere mot-a-mot din romana because I can’t be bothered to check) and such?
Even adamantly pro-Ukranian sources acknowledged the Russians have been operating with kid gloves for at least the first week of the war.
Cutting off a reactor from the grid means shutting it down. The shutting down suppose that diesel generators run for long enough to run the cooling pumps for long enough to cool down the core. This might take few weeks, as I understand. Have the diesel generators the fuel to run for so much time, and let’s say 5 reactors simultaneously as in the Zaporoje case? This is why I said “might”.
Anyway the Russians stopped AEIA experts to visit Chernobil, and Zaporoje.
This was what happened to Fukushima. It was cut off from the grid, while the generators were flooded.
They are probably looking through the chain of custody for the depleted uranium to see if the Ukies were making ammo or to see if a bomb was being built from plutonium. Or planting the evidence. Wouldn’t put it passed them. They are deceptive.
I’m no expert on bringing down power networks, but I am quite sure that bombing substations and powerlines would work, and without blowing up any nuclear reactors.
You should read about it. You know that western marvel, the Internet.
I find it hard to want to support a population which elects the likes of Zelensky, even though the invasion by Russian is wrong and cruel.
As to the world’s ‘solidarity’ with Ukraine, I am not sure that all of it is sincere. People have come to love taking part in these kinds of emotional orgies even when they personally have no dog in the fight.
Mothers with small kids and pregnant women running from their homes frightened by rockets, bombs, and attacks on nuclear plants is not an emotional orgies. It is the sad reality triggered by an idiot, hailed by some more idiots.
Mothers with kids and pregnant women leaving their bombarded homes is something to attract general sympathy. Don’t you think that?
Let me tell you that it is real and it’s a shame what is happening.
Of course it is a shame that it is happening. Civilians are always casualties of war. As they were (to an even greater extent) in for example Libya, Iraq and Serbia.
No economic warfare then. No exclusion from financial markets. No Western media running amok with anti-invader propaganda.
I will not directly argue with the content of this article here, but the hypocrisy of the West is astonishing.
Many nationalist Europeans consider Washington a much greater enemy of the welfare of Europe than Moscow. Somewhat covered in this article:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/america-defeats-germany-third-time-century-mic-bare-ogam-conquer-nato
Zerohedge’s Tyler Durden is the son of a former intelligence officer, later turned propagandist. It is extremely dubious.
I addresed right here the subject of hypocrisy. And I would say it is one of the most ridiculous talking points of the Russian propaganda.
Did Russia bomb Aleppo? So why is the entire fault of US?
So if US bombed a certain country that entitles Russia to bomb another one?
Anyway it is a huge leap with it, accusing everybody of hypocrisy. As long as I remember I was against any and every invations. I never justified one or another, or one with the other.
Right now Russia kills civilians, as it did its entire history. When cornered for its doings poor little Russia cries hypocrisy. It’s a total lack of judgement and shame.
And you know why US escapes easier? It is because the monstrosities Russia and the Russians have commited. Even we can not have monuments to comemorate what Russia has done to us, we do not forget and do not forgive. We know who you are, no matter what viking pseudonim you are sporting.
And most of all how hypocritical you are, and how stupid you think we are.
what’s your opinion of Ron Unz?
“…the hypocrisy of the west is astonishing”
This is an anti-racist shitlib argument that the russian state media is pushing. The implication is that the overwhelming support for Ukraine as a result of the invasion is racist. The West sees white middle class people fleeing for refuge and feel disturbed, because this attack is hitting too close to home. Calling that hypocrisy is just accusing whites of not being detached and universalistic enough.
The Chinese and the Indians see it too. It means that Russia will have markets and ports in both states. The Indian Pro Moscow Babu attitude wasn’t unexpected but it’s been ferocious.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Zelenskyy takes over and all the pieces come together with a total war on the Ukraine/Russia borders. Indeed I think it’s the underlying cause.
I can see why Finns Swedes Poles and Balts fear the Russians and why they are worth protecting from the tender mercies of the Russians. But in my opinion the soft underbelly of Kiev Crimea Odessa…it’s either a Jewish chancer running it all or a Czar-like administrative department.
On April 19, 1993, in the US, 25 children died in a inferno set by Federal Agents. At total of 74 would end up dead. Where was the outrage then? In 1992 a Federal Agent shot and killed an unarmed woman who was holding a baby. Where was the outrage? Where was the call for weapons, jets, missles ammunition?
There was plenty of outrage.
What’s your point?
I remember that sad times and many, many others.
It is the same tragedy, and you can’t heal one justifying another one.
All of us have something like it in our personal history. Killing whites anywhere on the planet should raise solidarity and outrage. Not such divisive rhetoric.
It is like saying:
– US government killed people
– so the Russia’s government has the right to kill people too – 100 or 1000 times more
– no one has the right to criticize Russia because that’s making him an hypocrit and an US involuntary enabler to kill people
It is a huge leap in your judgement.
Because this kind of nationalism is about NOT killing people. It’s about the survival of the white race and the civilization the white race created.
Every single Neoconservative is keen to depose Putin and dissolve the Russian Federation. I don’t think these Ukrainians have thought it all through. Such an event will, well I don’t want to think about that right now. Good luck with that!
Additionally the arrival of Russian BTG units approx 100 or so have chased most of the 100,000 Third World denizens out of this Ukrainian Ethnostate. Did anyone realize quite how many Third World people called Kiev, Kharkov and other Ukrainian cities their home? To temper that observation, yes: the Russians have displaced millions on blameless Ukrainians now, with Attilla or Ghengis like terror. But many saw their chance at a French, German or UK located apartment, job or school place and took it. I don’t blame them Ukraine has no future. They ran instantly for greener pastures.
Olena’s views are understandable given her position. For a realistic view of geopolitics I recommend watching Ray McGovern and John Mearsheimer in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppD_bhWODDc
“What do you think victory will look like?
The restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, including Crimea. The overthrow of the regime in Russia, which will result in its own “demilitarization” and the termination of its geopolitical expansion to the West. The consolidation of the Central and Eastern European (Intermarium) countries, which are potentially Russia’s next target, and the reformation of the European Union on its basis.”
These are clear, understandable goals.
This is a regime change war, on both sides.
Yes about that Intermarium. A sort of Baltic Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth that reaches the Azov…a Swedish Empire on the Black Sea. Ever heard of what happened to Charles at the battle of Poltava? Or for that matter SS Galicia or Wiking? I’m not going to get into the cheap shots but you could add the charge of the light brigade to it. The geography favours Moscow. You just have to look at the river catchments and the general shape of the road and rail networks.
Not very interested in more Ukrainian propaganda.Why do all our enemies seem to love Ukraine.Every globalist and neo-con lackey is ready to go to war for a corrupt,globalist colony, ruled by a Soros supported Jew.Most of the Ukrainian oligarchs are Jews.
Your attitude shows only one thing. Russian propaganda just killed the white nationalism.
It is utterly bizarre seeing self-professed white nationalists joining hands with the BLM and Antifa types and cheering for the State Department to crush the only geopolitically independent white nation on the planet.
Your lies/word ratio is high, even for Russia shills.
1. Nobody here is joining hands with BLM and antifa. We simply happen to be on the same side of this issue for different reasons.
2. Nobody here is cheering the state department.
3. The nation being crushed is Ukraine. Russia is the largest land empire on earth, with a nuclear arsenal. She is not in danger of being crushed.
1. That is what I meant. Is it not concerning for you that the entirety of the American establishment is on Ukraine’s side? For years antifa has been mocked for claiming to support anarcho-communism while aligning with the state and Corporate America. How are you not now in the same position yourself? I was using hyperbole when I said ‘join hands,’ but even you acknowledge that you are on the same side on this.
2. This is a proxy war between the antiwhite Potomac Regime and Russia. Whatever the flaws of Russia’s government, it is an enemy of the enemy and far less hostile towards its own white majority than the Potomac Regime.
There is no independent nationalist Ukraine that could potentially win here. National Corps ran on a single list alongside every other far-right party in the last election. It won 2.15 percent of the vote. There is far less popular, or at least electoral, support, for nationalism in Ukraine than in nearly any other European nation.
3. Tragically, the Ukrainians are the victims in this war between the Potomac Regime and Russia. That is not a reason to hope for a Russian defeat.
America should have welcomed Russia home to the Western world with open arms at the end of the Cold War. America pried her legs open for Boris Jeltsin and his Jewish friends. One of Clinton’s last acts before he left office was to pardon Mark Rich, the Jewish financial criminal that moved looted property from Russia to New York for his kinsmen. For the Regime the Cold War was never about destroying communism; a noble goal, but a purely geopolitical conflict with another white nation. Washington has shewn clearly that it will never allow a geopolitically independent white nation to exist anywhere. This is not lost on the Russians.
Every success on the part of Russia has been met by the Potomac-enslaved West not with warm wishes and congratulations (even when it is in areas that nearly all Westerners would agree are positive, like defeating ISIS or improving their economy or a rapid drop in alcoholism and murder) but with increasing hostility and hate. Had Ukraine maintained its neutrality, which it originally committed to after the fall of the Soviet Union, this war would not be happening.
Russia has realised that if she is going to survive, it will have to be by her own strength alone. She cannot rely on the goodwill of the rest of the Western World that she had expected after communism fell. And as much as I deplore war between two white nations, integrating Ukraine, by any means necessary, is the correct geopolitical move for Russia.
4. One last thing. Every Russian that I have spoken to online about this war, both expats and those within the country, sees it as cruel necessity. They are proud of their country and they want to win this war and reunite the Triune Russian Nation. But they have no hatred for Ukrainians and take no joy in the casualties that their army has inflicted. Most of them say that they would rather see higher casualties on their own side if it means that fewer Ukrainians are killed. The most ardent cheerleaders for this war that I have encountered so far are Russians with Ukrainian ancestry eager to see the two East Slavic nations reunited.
From the Ukrainian side, including from your woman in Kiev in the interview, there seems to me a barely concealed and truly depraved delight towards Russian deaths. I have seen the same attitude towards Ukrainians, I am ashamed to admit, from some of my fellow ‘Russia shills.’ But I have not yet encountered a Russian that reciprocates the hatred directed towards them by the Ukrainians, or that hopes for anything but a quick end to the war with minimal casualties for both sides. They fervently believe that Russia should, and will, rebuild everything that she destroys in the course of the invasion, no matter the costs to her. I hope that they are right. Maybe one can find some Russians with such a callous attitude towards their fellow Slavs, but they are not representative.
That, more than anything, inclines me towards the Russians. Regardless of whether or not Ukrainians and Russians are one people or merely related, I find it appalling to see Ukrainians so eager to brag about the Russian casualties. The same resentful sadism towards Russia seems to me the driving urge behind the concern for territorial integrity. If Ukrainian nationalists want a separate Ukrainian ethnostate then they should be all in favour of separatism in the heavily Russian regions of Ukraine. Yet Ukrainian nationalists have been fighting and killing for eight years to keep Donbass and Lugansk in Ukraine. I suspect that their motives, and intentions, are less than brotherly. I find very little sympathetic about ‘nationalists’ that have such hatred for their own racial kin and yet are so eager to take up arms for their Jewish government.
Maybe in the 90’s Russia should have called off its killers and agents from the breakaway republics. Maybe Russia should have not encourage Serbian army to fire against civilians. Maybe Russia should have called home its armies and take away its arsenals. Maybe Russia should have abstained from so many provocations. Maybe Russia should have not sponsored the rackets.
Everywhere Russia had a foothold that country was on the brink of civil, class, interethnic war.
Everywhere Russia had a friendly goverment that country was robbed.
Don’t lie yourself. It hurts, but no one wants or trust you anymore. Not because US, but because what your leaders and people have done. Even while supposedly allied.
The Ukrainian and Russian Nationalists are aligned with the Oligarchs. Putin is craking down on them as we speak. “In Russia and most of the FSU, the nationalists aligned themselves with the liberals and worked to provide the muscle to form a “taran” (a ram—their words) against which to batter down the gates of the Kremlin. If this is starting to sound familiar… well, frankly, it should all be starting to become quite clear at this point. Once you know the playbook of the Western Deep State, it’s quite easy to see through the ideological smokescreen and the high-minded rhetoric to see what’s really happening behind closed doors. Many prominent nationalists in Russia declared themselves the sworn enemies of Putin and promoted a form of “National-Liberalism” or “National-Democracy” that allowed them to ideologically justify their alliance (and salaries) from oligarchs like the Ukrainian Kholomoisky and marching together with the Liberal opposition against Putin. I plan to come back to the Russian nationalists and the positive recent changes that have occurred in their camp in another article in the near future. It was simply necessary to briefly touch on them and their role to provide an overview of the political situation in Russia.”
In just one week, Russian civil society has been shaken to its core:
Lines are being drawn between traitors and loyalists within workplaces, universities, and at the bazaar.
The Duma may not survive in its current state for long.
Martial law is being openly discussed.
Talk of QR codes and implementing the 2030 agenda in place like Moscow and St. Petersburg has all but been abandoned.
Liberals are boarding planes and heading for Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Riga (another poor choice, perhaps).
Central Asian migrants are being deported in droves and many are fleeing on their own volition.
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/03/08/the-great-russian-restoration-the-purge-of-the-liberal-media-and-rumblings-of-economic-nationalization/
America needs its own “political metamorphosis” that will certainly emerge in the Post-Liberal World.
There are several obvious concerns from the right about the regime in Kiev…Or Kyiv. That spelling will be decided shortly by the Prevailing side. We do have Zelenskyy and possibly MoD minister Resnikov (I have seen several indications he is) forming a directly Jewish ruled government in a huge European state. Directing a very efficient little army of patriotic men armed with NLAW and Javelin. But it’s no coincidence that Blinken, Nuland and others in the media are keen to have this sudden upstart emerge from the conflict as their Jewish Superman. The situation stinks.
Greg, also on the fate of Russian Federation, the interviewee is directly talking about the dissolution of the Russian federation or Ukraine being wiped out. She obviously seeks an end to Russia. I have to assume that’s the aim of the current Ukrainian regime too. Ahem… who does this really suit? We saw what happened in the 1990s. We know how the Oligarchs looted the place and hid the cash in London, Zurich, Singapore, Tel Aviv, NYC back then. We know the Russian mafia is mostly a network of expatriate Jewish crooks. Putin may have favored a few but on balance I’d say he did suppress their excesses. We do know that Biden and several other leftists in the US have profited personally from board memberships in Ukraine that are looting the place.
As you pointed out the Ukraine is likely to be crushed and Kiev I mean Kyiv or Kiev… won’t be a safe place for western investors. So there’s that.
“She’s not in danger of being crushed”
But that’s not how Russia views it. Relentless NATO expansion since the 1990s, in violation of promises and treaties, has been met with consistent Russian warnings that such were viewed as both aggressive and posing a serious threat.
With the Zelensky regime and predecessors courting full NATO membership, Putin drew a red line in emphatic terms. The 10-20k civilians who were extralegally killed in the Donbass region added injury to insult.
Ukrainian NATO membership would be equivalent to China placing heavy weaponry, and potentially nukes, on the US-Mexico border, a situation the US would obviously not tolerate. As Matt Bracken points out, Ukraine was the point of entry for Germany in WWII, the subsequent battle nearly destroying Russia. Germany had to travel hundreds of miles with 1940s war tech just to reach the Ukraine-Russia border. A NATO-member Ukraine would enable amassing huge quantities of weaponry and the logistic tail to ensure their mission, this just a few hundred miles from both Moscow and key oil reserves.
Russia created the world’s largest land empire, but if you listen to Russian histories, she was forced to at every step by threats to her very existence. I don’t buy the hysteria.
It is good that Russia built an empire. Europe now extends all the way to Vladivostok. As a white nationalist, I love the Russian Empire as I love the British Empire and her conquest of the New World.
Russia is 85% Russian and Saint Petersburg and Moscow are both over 90% Russian. Is there a single Western European capital, or even Western European country, as homogeneous as ‘multicultural Russia?’ ‘Multiculturalism’ in the Russian context means that she isn’t trying, Borg style, to assimilate the other, mostly white, ethnic groups that call Russia home. As for the Chechens, Russia has to choose between babysitting them forever or a jihadi state on her border. There is no good option there.
There is a perfectly good geographical argument that Russia had to become an empire. Eastern Europe is flat. Similar to North America. Historically, flat stretches of land tend to come under the control of single states. The history of Eastern Europe is the history of empires. Poland and Lithuania played the same game, and likely they would rule all the way to the Pacific if had successfully subjugated Russia instead of the other way around.
If you dislike empires, there is a good case to be made for Russia even then. Russia was far less assimilatory than Poland, where the szlachta gobbled up all the nobles in every territory they conquered and left the natives with no elite class. Russians let the Germans go on running the Baltic states, and the Balts went on speaking their native languages and they let the traditional Swedish elite remain in Finland. There would have been no Fennoman movement if it had been Poland that conquered Finland; all the nobles would have been assimilated into the szlachta.
And Russia is the Easternmost European state. Think of how much worse it would be, from an antiempire perspective, if it had been a central European power that won in the East. Everything east of the Elbe likely would have ended up in one state, with Poles or Lithuanians the majority east of the Urals and the subjugated nations squeezed in the middle. At least Russian dominance in the East meant that everything to the West could easily be broken up into ethnic states after WWII.
Greg Johnson: “I don’t buy the hysteria.”
I do. Having a lot of land does not protect you from the malice of Washington.
America has a great record as an empire-killer. Wilhelmine Germany died. Post-Wilhelmine Germany died. The Soviet Union died. Now post-Soviet Russia is marked for death.
The persistent, aggressive Eastern expansion of NATO, an alliance that after the fall of the Warsaw Pact has no defensive purpose for America and no other target but Russia, shows that Jewish cultural hatred of Russia and Russians is being implemented as strategic policy.
These are worrying times for lovers of Russian people and Russian culture.
Greg Johnson: “I don’t buy the hysteria.”
I do. Having a lot of land does not protect you from the malice of Washington.
America has a great record as an empire-killer. Wilhelmine Germany died. Post-Wilhelmine Germany died. The Soviet Union died. Now post-Soviet Russia is marked for death.
The persistent, aggressive Eastern expansion of NATO, an alliance that after the fall of the Warsaw Pact has no defensive purpose for America and no other target but Russia, shows that Jewish cultural hatred of Russia and Russians is being implemented as strategic policy.
These are worrying times for lovers of Russian people and Russian culture.
Calm down, friends, and insert into your favorite search engine “zelensky nobel peace prize 2022“. LOL.
Mind you, I suppose if they could bestow this honor on O’Bama when during his reign the number of bombs dropped on bad people actually increased, well, Zeleny Zhyd deserves one, too, though for more lofty reasons, bien sur.
Surely not. Ramzan Kadarov makes such a better candidate. He’s fighting nazies and druggies in Kiiv! Such a brave leader deserves Nobel and Lenin Prizes for peace. Both of them and twice!
Why is the demand for neutral Ukraine unreasonable one?
Why demand something from somebody else? Is Ukraine making demands to Russia because it feels threatened?
When Russia feels threatened it starts negotiating treaties. When feels safe enough it starts breaking treaties, invading other countries and bombing civilians. It is exactly the opposite.
Serbia never had a border with Russia, that’s why you have an idealized image. Even though Serbia paid dearly exactly due the Russian connection – twice.
Serbian nationalists are largely responsible for starting WWI and dragging Russia into it.
Not that Russia was blameless there either. Russia could have made it clear that she was not coming to save the day if the Serbs wanted to act like apes and assassinate the heads of powerful states. She could have refused to start a continental war over Serbia.
No one was really blameless in WWI. But that’s besides the point I was trying to make, which is that little Serbia has benefited a lot more from the special relationship with a powerful state like Russia than Russia has benefited from playing Guardian Angel to the Serbs.
Stop playing Guardian Angel. You manage to be only the Incarnate Devil.
Let us be.
I’m perplexed why Ukrainian nationalists remain so committed to retaking Crimea and fighting Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. Why is the integrity of your land more important than the integrity of your people? And why do you want so many Russian and Russian-leaning troublemakers in your country? Not only do they guarantee civil strife, but their presence gives Russia the casus belli to meddle in internal affairs, particularly when actual ethnic conflict exists. Why not just a slightly smaller but more fully Ukrainian country? One of the factors in Finland’s 75 years of peace with USSR/Russia is the lack of a Russian minority on Finnish soil complaining and clamoring for rights of one sort or another.
Russians are a minority even in Lugansk and Donetsk. So why should the Ukrainian majority should bend in front of an aggressive minority?
Russians are despised in every former republic. Because of what they have done there, as the soldiers, KGB agents, functionaries. A colonist brought into your land asking to become the absolute master – the violent and parasitic overlord.
This “partition” of Ukraine is the measure of Russian evil and hypocrisy.
So, the Russians did the Holodomor, brought in Russian colonists to replace the killed, and now want to join Russia. All in less than 100 years.
That’s a Turkic name. What gives? Is this about Crimea? Surely filling Crimea with white colonists is objectively one thing. Otherwise it’ll fill up with Turks.
You should read a bit on how Russians “conquered” Taurida.
1. Support a tool as leader. 2. Infiltrate-colonize 3. Eliminate all possible opposition 4. Spark rebellions 5. Invade 6. Exterminate if convenient
No, Taurida will not be repopulated by Turks, but Russians are like a plague over the region.
The Crimea is Irish by rights. Anglo-Norman Irish more precisely.
And to make it clear. In 2008 Putin said the Crimea is indisputable …. Ukrainian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1__EPqhMrFQ
Enjoy what the punk was saying then.
What? The entire world is telling the Ukrainian side (and only that side) nonstop.
What I want to know is why white preservationists are thought to have any dog in this fight at all. Our only goal should be to end hostilities with minimal casualties, and to encourage humanitarian assistance for displaced Ukrainians (I mean real ones – the indigenous whites, not the 100,000 or more Third World “students” colonizing the place).
This woman Semanyaka did a nice job explaining matters. But did she explain why the West should prop up a country run by Jewish oligarchs? What’s wrong with the Ukrainians? How did it come to this? And what’s wrong with dividing up Ukraine West and East?
This comment was supposed to be in reply to “threestars” above.
“What? The entire world is telling the Ukrainian side (and only that side) nonstop.”It is not that way. Russian propaganda has countless channels of distributions everywhere. But we are concerned about the truth and the context.
“What I want to know is why white preservationists are thought to have any dog in this fight at all.” It is about white solidarity. Beyond politics and everything else. If you don’t have a dog in this fight, you have no dog in any fight until you’ll have Russian nukes all over Mexico. It speaks volumes that India, China, Mexico, Brazil sided with Russia on this. US have not that many friends. Lose one until you’ll can’t stop losing.
“Our only goal should be to end hostilities with minimal casualties, and to encourage humanitarian assistance for displaced Ukrainians”. True but they need guns to defend their country too. They need their country as everybody else. Not everyone wants to move to USA. Many want just to live in their country without the specter of Russian occupation or nuclear annihilation. If you ask me better the latter than the former! It’s more dignified.
“I mean real ones – the indigenous whites, not the 100,000 or more Third World “students” colonizing the place”. They are running faster than anyone toward their own countries. This huge number of international students is another Russian/soviet tool to humiliate and oppress the local population.
‘This woman Semanyaka did a nice job explaining matters. But did she explain why the West should prop up a country run by Jewish oligarchs? What’s wrong with the Ukrainians? How did it come to this?’ I said it before. Anything is better than the Russian occupation. I mean anything. “country run by Jewish oligarchs” – Russia is still run by Jewish oligarchs and you are not saying anything about it. Mikhail Fridman, Len Blavatnik, Oleg Deripaska, and Viktor Vekselberg (Putin’s judo partner and the guy who paid Michael Cohen…)
“And what’s wrong with dividing up Ukraine West and East?” – I explained it before but it seems it is mainly a dialog of the deaf. “One is one and another one is another.” The voting pattern doesn’t mean different populations. It means different economic interests. That’s why the Russians are booed on the streets of Kharkov. Russia have no historical rights. There are so many treaties Russia signed and now it is breaking. This also means moving more than 10 mil Ukrainians out of the East Bank to let the Russians ruin some more land as they are ruining the biggest country in the world. Russians are a minority in the Eastern Ukraine (including Donbas, and Lugansk), but they want the entire East Bank and the entire south to the mouths of Danube. Momentarily. That is not only wrong and evil. It opens up countless problems everywhere in Europe and America. Who do you think opened up the gates for Mexicans and agitates La Raza? Wait till the plan unfolds. At this moment Lopez Obrador said so clearly: “no guns for Ukraine, no sanctions for Russia”. Brace yourself for an insurrection in case Russia wins.
And USSR was the same country as Tsarist Russia. Small symbolic differences, but the same Empire without some German generals and nobles.
Ah a Zimmerman Telegram. The same people who deposed Trump want an open border with Mexico. Trump’s entire pitch was to stop Central American migration to the US to preserve the Anglo-Hebridean-German quality of the US. He got dumped out by Blacks, Mexicans, Jews and self hating whites like Biden. Who now appear frozen in terror at Russian capabilities. America is finished in that sense already. The state doesn’t command the natural loyalty of the white population who would have to fight any war. Demolishing the Russian Federation won’t do any good for a Midwesterner. Btw the first moves made by Moscow in their 1400s history was to conquer Kazan and butcher the Mongols and Turks then to move whites progressively eastwards planing colonists from around Moscow in areas formerly populated by Mongols and Turks. Roughly the same time that Columbus set off for Cathay and roughly the same time the Portuguese arrive in the Indian Ocean to challenge the Ottoman Turks. It’s one thing to pick a fight with the Autocrats but the Muscovites are an Eastern branch of the white population. The dude who captured Crimea for Russia was an Irish peer called de Lacy and the engineer who breached the walls of Kazan was a Englishman called Butler.
And the chap that negotiated the purchase of Alaska was a Romanian, George Pomutz. Also John Smith (of Jamestown fame) fought under the Romanians Michael the Brave and Radu Serban (Lord Rodoll in the original text).
Kazan was conquered in 1552 and Astrakhan in 1556 by the part mongol Ivan the Terrible, with help from… you guessed it! Quassim Tatars. The Tatars continued to live in the area retaining the language and the religion. You know, they were still needed as shock troops against west, as they are to this day. Does Shoigu look like an exterminated Tatar to you?
Same thing with Crimea. It was not conquered from Ottomans. It was more like swindled out by negotiations, treason, bribe and espionage. Tatars lived there until the Tatar Genocide under Stalin, due to the collaboration with Germany.
In the 17th century 156 noble families were said to be of Tatar origin, 168 of viking origin, and 42 of Russian origin. 452 noble families were western European – Baltic-German, Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainians (I knew someone fro a Cossack family – his granddad served in the Guard of Nicholas II), some Romanians (like Cantemir, and Colgeag – like the white admiral). In fact the tensions between the western nobles and Tatar-Russian nobles sparked the Bolshevik revolution (nothing else than an Ochrana operation that went unexpectedly far and took a social aspect instead of ethnic aspect as it was supposed).
You have an idealized view on the Russian history. Dates, numbers, and events are more important than the convenient “narrative”. Russian propaganda is all narrative.
Idealized? Not really. The Russian Empire starts with Ivan Grozny. The Sige of Kazan seems pretty spectacular. A minor mediaeval fuedal duchy embrases the gunpowder revolution and knocks the Mongols and Turks on their asses.
I’m pretty sure that Ivan’s mother was a Serbian warlord’s daughter. Jaksic or something like that. A grandfather was general in the Hungarian army under Corvinus after the Serbs were defeated by the Ottomans. Ivan did a good job breaking the Mongols. He was also descended from the Paleolog Greek dynasty. If there’s a trace of Mongol from the Glinski family, that is hardly a disqualification.
I maintain, and strongly believe it is true.
You just pick up one part to support your story while actively refusing the rest of the fact or simply inventing things.
Ivan the Terrible was a psychopath. Part Tatar, allied with the Tatars, caused an extermination of the western element element of Russia. Killed the boyars – in fact the old viking families, exterminated the people of Novgorod, he was helped by Oprichnina led by his Tatar brothers in law. He conquered Kazan helped by the Qassim Tatars.
Trump didn’t build the wall, and was encircled by Jewish relatives like Kushner.
Practically you use a “red herring” here. “Zelensky a Jew”. I said OK, look around Putin, (and coincidentally at Trump – Cohen – Vekselberg connection). You go forward with what Trump promised and pretend that he delivered. No he didn’t.
I said that in case Russia wins in Europe, US remains without friends. I said the entire South America might go nuclear and turn on you. I said the gates were opened by someone in the typical Russian/soviet manner (with examples and parallels) and this will have an horrible outcome. Like South-Americans with Russians guns, and hating the North-American whites. What do you think the Mexican gangs are expecting? Hmm…. Can’t you see the similarities?
Now you say that everything is lost if Russia loses. What’s your foundation? A false, idealized Russian history, lots of wishful thinking, and confirmation bias.
You make a very wrong assumption. You think that Putin gives a damn on the fate of Whites (European or American). No, he hates all of us. Without us, he thinks, Russia would reign supreme (of course before wiped off by China, but he’s an old fool, full of bolshevik imperial propaganda, and mushrooms from Shoigu).
He could have commanded the loyalty of whote American. Biden or his POC successor will not.
The Russians idiots are trying hard to do it again.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-suffers-26423334
They cut the power plant from the grid. The diesel generators have fuel for 48 hour. The nuclear waste deposits do not have power so they are heating.
If this is not nuclear terrorism and blackmail, I don’t know what can be. The Russian trolls are rejoicing.
Let me address your comments, with all due respect, you don’t understand why we in Eastern Europe are against Russia and that Russia threatens us as much as interest groups in the US. You will probably never understand, Russia does not threaten you, but it does threaten us. Russia is the silent USA of the East.
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