Russia aims to split Ukraine into 2 countries,
like Korea, Ukrainian intelligence official says
Fox News,
by
Lawrence Richard
Original Article
Posted By: Black Conservative Voice,
3/28/2022 8:00:29 AM
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued to call on the world to do more to help his country fend off Russian aggressors, going as far as to accuse the West of cowardice during an address on Sunday, while a top Ukrainian official identified a shift in Russian strategies.
Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, predicted that Russia was aiming to split Ukraine into Western and Eastern blocs, similar to how North and South Korea were independently recognized following the Korean War, as ongoing negotiations with Russia have so far failed to reach a conclusion.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 3/28/2022 8:22:21 AM (No. 1112111)
One country will be called, Russia... the other country will be called Korruptain.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
The Remnants 3/28/2022 9:03:16 AM (No. 1112154)
Ukraine is not our problem. We have enough problems of our own to resolve first.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/28/2022 9:26:22 AM (No. 1112178)
The Russian side will be sitting in the dark and starving just like North Korea. Russia really needs to move on from the cold war. All those cold war 'leader' leftovers aren't doing their country any favors.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 3/28/2022 12:51:33 PM (No. 1112421)
Russia's not re-fighting the Cold War. NATO is. Russia is restoring its historic imperial territories upon which it depends to be a "world power". It needs those Black Sea ports, for example, for its naval fleet. It sees a need to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine. It also needs a buffer between Russia and NATO, an alliance clearly directed against one adversary...and it isn't Moldova.
Ready to send American troops to fight this? Maybe use some tactical "low yield" nukes? And exactly what would we be fighting for that's a vital US national interest?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2022 1:05:09 PM (No. 1112432)
I heard Victor Davis Hanson speaking on this topic last night on Levin's show. VDH is of a similar opinion, says Putin may be trying to destroy the croplands of eastern Ukraine so that they cannot be productive for decades, if he cannot completely control Ukraine - as he believes is "Russia's historic right". VDH says that Putin is going back to history 1200 years ago as the basis for his ideas, and compares this to Hitler's ideas of ancient German roots in various countries that he took over "to free them".
VDH also said, "Read what Putin has written, or at least put out over his signature, as his plans" and went on to say that Putin views Poland, Hungary and the Balkans as "historic Russian areas of control" that he intends to "recover".
Putin is easily as dangerous as Adolph Hitler ever was, except that German industry and military were far, far more competent in the 1930s and '40s than current Russian counterparts.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jagermeister 3/28/2022 1:11:45 PM (No. 1112442)
Putin's barbarism has caused Ukrainians who were once sympathetic to Russia to rethink their positions. Support for joining Russia has plummeted in those regions that have suffered the most under the indiscriminate Russian attacks.
And for those illiterates preferring Russia to Ukraine. Russia is MORE corrupt than Ukraine on the international scale of corruption. Ukraine is between Mexico and the Philippines on the corruption index. Certainly not perfect, but better than Russia.
Not sure how it is "conservative" to support the rape of one country by another. The citizens of Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics, have memories of millions of their neighbors and family having been killed in the Soviet bloodbaths (led by Russia). The U.S.S.R. killed far more people in the region that the Nazis ever did.
If its "conservative" and "realpolitik" to allow the massacre of innocents by a crazed revanchist with a severe personality disorder, then count me out. If the Russian people have any decency left in them (and I believe they do, especially the young who didn't grow up under communism), then they must find a way to rid themselves of Putin and regain their honor among nations. By behaving as a responsible country and not as a crazed ax-murderer.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/28/2022 1:59:50 PM (No. 1112499)
Well if Ukraine ends up being split in half, you can bet your boots that Biden and his crew were lurking in the background advising Zelensky during the negotiations leading up to such a future split. Back during the Iraq conflict it was Biden who proposed that Iraq be split into three different countries, that never happened.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mofongo 3/28/2022 2:06:20 PM (No. 1112505)
Or like Czechoslovakia. Sheesh.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/28/2022 3:46:39 PM (No. 1112603)
My perception is that Eastern Ukraine residents view themselves as Russian rather than Ukranian. I suppose that is like Crimea residents who felt the same way, back in 2014, when Putin took over that region, peacefully, more or less..
But don't expect Crimea to pay off any debts.
Because as everybody knows, Crimea never pays!
(Sorry, stole that from Fractured Fairytales, as presented by Sherman on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2022 4:41:30 PM (No. 1112626)
Well said, #6. That fits well with what I saw while visiting Russia and Ukraine and become friends with many on both sides over a decade of doing business there.
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