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1] For nearly a decade, the soldiers of West-Ukraine have been shelling and killing the people in the East-Ukraine-Donbass. The people of the separatist areas were part of the Minsk-Cease-Fire-Peace-Accord which Russia put its prestige and name on the line to negotiate. The People of the Donbass region, for the greater part, honored their commitment to the the cease fire. The people of the Zelenskyy West-Ukraine violated the cease over and over over again! The people of the Donbass are by history mostly of Russian descent and culture. They appealed over and over again to both the West (NATO) and Russia to make West-Ukraine honor the terms of the cease fire and were ignored.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced alarm on Friday over a sharp increase in shelling in eastern Ukraine and accused the OSCE special monitoring mission of glossing over what he said were Ukrainian violations of the peace process. Ukrainian government forces and...
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Russia's Foreign Ministry says it wants to end the 8-year bloodbath in Donbass that both Ukraine and the West turned a blind eye to The West spent eight years ignoring the "sea of blood" in Donbass while arming Ukraine, and now claims Moscow is...
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In Ukraine, a special operation of the Russian Armed Forces continues for the seventh day. And for the residents of Donbass, the eighth year of hostilities is underway. During this time, children have grown up in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics who have never known a peaceful life or...
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2] Zelenskyy is a puppet brought to power by George Soros and Klaus Schwab with what amounted to a massive influx of foreign ILLEGAL money being brought into Ukraine politics. Not only did the money have an extreme corrupting effect on the politics of Zelenskyy rising to power, there is also significant evidence that the United States CIA had an illegal hand in the election as well, in the fashion of taking out several of Zelenskyy's able opposition candidates. This was usually done by digging up dirt (Spying) on the opposition and releasing info to Zelenskyy media allies, but in at least one, just outright assassination of the political opponent. All while ignoring the many faults and illegal by Ukrainian Law actions by Zelenskyy.
Arizon Republican lawmaker Wendy Rogers ran with the claim Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "is a globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons."
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The fact that George Soros can live freely in any democratic society including in the United States after purposefully working
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By Jack Bingham (LifeSiteNews) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was one of the reasons he got into politics. After leaving his career…
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Once upon a time Janet Yellen was the head central planner figurehead at the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. Her ruinous policies for the average American were merely the continuation of the stock market hyperinflation project that Ben Helicopter Money Bernanke kicked off with his QE...
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From lifesitenews.com Like Trudeau, Zelenskyy is an acolyte of the World Economic Forum. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was one of t…
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3] Russia and Putin were willing to stick with just diplomatic responses to all of the above, including the noises about the Ukraine joining NATO for YEARS, until something significant happened, which made the current situation with the Ukraine a sudden existential threat to Russia. That trigger event, which is talked about ALLOT on Russia language news, but seems to get no attention at all in Western-Media!!!
The key thing finally triggered Putin to ACT-NOW!
Is that a pair of high level, Zelenskyy Ukraine officials, made a threat, that if Russia did not back down, it would be the work of a few hours, to dig up radioactive debris from the Ruins of Chernobyl, load it on a commercial aircraft, and fly it into crash in the streets of Moscow... a Nuclear Dirty Bomb... which could be accomplished in a single day, with the resource of Chernobyl nearby, and under West-Ukraine control, was the nuclear card played by the Zelenskyy Government.
Note, the very first area fought for and seized by the invading Russian army was the Chernobyl Ruins. It was not 3rd, or 5th, or 10th in the assets invaded, controlled, and invested with a heavy Russian Troop Concentration, it was the very first!
Two-hundred Chernobyl employees are being held hostage at gunpoint as the nuclear plant has come under siege by Russian forces.
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The world is watching the first war in a nuclearized country — and combat has already reached active reactors.
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Russian forces seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine and have taken personnel in the station captive, spokeswoman for the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management Yevgeniya Kuznetsovа told CNN.
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So, these are the things which has pushed the Ukraine situation past Diplomacy, and into WAR with Russia.
What would America do if in a similar situation?
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