Friends,
If you don't listen to any other video comments on the Urkainian-Russian War today, listen to these two:
Colonel Douglas MacGregor and Tucker Carlson here discuss what's really going on, and why Putin invaded. (MacGregor has been in hot water with the war-promoting Fox News for his "counter-narrative" to Fox's warhawking; the Colonel thus seems an oasis of sanity on that news platform.)
Stew Peters on Putin's invasion is here at Bitchute.
I
especially like Peters' quick history of the Ukraine, how 300 or so
years ago, it had long since ceased to be a country, just segments of
various empires, one of them a Muslim Khanate. This was the Crimean
Khanate, a descendant of the Golden Horde Mongol-Turkish empire that
originated in the 1200s after Mongols had conquered what's now Ukrainian
territory from a myriad of feuding Russian principalities; the Mongols
conquered and destroyed Kiev in 1240. Then Peter the Great (Peters
shows Pete's pic, but doesn't name him) conquered the Turks and had to
resettle the eastern Ukraine because the Muslims, doing what they do,
had carried off all the people as slaves. (The Turks did the same to
Hungary when they conquered it after the Battle of Mohács in 1526; the
Austrians had to repopulate large portions of Hungary with German
settlers.)
If you want to grasp how crazily complicated this "Ukrainian"
history can be, check out Britannica's article on Kiev. Ukrainian nationalism, based on the Ukrainian version of Slavic,
began in the early 19th century. Pretty much, however, what is now
western Ukraine, where most actual Ukrainian-speaking people live, has
never been independent, not until the fall of the Soviet Union, which
itself arbitrarily set Ukraine's borders back in the 1920s. (The borders should have been drawn on where most folks spoke which languages.) Recently,
the Ukrainian government has been trying to force the Russian speakers
in the east and the Hungarian and/or other local language speakers in
the west to speak only Ukrainian, which explains why the Hungarians do
not have much love for the Ukrainians. (The Hungarians themselves tried a version of that in the later 19th century in the large, multi-ethnic Kingdom of Hungary; it didn't work then, either.)
So, there you have it.
Anyway, check out both conversations. Well worth the time.
AnP
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