Recent content by contricusc

When Berkut started beating people, and government snipers began shooting, the protesters turned violent. Who could have imagined that? It’s disgusting to see people still defending a thuggish government who used violence against its own people, only because they can’t let go of the Russian...

A president who shoots his own people, and when he loses control, runs to a foreign country, is a dictator and a puppet of a foreign power at the same time. Winning an election doesn’t give you the right to shoot peaceful protesters. When you do that, you become a dictator.

This is what Putin wants you to believe, that Ukrainians were living happily under a Russian puppet, but somehow they revolted because of Victoria Nuland. The revolt would have happened with or without Western support, because people were fed up. They wanted Ukraine to joint the EU, and...

You should know by now that whenever there is internal conflict in a country, the powers around it would support different factions. This doesn’t mean they control the situation or that Nuland toppled Yanukovici. The US favored Yatseniuk while Russia favored Yanukovic. It was the Ukrainians who...

So you think that foreign support for the opposition means the US toppled Yanukovych, but somehow Russia‘s support for the dictator is not meddling in Ukraine’s business. In Ukraine, Russia exerted much stronger influence than US and the EU before the Maidan revolution. Of course that Western...

The pro-Russian government was toppled by Ukrainians, not by the US. Stop spreading Putin’s propaganda.

Ukraine will never accept that. It would be just another proof that the US is not a reliable ally for Europe, and nothing would happen. At this point, Europe has the ability and the willingness to keep Ukraine in the fight for “as long as it takes”, just as it did during the European debt...

Why would Turkey want a conflict with Israel? It makes no sense. Look at the countries that have conflicts with Israel: Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine. They are bombed at will, and their economies are barely functioning. You can’t be a successful country and be at war with Israel. They have...

Here is something hilarious. A must watch. At 6:20 in Denys Davydov’s video.

76 ships hit in the last six days. Refineries as far as north-east of Astana being hit. Crimea out of gas. Russia turned from a refined oil products exporter into an importer. And all they can show for this is Kostyantynivka? Russia is losing so bad that even Russian bloggers have started to...

That was simply not possible. Ukraine was under a Russian vassal 20 or 30 years ago. Until 2014, Ukraine was led by a pro-Russian regime. Ukraine was not trustworthy at the time. Yes, there were opportunities before the Maidan when the Orange revolution changed the regime for a while, but...

You missed the most likely reason. Putin is probably lied by his inner circle about the state of the war and the Russian economy. It is typical for Soviet-style leadership to only give good news to their superiors, and hide reality. Putin is most likely living in an information bubble where...

The people of Crimea voted to join Russia for higher pensions. I wonder if they regret their decision now…

What you’re mentioning has nothing to do with helping Ukraine and with a lack of money. It’s all related to bad strategic decisions. Energy crisis? That’s self inflicted. Germany shutting down nuclear energy, lack of investment in North Sea oil because of an obsession with CO2 emissions and eco...

The US has historically invested the most in developing weapons, in both terms of money and human capital (engineers, IT specialists, etc). The results speak for themselves. They lead in civilian technology as well, because what was initially developed for military purposes often ended up...