The worst scene
Ukraine / Russia Crisis at its worst
The eastern Ukraine situation has gone very wrong. Propaganda of preparing for war.
Propaganda: facts, arguments, rumors, half-truths, or lies—to influence public opinion
As the world media has delivered the information the USA, NATO, and Europe have been delivering what many have thought “that’s a lot of miss-information”, it is so hard to get the real news these days. Yet as these leaders have indicated things are going in that direction, surprisingly. It seems strange things going in that direction, it truly does one would think someone copied Putin’s playbook.
In the past few weeks, you only heard paranoia, these reports even had specific dates specific actions. Any normal person seeing these things on the news could think this is a set up by the Russians, leading people down a specific trail for a trap in the end. When USA é NATO é and Europe received the info they thought it all too good to be true.
Once again, in normal circumstances, if it is too good to be true it most likely is.
So here in the now - in the reality the plans the western world leaders have voiced continue to unfold like a script in a play.
In Donbas, the Russian Extremists (Russian Extremist: A Ukrainian person living in the Donbas area and has a love for Russia) have been making provocations by staging things. (Provocations: serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate others) The Russian Extremists are pushing Ukraine harder and harder to react. So far Ukraine has not. In the media you will see an image of a truck that was shelled, well this was a great video and photo op that the Russian Extremists set up, if you look at the details this is a very old unit and the front tag was taken from a much newer unit and put on this old worn out unit. The image is another provocation to show Ukraine attacked, it is simply not true.
Russia has also claimed that two shells were dropped in the Russian territory. Yet more provocations are simply not true.
Next, the news on Russian TV shows a number of people being evacuated to Russia. The Russian Extremists have announced evacuation must take place now getting women, children, and older people out. With video cameras capturing footage the order came in a rush and many were put on buses and sent directly over the border of Russia well into Russia and were parked for as much as 24 hours. It seems the drivers had no idea where to deliver the passengers. On a bus, with no food or water. No bathrooms, passengers were told to use the bushes to relieve themselves. Finally, after 24 hours they were taken to makeshift camps, with many bunk beds per tent. From the time they crossed the border into Russia the videographers disappeared, seemed like they had all the footage they needed.
The next evacuations took place again with all cameras recording as people coming out of the workplace were put on buses and sent directly to the border of Russia. Filming all, showing fears uncertainties, and stress caused by such a panic of emergency. Once at the border again the videographers left and the busses returned the workers to the worksite. The Propaganda was set they had it all on video. Sad to say but the leaders of the Russian Extremists are not so technically advanced and the footage they showed was filmed on February 16, and announced it was filmed on February, 18th… Wait, if it did happen on February 16, the USA, NATO, and European leaders were correct as they were the Day they announced these things would begin, and they did. But the Russian Extremists played it like it took place on February 18. More and more propaganda, the Russian TV set pushed the news across Russia.
Over the last eight years, the life of regular people of the Donbas zone has had a very difficult time, constantly putting up with the risk of war.
Caravans of buses have so far transported many as 1600 people and have now crossed into Russia to an area called Rostov, Russia. The first buses have all loaded Women, children, and the elderly so fast that many were not able to gather many things from their homes. So though things have been uncomfortable for the last eight years, the few things you did have are now many of kilometers away in the country of Ukraine. The passengers were all promised 10,000 rubles and it is reported no one has seen any of that yet. As stated earlier, the videographers captured the video that proved their point and disappeared after the Russian border crossing. Again, creating believable footage of an artificially made situation at huge cruelty to the now displaced citizens of Donbas, Ukraine. At the final destination where these people disembarked there were no services, food, or naturally needed supplies. This is so very cruel.
Now back in Donbas, if you are male and between the ages of 18 and 55 you are now in the military, no choice in the matter but one, do it or go to prison. Image all this to create hysteria and develop propaganda to get people to believe what is not true.
Being that all the western world leaders have said so far has come to pass, we can only expect the next steps to be on time and in place, that would be some sort of Russian intervention that will initiate all the sanctions that Russia has been warned they will get if they attack Ukraine. And the last will be war. So when you are backed into a corner with no way out you would expect to fight for your life… Russia is rumored to even try to take Kyiv Ukraine.
This past Saturday Russia tried to make horrible accusations against Ukraine. Saying two missiles landed in the Russian territory. All propaganda. It looks like Russia resorts to these measures as Russia has nothing to accuse Ukraine of doing. So, they create the lies, to spread more lies on the Russian news channels. One missile exploded in the region of Rostov, Russia about 25 kilometers from the Russian border. This one hit an old building with nothing or no one inside. The other landed about 2 kilometers from the border of Russia. This one created a hole on the edge of the roadway that will be referred to as a puddle once it rains. Either way on both attacks Russia will carry out an investigation to find the truth. All this makes for great video footage for the Russian TV news.
As shelling continues the OSCE has reported 975 violations of the ceasefire and this includes some 860 explosions.
Again, this past weekend two more Ukrainian servicemen died, it is not reported how but for the past eight years every day the Russian Extremists shoot with snipers toward Ukraine trying to kill at least one per day. Since 2014 16,502 people have died in this pathetic cause.
Also, with missiles fired two of them caused damage to an active gas pipeline and the second caused it to ignite. Ukraine has been blamed for this and it is untrue, Ukraine has withheld any fighting back. So, it is lies and more propaganda. It has again created spectacular video footage for the nightly news on Russian TV.
Yet another “funny” if we dare use the word here is that The Russian Extremists were able to get their hands on an attack map that is reported to be the Ukraine attack plan. The first question is why is it written in Russian, and not Ukrainian? We are told they hired a Ukrainian to translate it for them. The map detail are insufficient, it shows red flags and black flags with no detail of the difference. For sure these indicators would have special meaning, but no detail is mentioned. Once again great story for the daily news in Russia.
The house situation for the evacuees out of Donbas has not improved, they are still housing them in tents with far too many bunks. Most of these people left without the detailed things they could have gathered with them, what and act of cruelty.
On Sunday Zelensky took a trip to Minsk Germany to speak his thoughts on the matter. The USA was against Zelensky making the trip thinking that it gave a window of opportunity for Russia to attack. In reality, we think the USA was more concerned about what Zelensky might say, as we know he is not a seasoned politician but a man who can speak the truth in a direct way. Politicians throughout the world would or could not do such a thing. Zelensky said that the USA does not want war, NATO does not want war, Russia says they want a peaceful solution, so Zelensky asked who is lying here?
Since 2014 Russia has told Ukraine that they would not get NATO membership. Zelensky said all the talk of Russian escalation of war only hurts Ukraine and the economy. Zelensky said he intends to initiate negotiations with all participants of the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine, Russia, USA, UK
1994 the Budapest Memorandum is where Ukraine gave up all nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. In that, Zelensky said we will make appropriate changes as the securities are not being upheld.
With all these things going on Russian Extremists continue to provoke Ukraine to fight back. Even if Ukraine does not fight back sooner or later the lies and propaganda will get through and the Russian Extremists will have their way.
Now there are three circumstances that prevent Ukraine from entering into war.
1. Ukraine’s steadfast determination not to fight. Ukraine’s leadership understands what is at stake and the prospect of war in Europe. Ukraine continues diplomacy and responds well with no aggression; Ukraine is staying as transparent as possible.
2. The provocations are so silly, childish, and clumsy. Russian Extremists should have clear videos and show evidence of the things they want the public to see but it is so obvious that is fake and impossible to believe with just a little research. The Russian Extremists are not confident nor talented in storytelling. These bandits do such a poor job. They even blew up an old unused truck as evidence and try to give the appearance of an attack. Even the license plate tag is clear to see it came from a much newer model of truck. Yet, this all makes a great video for the nightly news in Russia. The entire accusations are so fake, and the acting is poor.
The fake attack and the need to evacuate is a simple plan to mess up thousands of people, sending them into Russia with no real plan and no supplies set up in advance. More and more the video footage was taken twisted and broadcasted on the Russian airwaves. With these videos, if you were living in Russia and you did not look at much world news you would believe the propaganda.
3. Staged hysteria does not work. Russian Extremists say the Russian advisors told them to activate the evacuations. What Russia did not know is that the Russian Extremists are such poor actors. And very clumsy in the details of the duties. The Russian Extremists are very incompetent. Russia has taken the position of advisors and peacekeepers for the Donbas area and its people. Russia wanted to bring peace so much that they handed our 760,000 Russian passports in the last 18 months. Russia does not admit to being an arms provider nor an aggressor nor a separatist organizer. They do say they are a supporter of the Minsk agreement. The Minsk agreement is very good for Russia it is not in favor of Ukraine. It is surprising that the former Ukraine leader signed it, he is under charges for many crimes, and I would no doubt think he was looked after somehow for signing such a document. Yet Germany, France, and USA leaders have advised a pushed Zelensky to follow through with the Minsk agreement. Zelensky said no, he does not see the Russian Extremists in Donbas any different than bandits or at the very least people working for the Russian leader.
What does Russia want with all of this? They say they want to offer diplomatic discussion to resolve the situation, they say they want to follow the Minsk agreement. They say they support the Russian Extremists and want them treated fairly. Yet how can all this be worth the pain that Russia may experience if the sanctions the world leaders have been speaking about for weeks threatening Russia saying if you attack Ukraine we will sanction sanction sanction you!
Sanctions hurt the people. These tough sanctions will hurt the elites, Putin’s friends. These sanctions will freeze bank accounts around the world. Confiscate properties throughout the world. It will make it, so they are not free to travel beyond the Russian borders.
The last question, why would Russia risk so much?