Ukraine

Map of Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Looks like all the warnings about Russia invading Ukraine have come true. We kept poking the bear and now the bear has come out swinging. I'm not surprised. I've given up on Western media, you have to suffer through too many advertisements, human interest stories and sensationalism before you get any real information, if there even is any. So I went looking for what Russia had to say about it and I found some excerpts from Putin's statement on Aljazeera. 

I especially liked this bit:

“Then came the turn of Iraq, Libya, Syria. The illegitimate use of military force against Libya, the twisting of all decisions taken by the UN Security Council on the Libyan issue led to the complete destruction of the state, to the emergence of a major hotbed of international terrorism, to a humanitarian catastrophe and a civil war that has not ended to this day. The tragedy, to which they doomed hundreds of thousands, millions of people not only in Libya, but throughout this region, gave rise to a massive migration wave from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe.

The revolutions of the Arab Spring were supposed to bring freedom and joy to all those people but mostly they brought death and destruction.

There was also this bit, that I find hard to disagree with:

“By the way, American politicians, political scientists and journalists themselves write and say that in recent years, an actual “empire of lies” has been created inside the United States. It’s hard to disagree with that, as it’s true. But let us not understate: the United States is a great country, a system-forming power. All her satellites not only dutifully agree, sing along to its music, but also copy its behaviour, and enthusiastically accept the rules they are offered. Therefore, with good reason, we can confidently say that the entire so-called Western bloc, formed by the United States in its own image and likeness, all of it is an ’empire of lies.'”

That's pretty bad. Telling the truth is the foundation of any friendship. Anywhere but in politics, liars get kicked to the curb in short order.