https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/vladimir-putin-is-a-failed-leader (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/vladimir-putin-is-a-failed-leader)
https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukrainska-pravda-mass-cancellation-of-ukraine-flights-from-feb-14/ (https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukrainska-pravda-mass-cancellation-of-ukraine-flights-from-feb-14/)
https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/germany-loses-patience-with-ex-chancellors-russia-lobbying.html (https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/germany-loses-patience-with-ex-chancellors-russia-lobbying.html)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60353677 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60353677)
Ukraine's Great Famine memories fuel resentment of Kremlin
USA what's your Budapest Memorandum worth, for which you even treatened Ukraine with a blockade to force it to sign???
https://web.archive.org/web/20150205050359/https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-16/news/9401160298_1_president-leonid-kravchuk-ukraine-russians (https://web.archive.org/web/20150205050359/https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-16/news/9401160298_1_president-leonid-kravchuk-ukraine-russians)
from 1994: https://web.archive.org/web/20150205050359/https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-16/news/9401160298_1_president-leonid-kravchuk-ukraine-russians (https://web.archive.org/web/20150205050359/https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-16/news/9401160298_1_president-leonid-kravchuk-ukraine-russians)
In truth, Eastern Europe would be far safer behind Ukraine's atomic arsenal than America's meager commitment.
Both of the administration's mistakes flow from the same source: an excessively sunny view of our former enemy. If from now on we can expect Russia to be as peaceable as Switzerland, there's no risk in pledging to defend Poland, since we'll never have to back it up anyway. And Ukrainians can sleep soundly without nuclear weapons because they have nothing to fear from the Russians.
But what if the Russians eventually start behaving not like Swiss but like Russians? Their history of treating neighbors like galley slaves didn't begin with communism and probably didn't end with it. In that case, one of the first targets will be Ukraine.
It wasn't just Russia, it was also USA who even treatened Ukraine with a blockade if they didn't sign that useless piece of paper... https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2018/06/18/7183679/ (https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2018/06/18/7183679/)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220116024004/https://gazette.com/news/in-1994-the-us-succeeded-in-convincing-ukraine-to-give-up-its-nukes-but-failed/article_f66fab46-4015-5083-ab18-b37cc59bf813.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20220116024004/https://gazette.com/news/in-1994-the-us-succeeded-in-convincing-ukraine-to-give-up-its-nukes-but-failed/article_f66fab46-4015-5083-ab18-b37cc59bf813.html)
In 1994, the US succeeded in convincing Ukraine to give up its nukes to single europe enemy Russia but failed to secure its future
?The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.?
?It would be useful to the Western world to realize that despite all the vicissitudes by which Russia has been afflicted since August 1939, the men in the Kremlin have never abandoned their faith in that program of territorial and political expansion which had once commended itself so strongly to Tsarist diplomatists.? [519]? ― George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 1925-1950
Minsk was under gunpoint so under intl. law null and void, but enforced by Ribbentrop Germany and its WOII ally, france
https://censor.net/en/news/3315535/russia_confirms_lifting_of_blocking_of_part_of_azov_sea_ (https://censor.net/en/news/3315535/russia_confirms_lifting_of_blocking_of_part_of_azov_sea_)
https://english.nv.ua/life/ukraine-chooses-alina-pash-for-eurovision-2022-amid-fears-of-russian-invasion-50216164.html (https://english.nv.ua/life/ukraine-chooses-alina-pash-for-eurovision-2022-amid-fears-of-russian-invasion-50216164.html)
https://kyivindependent.com/business/possible-escalation-in-ukraine-may-undermine-global-food-security-provoke-sky-high-food-prices/ (https://kyivindependent.com/business/possible-escalation-in-ukraine-may-undermine-global-food-security-provoke-sky-high-food-prices/)
https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-proxy-forces-violate-donbas-ceasefire-eight-times-in-last-24-hours-50215984.html (https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-proxy-forces-violate-donbas-ceasefire-eight-times-in-last-24-hours-50215984.html)
https://english.nv.ua/business/conflict-with-russia-has-cost-ukrainian-economy-280-b-since-2014-cebr-50215937.html (https://english.nv.ua/business/conflict-with-russia-has-cost-ukrainian-economy-280-b-since-2014-cebr-50215937.html)
PAY UP, Muscovy !!
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/12/thousands-march-in-kyiv-to-show-unity-against-russian-war-threat (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/12/thousands-march-in-kyiv-to-show-unity-against-russian-war-threat)
https://www.ft.com/content/a4439155-197b-4e63-baee-b4fa3229ac67 (https://www.ft.com/content/a4439155-197b-4e63-baee-b4fa3229ac67)
Fertiliser and food: the next point of tension between EU and Moscow
https://theconversation.com/how-russia-hooked-europe-on-its-oil-and-gas-and-overcame-us-efforts-to-prevent-energy-dependence-on-moscow-174518 (https://theconversation.com/how-russia-hooked-europe-on-its-oil-and-gas-and-overcame-us-efforts-to-prevent-energy-dependence-on-moscow-174518)
https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/02/12/3-decades-of-turmoil-bring-ukraine-perhaps-its-greatest-crisis (https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/02/12/3-decades-of-turmoil-bring-ukraine-perhaps-its-greatest-crisis)
https://www.mtpr.org/2022-02-12/3-decades-of-turmoil-bring-ukraine-to-perhaps-its-greatest-crisis (https://www.mtpr.org/2022-02-12/3-decades-of-turmoil-bring-ukraine-to-perhaps-its-greatest-crisis)
https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-petroglyphs-highway-china/31699030.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-petroglyphs-highway-china/31699030.html)
Rocky Road: Kyrgyz Highway Clears Path To Ancient Stone Art
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-macron-meeting-quote-obscene-lyrics-show-russia-ukraine-demands-2022-2?international=true&r=US&IR=T (https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-macron-meeting-quote-obscene-lyrics-show-russia-ukraine-demands-2022-2?international=true&r=US&IR=T)
https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-lukoil-taxes-millions-russsia/31695145.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-lukoil-taxes-millions-russsia/31695145.html)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/europe/russia-ukraine-invasion-paths-map-cmd-intl/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/europe/russia-ukraine-invasion-paths-map-cmd-intl/index.html)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-town-children-drills-supplies-1.6348236 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-town-children-drills-supplies-1.6348236)
https://forward.com/opinion/481964/we-cant-fail-the-uyghurs-as-the-world-failed-us/ (https://forward.com/opinion/481964/we-cant-fail-the-uyghurs-as-the-world-failed-us/)
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/02/04/an-open-letter-to-the-russian-leadership/ (https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/02/04/an-open-letter-to-the-russian-leadership/)
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/23/1065277246/trump-big-lie-jan-6-election?t=1644669570347 (https://www.npr.org/2021/12/23/1065277246/trump-big-lie-jan-6-election?t=1644669570347)
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/02/08/russia-state-nato-ukrainian-national-identity (https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/02/08/russia-state-nato-ukrainian-national-identity)
https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/11-february-interestingly-the-dutch-government-has-decided (https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/11-february-interestingly-the-dutch-government-has-decided)
Interestingly the Dutch government has decided to set up the "emergency support center" in Lviv, close to the Polish border, rather than Kyiv
https://belsat.eu/en/news/13-02-2022-biden-calls-putin-amid-tensions-in-ukraine/ (https://belsat.eu/en/news/13-02-2022-biden-calls-putin-amid-tensions-in-ukraine/)
https://belsat.eu/en/news/11-02-2022-belarusians-subjected-to-heavy-checks-on-border-with-ukraine/ (https://belsat.eu/en/news/11-02-2022-belarusians-subjected-to-heavy-checks-on-border-with-ukraine/)
https://belsat.eu/en/news/10-02-2022-lithuania-to-seek-deployment-of-permanent-u-s-contingent/ (https://belsat.eu/en/news/10-02-2022-lithuania-to-seek-deployment-of-permanent-u-s-contingent/)
https://belsat.eu/en/news/10-02-2022-belarus-justice-ministry-wants-to-liquidate-bird-protection-society/ (https://belsat.eu/en/news/10-02-2022-belarus-justice-ministry-wants-to-liquidate-bird-protection-society/)
https://belsat.eu/en/news/10-02-2022-us-senators-call-on-biden-to-more-actively-share-intelligence-with-ukraine/ (https://belsat.eu/en/news/10-02-2022-us-senators-call-on-biden-to-more-actively-share-intelligence-with-ukraine/)
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http://krantvannederland.nl/discuss/list/2022/14022022.html (http://krantvannederland.nl/discuss/list/2022/14022022.html)